Canada kicks off the under-20 event's latest instalment Thursday against the United States in a game loaded with skill, speed, familiarity, and perhaps biggest of all, intensity.
"Heated," Canadian defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker, a first-round pick of the Ottawa Senators, said of the rivalry. "Two countries that don't like each other playing against each other."
Viewed as the front-runners at the 10-team tournament, Canada and the U.S. sit in a difficult Group B with always-dangerous Russia, the host Czechs and a German program that continues to improve. The Americans beat their northern neighbours 2-1 outdoors in a shootout in round-robin play in Orchard Park, N.Y., at the 2018 event in their last meeting at the world juniors -- Canada's only blemish on the way to winning its 17th gold medal at the teenage showcase.
"He's a leader," said Hunter, himself a former NHL captain. "On and off the ice he's a character kid." Daws tried to pour cold water on talk of his lack experience on this or any similar stage, but the fact remains along with Joel Hofer, the equally untested presumptive No. 2, Canada's crease remains a massive question mark.
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