TORONTO — Dominique Ducharme on Monday morning noted his group of 22 hockey players had an opportunity to record a memorable chapter in the long, intense Canada/Russia hockey rivalry.
“There’s a lot of history (in) those games between Canada and Russia,” said Ducharme, the head coach of Canada at the 2017 world junior hockey championship.
“To be part of it, it’s one page we can write. It’s our own story now.”
Consider it a happy ending for Canada in its first game of the ’17 tournament on Monday night at the Air Canada Centre.
As it was during three exhibition games last week, Canada was relentless on the puck and defensively stymied the Russians at mostly every turn.