GOLD Steve Downie is a tenacious buzz saw of a hockey player, writes ERIC DUHATSCHEK from Vancouver. Last night, Downie tied Russian star Evgeni Malkin in knots to lead Canada to a remarkable 5-0 victory at the world junior championship
6th Jan 2006, 11:49 GMT
The face of Canadian hockey this morning wears an angelic, gap-toothed, occasionally maniacal choir-boy grin. There is a small tuft of beard on the chin and a hearing aid in the right ear of superpest Steve Downie, a player who is one part Darcy Tucker, one part Theo Fleury, one part Bobby Clarke and 100-per-cent pure Canadian hockey player.
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