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| | Canada Wins Hockey's World Cup |
 | | "HOCKEY is Canada's Game," it said in blood-red letters, and no one - least of all the sullen band of Finns seated a couple of sections away - seemed inclined to argue. |
 | | You would think, after such a clamour, that a few hockey types would use last week's victory to settle scores; no one, after all, likes to be accused of squandering the national birthright. |
 | | So as reporters and family members mobbed the undefeated team in the Canadian dressing room, Hockey Canada's easygoing president, Bob Nicholson, stood quietly in the margins, denying any suggestion that he'd shown the nattering so-and-sos what the country is made of, and warning of greater competition ahead. |
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