World juniors: Focused Team Canada knows what's at stake

Thomas Chabot, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Mathieu Joseph of Team Canada chat after practice at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa on Dec. 20, 2016. (Jean Levac/Postmedia)OTTAWA — It's serious business carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and the Canadian leaf on the front.

So we're pleased to learn these Canadian juniors can have some fun when they're not busy living up to the hype of a team playing at home in the World Junior Hockey Championships.

The way skilled forward Mathew Barzal tells it, life with Team Canada sounds a bit like minor hockey tournament fun — other than the other-worldly expectations.

“We've had some bus rides, and were six to a room in an apartment in (Mont)…