World Hockey Championships thread

[jstewismybastardson]

"airhook" lol

 

[puckhead]

boy was I offbase with this one.... Russia seemed to care more about beating Canada than getting to the gold medal. (which doesn't give enough credit to Finland... they are skating well)

3-0 finland, 10 min left.
... russia has 4 min powerplay . last gasp


sets up Sweden-Finland for gold, which is ALWAYS an awesome game.

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

I guess the chances are good that Granlund will be in Minnesota next year.

 

[esls79]

I guess the chances are good that Granlund will be in Minnesota next year.

Listen up Chuck - trade the kid right now - his stock will never be higher. I'm sure you can deal him and Brent Burns in a package and get a nice return. Wait until the trade deadline and risk getting little to nothing in return...

(Nice goal, pretty decent celebration as well)

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Two old rivalries renewed.

Sweden vs Finland for the Gold. Kurri should give Teemu & Saku a call:

Russia vs Czech Republic for the Bronze. I wonder how much bad blood there still is??

 

[dash]

I love the goalie staring at Granlund after that goal (practically shooting lasers at him with his eyes).

 

[puckhead]

Defensive gem for the Bronze.

CZE 7, Russia 4
Cervenka with the hattrick

Gold medal game starts up in about an hour.

 

[dash]

Nice to see the Russkies go home empty-handed...

 

[puckhead]

DAMN YOU TSN!!!!

they pushed this game back so they could shot the NLL championship game live. fair enough.
but JUST as the puck is about to drop on the delayed broadcast, TSN sends me a text message with the spoiler.
assholes.


oh well, congratulations _______________.

 

[puckhead]

Congrats Finland. 6-1 over Sweden, but it was a very tight game for most of it.
Sweden scored first, and it was 1-1 going into the 3rd. Wheels just fell off.

Fasth was on a fasth-track to the NHL with the way his tournament was going..... this is a pretty awful way to end it.
Marco Immonen (Fin) may get some looks, too.

Congrats Helsinki, you get to host the tourney next year as reigning champs.

Interesting the Russia pretty much ONLY got up for the game to knock out Canada.
they were average before it, and piss-poor after it.
sidenote: OV ended up pointless in 6 games.


fun tourney.

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

43-1-4 that was Finland's record against Russia going into the semi-finals. I imagine their record against Sweden is a little better, but this had to be completely unexpected.

Congrats to Finland on winning the GOLD!!

 

[puckhead]

43-1-4 that was Finland's record against Russia going into the semi-finals. I imagine their record against Sweden is a little better, but this had to be completely unexpected.

Congrats to Finland on winning the GOLD!!

yikes! is that a typo, or are you including Simo Hayha's record as well.
Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

yikes! is that a typo, or are you including Simo Hayha's record as well.
Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's the record Versus showed before the semi-finals.