Author Topic: Olympic ice hockey (Read 2154 times)

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 19, 2006, 07:43:07 AM »

There was no blood or face plants. Not impressive.

TexMurphy · « **Reply #46 on:** February 20, 2006, 03:07:08 AM »

My view of the hockey tournament so far..

Best games so far...

Russia-Slovakia
Canada-Switzerland
Canada-Finland

Most impressive teams so far (not in a ranking order)..

Slovakia
Russia
Finland
Switzerland

Most disapointing teams so far (not in a ranking order)..

Canada
Czech Rep
Sweden

Jarku Ruuttu should have been banned from the entire olympic games.

Tex

Ps. Best hockey accomplishment so far... Swedens win over US in the womens semi final. Ds.

Thrawn · « **Reply #47 on:** February 20, 2006, 08:18:59 AM »

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Originally posted by TexMurphy
Most disapointing teams so far (not in a ranking order)..

Canada

It boggles my mind. I mean our checking line is Joe Thornton, Kris Draper and Shane Doan.

In thier defence, Gerber had the game of his life. But against the Finns....if they played all three periods like they did in the second they probably would have won. Hell if the game was decided by the high-light reel they would have won, so absolutely beautiful plays...that they couldn't capitalize on. But man, did they look like crap in the first.

PS: Something I noticed during the Fin game. During the powerpls the right defenceman let the puck out of the Fin zone no less then three times. I know McCabe was responsible for at least one of those...heartbreaking.

TexMurphy · « **Reply #48 on:** February 20, 2006, 08:48:21 AM »

Canada made it quite easy for the finish goalie (hate spelling his name).

Sure canada played at a fantastic pace and had tons of shots but there where no one timers, no deflections just straight on shots.

Sure playing crash the net and scoope for rebounds is a good way to up the pace and create scooring chances. But you need to set up the onetimers and to deflect the shots when you have men infront of the net. If you dont do that it becomes too predictable and relativly easy for the goalie.

Also its painfull to watch Chris Pronger on big ice. He is sooo slow its painfull he looked like a cone on the ice.

Tex.

Thrawn · « **Reply #49 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:15:30 AM »

...I just plain don't want to talk about Pronger.

Panzzer · « **Reply #50 on:** February 22, 2006, 01:26:04 PM »

WTG Team Finland! And too bad for my American friends here.

Fin-USA 4-3.

AWMac · « **Reply #51 on:** February 22, 2006, 01:33:50 PM »

Boroda · « **Reply #52 on:** February 22, 2006, 01:40:02 PM »

Only 4:3?!

From what I saw - Finns had to tear Americans into a Union Jack.

I am going home now, to see the last period of Russia-Canada. If I'll see the whole game - I'll have a heart attack.

Is there a possibility for Finns and Slovaks to meet before final? They are definetly two best teams at the Olympics.

BTW, is it true that Finnish team consists only of NHL players? I have heard on Russian TV that the only player from Finnish league is a third goalkeeper from Karpat (BTW, a funny name for a Finnish team),

wasq · « **Reply #53 on:** February 22, 2006, 01:46:58 PM »

Here are the non-NHL players:

3 Petteri Nummelin, Lugano SUI
25 Jukka Hentunen, Lugano SUI
30 Fredrik Norrena, Linköping SWE
32 Niklas Bäckström, Kärpät
77 Antti-Jussi Niemi, Frölunda SWE

Only Bäckström is from Finnish league (Oulun Kärpät), so the Russian TV is correct in that sense.

Thrawn · « **Reply #54 on:** February 22, 2006, 01:46:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
I am going home now, to see the last period of Russia-Canada. If I'll see the whole game - I'll have a heart attack.

Same here, I'm just going to check the score from time to time.

Juntts · « **Reply #55 on:** February 22, 2006, 02:02:29 PM »

Screw the hockey, Im watching curling

BTW, there was nothing wrong with Ruutu's check, it was a hands down check and Jagr put his head down just before the impact, also I wonder why he is using that JOFA relic from the 80's.

Jarkko

wasq · « **Reply #56 on:** February 22, 2006, 02:04:26 PM »

Curling situation is looking pretty good at the moment

Thrawn · « **Reply #57 on:** February 22, 2006, 04:21:11 PM »

Congratulations Russia, certainly the better team won.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #58 on:** February 22, 2006, 04:23:36 PM »

Congrats Russia.

Rematch in 4 years.

TexMurphy · « **Reply #59 on:** February 22, 2006, 05:24:42 PM »

What a huge refering mistake....

Canada should have had the equalizer... it hit the back of the net and went back in under the keeper BEFORE the ref blew the whistle....

But then... said it before... Pronger.... he might as well retire.. but so can AT LEAST 30% of the defenders in the NHL...

We are going to see a HUUUUGE shift in defenders over the next two three years... to smaller and faster defenders...

Tex