A look back at Canada's 1985 rosters and two Gold medals at the U18's

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Here are all 1985 born players that won Gold at the 2002 Eight Nations U18 Cup. Canada went 5 and 0 at this tourney, as Belle was named Top D-man, Dawes was name Top Forward and Nastiuk was the Top Goalie.

Goaltenders

Lepp, Josh
Nastiuk, Kevin

Defence

Belle, Shawn
Bissonnette, Paul
Coburn, Braydon
Green, Mike
Phaneuf, Dion
Picard, Alexandre
Seabrook, Brent

Forwards

Bernier, Steve
Dawes, Nigel
Dixon, Stephen
Fraser, Colin
Horton, Nathan
Jacques, Jean-François
Meyer, Stefan
Mondou, Benoit
Perry, Corey
Pouliot, Marc-Antoine
Richards, Mike
Stewart, Anthony
Tardif, Jamie

Here is the roster of 1985 born players for Canada at the 2003 U18 IIHF World Championships where Canada also took home Gold. Remember most of these players were selected from non-playoff CHL clubs. Canada went 5 - 1 - 1 in the tourney and claimed Gold over teams like Russia, who included Ovechkin and Malkin.

Goaltenders

Beauchemin, Réjean
Munce, Ryan

Defence

Belle, Shawn
Bissonnette, Paul
Chapman, Brennan
Coburn, Braydon
Coulombe, Patrick
Green, Mike
Seabrook, Brent

Forwards

Bernier, Steve
Bolduc, Alexandre
Carcillo, Daniel
Carter, Jeff
Colliton, Jeremy
Crombeen, B.J.
Dixon, Stephen
Getzlaf, Ryan
Platt, Geoff
Pouliot, Marc-Antoine
Roussin, Dany
Stewart, Anthony
Tardif, Jamie
 

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HabLover said:
Here is the roster of 1985 born players for Canada at the 2003 U18 IIHF World Championships where Canada also took home Gold. Remember most of these players were selected from non-playoff CHL clubs. Canada went 5 - 1 - 1 in the tourney and claimed Gold over teams like Russia, who included Ovechkin and Malkin.

In face to face game Russia beat Canada 6-3. Russia had very smallish roster but big rink helped them to overcome it. Interesting that Russia beat USA with the same score 6-3 while Canada and USA tied 1-1 in 3 periods (then Canada won in OT).

I think while being very confident these Canadian players have some problems with assignment of the power through the whole game versus serious opponent because seems they are fading to the end of the game because of phisical tiredness (that causes mistakes) or rising psychological presure, not sure.
Some examples: letting from Russia 4 or 5 goals in the 3rd period at U18 2003, also at U18 tieing with Chech while totally dominating first half of the game and leading 3-0 and the last example is losing advantage at 3rd at the last U20 worlds. I think big rinks that will be at the WJC won't be a help for this big heavy guys.
As Kovalev said after coming to RSL: "It's needed another pair of legs to skate at such rinks". ;)

PS: Russia will have about 7 players from U18 2003: Ovechkin, Malkin, Pervyshin, Glazachev, Shafigulin, Pestunov, Belov.
 
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This really gives me alot more hope for Jamie Tardif, maybe this guy does have a legit NHL chance after all, even being considered for a team like that is impressive.
 
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