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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on May 10, 2019 15:29:15 GMT
Cmon Canada you’re putting me to sleep 😴...at my home office.
Its the trappin Fins. Beat those fish guzzlin twerps!
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Post by 50belowzero on May 24, 2019 0:21:45 GMT
Canada into the semis, string the Swiss along and then boom goes the dynamite baby! USA got Czech mated? Nope, oh those Russians.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on May 24, 2019 1:38:00 GMT
Canada into the semis, string the Swiss along and then boom goes the dynamite baby! USA got Czech mated? Nope, oh those Russians. Effin Ruskies! Canada-Russia will be a good final. Vasilevskiy was a wall today when he needed to be.
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Post by shuperman on May 24, 2019 1:43:42 GMT
Canada into the semis, string the Swiss along and then boom goes the dynamite baby! USA got Czech mated? Nope, oh those Russians. Effin Ruskies! Canada-Russia will be a good final. Vasilevskiy was a wall today when he needed to be. USA should be at least in the semis. Happy to see USA have a strong group this year. Russia wont lose a game. That's a sick lineup. Hope the annoying finns can give them a scare. Czech Canada will be a close one as well.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on May 24, 2019 1:51:02 GMT
Effin Ruskies! Canada-Russia will be a good final. Vasilevskiy was a wall today when he needed to be. USA should be at least in the semis. Happy to see USA have a strong group this year. Russia wont lose a game. That's a sick lineup. Hope the annoying finns can give them a scare. Czech Canada will be a close one as well. Blashill finally figures out Gaudreau/Eichel have no chemistry today. Johnny H snake bit missed so many open looks with Kane feeding him. Schneider’s rebound control shaky the whole tourney. Martinez/Skjei stunk! JVR missed at least 8 tap ins in the Slovak/Russia games. DeBrincat was a stud. Sweden and Swiss with long flights after today. Go choke on cheese and Meatballs.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 24, 2019 13:13:47 GMT
Canada is very lucky to still be playing.
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Post by shuperman on May 24, 2019 13:29:00 GMT
Canada is very lucky to still be playing. Extremely. Sometimes that's all it takes. Czech are gonna be solid. Russia is a beast
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on May 24, 2019 14:04:40 GMT
Canada is very lucky to still be playing. But Canada seems to win yesterday’s games quite a bit. As a fan you don’t want your team pulling goalies to tie. US should not have been in that position in the QF either. Sweden screwed themselves as well. Crazy QFs.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 24, 2019 14:30:01 GMT
I will say that the Swiss are turning into a really strong hockey country. What started out as a country that was just happy to be there, they've produced a lot of fine hockey players lately and their teams at the WC's and WJ's have gotten better results and been way more competitive. They still seem to play a defence first system but that works for them and with players like Hischier, Meier, Fiala, Niederreiter & Josi being evidence that they can be offensively adept as well. At any rate they've come a long way from Mark Streit being the only NHL player Switzerland ever produced.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 24, 2019 17:18:46 GMT
I will say that the Swiss are turning into a really strong hockey country. What started out as a country that was just happy to be there, they've produced a lot of fine hockey players lately and their teams at the WC's and WJ's have gotten better results and been way more competitive. They still seem to play a defence first system but that works for them and with players like Hischier, Meier, Fiala, Niederreiter & Josi being evidence that they can be offensively adept as well. At any rate they've come a long way from Mark Streit being the only NHL player Switzerland ever produced. 23 Swiss players in the Cap era. Top two scorers are Streit and Josi. Then it's Neiderreiter, Baertschi, Meier and Fiala - three of them very young and highly likely to put up more than the 100-200 points they have now. Hischier is at 99. So the young guys are going to make a mockery of what Streit did by the time they're done. That seems like a pattern that's easy to anticipate - trailblazers, second generation does better because you see more kids wanting to follow the dream, then a burst of real talent a generation later. I took it one step further. In NHL history, there are only 31 Swiss players. The oldest are Simon Wheeldon and Paul DiPietro, who had 90 points over 5-6 years with Montreal, Toronto and LA. Only two others from pre-Cap era are of any real note - Hnat Domenichelli and Michael Riesen. Domenichelli played parts of 7 seasons in the NHL, but never seemed to find the consistency he needed to stick. He was that guy who puts up about .5 points/game, but quietly - sort of Spoonerish. Played in Hartford, Calgary, Atlanta and finally Minny. Riesen was the #14 pick in the Samsonov draft. To Edmonton. Proof that their bad drafting goes back a very long time before Pete. Played 12 NHL games then had a 12 yr career in Switzerland. For the sake of comparison - 216 Czech players, and 82 Slovakians. The Slovak side is a pretty obvious inroad - Mikita was first, then the Stastny and Inhacek brothers, then Bondra, Svehla, Ciger, Palffy, Stumpel. Chara is the 10th highest scoring Slovak NHL player of all time. For the Czechs, 4 of the 6 youngest Czechs to have played an NHL game are named Filip. Nedomansky was the first to play serious time in the NHL, and he was 6 yrs older than Hlinka. There was a burst of guys after the wall fell. 9 of the top 10 Czech NHL scorers were born in the 1971-76 window that would have made them the right age to take advantage of that political change, including Jagr, Elias, Holik and Nedved (who famously "escaped" at a minor midget tournament). As of today, the highest scoring active Czech player...is David Krejci. Voracek is close behind. Strangely, beyond those two, there's no one threatening the top of the list. You have to go all the way down to Palat and...Pastrnak. Both are in the 280s for career points. Krejci and Voracek are in the 640 range.
