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Canada’s National Sledge Team to play for gold medal at 2015 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship

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May 1, 2015
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Canada’s National Sledge Team will play for the gold medal at the 2015 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship after a 3-2 win over Russia in the semifinals on Friday.

Canada will meet the United States in the gold medal game on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT.

It’s just the second time Canada and the United States will meet in the gold medal game; two years ago in Goyang, South Korea, the Canadians earned a 1-0 win to claim the most recent world title.

On Friday, Billy Bridges scored twice – his tournament-leading eighth and ninth goals – to erase a 1-0 Russian lead after one period, and Adam Dixon (Midland, Ont.) scored the winner on a Canadian power play just 17 seconds into the third period to lead Canada to its fourth gold medal game appearance in world championship history. Corbin Watson (Kingsville, Ont.) made 10 saves to record the win, despite allowing a goal for the first time in four starts at the tournament.

In seven appearances at the IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship, Canada has won three gold medals (2000, 2008, 2013) and three bronze medals (1996, 2009, 2012), finishing fourth in 2004.

NOTE TO MEDIA: Esther Madziya, Hockey Canada’s coordinator of media relations, is on site at the 2015 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship with Canada’s National Sledge Team. She can be reached for interview requests at [email protected] or 403-519-5754.

For more information on Hockey Canada, the 2015 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship and Canada’s National Sledge Team, please visit www.hockeycanada.ca and www.hockeycanada.ca/sledgeteam or follow through social media at www.twitter.com/hockeycanadawww.facebook.com/hcsledge and www.twitter.com/hc_sledge.

For more information:

Esther Madziya
Manager, Communications
Hockey Canada

(403) 284-6484 

[email protected] 

Spencer Sharkey
Manager, Communications
Hockey Canada

(403) 777-4567

[email protected]

Jeremy Knight
Manager, Corporate Communications
Hockey Canada

(647) 251-9738

[email protected]

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