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Team Canada can't escape politics

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 25, 2009

MONTREAL -- Only in Canada can the formation of an Olympic hockey team be shot through with political land mines. That simply comes with the territory when a game isn't merely a pastime, but is woven into the fabric of a nation's identity. That's why, despite perhaps more obvious choices, former Montreal great and Stanley Cup-winning coach Jacques Lemaire was sitting there Thursday morning with a brand-new Team Canada hat and jersey with his name and the number 10 -- as in 2010 -- stitched on t ...

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