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2016 World Cup of Hockey |OT| World Cashgrab of Who Cares - Sponsored by SAP

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I hope Dopey isn't actually salty cause I'm just fucking around. Mac does it a lot, though admittedly he cut down on it last season. He probably just doesn't think Matthews knows how shoot puck?
 

Pancake Mix

Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Chara has to retire this year right?

Well, he has 1 more year after this at $4 million (his cap hit declines to his actual salary next year as he'll be 40). At that price and hit he might be good for that final year.

Certainly after next season though.
 

Red_Man

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Couldn't catch the games today, and the thing I'm most upset about missing is this:

MacKinnon is starting to piss me off

you're the one who's stuck with the guy who thinks he can skate straight through the teams defense every time

like

it worked once out of 6 attempts

it's time to stop

Annoyance that he still plays the game like he's in junior

About 1.5 minutes of opposition zone time occurred after his last attempt at tring to skate through 3 guys.

Omg two goals

Future hall of famer here boys

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Now I wait for ZombieJames to chime in on how overrated Price is tomorrow
 
I didn't realize that the final was best of 3, that's really interesting.

The schedule for this thing will make training camp and pre-season kind of difficult.
 

MetatronM

Unconfirmed Member
Renaud Lavoie ‏@renlavoietva 4m4 minutes ago

#usa John Tortorella doesn't like the fact that his team and #canada will play 2 games in 2 nights. "Makes no sense"
Torts already complaining about the schedule.
Of exhibition games.
God love 'im.
 

zroid

Banned
I kind of hope Russia wins, it would be pretty funny if they came into the NHL's tourney and took home the trophy
 

calder

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I hope America injures as many players as humanly possible

The thug squad of goons and nontalented scrubs that Lombardi shat out into the world won't be able to catch our glorious players let alone hurt them.

Hmm, thinking about it more there's definitely a chance for some Americans to go down with injury - either falling into the boards futilely trying to cheapshot a good Canadian boy or else blinded by the sheer magnificence of the inevitable Team Canada PP's. Yeah that could definitely almost certainly happen all the time.
 

Red_Man

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Hearing Lombardi say he built his team to beat Canada and then excludes Kessel is all types of hilarious.
 

RC

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I hope someone injures Marchand early so I can actually cheer for Team Canada with a clear conscience.
That rat faced bastard has no place in this tournament.
 

Red_Man

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Tortorella: "That has been the whole mantra, inflicting, not being inflicted upon." Doughty: "I don’t know what inflict means."
It's almost poetic
 

PillarEN

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Ah cool. We got an OT for this thing. Watched the CZ vs Russia game yesterday. Czechs are screwed. Mrazek gonna have to steal games. Yeah we scored 3 goals yesterday and nearly tied it but c'mon. This team lost all its forwards due to injury or uninterest.
 

imBask

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Legit talk, do you seriously own a Doughty pillow that you bite on every night? I have never seen a person get this salty over a hockey player before.

I forseen this reply soon as I hit submit. It's quite amazing.

hahaha

I do like him quite a bit but I like messing with ya even more <3
 
Ah cool. We got an OT for this thing. Watched the CZ vs Russia game yesterday. Czechs are screwed. Mrazek gonna have to steal games. Yeah we scored 3 goals yesterday and nearly tied it but c'mon. This team lost all its forwards due to injury or uninterest.

It has been sad to see downward spiral of Czech ice hockey. I mean late 90s and early 00s you were the European powerhouse team of Hockey. Now year after year more veterans leave the game and less and less new talent enters (Slovakia has been hit even harder). We were on same path here in Finland but luckily started to change the junior programs in early 00s and now are finally starting to see some good results (2 Junior gold medals in three years). I mean even from this WC team you can see how we lost a decade in terms of good players (our oldest playing defenseman is 25 years old..)
 

Guy Legend

Member
What's the point of the drawn out pre-tournament games. Any reason to pay attention until the real round robin begins?
 

PillarEN

Member
What's the point of the drawn out pre-tournament games. Any reason to pay attention until the real round robin begins?

Nah. Just a look at some skill. I don't bother watching exhibition games in the NHL either but at least here we have players who are supposed to be top tier or near top tier, so even though they are shaking off the rust it's fun for us starved for high level hockey.
 

PillarEN

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It has been sad to see downward spiral of Czech ice hockey. I mean late 90s and early 00s you were the European powerhouse team of Hockey. Now year after year more veterans leave the game and less and less new talent enters (Slovakia has been hit even harder). We were on same path here in Finland but luckily started to change the junior programs in early 00s and now are finally starting to see some good results (2 Junior gold medals in three years). I mean even from this WC team you can see how we lost a decade in terms of good players (our oldest playing defenseman is 25 years old..)

I'll make it short and sweet. There is a lot of behind the scenes BS that happens at young ages before players turn pro (and even in the Extraliga with teams not playing players in the past). If any young player in the CZ is getting short handed because their dad won't bribe the coach for ice time and they know that they are possibly good enough for a professional future (not necessarily NHL, but just any pro league where you could make a real living) then I wish for them to go and play in North America where development will likely be less corrupt.

So with actual development of young players being shitty, we then have a situation where the upcoming generation doesn't have as many quality players.
 
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