Canada was the last of the ten teams at the 2021 World Junior Hockey Championship to lose a game, but at the very end they lost the one that mattered most. The 22 youngsters proudly wearing the red maple leaf ran off 6 consecutive wins with a +41/-4 goal differential all the way to the gold medal game, but fell short in that decisive showdown to their arch rivals from the United States. In a fiercely contested game, the Americans shut down access to the slot, received 34 saves from netminder Spencer Knight, and rode a pair of early-ish goals all the way to the finish line. Read More
