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Canada Dominates Sweden

Ray Turner - Dec 28, 2004 / 8:49 am | Story: 6097

The Canadian junior hockey team got a lead and didn't take its foot off the gas this time in a 8-1 thumping of Sweden on Monday at the world junior hockey championship.

Canada (2-0) was guilty of easing up in an opening 7-3 win over Slovakia, but put in a sustained effort from beginning to end against the Swedes (1-1).

In other games Monday, it was: U.S. 6, Switzerland 4 Russia 4, Czech Republic 1 and Slovakia 2, Finland 0.

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