It might not be that the guard is changing in hockey at the junior level. Finland beat the United States 3-2 to claim gold at the world junior championship in Vancouver on Saturday, its third gold medal in six years. “No words,” Finland goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, a Sabres prospect with the OHL’s Sudbury Wolves, told TSN. Finland, with a population of just 5.5 million, had six first-rounders taken in the 2017 draft. Woe Canada: Hockey Canada CEO Tom Renney suggested to reporters in Vancouver the rest of the world had caught up to Canada, rather than suggest Hockey Canada’s program had fallen backwards.

Source: thestar January 06, 2019 03:45 UTC