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Sweden, Czech Republic to meet in worlds title game

Associated Press

Saturday, May 20, 2006

RIGA, Latvia -- Olympic champion Sweden has a shot for an unprecedented hockey double play. Mikael Samuelsson and Jonas Nordquist scored early in the second period and Sweden held off Canada 5-4 on Saturday to reach the title game of the world hockey championship against defending titlist Czech Republic. No country has captured Olympic and world championship hockey titles in the same year. The twin victories even escaped even the mighty Soviet teams of the 1970s. The Czech Republic reached ...

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