Russia - Canada GDT

[Silvercup Returns]

you are from ottawa and are cheering for the russians?

I have Russian heritage.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Kasp hit was clean, looked like hip to thigh though, here's hoping just a charlie horse.

 

[CSKA]

Ohhh please put Ovy on the powerplay ! He is a killer !

 

[KOVALEV10*]

ROSSSSSSIJA

Good period for both teams... Russia with a little advantage IMO.

OVECHKIN on PP PLEAAAAAASE!

The russian PP should be

Ovechkin Datsyuk Kovalev
Kovalchuk Markov

 

[NAI77]

Even first period. Neither team has been able to get the game where they want it.

looked to me like Russia had all the chances, Brodeur definitely bailed them out.

 

[Assasin05]

Man, the way I see it McCabe and Bou are quite useless for this team right now. The more I watch, the more of an impact Phaneuf would have had rather than either of these 2 guys.

Flames fan? What huge bias you got there.

By the way, Hockey is a TEAM game. 1 Defencemen for Another will not directly impact the overall team chemistry. It's not the same as putting Ovechkin in Washington.

 

[bennysflyers16]

looked to me like Russia had all the chances, Brodeur definitely bailed them out.

Because of 3 straight pp's

 

[PuckNut]

What the hell are you all talking about? It was not knee-on-knee, it was Kaspar's big butt in the air and Gagne not looking where his running. Gagne just got up-ended, he literally got airborne and he landed on his thigh/back. It's a clean check.

He didn't say knee on knee. He said hipcheck. Hitting him with "his big butt" is delivering a hip check. And as a poster showed, that's clipping, and a penalty.

 

[Bileur]

Not according to the rules just posted. It was a major penalty.

No. The call is left to the discretion of the officials. They obviousely didnt think the hit filled those criteria. I agree with them.

 

[Freudian]

He didn't say knee on knee. He said hipcheck. Hitting him with "his big butt" is delivering a hip check. And as a poster showed, that's clipping, and a penalty.

A hipcheck is clipping now? If Kasparaitis had been on all four clipping Gagne it would have. But this was hip on hip.

 

[Bloggins]

That is a huge assumption in a 0-0 game. How do you know both Gagne and Stall and all of Team Canada will not be flying home?

Cuz the US team has that flight home booked up

 

[Pwnasaurus]

Flames fan? What huge bias you got there.

By the way, Hockey is a TEAM game. 1 Defencemen for Another will not directly impact the overall team chemistry. It's not the same as putting Ovechkin in Washington.

Tell that to Devils fans after Stevens joined in 91.

 

[CanFan05]

Anybody can give me the lines used in the 1st?

 

[Dogbert*]

Very even period. Doan, Draper and Regehr have been huge down low and on the PK. Sakic and Iginla have been good, but Gagne was really dragging them down before the injury; for someone who's supposed to be the speed on that line, he was sure getting beaten to a lot of loose pucks. Thornton and Nash have had spurts of energy in-between long periods of suckitude, while Bertuzzi has been terrible. Redden, Foote and Pronger need to wake the hell up.

On Russia's side, Ovechkin has been a monster; he needs to remember that he has half-decent teammates now, though. Watch out if Russia gets the top line out there when Regehr isn't on the ice, because he and Brodeur have been the only ones keeping Kovalchuk from running amok. Nabokov is showing shades of the great goalie he was prior to this season.

 

[Steve L*]

No. The call is left to the discretion of the officials. They obviousely didnt think the hit filled those criteria. I agree with them.

No, the hit fulfilled all the criteria and the ref blew the call.

 

[Nova88]

He didn't say knee on knee. He said hipcheck. Hitting him with "his big butt" is delivering a hip check. And as a poster showed, that's clipping, and a penalty.

Your crazy, show where in the rules it says hipchecking is clipping. Hipchecking is hitting hip on hip (clean hit, oldschool).

 

[Bileur]

A hipcheck is clipping now? If Kasparaitis had been on all four clipping Gagne it would have. But this was hip on hip.

Now you're exagerating in the other direction. It clearly wasnt in the hip.

No, the hit fulfilled all the criteria and the ref blew the call.

Was there a penalty call?

 

[joe_shannon_1983*]

Something tells me that the 2nd period will decide who wins this game. One of these teams is going to take control of the game in the 2nd period, and go into the 3rd period with a 2-3 goal lead.

Just feelings that I have.

 

[mr gib]

even cherry says it was good hit - why the crying? gotta keep your head - man - its hockey

 

[naihlflames]

No. The call is left to the discretion of the officials. They obviousely didnt think the hit filled those criteria. I agree with them.

Don Cherry, "I thought it was a pretty good hit".

 

[phillypensfan]

Kaspar didn't go for Gagne's knees when he checked him. It was a perfectly clean hipcheck which is why there was no penalty called. The only way it would have been called is if Kaspar would have hit Gagne on the knees,which he clearly didn't,so the ref made the right decision by not calling it.

 

[NAI77]

Because of 3 straight pp's

Canada had 3 as well, the period was won by Russia. Only a matter of time before the floodgates break open.

 

[Shack]

Good period.

Russia had the advance and Canada was in big troubles at their own end. Only Nash-Thornton-Bertuzzi got some pressure at the other end.

Interesting 2nd coming up. If Russia keeps up with this game speed I think Canada takes more penalties and Russia scores at PP. They really should coz they have so bad PP%

 

[Vinceee]

Best period so far for McCabe... still nothing compared to a guy named Dion

 

[Balej20*]

He didn't say knee on knee. He said hipcheck. Hitting him with "his big butt" is delivering a hip check. And as a poster showed, that's clipping, and a penalty.

Oh ok, Last time i checked this isn't basketball.

We are playing a contact sport called hockey and hip checks are ::GASP:: LEGAL.