20 years after playing in world juniors, Canadian goaltender comes full circle as coach
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Olivier Michaud's got some stories to tell the three goaltenders on the Canadian junior men's hockey team.
Olivier Michaud’s got some stories to tell the three goaltenders on the Canadian junior men’s hockey team.
Two decades after he tended Canada’s goal in the 2002 world under-20 hockey championship in Hradec Kralove and Pardubice, Czech Republic, he’s the goaltending coach of the 2022 edition.
“I remember pretty much everything,” Michaud told The Canadian Press. “Even if it was 20 years ago, it was my first and, until this year, my only world juniors.”
Not answering the phone in his hotel room during selection camp for fear he would be told he’d been cut from the team, beating out two other goaltenders to join Pascal Leclaire on the Canadian squad, warming up for the first game against France on Christmas Day in Hradec Kralove’s frigid arena, and Russia’s Alexander Svitov spitting on Canada’s Brian Sutherby during a round-robin game are among Michaud’s memories now more vivid because of his job on the current squad.
Michaud played round-robin games against Switzerland and Finland with Leclaire in net for Canada’s 5-4 loss to Russia in the gold-medal game in Pardubice.
The spitting incident became part of Canadian junior hockey lore as an example of a player putting his team before himself.
A livid Sutherby wanted to retaliate, but didn’t want penalties or his possible ejection to impact Canada’s fortunes in the tournament.
“He was good just taking a deep breath and calming down and thinking about the team first because, yeah, he was frustrated,” Michaud recalled.
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