FIFA fever takes hold in hockey-loving Canada
629209
It's known as the Great White North, where sports fans are obsessed with ice hockey. But this summer, Canada is set to melt that frigid image as it hosts the Under-20 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament.
619571
As a league that plays through the summer, Major League Soccer is subject to the ebb and flow, players coming and going for major international tournaments.
170894
TORONTO -- Canada 3, Russia 1 It&#39;s a good thing Marty Brodeur and his teammates were not as lifeless as many of the stuffed shirts sipping their sparkling water in the Air Canada Centre stands last night.
411298
The World Cup returned to Canada after 13 long years. How long hockey will be gone is anyone's guess.
545117
From Stanley Cup to World Cup, Vincent Lecavalier starred again.
15724
(CP) - Canada is atop the hockey world in more ways than one after Tuesday night's junior victory.
563296
Here&#39;s how Canada and Finland match up in the World Cup final tonight: GOALTENDING: Miikka Kiprusoff will be the busier of the two, but that&#39;s something he&#39;s used to from both the NHL season and the World Cup.
17896
MONTREAL -- The National Hockey League is hoping a dose of high-tech design and a dollop of fashion will help revitalize a sport deemed too dull by many fans south of the Canadian border.
125789
He is the two-time reigning VÃ©zina Trophy winner, a three-time Stanley Cup champion, an Olympic gold medal winner. In a year when the majority of World Cup teams are wishing
631382
When NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced on September 15 that the league had failed to reach a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and would lock out the players it drove an icy spike through the hearts of hockey-mad Canadians.
202963
TORONTO: A labour shutdown in North Americaâs elite professional ice hockey league has not just left Canada bereft of its premier sporting love - it has started to bite into the countryâs economic prosperity.
113834
Itâs too bad a lockout is days away in the NHL. Hockey like Saturdayâs dramatic 4-3 Canadian victory over the Czech Republic displays the sport at its best.
472559
Europe's ice hockey leagues are feeling the benefit of the NHL lockout.
570889
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.
680471
The problem is, through four games of the World Cup of Hockey, no team has been able to identify just what it is. In their quarterfinal game last night at the Air Canada Centre
376294
Australian Ian Baker-Finch, assistant captain of the Internationals for this week's Presidents Cup against the United States, has called on Canadian fans to rally behind the home team.
342996
Canada celebrated the victory, but the joy was tempered because the N.H.L. is set to impose a lockout on Wednesday because of a labor dispute with the players association.