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Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:30:00 PM

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QUEBEC - Losing to Russia left Dany Heatley in no mood to celebrate being named most valuable player at the IIHF World Hockey Championship.

"Not right now," the Ottawa Senators winger said after Russia downed Canada 5-4 in overtime in the final on Sunday at the Pepsi Colisee.

During the game it was announced that Heatley had been voted as MVP for the tournament, which he led in scoring with 20 points, including 12 goals.

Heatley had a goal and an assist as Canada built a 4-2 lead to take into the third period, but Russia's Ilya Kovalchuk got the tying goal and scored in overtime to give Russia its first world championship win since 1993.

"We're very disappointed right now in our room," Heatley added. "We had a two-goal lead going into the third period.

"I thought we played really well up to then. I thought we gave them a little too...

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