United States, Canada win World Junior Hockey openers
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Defending champion United States and tournament favorite Canada flexed their offensive muscle in the opening round of the World Junior Hockey Championship on Saturday.
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Ryan Smyth scored twice and Martin St  Louis had a goal and an assist for the second straight game as  Canada eased to a 5-1 win over Slovakia in round-robin play at  the World Cup of Hockey on Wednesday.
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Saku Koivu scored the winner with less  than four minutes to go, giving Finland a surprise 2-1 victory  over the United States in the semi-finals of the World Cup of  Hockey at St Paul, Minnesota on Friday.
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On Monday morning, when Chris Bourque glanced at his cellphone to see his coach was calling, he had a good idea of what Jack Parker was going to tell him. That day, USA Hockey was informing 10 players that they had been selected to represent their country at the 10-team World Junior Championship later this month in Grand Forks, N.D.
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Canada set two goals for itself going into last night&#39;s preliminary round game against Germany at the 2005 World Junior Hockey Championship.
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Forget all that talk about Team USA having goalie problems. Robert Esche and Rick DiPietro combined on a shutout, and John-Michael Liles arrived just in time to score a goal to lead the defending champion Americans to a 2-0 victory over Russia on Friday night in their final World Cup exhibition game.
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The North American rivalry picked up at the same elite level it reached when Canada beat the United States for the gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Shane Doan scored 34 seconds into the  third period to lift Canada to a 3-2 win over Finland in the  World Cup of Hockey championship game on Tuesday.
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Shane Doan scored 34 seconds into the  third period to break a 2-2 tie and give Canada a 3-2 win over  Finland in the championship game of the World Cup of Hockey on  Tuesday.
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The scoop: Finally! For the first time in this championships, the team that scored first did NOT win the game. Nursing a 1-0 lead starting the third period, the USA surrendered two third-period goals and lost
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Defending champion the United States edged Spain 1-0 and South Korea defeated Russia 2-0 Thursday on the sixth day of play in the FIFA Under-19 Women&#39;s World Championship.
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Jarome Iginla, Jose Theodore, and Team Canada kicked off their run to a gold medal in hockey at the 1996 World Juniors on Rink 1 at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough. Surya Bonaly, Johnny Weir, and a number of other renowned figure skaters from across the continent have trained or performed on one of the facility's five sheets ...
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Brian McBride and debutant Eddie Johnson gave the United States a 2-0 victory over El Salvador in their World Cup qualifier on Saturday.
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Jarome Iginla had two goals and an assist to lead Canada into the World Cup of Hockey semifinals with a 5-0 victory over Slovakia on Wednesday night.
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Running Brodeur sets off fiery coach. Canada 2, US 1; St. Louis, Sakic score as Lemieux turns enforcer to protect goalie. US&#39;s Aaron Miller flattens Canada&#39;s Shane Doan from behind last night as goalie Robert
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Team USA finally showed some energy in the World Cup of Hockey, beating Slovakia 3-1 Friday for its first win in the tournament.
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Patrice Bergeron and Sidney Crosby combined for 7 points on Saturday to help Canada beat Slovakia, 7-3, in the opening round of the World Junior Hockey Championship.