The US broke Canadian hearts in Montreal as the Americans won 5-4 in the gold medal game at the World Junior Hockey Championship, scoring the only goal in the shootout to skate away as champions.
Canada twice had two goal leads that slipped away as the US forced overtime.
Niether side could score in the 20 minutes of overtime provided before the teams had to settle who would win gold in a shootout.
Troy Terry scored the shootout winner.
Thomas Chabot, Jeremy Lauzon, Nicolas Roy and Mathieu Joseph had the goals for Canada.
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