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2012 Canada–Russia Challenge

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Dates
  
August 9–14, 2012

Venue(s)
  
2 (in 2 host cities)

Runner-up
  
Russia

Teams
  
2

Champions
  
Canada

Matches played
  
4

The 2012 Canada–Russia Challenge was a four-game international ice hockey tournament between Canadian and Russian junior teams, held in Canada and Russia on August 9–14, 2012, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, as well as honouring the memory of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster.

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Games

Being a four-game series with each team winning twice, a tie-breaking overtime was required to determine the series winner. Canada's Ryan Strome scored at 3:20 of the 20-minute sudden death period to win the series for Canada.

Statistics

  • Includes Ryan Stromes overtime goal for players, but does not count against Andrei Vasilevski because of the lack of information regarding total overtime shots.

    • References

    2012 Canada–Russia Challenge Wikipedia
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