Canada's Stone named tournament MVP at worlds
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Canada's Mark Stone earned Most Valuable Player honors at the World Championship despite losing 3-1 to Finland in the gold medal game Sunday.
The Vegas Golden Knights forward led the tournament with eight goals and notched in a team-high 14 points in 10 games for Canada.
He was also named to the all-tournament team.
The all-tournament team at the #IIHFWorlds:
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) May 26, 2019
Andrei Vasilevskiy (@TBLightning), Filip Hronek (@DetroitRedWings), Mikko Lehtonen, William Nylander (@MapleLeafs) and Jakub Voracek (@NHLFlyers). pic.twitter.com/JO1L3tshh6
Stone had many memorable moments at the tourney, including setting up Damon Severson's last-second equalizer and then scoring the overtime winner in Thursday's quarterfinal victory over Switzerland.
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