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World Juniors gold-medal game preview: Team strengths, top players, X factors

BUFFALO -- Though it won't come against the team that took gold from them last year, Canada has a chance to take care of some unfinished business on American soil at the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship. Canada will look to take back their World Junior Championship crown against Sweden Friday.

Seven players from last year's team that lost to the United States in a heartbreaking shootout will be in the lineup again, with Dominique Ducharme behind the bench for the second straight year. Though the head coach is in a familiar position, there is a clean slate in 2018.