Before the biggest game of his life, Trevor Zegras wasn't afraid to speak his mind. The Team USA forward didn't give the usual cliche hockey player answer.
US upset heavily favored Canada 2-0 to win surprise title
Spencer Knight (34 saves) records third shutout of event
Team USA celebrate their 2-0 win over Canada in the title game of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship on Tuesday in Edmonton. Photograph: Jason Franson/AP
Team USA celebrate their 2-0 win over Canada in the title game of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship on Tuesday in Edmonton. Photograph: Jason Franson/AP
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Spencer Knight made 34 saves in yet another shutout and the United States upset Canada 2-0 on Tuesday night to win the world junior hockey championship.
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.
Panthers at the WJC: U.S. wins gold as Spencer Knight blanks Canada
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Florida Panthers goalie prospect Spencer Knight won a Gold Medal following the United States 2-0 win over previously undefeated host Canada at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton.
Panthers prospect Devon Levi was between the pipes for Canada, earning a Silver Medal in the tournament.
Dating back to 1996, the first World Junior Tournament to feature a playoff round culminating in a gold-medal game, this game marked the first instance of two goaltenders drafted by the same NHL club facing each other in the championship game.
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Team USA upset Canada 2-0 on Tuesday night to win gold at the World Junior Championship. Canada, which entered the tournament at +140 odds to win it all and was a -350 favourite to beat the U.S. in the final. Meanwhile, Team USA was +375 to win it all at the start of the tournament – the third choice behind Canada and Russia (+300). Here is the Morning Coffee for Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021.
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Team USA upset Canada 2-0 on Tuesday night to win gold at the World Junior Championship.