Canada defeats Sweden 3-2 in overtime to win the gold medal in the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. This is their fourth straight gold medal, won by one of the best junior teams the country has ever seen. The Canadians dominated the game in the first two periods, but the Swedes tied it in the last period with a beautiful goal on a set play off a face-off and then a goal with under a minute to play and the Swedish goaltender pulled. Excellent and aggressive play from all the Canadian lines, especially under the game’s MVP, Brad Marchant, combined with superb goaltending from the Canadian goaltender Steve Mason, who rightfully won the tournament MVP award, simply pulled together to outdo the Swedish team at the end of the game.
Congratulations to the Swedish team, who are bringing home their first medal in twelve years, and congratulations to the Canadian U20 juniors on this terrific outing in this year’s WJHC—we hope to see you do great things in the NHL in the coming years, and in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver!
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