You can try to convince me all you want that the Canadian World Junior Team’s 16-0 shellacking of Latvia in the opening game of the WJC was a necessary evil in a tournament whose second tie-breaker is goal differential. I can try to convince you that you’re full of shit and you could give me a log of recent bowel movements, but we’ll never see eye to eye. If you end up not advancing to a medal round because you only beat a much weaker opponent 10-0 then so be it. There’s no need to humilate a group of amateur athletes like that. And while tonight’s 6-0 win over Switzerland seems like a nail-bitter in comparison, you’d be hard pressed to find a classier display of sportsmanship than Toronto Maple Leafs first round pick Nazem Kadri let loose during the third period of a game that was already over: The player that Kadri is threatening to decapitate is a Swiss player by the name of Nino Niederreiter, an 18 year old transplant with the Portland Winter Hawks of the WHL who made the mistake of hitting the young Canadian “phenom” earlier in the game. Niederreiter is actually a budding star who led the Winter Hawks in scoring before leaving for the WJC with 41 points in 37 games during his first year of major junior in North America. He’s projected to be a second round draft pick. Or was. Before the Joaquin Phoenix of Canada gave the young Swiss star the thumbs down and sentenced him to death

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