Boston Bruins fans have to be hoping for nothing less out of Dougie Hamilton than what the point-based prodigy dished up for Team Canada against the host Russians in Monday’s World Junior Championship action.
At the 14:03 mark of the first period, teammate and established NHLer Ryan Nugent-Hopkins found an open Hamilton on the near point. The blueliner’s one-timer sizzled over the right shoulder of Russia netminder Andrei Makarov and sent the water bottle on a high dive to the ice behind the cage.
More to the point, it gave Hamilton his first goal in the 2012-13 WJC and gave Canada a power-play conversion and the icebreaker en route to a 4-1 win in the round robin finale. The Bruins’ top draft pick from 2011 offered the first dose of support to 2012 Boston first-rounder Malcolm Subban, who has seen every possible minute of action in four consecutive victories.
Hamilton has now tallied two points in the tournament, both during a five-on-four segment. The other came when he made a crisp forward feed to Jonathan Huberdeau amidst a 9-3 romp over Germany.
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