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A recap of final weekend action at the IIHF World Senior Hockey Championships, with an eye on Oilers past, present and future.

WC Game Six: Canada 2 Czech Republic 3 Another international game, another game without heart from Canada's team. This has been an atypically sloppy and undisciplined affair, but watching it in...

Canada breaks out in a big way with a dozen goals agains overmatched Norway. Star of the show unquestionably Oilers' prospect Jordan Eberle, who had tongues a-waggin' with a 5-point performance in his World Senior debut

Oile prospect Eberle officially added to Team Canada, and other news from Germany.

Canada 6, Latvia 1: Special teams dominate the game, but the day is spoiled by a fractured ankle that has ended Ryan Smyth's eighth Worlds.

Canada 5 Italy 1: Team Canada slowly gets rolling at the World Seniors with a solid win over a hockey minnow. First impressions of a very young, v-e-r-y talented team.

Canada beats on Belarus to kick off the world championships.

*** SPOILER ALERT --If you are planning to watch today's World Championship game on tape delay and don't want to know what happened, don't read on ... (until later please!). Thus for now I am...

Semi-final day at the World Championships, and what's not to like? Russia-USA on now, followed by Canada-Sweden (noon MDT on TSN, not rebroadcast on tape delay until 1:30 a.m. -- believe it or...

Pregame -- Canada 0, Russia 0I love international hockey.Maybe one has to be a certain age to care as much as I do, but I'll make no apologies for that. I've followed the game at the national level...