World Hockey Championships thread

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Canada faces Belarus a little later today...

A few new additions to the lineup (see below)

Team Canada begins its quest for gold against Belarus in the opening game of the World Hockey Championship in Slovakia.

You can watch the game live on TSN and TSN Mobile TV at 2pm et/11am pt or stay with TSN.ca for scoring updates throughout the game.

Leading up to the tournament, Canada defeated France and Czech Republic in exhibition games.

Canada is 4-0-0 all-time against Belarus at the World Hockey Championship, with Canada winning the last meeting 6-1 in 2009.

Last year, Canada finished 7th at this tournament while Belarus finished 10th.

Earlier today, Team Canada added forward James Neal, defencemen Carlo Colaiacovo and Marc-Andre Gragnani and goaltender Jonathan Bernier to finalize their roster.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

just as an aside ... heard a story yesterday Id never heard of or just plain forgotten if i did

2007 Roloson was canadas world champ's goalie and performed really well leading canada to gold

2008 Yzerman was the gm for team canadas world champ team asked roloson to join the team ... Rollie accepts ... then is told that Cam Ward will be the starting goalie ... so Roloson bails on the team

I guess Yzerman is big on forgiveness

 

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Canada leads Belarus 3-1 in the 3rd period...

Shocker of the day: Germans beat Russia 2-0.

 

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Group A

* Russia (1)
* Slovakia (8)
* Germany (9)
* Slovenia (19)

Group B

* Canada (2)
* Switzerland (7)
* Belarus (10)
* France (15)

Group C

* Sweden (3)
* United States (6)
* Norway (11)
* Austria (14)

Group D

* Finland (4)
* Czech Republic (5)
* Latvia (12)
* Denmark (13)

After round-robin play, the top three teams in each group advance to the qualifying round.

 

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Canada defeats Belarus 4-1 - Scoring for Canada were Eberle, Skinner, Phaneuf, and Tavares.

Scoring for Belarus - Meh

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Canada defeats Belarus 4-1 - Scoring for Canada were Eberle, Skinner, Phaneuf, and Tavares.

Scoring for Belarus - Meh

Way to go JT. You know things are going well when your 4th line Center scores.

 

[puckhead]

After round-robin play, the top three teams in each group advance to the qualifying round.

can't really see a group of death anywhere :confused2:

gotta love the youth that led the way today.
Skinnerrrrr!

need to reel 'em in a bit, though... they gave up 7 penalties to a team that barely had the puck

 

[Automattic]

Canada defeats Belarus 4-1 - Scoring for Canada were Eberle, Skinner, Phaneuf, and Tavares.

Scoring for Belarus - Meh

FUCK! I WAS GONNA PICK UP MEH IN THE PLAYOFF POOL TOO!!

 

[SLY]

That Skinner goal was fucking ridiculous. Kid is awesome.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Al Montoya is the starting goalie for USA. My least favorite Devil (Mark Fayne), a guy I think shouldn't make the Devils roster let alone the US national team, is playing D. I know these teams usually aren't Olympic caliber, but my god what an assortment of misfits the US put together.

 

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US and Finland won their respective games today by identical 5-1 scores...

U.S. hammers Austria, Finland beats Denmark at worlds

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Al Montoya is the starting goalie for USA. My least favorite Devil (Mark Fayne), a guy I think shouldn't make the Devils roster let alone the US national team, is playing D. I know these teams usually aren't Olympic caliber, but my god what an assortment of misfits the US put together.

The Islanders asked Okposo not to play because he missed most of the season. They want him 100% for next year.

 

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Canada hammers France 9-1 today at the World Hockey Championships...

 

[puckhead]

Norway beat Sweden for the first time in history (5-4 shootout).
it's almost too bad 3 teams go through from each group...
otherwise some of these upsets would actually mean something.

 

[puckhead]

Norway put a little fear into the US this morning.
got up 2-0 before the States woke up... 4-2 final USA

Canada hopefully kicks the cheese out of Switzerland tomorrow.
they always play us tough though. Just find a way to stick around.

 

[IPostedWhat]

I saw the 3rd period of that US game, and it was awesome.

 

[puckhead]

Swiss leading 1-0 after 1. didn't see the goal, but apparently it was some cheese.
Swiss team only has one NHL player (Sbisa), but their goalie (Genoni) is neutralizing the chances so far.
fortunately, 1-0 isn't too big of a mountain to overcome.



/this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps.

 

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You can bank on the Swiss always giving Canada a tough game...

 

[puckhead]

Phaneuf Dioned some dude (Moser), who skated off no problem.
30 seconds later, he's doing the shake'n'bake at the bench.


seems to be OK now... pretty scary though.

 

[puckhead]

finally - Eberle cashes in to tie the game.

I didn't see the first period, but this 12 min in the 2nd has been ALL in the Swiss zone.
16 shots in this period already.
Genoni is a freakin' monster. I wonder who owns him?