Canada Wins Gold Medal at 2009 World Junior Championship
January 5, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Events, Fan Fare, Scores
In our nation’s capital, Canada’s junior hockey team took home their fifth consecutive gold medal by beating Sweden 5-1 today at the 2009 IIHF World Junior Championships. It was an interesting and intense game as Team Canada kept their “drive for five” alive!
These are juniors we are talking about so I try to be nice and fair but Sweden’s goaltender, Markstrom, is a real drama queen. I think that the Canadians definitely had some questionable plays but his reactions to getting bumped, hit or even shot at were nothing short of ridiculous, at times.
Moving on… P.K. Subban opened …read more
