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Datsyuk is out there now talking to the media. Being the man that he is.

Anyone see that Malkin dive at towards the end of the third period? Granted, he did get hit in the face with the stick, but he went down like a ton of bricks. God, the Russians are awful.

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I do feel bad for Pavel. He deserves better. He played great despite being 100%. The rest of the team? Nope.

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Exactly. The only guy I like/respect on that team. At least he gets time to rest up now?

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lollersoviets

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Yeah, I think a week until their first game so that's good. Hope he didn't hurt anything worse by playing. If he did, it didn't show.

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My predictions were:

Gold-Swenden
Silver-Canada
Bronz-Finland

However, the USA looks better than I thought we would!!

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I said Sweden for gold too.

I don't remember who I said silver.

I said Canada would be in the bronze medal game.

I honestly don't remember my USA prediction. Maybe they were silver?

Tuukka!!

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My predictions still look good, though I want bronze and gold reversed now :lol

G: Canada
S: Finland
B: USA

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Sweden has shocked me with no Zetterberg and no H Sedin. Finland always finds a way it seems.

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Happy birthday to the second biggest Joe Sakic fan in this thread!

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Good luck out there today, Comrades. Hope to meet ya Friday :thumbsup

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Holy crap, I didn't even turn on the game yet and it's 1-0 US. I like that.

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Latvian goalie has already made a big save on Crosby on a partial breakaway - gotta be the highlight of his career.

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And as I turn it on it's 1-1. maybe I should not watch.

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So far, so good.

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Not liking the way this game is going right now.

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USA just needs to calm down a bit, that's all. Take a few deep breaths and don't overthink.

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I'm not watching, but yeah...you don't want to go all 'Russia' here...


Canada up 1-0 with 5min left in the first (Sharp).

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wooooooO!!!

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Ooops! 1-1. Canada gave up a breakaway and the Latvian went shelf on a sprawled Price.

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Thanks for the Canada updates, for real. No way am I even thinking about watching that game right now. :thumbsup

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Backes/Brown/Callahan line. Can score, grind, match up against guys like Jagr, whatever. They're like the perfect combo of a 3rd and 1st (ok, maybe 2nd) line.

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No worries. Much like me and the USA game (unless Canada pulls away in this one...)



1-1 after the 1st.

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Woah.
What a shot by Backes from that angle.

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3-1 USA on a Backes goal. Bonzo is miserable.

Man... that line alone has the Czechs rattled.

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Obviously I agree.

I love those guys. Backes is the prototypical "hate him unless he plays for your team" guy. I'd LOOOOOOOOOOOVE for him to be the 2C in Chicago behind Toews. Guy is a freaking horse. Brown and Callahan are doing a good job shutting up everyone who said they don't belong there. That line is fantastic.

I'm fully expecting Parise/Kesler/Kane to explode at some point here.

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Backes clearly the star of the 1st period.

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:thumbsup Agree with all, except that I love Backes even when he's NOT on my team.

This is basically the USA team we wanted. High on work ethic.

<ducks to avoid Bonzo's thrown object>

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:lol:lol:lol:lol Maybe it's just us in Chicago since he likes to beat the living fuck out of 19! 19! 19! 19! 19! 19! 19! 19! 19!

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Wow, you know things are going well with the attitude on Team USA when Kessel ventures down past the hash marks in his own zone.

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I love Backes.

Waiting for Canada to score like 5 in a row. 30 shots so far with only a goal to show for it.

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Latvia's goalie has been standing on his head. Many big saves, but he is getting tiiirrreeed.

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It Latvia wins, there may not be a country north of US by tomorrow :lol

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God, that would be hilarious.

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that's the scary thing about this tournament - almost any team can win one game on one day if the stars align. breaking this tie before the end of the 2nd would be nice

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Oh boy, would not be good.

Yup, we're just one bad bounce away from being fucked right now. That being said Latvia is starting to wear down. They had a huge game yesterday and it's starting to show late in the second.

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tap of the stick to the organ player (or button presser) for the US game. Have heard the Slap Shot and Whalers theme song, lol. Awesome.

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:thumbsup A co-worker and I were just talking about that. I've heard Game of Thrones and Star Wars as well.

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Canada will score on this pp and then blow the game open. I can't believe it's tied right now.

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Go to lunch and come back and it's 4-1. Will have to watch when I get home tonight. When I left Slovakia had some good chances and for a little bit carried the play.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

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It honestly feels like we're losing right now.

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Must be cool being able to travel back in time. Please go back to 2003 and tell Bartman to put his hands in his pockets. Thanks.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9cj66lOprs

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HAHA wow total brain fart. I have a busy couple of days coming up that always stresses me out this time of year, I'll play that card right now.

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I'd be scared. I've had this feeling as a Wings fan before. "We should be killing this team." Had that feeling against a certain Oilers team in 2006.

