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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GRAND FORKS, North Dakota - The best lessons in life rarely come without a little pain. Canada learned that the hard way yesterday, as it opened the 2005 World Junior Hockey Championships with a 7-3 win over Slovakia at Ralph Englestad Arena.
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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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Keith Tkachuk scored four goals and assisted on another to spark the United States past Russia 5-3 on Tuesday in a World Cup of Ice Hockey quarter-final match.
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Jeff Carter scored three goals in the second period to lead Canada to an 8-1 victory over Finland in the World Junior Hockey Championship on Thursday.
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LAKE PLACID, NY (CP) - The Canadian women&#39;s hockey team drew inspiration from its gold-medal performance at the Olympics to beat the US 2-1 and win the Four Nations Cup on Sunday.
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Alex Kovalev scored the winning goal and minor-league goaltender Illya Bryzgalov held his own against the American stars as Russia beat the United States 3-1 Thursday night in the World Cup of Hockey.
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Canada has that seven-year itch. It&#39;s been that long since Canada won gold at the World Junior hockey Championship, something the team hopes to rectify starting Saturday in the opening game against Slovakia (4 pm et on TSN) in North Dakota.
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Keith Tkachuk had four goals and an assist, leading the United States into the World Cup of Hockey semifinals with a 5-3 victory over Russia last night at St. Paul.
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Defending champion the United States lost to Belarus 5-3 on Wednesday at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, suffering its first defeat in group play at Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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For the United States Junior hockey team, Wednesday&#39;s loss at the hands of upstart Belarus was by no means devastating. But that doesn&#39;t mean the Americans wouldn&#39;t like to have it back.
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Patrice Bergeron and Sidney Crosby combined for seven points to help Canada beat Slovakia 7-3 in the opening round of the World Junior Hockey Championship on Saturday.
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Sixty minutes into a World Cup qualifying match in Jamaica last month, the United States trailed and risked losing its first game ever to the Reggae Boyz.
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With a 7-2 triumph over the United States, impact teens Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin place Russia in the World Juniors championship game against Canada.
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Martin Brodeur made 27 saves, and Brad Richards, Kris Draper and Joe Sakic scored goals to help Canada beat Russia 3-1 on Saturday night in the World Cup of Hockey, giving the Canadians a 3-0 record in round-robin play.
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Sweden beat  the three-time defending champions in the world junior hockey championship at 20o on Saturday with a last-second goal.
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GRAND FORKS, ND - Given the line of questioning yesterday, one couldn&#39;t be blamed for thinking Canada had lost its opener at the 2005 World Junior Hockey Championship.