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Russia again denies Canada gold medal

by 158 | May 10, 2009 at 06:58 pm

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A disappointing ending

but still a good effort by

Canada.

For the second consecutive year, Team Canada came up second-best to Russia at the IIHF world hockey championship on Sunday.

Russia edged Canada 2-1 in a high-intensity gold-medal final in Bern. To add further insult to injury, the gold medal was Russia/U.S.S.R.'s 25th of all time, dropping Canada to second place with 24 titles.

Canada, which has won five of its last seven matches against Russia, had plenty of glorious scoring championships, but only Jason Spezza's first-period tally was able to elude Russia goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov.

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Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 02:14 on May 11th, 2009

Thanks for this 158

158

at 08:06 on May 11th, 2009

Second in the world is great.

Thanks for the story.

electrocoffee

at 06:48 on May 11th, 2009

We, in Russia, hope that our "red machine" returned, and russian-canadian rivalry returned too. So it would be 2 times more interesting to watch the Olympic tournament in Vancouver next year ;)