Who Canada plays in world junior preliminary round By TERRY KOSHAN, QMI Agency

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A quick glance at each of Canada's four opponents in the preliminary round of the 2013 world junior championship in Ufa, Russia (times Eastern):

Dec. 26 vs. Germany, 4:30 a.m.

Players talk all the time about not taking their opponents lightly, and the Germans will provide a test of that in the opening game. Still, it shouldn't be much of a problem, considering Canada is 10-0 against Germany at the world junior and owns a 51-13 advantage in goals.