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Canada and Russia will meet tonight in the gold medal game of the 2011 World Junior Hockey Championship in Buffalo. It's Canada's 10th straight appearance in the final. The Canadians downed the United States 4-1 on Monday while Denis Golubev scored the shootout winner as the Russians edged Sweden 4-3 in the other semifinal.  Canada lost 6-5 in overtime to the Americans in the 2010 gold medal game in Saskatoon.

 

 

photo courtesy  National Post