southpaw24 said:
Agreed. Pronger and Redden have been horrible. Foote and Blake have had a couple of bad plays. I don't think Regehr can do anything but get beaten for the puck by forwards and fall down.
GDT: Feb. 19, 2006 | Canada vs. Finland | 3 PM ET | 9 PM CET
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Agreed. Pronger and Redden have been horrible. Foote and Blake have had a couple of bad plays. I don't think Regehr can do anything but get beaten for the puck by forwards and fall down.
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Ovechkin_mvp said:
I'm not talking about losses to Euro's. That list is long and deep. I'm talking taking the best tournamnet of the best game on the planet and ruining it because we a have to appease some Euro-centric ice hockey federation and play by their rules.
Oilerfan120582 said:
The fins will be going after pronger in the third hopefully he can keep his cool but i doubt it.
HotToddy said:
This is just bull. Most Big 7 games here are better/as good as those in 2004 WCup. The 87 Cup is better only because there was 3-game final. Make it here and you'll get the same intensity.
well come on, NHL season is so long and ur playing in an unknown city while at the Olympics, its a short tournament and ur playing for ur country. no brainer...Hockey_Nut99 said:
NFITO
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wealthmanager said:
give the greatest player to ever play the game a bit more credit and respect and not insult him like that.
I'm sure that no one had any problems with him in 02... if he had picked a different team, or if someone else had picked the team, and they were losing, it'd be the same thing.
The guy has put together our last Olympic gold medal winning team... and until this tournament is over, Canada is still the defending champs.
This tourney is a long way from over!
100mph slapshot said:
Lot of smaller guys could never make it in NHL, since they were not able to adopt to a smaller ice surface and a differnet style of hockey.
Oleg Petrov (Mtl), Nikolay Borshevsky (Tor) come to mind.
On the big ice surface those no-name players (by NHL standards) can play with the best of them.
Just look at Sushinsky for example
*** is this???? Learn how to recieve a pass you dumb***es. St.Louis is a completely useless player, why the **** is he on this team. Kariya is so much better, if Gretzky is obsessed with experience, Kariya has a lot more of it than St. Louis and he's also 10x better. Please someone get injured so Staal can come in. Please someone shoot the puck at Quinn.
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Yeah you're right, overall Sindler has been good. He just missed a call there late in the second period and I overreacted. Good going so far.
agreed - italy lost so we're into the quarter's anyway - one more period and another game to figure it outnuckfan in TO said:
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Oilerfan120582 said:
yup me too.... pronger looks very, very bad this game.... if its a result of the injury, as an oiler fan i really wish he would have taken the time off to heal
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PapaBear said:
I was thinking the same thing. We're losing all the battles and Schaefer is considered the best in the league at winning battles on the boards.
As much as I don't like Doan, and wasn't infavour of him on the team, he has had a decent game. The only forward who hits on our team.
PEOPLE leave Gretzky out of this!!!!!
Seriously, even though I do not cheer for Canada, I find those anti-Gretzky talks ridiculous.
Seriously, even though I do not cheer for Canada, I find those anti-Gretzky talks ridiculous.
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19bruins19 said:
I'll disagree with that. Drapes is one of the only guys with a constant jump in his step. And he was vocal in the teams shortcomings. He creates stuff with his speed, and is invaluable on the penalty kill. He should be getting more ice time in my opinion.
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HotToddy said:
I like the NHL game better as well however, your problem seems to be that NHL players are forced to play the European game. Now if we make the European players play the NHL game, isn't that just as bad? I mean, not for us, but 2 "wrongs" don't make a "right".
The way I look at it, the NHL and NHLPA knew that these games would be played with International ice and rules and apparently they still agreed to play. So if they are ok with it, where do we get off pissing and moaning?
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nuckfan in TO said:
Don't bother with logic with some of these fools. It's the same thing over and over again. Hell, they'll even cut and paste the same baseless comments like our friend, SENSational.
The minute Canada starts playing like they can, their sentiments will vanish.
For now, they have all the answers though. And to think, it's their comments that could possibly result in the server crashes.
you're bound to hear it when Canada isn't winning. not his fault they aren't playing their best hockey but he'll be the first one to get the blame if they lose this tournie.Ovechkin_mvp said:
Which is how it should be.WpgBoy84 said:
Gretzky took all of the credit for 2002 and 2004, and I found it to be a little sickening.
So Gretzky should take all of the blame for 2006.
I think the loss of many key players have molded our team together and now they are playing with great passion. I have to say that I don't even remember when have Lions played with so much heart and passion.
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