Canada golden again at world junior men's hockey championship 

LEKSAND, Sweden (CP) - Canada is constructing another golden era at the world junior hockey championship.

A 4-2 win over Russia on Friday was good for Canada's third straight gold medal in the under-20 world showcase. The championship run is second only to 1992 to 1997, when the Canadian men won five straight. "I hope, looking back as I get older, that this was the start of another great era," said forward Ryan O'Marra.

O'Marra was one of 11 returnees from the team that won the title last year in Vancouver. The others were defencemen Marc Staal, Ryan Parent, Kris Letang, Kris Russell and Luc Bourdon and forwards Andrew Cogliano, Jonathan Toews, Steve Downie, Tom Pyatt and Daniel Bertram.

After victories in Grand Forks, N.D., in 2005 and Vancouver, the challenge for this Canadian team was to win the crown outside of North America, which hadn't been done since 1997 in Geneva.