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Brett Connolly, Devante Smith-Pelly Renew Canadian Hope
Just last week, Canadian hockey fans weren’t feeling overly confident of Team Canada’s chances at winning gold in the 2012 World Juniors. Only Quinton Howden, Jaden Schwartz, and Mark Visentin...
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Team Canada World Junior Selection Camp Report, Day One
Forty-three Team Canada hopefuls continued their quest to represent their country Sunday in Calgary at Hockey Canada’s selection camp. The centerpiece of the day was a Red versus White game,...
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Russia’s Triple Threat Searches For Gold
The Russians always send fantastic talent to every hockey tournament they take part in. There’s always at least one player that appears destined for stardom on every World Junior team...
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Connolly and Smith-Pelly To Play For Team Canada
As was being speculated for the past week or so, Brett Connolly of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Devante Smith-Pelly of the Anaheim Ducks have indeed been loaned out by their...
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5 Players To Watch In The 2012 World Juniors
Every sports fan loves when their country excels in international competition, and every hockey fan especially loves it when their country excels in the World Juniors. It seems that in...
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Ryan Murphy Returns To Action But Will He Crack Team Canada Roster?
After missing 10 games following a check to the head by Niagara forward Tom Kuhnhackl, Kitchener Rangers star defenseman Ryan Murphy has returned to the ice where he and his Rangers...
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Six Flames prospects in the hunt for World Junior roster spots
As the December cold settles in and the 2012 IIHF World Junior Championships rapidly approach, international hockey clubs work hard at setting their competition rosters. This winter, as many as...
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Will Doug Gilmour Trade Ryan Spooner?
Doug Gilmour is in his first term as the General Manager of the Kingston Frontenacs. He became the GM in April, and currently faces his biggest challenge: to trade the...
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Previewing The American World Junior Team
After a third-place finish on home ice in the 2011 World Junior Championships, Team USA will be looking for a gold medal this time around. They’re considered the favourite to...
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Five Hockey East players named to USA WJC camp
Well USA Hockey has released the camp roster for the World Junior Championships tonight and there was no real surprises from the Hockey East players that were named to camp....
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The OHL Rundown – December 5th
WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP TENDING Take That Hockey Canada Five days after being snubbed by Hockey Canada, two sixteen-year olds fired back via the gamesheet to showing Hockey Canada that...
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Nathan MacKinnon: Hockey Canada’s Latest Snub
What do Tyler Seguin, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Nathan MacKinnon have in common? They were all star players who Hockey Canada deemed to be too young and not emotionally and physically...