Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won their first world championship gold medal while Patrick Chan clambered back onto the podium with a silver in the men's event. All good.
But it was the performance of the second-tier Canadian athletes that struck a chord with Skate Canada executives, thinking of the future.
Cynthia Phaneuf, Kevin Reynolds and ice dancers Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier all made their mark at the world championships last week, with Phaneuf hoping for a top 10 but finishing fifth, Crone and Poirier hoping for the same, but finishing seventh (they were 14th at the Olympics) and Kevin Reynolds landing two quads and putting up world-class scores to finish 11th and earn Canada a third spot for men at the world championships next year in Japan.
Still, behind Olympic bronze medalist Joannie Rochette and Phaneuf, the women's category in Canada is the one with the least depth and pair skating is currently a struggle in Canada.
Skate Canada plans to rectify this with a planning session in May, when they will bring 20 top Canadian coaches and skating minds together to make a plan for development, that will include sports science.
When Skate Canadian chief executive officer William Thompson and director of high performance Michael Slipchuk set to work three years ago, the higher performance situation was in disarray, and coaches and skaters had an unhealthy mistrust for the leadership at the organization.
Slipchuk and Thompson realized they had to plug a few gaps because they had to get a team to the Vancouver Olympics in quick order. They got to the Olympics to win a gold and a bronze medal with a measure of good luck "and a bit of fairy dust thrown in,'' Thompson said.
They didn't have time to work on long-term development. That's their next goal.
"We now don't think we're at the top of the world,'' Thompson said. "We don't think we're a dominant nation. We think we have a lot of hard work to repeat this.''
Pairs is a discipline that can blossom quite quickly, if you find the right matches, like Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, who rose to the top quite quickly.
Slipchuk admits that it's tough for Canadian women right now, because for several years, only a few of the same women have been going to the world championship every year, while they've been able to give a wider variety of men some experience.
But they're encouraged by young junior skaters like 16-year-old Kate Charbonneau of Winnipeg, who finished sixth at the world junior championships earlier this month.
Slipchuk said Skate Canada is also encouraging its second-tier athletes to start challenging the Canadian champions, which will make both of them stronger.
Reynlds has always been a strong jumper, but he needed to get out on the international stage and post strong scores. He first did that at the Four Continents championship before the Olympics when he won the short program with a score in the 80s. "And to come here and finish 11th, and still left a few marks on the table, he could easily have pushed into the top six here,'' Slipchuk said.
"There's still room for him to grow,'' he said. "This will be a confidence booster for him.''
While they're also looking to the future, they also want to hang onto the past. Skate Canada executives will try to encourage Virtue and Moir to continue, although they do not believe the skaters will retire any time soon.
"They like to train and they're still young,'' Thompson said, adding that Virtue and Moir are huge assets to Skate Canada, and mean a lot to them in terms of ticket sales.
"I don't think they will lack motivation,'' Thompson said. "I still think they can get significantly better.''
He said the top two dance teams, which include U.S. champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, are in a class by themselves and both of them have opened that huge gap on the others in the past year.