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“I remember seeing both at the World Junior Championships in North Dakota,” recalls Pang. “That was the lockout year, and Canada had a really dominant team because a lot of their players that had played in the NHL were able to go back and play in the World Juniors, like Patrice Bergeron, and I know Sidney played in that.”
Pang arrived in North Dakota intending to focus primarily on Canadian players, but the Russian kid made a hell of an impression … in more ways than one.
“I just couldn’t believe that a player, a forward, hit as hard as he did. Honestly, I’m not sure if I remember anything other than that,” Pang recalls. “I don’t really recall a one-timer or him stickhandling through the neutral zone. I remember him skating around and eliminating a lot of American players in the semifinal. He was a one-man wrecking crew, and I’m like, What is this? It’s like a robot on ice.”
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