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This article was published 05/01/2009 (6467 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OTTAWA — Canada continues to raise the bar at the world junior hockey championship.
A record-setting tournament ended in golden fashion on Monday night as Canada beat Sweden 5-1 to capture the event for a fifth straight year.
It was a successful tournament on the ice and in the stands for the host country.
More than 450,000 people attended games at Ottawa’s Scotiabank Place and Civic Centre — eclipsing the record set in Vancouver three years ago.
Many of them helped cheer Canada to another gold medal as the country matched its own record of five in a row. That mark was previously set from 1993-97.
This one was far from easy.
Canada went down 3-0 to the U.S. in a round-robin game on New Year’s Eve before rallying for a victory. In the semifinals against Russia, Canada tied the game with 5.4 seconds remaining and won in a shootout.
They were tested again in the gold-medal game. Canada took four straight minor penalties during the second period, but was able to keep the Swedes off the board and cruise to victory.
Cody Hodgson scored twice while P.K. Subban, Angelo Esposito and Jordan Eberle added singles for Canada. Dustin Tokarski stopped 39 shots in the victory.
It gave a sellout crowd that included Prime Minister Stephen Harper one more chance to hear O Canada played after the gold medals had been handed out.
That was exactly the ending coach Pat Quinn and his teenage players have had in mind since the team first got together almost three weeks ago.
The golden performance in Ottawa leaves next year’s Canadian team with a chance to set another record by winning the event for a sixth straight year.
The 2010 tournament will be co-hosted by Regina and Saskatoon.