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[Majine]

Tre Kronor 2-0! Aw yeah.

 

[manfestival]

PENULLLTY

 

[Buba Big Guns]

So who are the stars on the Czech and Swedish teams?

Sweden:
Backstrom
Zetterberg
Sedin
Karlsson
Ekman-Larsson
Lundqvist

They are a very good team

Czech:
Jagr
Voracek

 

[Spl1nter]

So who are the stars on the Czech and Swedish teams?

Depends how you classify star players, I would say these are the key players for each team. Sweden is a lot deeper team. There defense is really good. Czechs left off two good players in Hudler and Vrbata.

Czechs
Jagr
Elias
Krejci
Voracek
Plekanec

Sweden
Lundqvist
Ekman-Larsson
Karlsson
Backstrom
Zetterberg
Sedin

 

[Blader]

Are the scheduled times on delay?

US should be early tomorrow morning live, right?

yep, USA/Slovakia starts at 7:30am tomorrow.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Thanks to you both, I'll be asking many more questions in the future, I never watch Hockey despite being interested

 

[ShaneB]

Thanks to you both, I'll be asking many more questions in the future, I never watch Hockey despite being interested

It's always fun seeing new people get more into Hockey, so welcome aboard!

 

[Sanjuro]

yep, USA/Slovakia starts at 7:30am tomorrow.

Awesome, thanks. I haven't given a single shit about the Olympics this year. Just don't want to watch a taped version of the game.

 

[Spl1nter]

oh boy lol this goalie

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Zetterberg!!!

This gonna get ugly.

 

[Parch]

CBC + Sportsnet covering the hockey feels pretty natural. Get used to it.

Couple of missing pieces on Sweden, but that's still a strong team. They always seem to adjust easily for these international tournaments and do well.

 

[Socreges]

Oh my.

It's Prices to lose.

The price is right.

FYI, Luongo started Game 1 in Vancouver. Brodeur got Games 2 and 3, and lost the net after losing to the US.

Wouldn't be surprised at this point if they're preferring Price if they're going to put a lot of weight on the last couple weeks, but that's obviously not the whole argument.

There are a lot of Price fans where I live in British Columbia.The guy was born near here and used to play in the local hockey team in my hometown. Pretty awesome that he will be playing in the first game at the Olympics.

Yep. I've always liked Price. Weird to think that last summer many had real concerns about him and now that's been drowned out by a few more months of great regular season play. I can 100% get behind him if he's clearly the guy come Game 3 or the following rounds, though. Hopefully his hot hand carries over to Sochi and int'l ice.

Oh yeah, secret convo for Canadians...

Spoiler

OK bitches time to rally round, yeah we all know Leafs/Habs/Sens/Jets/Flames/Oilers/Canucks fans are the absolute fucking worst but we need to put that aside and give 110%. Sure I see Tabris post and I instinctively root against whatever he's cheering for but we gotta let that go, for at least a week or two.

I was behind you, but then you turned around and shat on Hughson and the Sedins. DEAL OVER.

 

[Freyjadour]

Tip from Steen?

Great screen at least.

 

[MBR]

Let's go two digits!

Oh, nvm, Salak in the net now
He tends to be a wall against Sweden IIRC.

 

[MetatronM]

Hank almost has as many points in this tournament already as he does all season.

 

[Zombie James]

Is the game not showing anywhere on TV? You have CBC and TSN showing the same event.

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Go Sweden!

 

[bonesmccoy]

GLENN HEALY???

AT THE OLYMPICS???

ELI ELI LAMA SABACHTHANI

Is the game not showing anywhere on TV? You have CBC and TSN showing the same event.

Sportsnet One

 

[Takao]

Is the game not showing anywhere on TV? You have CBC and TSN showing the same event.

SportsNet 1 is showing it on TV.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

What's the purpose of the goal not being unmovable? Seems like it just gives goalies an extra opportunity to stop play.

Edit: How shitty are these Czech goalies?

 

[bonesmccoy]

Pull him

 

[Razorskin]

What's the purpose of the goal not being unmovable? Seems like it just gives goalies an extra opportunity to stop play.

Injuries

 

[Dega]

This is ugly

 

[Zombie James]

Sportsnet One

SportsNet 1 is showing it on TV.

Excellent.

 

[Majine]

Jesus.

 

[ICKE]

The problem with KHL goalies is that they can't deal with more direct style of play, because players rarely go for those opportunities in Europe/Russia. You are expected to pass and find the best possible scoring position before committing. In NHL you are constantly expected to take the shot, have the skill to stretch the goalie even from an impossible angle and so on. These guys are just not ready to play at this level.

 

[fanboi]

Sooooo... gg no re

 

[equippedwithtowel]

King Karlsson

 

[Elvin Atombender]

I don't really know if Sweden is good or if the Czechs are bad ...both?

 

[Freyjadour]

Karlsson OEL is ridiculous.

 

[MBR]

What's the purpose of the goal not being unmovable? Seems like it just gives goalies an extra opportunity to stop play.

It'd be quite hard to flush the ice evenly with one of these:

 

[RC]

lol Czech's. It's getting ugly out there.

 

[zroid]

Swedes dominating too much

I'm gonna watch half pipe instead

 

[calder]

I was behind you, but then you turned around and shat on Hughson and the Sedins. DEAL OVER.

Haha, I actually realized I couldn't last more than one post before breaking my own appeal to solidarity. But starting NOW we're all in this together?

Damn, the Czechs look bad and the Swedes look really good.

 

[bonesmccoy]

Pavelec needs to get in there. Save this poor bastard.

 

[Vman]

Score would be 1-0 or 2-0 is pavelec started. Czechs coaching are dumb

 

[Socreges]

Edit: How shitty are these Czech goalies?

Time to put in Hasek.

 

[bonesmccoy]

What's the purpose of the goal not being unmovable? Seems like it just gives goalies an extra opportunity to stop play.

For ice re-surfacing, and also as a safety mechanism. It's a very fast game.

Edit: How shitty are these Czech goalies?

 

[Socreges]

Great save by Lundqvist.

Goaltending is, uh, really important.

 

[ICKE]

Sweden a bit complacent now but Lundqvist is showing the difference.

It's a good game, now the other contenders know they will have to bring the works to get anything out from this tourney. Czech Republic is not exactly a weak team all things considered.

Good attack !!! 1-4

 

[Quick]

What's the purpose of the goal not being unmovable? Seems like it just gives goalies an extra opportunity to stop play.

Edit: How shitty are these Czech goalies?

Whoever intentionally knocks the net off gets a delay-of-game penalty.

 

[zroid]

aw shiet, go Czechs!

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Czech's have got some life up in here.

 

[Parch]

There we go. Avoid the blowout.

 

[apocalidiot]

Nice shot

 

[RoadHazard]

It's almost going too well right now (well, except for the goal that just happened). When Sweden wins big tournaments it's usually after starting off a bit rocky and then growing into it and becoming a very solid team as the tournament progresses. Dominating right from the start isn't how we do it, dammit!

EDIT: Well, ok, looking a bit rockier now. Gold is in the bag then!

 

[Socreges]

Why would you pass that Michalek

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Whoever intentionally knocks the net off gets a delay-of-game penalty.

Well that's something I guess. Commentator said there are no penalties for doing it but I guess there are for doing it on purpose(although that seems hard to prove).

Comeback?

 

[Socreges]

Jagr!!

This game....

 

[Spl1nter]

Jagr, just a legend.