Congrats for sure, Canad's team played a perfect hockey game...
They took the pressure from a great hockey team, and produced on there scoring chanches.
Whren they came out and rocked the D..it all fell into place...
Job well done, by everybody involved in the Gold run...
.......SteveO you are correct, this team was not supposed ot contend for a medal this year round due to it's inexperience and age (oldest guy I think is 19, rest are 17/18 )........Sutter told them at the beginning I will train you to be Gold Medal Champs, the rest is up to you guys.......but they were supreme underdogs going in.....US, Russia and Finland were pegged to be Gold. Silver, Bronze with Canada finishing fourth or fifth.........so a huge win for them no doubt.......
......oh yeah, what a game, some of the hits in the first period were unbeleiveable.......I feel badly the Russian goal wasn't allowed, but it looks like the ruskies understood the problem with the rules and lived with it.......they had their chances too but Pogge was a brick wall......way to go boys....
.....and only one returning player, Red.....that's huge.....I don't necessarily think other teams were pegged to be physically better than the Canadians - just more experienced.....that Malkin is friggin' fantastic, though.....can't wait to see him play with the big boys.....
.....and Red, you should know you can't use a number 8 with a ).....it turns out to be a 8).....hehheh....nice edit job, though.....
.....sidenote - anyone else find it slightly humourous that the Canadian goalie's name is pronounced "pogey"? Just a thought.....
It was great for sure and the fans in Vancouver and BC really supported it. I just hope though that cities like London that have nice 9,000 seat arenas won't be shut out in the future for holding the WJC and instead only NHL sized arenas get it here in Canada. That would be a real shame. But I fear this will happen as money might rule the roost on this one.
I agree he’s very tainted now which I find just sad. A great goalie like that going to an organization like the Leafs, almost makes me want to cry. I guess that will be his last win for awhile because I don’t see the Leafs winning in the forseeable future, they’re just not a winning organization.
you can see that this topic is about hockey so why even come in here to read about it? All forums deal with off-topic discussion, including this forum, but what's different about this forum is it doesn't have a separate area to do that so all off-topic conversations are done on the main board.