And Russia is gone. And USA looks like a gold medal team, my god they played good.
And Russia is gone. And USA looks like a gold medal team, my god they played good.
Doubt Sweden can withstand Canada with all their NHL muppets who joined late.
If I had to guess it might very well be a North American final this year
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Switzerland finally wins a quarters
Enroth is really keeping Sweden in this
edit: Did anyone see that knee on knee Edler on Staal? That was brutal, his leg is fucked
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Ya I just saw that myself... I'll be surprised if he's not banned from the rest of the competition if Sweden pulls out a win. Didn't even try to avoid making it happen.
That was a fun game to watch, so much blonde hair in the crowd
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDEN! So great!
Lol, wait, what? The winner determined by a SHOOTOUT? Not multiple overtimes?
That's really dumb, considering it's single elimination...really dumb.
Im very very surprised, with the ammount of NHL pros Canada had unlike Sweden (who's NHL teams didnt get eliminated this quickly in the Stanley Cup playoffs) they should have won.
Canada with their impressive IIHF gold medal collection sucked and Sweden with its decimated troop kicked their asses.
GZ
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Apple did not explain why the update was first introduced in China, but over the years, the tech giant has been criticised for appeasing Beijing.
Shootouts are stupid.
Sweden has a pretty good team suddenly. I assume the Sedins showed up at the last minute? Canada had a pretty weak team this year and pretty much every year for the World Championships...what with the NHL Playoffs being at the exact same time almost every year. So that's 16 (now 8) teams with a very very large bulk of what is likely considered the "better Canadian players."
Grats Sweden and Switzerland this year and even Slovenia.
Truthfully if you wanted a proper World Championship it needs to be held in the summer. So the teams like Canada/Russia/USA aren't stuck sending the B-team every year.
Then there was Edler...
Joel is my favorite out of the lot, he is all heart and hard work and I love him for it, plays for the best team in Sweden to *wink*
Suprised we managed to win tbh, I havn't watch it all but what I have seen has been quite mediocre.
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Jonathon Quick is just as good a goalie as Hank and has a cup + conn smyth over him. Not saying Lundqvist isn't an extremely valuable goaltender but he's not worth anymore than Canada having Crosby (the best player in the world), Russia having Ovechkin, or USA having Quick. Once again Canada is plagued by not having that goalie who can just hold his ground. Enroth totally outplayed him and deserved the victory especially in the shootout. Not sure how you let a wind up slapshot in but regardless - was a fun game to watch. There's really no excuse for Canada to ever lose this tournament other than they don't exactly play with much intensity or heart. The most emotion you saw out of them in the tournament was when Girioux scored that goal to tie the game. Sweden wanted it more and got a huge goaltending performance out of Enroth to do so. You can field an allstar team but if they don't play the way you need to to win, you're not going to win.
How are shootouts more stupid than multiple overtimes? If anything, it's the other way around. :|
Also, I'd rather have Lundqvist than either Quick or Ovechkin. As far Quick having a stanley cup over him, Lundqvist has the olympic gold. That's kind of weighing heavier. Conn Smythe? Sure. He's got that. No doubt.
Lundqvist also is a goaltender who's proven himself over the years and basically carried NYR into play-offs for several years.
Quick is just as good as him is what I was saying. You can't go wrong with either guy.
If...they all came over. The same could be said for:
Pittburgh: Crosby, Neal, Iginla, Dupuis, Letang, Fleury, Morrow, Sutter, Kunitz,
Chicago: Toews, Sharp, Seabrook, Keith, Bolland
Kings: Carter, Doughty
Rangers: Clowe, Richards, Girardi, Del Zotto, Brassard, Pyatt
Senators: Conacher, Kassian, Latendresse, Neil, Gryba, Methot, Phillips
San Jose: Thornton, Marleau, Boyle, Stuart, Vlasic, Burns
Boston: Bergeron, Horton, Seguin, Thornton, Lucic, Marchand, Kelly, Peverley
Detroit: Cleary, Eaves, Coliacovo, Quincy
and then all the others who were in round 1...Getzlaf, Perry, Winnik, Cogliano, Fowler, Beauchemin, Allen...Setoguchi, Pominville...Perron, Steen, McDonald, Jackman, Pietrangelo, Elliott, Allen...Burrows, Raymond, Roy, Bieksa...Weber, Mason, Halischuk...Gallagher, Desharnais, Price, Bourque...Tavares, Moulson...Bozak, Kadri, Reimer, Macarthur, Lupul...Perrault, Holtby, Ribeiro, Green...etc.
Needless to say, for every 1 european player still in the playoffs or recently removed there are 4 or more top level Canadians who cannot participate either. My point isn't that "oooh if we had all our best it might have been different." I want all teams to have their best available, to make this event actually important. Team Canada was really nothing more than the Sochi tryouts team and the coinciding with the playoffs just makes the whole event as a whole, uninteresting.
Also shootouts are ridiculous because you are removing the team aspect from the decision and making it purely a 1 on 1 event. There's a reason the playoffs don't do it.