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Worlds: Canada lays thumping on Latvia
HALIFAX — Everything is falling into place for Team Canada at the IIHF World Hockey Championship.
A 7-0 win over Latvia on Sunday represents the start of bigger things for the squad, which now finds itself as the last Canadian outfit playing hockey with professionals after the Montreal Canadiens were eliminated from the NHL playoffs.
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May 5, 2008
Canada adds Heatley, Spezza for worlds
QUEBEC — Ken Hitchcock doesn’t have to think back very far to remember a time when things weren’t this good.
He was an assistant coach on the Canadian team at the 2002 IIHF World Hockey Championship when more than 60 players declined an invitation to represent their country. GM Lanny McDonald ended up having to turn to European-based players just to field a team at the event in Sweden.
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2 comments April 28, 2008