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I was obviously joking but that is exactly how the game against Slovakia was too.

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Oh the excuse I should have used was: I was born when it was one country so I was confused. lol

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Crosby missing two tap-ins early.

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Latvia playing not to lose right now. But the fact that Canada seems to be just slightly off, the two Crosby misses for example, is odd. Reminds me of Sweden vs Belarus of 2002. Sweden dominated but was 3-3 late until that awful goal by Salo.

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I'll never forget that. Really helped our cause en route to the gold.


Fuck, never thought I would be this nervous watching Canada play Latvia. Oh, and Tavares has left with an injury. Shots currently 44-12.

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Goal!!!

Who the hell is this guy holding down the net for Latvia? What a hero.

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Poor dude who took the shot from Weber...damn.

Let's go Latvia

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oh man, hand over the puck!

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Swordo has to go into that meeting in 2 minutes with the Canadians tied 1-1 :lol I actually feel sorry for you buddy.

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Canada got robbed a little. Scramble in front of the net, puck was going in and a Latvian D-man covers the puck with his hand just over the line. No penalty shot awarded, nor can it be via replay. Fuck.

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Hey, fuck you guy!

Meeting has been cancelled. :thumbsup

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Wow that was so close....

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What site do you guys follow the games on?

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Holy fucking shit...Lativa came close

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Watching/listening on stream.nbcolympics.com

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god i want Canada to lose so bad.

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oh wow things are getting really chippy in the canada-latvia game.

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Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Hate this feeling I'm feeling right now. This isn't going to end well I fear.

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Toews should have a penalty shot, not reviewable, INSANE.

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sandis ozilinsh still plays hockey? :lol

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This is painful, being away from my computer

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I honestly don't understand why sports have certain plays that are reviewable and certain ones that aren't. If you can tell a call should have been a different way, then make it that way. I don't get why they make it so complicated.

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Switching over to the Canada game for a bit!

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You all may get a kick out of this too. That idiot Michael Kay (Voice of the Yankees) has a new radio and TV show. He just stated that Lebron James could join an NHL team and be the best and most dominate player in the league. :lol

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You might be better off, I don't know. It's not tons of fun watching right now either.

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For the love of all things holy, please score on this PP.

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Because they need to spell out everything in the rule book. The Kings/Wings goal off the net is the perfect example. Not the first time it's happened, hell 2nd time at JLA and they didn't fix it the first time. Because do you review every time it might go out of the play. do you stop every time to check? I agree with you, but that's the reason for at least some of it.
why? ;-)

If Canada doesn't score on this PP I have a feeling it might to Latvia's way.

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:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
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No chance they don't score on this...

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So make every goal reviewable, and then give coaches 1 "challenge flag" per game they can use to challenge non-scoring plays.

Problem solved.

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Well shit

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Ok, big sigh of relief.......for now. Weber scores, 2-1

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There it is.

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:thumbsup Nothing more to say
There is a God.

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Regardless of what you think about hockey, it's not a sport you just pick up and play. Can't just put on skates and play.

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Did you all just hear our country exhale?

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Today in Canada his name is Shea Weber.

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His shot still gives me such a raging shveddy.

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A lot of these guys have law degrees and can never make it that simple. Well, that's not true. They made a rule simple once, the crease rule. If your foot was in the crease before the puck, it was no goal. Didn't matter if you were nowhere near the goalie, had any involvement in the play or if there was even a goalie in the net. Maybe that's what made them this way. How royally they fucked that rule up.

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Wow Price had to fight that one off.

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Love his bombs.

There has been a lot of that today. Lativa has had some great chances.

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Not to US (if Canada wins) don't let their defense score, and you'll have a good chance.

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Exactly. Hockey is not a simple sport to excel at and just because you can dominate another sport does not mean you can dominate some other sport. Hockey is probably the toughest IMO - you need to learn how to skate extremely well to even make a team, you need to get that hand eye coordination down using a stick and tiny puck, you have to find that center of gravity to stay on your feet, you need to have situational awareness and the knowledge of what your team mates will do at any given time, you need to know the rules (more complex than the NBA IMO) to the letter, etc, etc. Point being, while he might know how to skate (doubtful IMO) I highly doubt he would make a high school hockey team, let alone dominate the NHL.

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Latvia's keeper should be given a medal. What an effort.

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Those white Kan-uh-duh sweaters are glorious, by the way.

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Win, lose or draw he's #1 star without a doubt. Price would be #2.

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Such a ripper

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well that'll do it. nice show Lativa.

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Bravo Lativa, helluva an effort out there today.



Is it Friday yet?!?!?!

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couldn't have played any better. fairly picture perfect

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We have a time for Friday yet? Of course it's my busiest two days of the whole year.

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great effort by latvia there at the end.
ultimately it's best for this tournament that canada advances though.

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Bobby McK just tweeted 12pm EST start time.