Bringing energy and intensity to the ice helped Pickering's Wayne Simmonds earn a spot with Canada's junior team at the World Junior Hockey Championships in Pardubice, Czech Republic.
And, those same attributes helped Canada and Simmonds produce a gold-medal effort -- Canada's fourth in a row -- in a 3-2 overtime victory over Sweden in the championship game on Saturday.
For Simmonds, a Scarborough native whose family moved to Pickering, playing in the final in front of literally thousands of Canadians who made the trip to the Czech Republic to cheer on the junior Canucks was altogether special for the 19-year-old forward.
Simmonds savours gold (Durham Region News) 
