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TORONTO -- Team Canada is coming off its 13th consecutive win in a best-on-best hockey competition, but its not even the toast of this tournament. Or at least it seems that way.You cant blame the reigning Olympic champs if theyre feeling just a little jealous that their little North American brothers have stolen much of the show so far at the World Cup of Hockey.Take Wednesdays double-bill at Air Canada Centre, which featured a juxtaposition of two vastly different styles of hockey: one that lifts fans out of their seats while giving coaches heart palpitations, and the other a clinical, masterful display of how to win games at this level.Which would you rather watch? Team Canada head coach Mike Babcock asked, interrupting my long-winded question after his teams 4-1 win over Europe, knowing very well where I was headed with this.Finally, I asked Babcock (memo to self: shorten your damn questions), How do you compare both situations?Well theyre totally different. I like watching that team because theres tons of skill, Babcock said of the 23-and-under North American gang. I like winning more, though. I just want to win. Thats what our players came for, they came to win.Boom. Thats the crux of it all, right?Team Canada is all business. Its here to win again. The North American kids were brought here to entertain, to give us a glimpse of the sports promising future. But in doing so, theyre scaring the heck out of everyone else.Take Sweden, the reigning Olympic silver medalist, the squad with the deepest and most talented blue-line corps in the tournament. The veteran Swedes were already down 2-0 just 1:35 into their game with the North American kids on Wednesday afternoon, and they might as well have been wearing their jockstraps on their heads because they hadnt touched the puck yet.The ending was wild, too, a thrill-a-second overtime that culminated in?Nathan MacKinnons dizzying dekes to beat Henrik Lundqvist?for the game winner.One could literally hear the buzz in the crowd as fans filtered out of Air Canada Centre after North Americas 4-3 win. They knew they had just seen hockey at its most entertaining.Imagine what it was like being head coach North America head coach Todd McLellan during that OT session.I was standing on the bench, saying, No, no, no! and then Go, go, go! he said of watching his young teams risk-reward, heart-stopping play.Inside Team Canadas dressing room, the back-to-back Olympic champs were also glued to the TV set, watching a version of hockey they likely havent played since their teens.Its a little different mentality, but the entertainment level is pretty remarkable, Team Canada forward Steven Stamkos?said. We caught the overtime before we got things going in the room. That was exciting hockey. I dont think there were any systems being played, but it was entertaining. The fans were into it. Guys in the room were excited to watch it. Beautiful goal to end it. Thats the new wave of the NHL generation thats coming up.When youre the North American kids and youre playing with house money, life is fun. When youre Canada and you havent lost a game in best-on-best hockey in 6? years, the impeccable standard you have set for your team requires surgical precision on both sides of the puck. Mistakes are just not allowed.Theres definitely some differences, two-time Olympic gold medalist Jonathan Toews?said after scoring two goals Wednesday night. I think the amount of pressure on both teams is a little bit different. The North American team, they go out there and they play. They know that even though maybe theyre not as strict with their systems -- if thats the case -- theyre working hard. So if they make a mistake and they turn the puck over theyve got three guys coming back hard.So theyre playing pretty responsibly in that regard. It just looks like theyre having fun, Toews continued. Theyre playing loose and theyre not worried about a thing. When you play that way, then that skill can really be unleashed and were seeing that too. Theyre a dangerous team. Well see what happens in the next few days.If the hockey gods play along and produce a Finland victory over Russia on Thursday, that would propel the North American kiddos into a semifinal matchup against their Team Canada mentors.Come on, you know you want to see it, the vivid contrast in playing styles.Its a little different style than we play, thats for sure, Stamkos said with a smile. Obviously, with Babs and the coaching staff we have, its a pretty detailed system. But theres a reason why Canada has won a lot. The complete buy-in from every player, the attitude everyone has coming in, its very light and confident but its also businesslike at the same time. Were going out and winning this game and we dont care how we do it. We dont care what happens, who scores, who doesnt. Guys are blocking shots, guys are back-checking.You want to be a guy whos doing everything right, and thats something every guy here is willing to do.Translation: Team Canada isnt here to entertain you. 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Australia Women 254 for 8 (Bolton 64, Blackwell 56*, Atapattu 3-31) beat Sri Lanka Women 176 for 9 (Polgampola 68*, Extras 50, Beams 4-15) by 78 runs Riding on Kristen Beams four-wicket haul and half-centuries from Nicole Bolton and Alex Blackwell, Australia Women thrashed Sri Lanka Women by 78 runs in Dambulla to take a 2-0 lead in the four-match ODI series. The win made Australia Women the first team to secure direct entry for the 2017 Womens World Cup.Sri Lankas chase of 255 got off to a terrible start as they were reduced to 35 for 5 in the 18th over, with Beams taking three of the first five wickets. The hosts ultimately managed to cobble together 176 for 9, helped considerably by the 41 runs in wides offered up by Australias bowlers. That still left Sri Lanka with a big defeat, as only Chamari Polgampola playing an innings of substance.After Australia opted to bat, the top three laid a very solid platform, courtesy scores of 64, 45 and 29 from Nicole Bolton, Elyse Villani and Meg Lanning. Bolton put on 81 off 17.5 overs with Villani for the opening stand, before adding 67 off 11.4 overs with Lanning for the second wicket.Australia had moved to 148 for 1 before Boltons dismissal, in the 30th over, opened a passage of play in which they lost 5 for 38 in 12.1 overs. Chamari Atapattu took thhree of those wickets and ended with figures of 3 for 31 in her 10 overs.dddddddddddd Blackwells unbeaten 56 off 64 helped them to recover to post 254, with Erin Osborne and Megan Schutt chipping in to keep Blackwell company.Holly Ferling and Beams then wreaked havoc on Sri Lankas top order, sharing the first five wickets between them to leave the home team tottering by the 18th over. Eshani Lokusuriyage resisted for a while with 20 off 28, before she became Beams fourth wicket. Beams finished with figures of 4 for 15 off 10 overs having broken the back of Sri Lankas batting with her legspin.Sri Lanka slumped further to 100 for 8 in 35 overs, before showing some fight to bat out their 50 overs. Polgampola, who had come in at No. 3, finished unbeaten on 68 off 136, but the second highest contributor to Sri Lankas total was Extras which accounted for exactly 50 runs. Of those, 41 came from wides alone. Remarkably, Australias bowlers delivered a total of 26 wide balls; each bowler bowled at least one, with Ferling bowling as many as 10.However, even that blemish could not prevent Australia from romping to a big win and collecting two points in the Womens Championship. 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