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TORONTO – Canada held on to a 5-4 lead over Russia after the second period of Monday night’s gold medal game of the World Juniors at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
Connor McDavid and Max Domi led Canada to a 5-1 lead in the second.
The Russians responded with three goals from Ivan Barbashyov, Sergei Tolchinski and Nikolai Goldobin.
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In first period action, Anthony Duclair opened the scoring after 23 seconds firing home a pass from Domi past Russian goalie Igor Shestyorkin.
Nick Paul made it 2-0 just two minutes later after he redirected a shot behind Shestyorkin, who was immediately pulled in favour of Ilya Sorokin.
Defenceman Dmitri Yudin countered for Russia to make it 2-1 with a shot from the point that beat Canadian goaltender Zachary Fucale.
Russia advanced to the championship game first with an afternoon game Sunday, defeating Sweden 4-1. Canada advanced late Sunday night after defeating Slovakia 5-1.
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Canada has not won gold since 2009 when the team took its fifth straight gold medal. The Canadian team won silver in 2010 and 2011 after losing to the Russians and bronze in 2012. They haven’t medalled since.
Russia, however, won its last gold medal in 2011, silver in 2012 and bronze in 2013 and 2014.
Global News had live coverage of the game in the blog below:
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