- Led by the tournament MVP, John Tavares, Team Canada claimed their fifth straight title at the 2009 IIHF World U20 Hockey Championship. One week ago today, Canada dominated Sweden in the gold medal game in Ottawa, ON winning 5-1 in front of 20,000 plus at ScotiaBank Place. Canada goes for an unprecedented sixth straight title in the co-host cities of Regina and Saskatoon. For ticket or other information about next years tournament click here.
- Canada's under 22 women's hockey team won silver at the 2009 MLP Nations Cup in what was only their second loss in the tournament since it's inception back in 2003. The Canadian team didn't surrender a goal in the tournament until late in the second period of the final game. Canada opened the tournament with a 3-0 victory over Finland before beating Russia 11-0 in the other round robin game and Germany 3-0 in the semi-final.
- Canada's under 18 women's hockey team also brought Canada a silver medal in their championship tournament. After scores of 16-1 against Switzerland, 6-0 against Finland and 13-0 against the Czech Republic, Canada beat Sweden 6-1 in the semis before losing 3-2 to Team USA in the gold medal game.
- The NLL season has begun and so far the defending champion Buffalo Bandits are looking good to repeat. They dominated the Philadelphia Wings in their season and home opener January 3 and found a way to beat a much improved Toronto Rock team on Saturday (Buffalo had not beat Toronto since January 2006 and hold a losing record all-time against Toronto).
- For this NLL season, all games are being broadcast live online free of charge. Just log on to www.nll.com and click the watch live link. It is nothing like experiencing the game live but it is great for those who cannot make it to the arena...or for those on the opposite coast. I hope this experiment works because I really enjoyed watching Colin Doyle and the San Jose Stealth take on the Calgary Roughnecks Friday night.
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