Stig Östlund

torsdag, januari 06, 2011

Canada suffers epic collapse in world junior final

Russia scores five straight goals in 5-3 gold-medal game victory at world juniors

It was all of those things as Canada, seemingly on cruise control to the world junior championship, shocked 18,690 partisans Wednesday night with an all-time choke job to lose 5-3 to Russia. It was the third time in as many games the Russians were seemingly out of contention when they came back to win.

The only ones who weren’t surprised were the Russians. Asked why they were able to come from behind to win their last three games of the tournament, forward Evgeny Kuznetsov smiled and shouted, “Because we are Russians! We are champions!” /The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Bloggarkiv