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Olympics: USA Roster Discussion (Roster in post 1)

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Donato and Terry continue to show up. O’Neill’s been our best forward outside of those two. Nice to see some vets chip in. Defense collectively had their best game. Limited turnovers and advanced the puck well. Zapolski not tested much but settled down after the first where he was fighting it a bit.

Just keep winning.
 
AmericanDream said:
okay, so who the hell do the Czechs have??? I know they have Erat..
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I hardly recognize any of them. The few I do it's from their worlds rosters or dometic guys from past few olympics like Roman Cervenka. 16 KHL guys. Other than Erat only like four have played more than half an NHL season. Michal Jordan, Roman Horak, Michal Repik, Jiri Sekac
 
Xokkeu said:
I hardly recognize any of them. The few I do it's from their worlds rosters or dometic guys from past few olympics like Roman Cervenka. 16 KHL guys. Other than Erat only like four have played more than half an NHL season. Michal Jordan, Roman Horak, Michal Repik, Jiri Sekac
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yeah looked it up as well, they are beatable, their roster looks like ours...journeymen
 
They looked like a team tonight. This extra game was needed, crazy as it sounds, and out of the four teams that got buys, Czechs are the one we have best odds against. Excited for tomorrow! They played (easily) their best, most fluid game together tonight.
 
Xokkeu said:
A quarterfinal appearance was my baseline level of success. Ie avoid embarrassment. I genuinely thought after the Slovenia game we could go 0-4
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Same here. If we can beat the Czechs and get into the top 4 that's a great tournament from this team. With the flops we've had at Sochi and in the World Cup, I would've just hoped for a bronze if the NHLers were there
 
Xokkeu said:
You guys beat Russia so..........
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... so it was a total flash-in-the-pan. :eviltongu With the natural-born Arrogance of the Great, also typical of Americans or Canadians, not just Russians, the Russians totally underestimated us in that first game. They basically expected us to fall over all by ourselves, awe-struck by the greatness of the names in the Russian line-up. Specifically, analysts noted that Russians were too lazy and couldn't be bothered to defend the neutral zone against Slovaks, and they let them roam there freely at will, which resulted in 2 Slovak goals from counter-attacks in 3 minutes, among other things, basically lucky goals resulting from our opponent's gross negligence rather than our skill.

As soon as Slovakia's opponents clogged up the neutral zone, notably the Americans in both games, Slovakia was exposed as helpless and harmless, merely bumbling along the ice, a third-rate opponent in every sense of the word. You'd do well to totally disregard last night's game in judging the US prospects in later play-off stages.
 
You guys will play the czechs right?

If their game against us is any indication you have a real test on your hands, they played real good team defense, were physical and their goalie was rock solid, he covers a lot of net. I think they actually have a shot at taking gold here from what I've seen of them.

That will be a tough game.
 
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