Best junior/U-18 National Teams of all time?

[Rorschach]

Watching this year's USA team with Hughes, C Caufield, Boldy, Turcotte...basically feels like half the top 15 of the first round of the draft, it got me to thinking/reminiscing...

What are some of the best junior national teams of all time? Top five/top ten? (choose only one squad per country per year)

I remember when I started watching hockey back in 1989, the 1990 Team Canada was great. The next year's Soviet team was loaded too. (I started collecting hockey cards at that time so I remember both teams' Upper Deck cards.)

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[JackSlater]

I think that the best junior team, assuming that you mean at the national level, was clearly the 2005 Canadian junior team. No idea about U18.

 

[Rorschach]

I think that the best junior team, assuming that you mean at the national level, was clearly the 2005 Canadian junior team. No idea about U18.

Yeah that's pretty good...best of the 2003 draft class plus Sidney Crosby.