The U.S. dominated throughout in their 5-1 crusher of the Canadians in World Junior semi-final action, and if there’s a solid reason why Canada just didn’t show up on this day, I’d like to know why. Was it coaching? Was it nerves, or lack of leadership, or lack of sleep? Whatever it was, the Americans [...]

Yes, it’s true I’m a smallish-yet-shifty right winger, but honestly, I haven’t decided if I’ll even play anywhere in 2014, let alone take up a spot on Team Canada’s roster. Really, even though Marc Crawford feels I’ll be there, I just don’t know. I’m getting long in the tooth. I haven’t played since those Byers Bulldozer Midget glory [...]

It’s hard to see Canada go for only third best, the bronze medal, and I know I’m being way too unrealistic and just plain silly. I want Canadian gold every year, but of course it can’t be. There’s some mighty fine teams that show up, great teams, and they want the same thing. Regardless, our boys played the Finns this [...]

Such a great gold medal game between Canada and the US, and although Canada lost, the Canadian team is a team all Canadians can and should be proud of. They were great, this collection of teenagers, and it’s a tough act to follow when your predecessors won gold in five straight years. The young Canadians [...]

The schedule maker must have grown up in a Habs-hating home. He had the team on a long seven-game road trip, then home for one game, and now down to Washington. Players barely had time to kiss the dog and pat the wife. And on top of that, the team plays while the Canadian juniors [...]

It’s a sad story I’m about to tell you. I finally sat down twenty hours after the fact to watch the big Canada-US junior game, and things were going swimmingly. I saw Canada fall behind 4-2 and in typically dramatic fashion, tie it up late in the game like I almost knew they would. I [...]

8-2 Team Canada. Which makes the important numbers these: Three games – Three wins. Three games – 30 goals for, 2 against. 50-50 draw for the game held in Saskatoon – $56,000 Americans on New Year’s Eve

Pepsi has come up with another promotion with prizes I’d sure like to get my greasy little hands on. What you have to do is come up with a creative hockey cheer and you can win trips to the World Juniors in Regina and Saskatoon, and the men’s World Championships which will take place in Germany next [...]

In 1972, Team Canada decided to play two exhibition games in Stockholm in preparation for the final four games against the Russians in Moscow. It was a way to have some ice time on the bigger ice, to deal with jet lag, to work on some things, and to have some solid European opposition before the main [...]

Canada won gold tonight by taking it to Sweden, 5-1 in Ottawa. But they won more than that. They won our hearts too.   It’s a shame that it has to end. Such emotion, such excitement, such noise from a usually quieter crowd in Ottawa for Senators games. But it’s the juniors, for goodness sakes. You [...]