Canadian Gold AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today the Canadian National Junior hockey team claimed its 4th gold medal in a row at the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) championship in Pardubice in the Czech Republic by beating Sweden 3-2 to take the gold medal . Here are a few samples of the proof of canadian domination at the IIHF tournament. 20 consecutive wins, 400 minute (6hours 45mins)even-strength shutout streak, 160 minute (2 and a half hours)shutout streak or is it that Canada has the most successful Junior program in the world, having won the most gold medals (14), and most total medals (24). They have also won the last four World Junior championships. IF thats nothing how about the fact that more than half of the NHL players on the 2006/2007 rosters were born in Canada 51%, followed by Europe with 30% and the bringing up the rear, the US with *lol* 17%. And not to mention that the greatest player to ever strap on a pair of skates #99, from Brantford, Ontario, Canada is Mr Hockey. Wayne Gretzky!

Wayne Gretzky was named the greatest player in National Hockey League history by The Hockey News in 1998. Some of his many accomplishments includebeing the NHL's all-time leading scorer, he was named league MVP nine times and he led the Edmonton Oilers to four Stanley Cups in five years from 1984-88. Gretzky was traded to Los Angeles in 1988 (which many people saw as the downward sprial of the Edmonton Oilers). From there was traded to the St. Louis Blues in the 1995-1996 season and he finished his long 20 year career with a trade the New York Rangers, playing his last NHL game on April 18th, 1999. Later that year he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (the usual three-year waiting period was waived in his case), and the NHL retired his jersey number, 99, permanently throughout the league. No longer would ther number 99 be worn.

Just goes to show, canada IS the first nation of hockey with OVER 530,000 players from age 5 to 85!!!!