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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
No shock we lost. Canada's World Junior dominance has come to an end. The other countries have caught up.
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That's actually a rather silly comment given the history. The USSR/Russia has only two fewer gold medals, and four medals more overall. We've gone on long gold medal droughts before - We didn't win a gold in the first five tournaments, we went seven without a gold in the late 90s/early 2000s, and now the current streak. We've had a couple dynasties, yes, but the fact that we have won five golds in a row before doesn't mean that the rest of the world needed to "catch up". It simply means that we haven't iced the best teams in the tournament the last couple years. Believe it or not, that has happened at times since the first tournament.
Edit: I will add though that Rider fans are the cause of our latest gold medal drought. Those embarrassing green uniforms Hockey Canada came out with in 2010 have cursed us.