Faced with first genuine test of 2021 world juniors, Canada falls short
Canada players react after their loss to the United States in IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game action in Edmonton on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Mark Spector | @sportsnetspec January 6, 2021, 2:03 AM
EDMONTON Some like the cakewalk, those fluffy two weeks of beating the spread against teams that don’t have a single player who could make Team Canada, had they been born here.
Some look at the cakewalk as a Canadian’s chance to be loud and proud. To paint our faces and travel in groups to foreign lands like hockey vikings. Then, when we predictably beat up on a Germany, a Switzerland, a Latvia or even a Russia us Canadians go full Uncle Sam in our chest thumping.