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2016 World Cup of Hockey: Canada strikes twice in third, plays final countdown for Europe

John Tavares is a champion. And Jaroslav Halak is going to be seeing shorthanded goals in his sleep for a while.

In the span of a two-plus minutes, Patrice Bergeron scored on a deft deflection and Brad Marchand (again) scored shorthanded and, just like that, rag tag Team Europe’s run was over with a 2-1 loss to Canada in Game 2 of the World Cup of Hockey Finals on Thursday night.

Canada’s victory extends its undefeated streak in best-on-best international hockey to 16 games. The boys from up north haven’t lost since they dropped a round robin game to Team USA at the 2010 Olympics.