Canada wins gold in WHC
GM Steve Yzerman has added another gold medal to his resume, but this time it came as the GM instead of team player.
Team Canada defeated Finland, 4-2, earlier today to win the gold medal in Moscow where the World Hockey Championship was being held.
The country’s third gold at the event in the past five years only looked in doubt in the final minutes after Petri Kontiola and Antti Miettinen scored late. But the Canadians were able to hold on for the win after Rick Nash scored his second of the game with just over a minute to play.
The win earned St. Louis Blues coach Andy Murray his third gold medal in four stints as Canada’s coach in the tournament.
“I’ve had the ability to surround myself with quality people,” Murray told TSN afterwards about his impressive tenure at the world championship.”
You can view a two minute interview that TSN conducted with Steve Yzerman here.
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June 30th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
[…] Yzerman as management As I mentioned earlier, Yzerman’s Team Canada won gold at the WHC in Moscow. As GM, he deflected praise to those he worked with including Wings’ GM Ken Holland and Asst. GM Jim Nill. Yzerman, architect of the squad that won gold at the world championships in Moscow over the weekend, can now be added to that list. (Interestingly, Yzerman downplayed his own role and credited the input of others, and the first name he mentioned was Leaf GM John Ferguson). It was interesting to see Yzerman’s team filled with young players, including a college star in Jonathan Toews. It was a team that stood in stark comparison to the 2006 Canadian team that finished seventh in Turin, a team that always seemed more about past reputations than current quality. […]