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A tale of two disparate hockey cultures played out at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre as the undefeated United States (2-0) beat winless Kazakhstan (0-2) by an 8-2 scoreline in the lone Group B game scheduled Friday night in the 2019 IIHF world junior

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There are a bunch of guys in gold jerseys speaking Swedish in the Victoria Royals dressing room while the regular inhabitants have hit the road.

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There will come a time in this province when hockey fans will be cheering for Vancouver Canucks draft picks Quinn Hughes and Ty Madden.

Fans from as far away as New Jersey converged on Blanshard Street as the 2019 International Ice Hockey Federation U-20 world championship tournament opened Wednesday with Pool B action inside a sold-out Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.