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  1. Wow, i thought we had it bad losing JT and Stamkos. Sweden lost their #1,2,3 centers. They have like no chance on every single face off.
  2. http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/peter-forsberg-swedish-media-upset-canadians-selected-ref-men-hockey-final.html Long story short, all refs/linesman for the gold medal game are Canadians and Peter Forsberg is upset. My opinion only...I'm not familiar with the refs but names like Kelly Sutherland and Greg Devorski do ring a bell to me in SCF games. While I do not think that it's a great idea to have ALL FOUR officials being Canadian, it seems quite unlikely that we'd get favorable and biased calls. In fact, even the Swedish players (according to the article) did not pay much attention to this supposed problem either. Guys like Karlsson are actually comfortable in dealing with NHL refs and figured what is/isn't allowed. If we ever get a game-breaking call (like in Women's Hockey OT in finals), I bet there will be some complains. Thoughts?
  3. I know this is very after-the-fact, but I had a lot of confidence for Canada back in the semis vs U.S because of our results against Finland and Russia. For one, Finland actually earned a birth into the QF for being a higher seed. We narrowly edged Finland overtime, so it was obvious that they were quite dangerous. The U.S also barely, and I mean by the skin of the teeth, inched out Russia. I thought to myself, the match between Russia and Finland would serve as a measuring stick between U.S. and Canada. Finland then promptly 3-1 Russia in a solid fashion. DAMN. The only team that Finland lost to was us! Only by 1 goal overtime. Proud of you, team Selanne =)
  4. Can't say they have the best defensive forwards when we have guys like Toews, Anaheim duo, Bergeron, etc. Anyways, I'm still not sold on Kunitz, he made some opportunities but also failed to bury a few freebies. It's really awesome how the teams in the final still made it despite losing star of star quality players. Sweden is down Zetterberg and Henrik, while we're down Stamkos and JT. This just goes to show how strong both teams are with one hand tied to their back. Proud of Canada, MATCH THE LADIES WITH GOLD!
  5. While we're at it, can we have Szabados in net against the Americans. Seriously though, the first American penalty at the OT...she deserved it. It's not like the ref didn't warn her repeatedly to not slash Szabados. Also, we were just as boned by the refs. Our D was essentially bodychecked by the ref which led to the "oh-so-close" post. It was pretty clear that our D was there before the americans, wouldn't have been close at all. Finally, Wickenheiser had complete position on the breakaway and was dragged down. Who the hell cares what the exact penalty is, it was a damn penalty and we shoulda gotten a penalty shot.
  6. I'd like to point out that the (on-paper) toughest opponents Canada and U.S have faced thus far are Finland and Russia respectively. In both cases, Can/US barely inched out overtime, suggesting that they are probably close in head-to-head to their opponents at the time. We have seen that Finland was able to utterly destroy Russia 3-1, a victory that came easier for them than the americans. Big names aside, I truly believe that finland was the stronger team and canada had a tougher trial to reach the same stage. Although i have only 50% as much confident in team2014 compared to team2010, I'd think that Canada is pretty underrated on CDC despite their tight victories.
  7. Yeah what happened to hammer? He was such a rock in the last 2 years...
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