Posts About "Dominique Ducharme"

World Juniors: Team Canada vs. Team USA

November 28th, 2017 The World Junior Championships are going to be highly entertaining this year, as each national team plays a completely different style of hockey. The international tournament features a display of culture and style and yeah, it will prove which country is the best because there can be only one winner. Step 1: World Junior Summer...

Tape2Tape: Ducharme's Comments Could Hurt Canada

January 4th, 2017 Are you kidding me? That was my first reaction when I heard what Dominique Ducharme spewed to the media ahead of Canada’s matchup with Sweden at the Under-20 World Junior Championships in Montreal. Say what you will about why he did it, but talking trash about one’s opponent heading into a semi-final game usually isn't wise. What...

Canada Remains Perfect At WJC

December 30th, 2016 Well, that got out of hand quickly. Let's face it. No one expected a team like Latvia to hang with Canada. After all, this is a team that lost to Canada 16-0 in their last and only World Junior meeting. The fact that Canada scored less than that might be considered a victory for the Latvians. The first period was good for Latvia....

Canada Gets Wake-Up Call

December 24th, 2016 In the final tune-up for the 2017 World Juniors, Canada's dominance so far wasn't tested. In the first two pre-tournament games, Canada beat both Finland and the Czech Republic by a score of 5-0. It looked as though Canada might steamroll through this tournament had they kept playing the way they did. Then Switzerland came to town, a...

Canada Names 2017 World Junior Team

December 15th, 2016 Team Canada is all set to take another run at World Junior gold as they have named the 22-man roster that will take part in the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championships. After bowing out in the quarterfinals last year, this roster has a lot of work to do. Five players are returning from that tournament in Helsinki. They are Dylan Strome...