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With all of its talent, Canada didn't come together

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

TORINO, Italy -- They were standing about 5-feet apart in the mixed zone, an ashen Joe Sakic and the Russian kid, Alexander Ovechkin, fairly bouncing off the walls. The captain of a Canadian team that seemed built for gold with oodles of talent, experience and grit, and the exuberant star of a team that never seemed to get it right at these tournaments. One of them was going home. The other was high-fiving Russian writers and getting ready for a semifinal date with the plucky Finns. What ab ...

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