GDT: 9/17 - Czech Republic vs. Canada - 8:00 ET

[Finnish your Czech]

Im 100% certain theres well over 100 rinks in the Czech Republic. They have like the 3rd or 4th most registered hockey players in the world and even at 100 rinks they would be bursting at the seams.

Guaranteed typo some SN nerd found online.

It's on IIHF website

 

[48g90a138pts]

Grrr....someone run Polak

 

[Patmac40]

Anyone else see the fans jawing at each other on the penalty box side of the Czech end?

Edit: Looks like someone got the boot. The game within the game.

 

[General Zodd]

What's going on behind the net with the fans cheering??

 

[the4thlinegrinder]

Anyone else see the fans jawing at each other on the penalty box side of the Czech end?

Yeah, I was wondering what was going on there

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

6-0 on in the highest level of international hockey tournament?
Simple impossible, this game is fixed by the NHL, can't be more obvious.

 

[Iceman]

Regarding those 21 indoor rinks, how does professional hockey work over there with that amount of indoor rinks?

 

[TMLeafer]

Sounds like some fan's getting kicked out, maybe a fight?

 

[canadianguy77]

Crosby backchecking like a ****ing demon all game.

 

[jj cale]

What a massacre.

 

[General Zodd]

holy **** what a move1!!!!

 

[Baby Ryan]

Goodness what just happened. Amazing how that didn't go in.

 

[canadianguy77]

Neuvirth just got Bishop'd.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Nuiverth might be the player of the day after that. Incredible saves.

 

[NyQuil]

Stamkos can't buy a goal.

 

[Zybalto]

It's on IIHF website

Theres the source of that nonsense then.

Just looked for a sec an found this from an old 2010 Yahoo article which does have concern for the number of rinks in the Czech Republic.

So who is in the most trouble? At a quick glance, the Czech Republic stands out. Though they have the third most registered players in the world (97,102), only a third (33.6 percent) of those are junior-aged. Ice time is a major concern, as with only 157 indoor rinks, Czech hockey players average 618 players for every rink nationwide. It simply does not seem sustainable that the Czechs can keep pace with the best in the world, and the Czechs entering the relegation round of this year's U20 tournament could be a regular occurrence.

 

[TLeafsFan]

Price with the shutty!!!!

6-0!

 

[Neutral Hockey Fan]

Solid 0-0 game. Dead even in pretty much all aspects.

 

[flaneur]

oh geez cherry... Czechoslovakia isn't a country anymore...

 

[TLeafsFan]

6-0 on in the highest level of international hockey tournament?
Simple impossible, this game is fixed by the NHL, can't be more obvious.

????

 

[spacemunky]

Hey Don, it hasn't been Czechoslovakia since 1993!

 

[General Zodd]

Solid 0-0 game. Dead even in pretty much all aspects.

Well said. Not much difference at all there!

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Total clinic...

 

[Six Assets]

lol Don calling them the "Czechosolovakians"

 

[Fire Everyone]

Hey Don, it hasn't been Czechoslovakia since 1993!

Cherry is a senile old man. Give him a break!