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Post by shuperman on May 25, 2019 13:36:52 GMT
Kappo Kakko is fucking awesome
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Post by 50belowzero on May 25, 2019 13:57:56 GMT
Kappo Kakko is fucking awesome And has the best fucking name I've ever heard!
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on May 25, 2019 14:26:15 GMT
Stingy 1-3-1 Finns stifling the Rooskies.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 25, 2019 15:49:52 GMT
Finns beat the Russkies 1-0 on a 6' 8" guys 2nd gl of the tourney, not bad size for a fwd. The Russian lineup had a combined 240 NHL gls scored, the Finns had no NHL gls scored in their lineup, plus a goalie I've never heard of, a Hawks draft pick.
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Post by shuperman on May 25, 2019 16:00:23 GMT
Finns beat the Russkies 1-0 on a 6' 8" guys 2nd gl of the tourney, not bad size for a fwd. The Russian lineup had a combined 240 NHL gls scored, the Finns had no NHL gls scored in their lineup, plus a goalie I've never heard of, a Hawks draft pick. Pesky fins. Beat Sweden, beat Russia, beat Canada? And the hat trick of hockey super powers is complete. If Canada wins of course fins missing some huge names too. Impressive
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Post by Corky on May 25, 2019 17:03:29 GMT
I’ll be watching today, for a change.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 25, 2019 17:58:05 GMT
Finns beat the Russkies 1-0 on a 6' 8" guys 2nd gl of the tourney, not bad size for a fwd. The Russian lineup had a combined 240 NHL gls scored, the Finns had no NHL gls scored in their lineup, plus a goalie I've never heard of, a Hawks draft pick. Pesky fins. Beat Sweden, beat Russia, beat Canada? And the hat trick of hockey super powers is complete. If Canada wins of course fins missing some huge names too. Impressive Like i said, the Finns don't have one player in their lineup thats scored a gl in the NHL, none.
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Post by shuperman on May 25, 2019 18:42:42 GMT
Pesky fins. Beat Sweden, beat Russia, beat Canada? And the hat trick of hockey super powers is complete. If Canada wins of course fins missing some huge names too. Impressive Like i said, the Finns don't have one player in their lineup thats scored a gl in the NHL, none. Very impressive. Team play over individual play.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on May 26, 2019 18:30:07 GMT
Finns have the choice to let anyone on the team take a penalty shot, give it to a defenseman, who promptly skates up, no deke and gets laughed at by Murray. Ohh I love IIHF refs so much.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 26, 2019 20:49:14 GMT
Canada outshoots the Finns 21-3 in the 3rd but the pesky reindeer soup lovers pot 2 gls and win 3-1. Has to rank as one of the most unbelievable stories at any WC, Finns beat the Swedes, Russkies and Canada on their way to gold and have a bunch of no names on their roster, way to go.
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Post by shuperman on May 26, 2019 20:55:38 GMT
Canada outshoots the Finns 21-3 in the 3rd but the pesky reindeer soup lovers pot 2 gls and win 3-1. Has to rank as one of the most unbelievable stories at any WC, Finns beat the Swedes, Russkies and Canada on their way to gold and have a bunch of no names on their roster, way to go. Impressive. Canada didnt have a lot of big name scorers. We had a solid roster but not a lot of game breakers.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 26, 2019 21:12:16 GMT
Canada outshoots the Finns 21-3 in the 3rd but the pesky reindeer soup lovers pot 2 gls and win 3-1. Has to rank as one of the most unbelievable stories at any WC, Finns beat the Swedes, Russkies and Canada on their way to gold and have a bunch of no names on their roster, way to go. Impressive. Canada didnt have a lot of big name scorers. We had a solid roster but not a lot of game breakers. Even so, the Canadian roster had accounted for over 320 gls at the NHL level, the Finns 0. Stone, Marchessault, Couturier, Dubois, Turris, should have been enough to get enough gls but when you're up against a hot tender what can you do.
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Post by shuperman on May 26, 2019 21:14:30 GMT
Impressive. Canada didnt have a lot of big name scorers. We had a solid roster but not a lot of game breakers. Even so, the Canadian roster had accounted for over 320 gls at the NHL level, the Finns 0. Stone, Marchessault, Couturier, Dubois, Turris, should have been enough to get enough gls but when you're up against a hot tender what can you do. Finns were fantastic. Be neat to see if that exact roster could win as a team in the nhl.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 26, 2019 21:20:34 GMT
Even so, the Canadian roster had accounted for over 320 gls at the NHL level, the Finns 0. Stone, Marchessault, Couturier, Dubois, Turris, should have been enough to get enough gls but when you're up against a hot tender what can you do. Finns were fantastic. Be neat to see if that exact roster could win as a team in the nhl. Haha, they would likely end up 2-75-5, a combo Boucher, Lemaire like team. Their only wins would come against Montreal and TO.
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Post by shuperman on May 26, 2019 21:35:27 GMT
Finns were fantastic. Be neat to see if that exact roster could win as a team in the nhl. Haha, they would likely end up 2-75-5, a combo Boucher, Lemaire like team. Their only wins would come against Montreal and TO. What bout team Canada could that roster win a cup. They would be cap compliant
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