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Qualifications in the Books; Great Day of Quarter-Finals Ahead
Going into yesterday’s set of games in Vancouver, not many people expected Norway, Belarus, Germany or Latvia to beat their opponents and advance to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are simply way too good for those other four growing hockey nations. Surely enough, we sit here on [...]
Canada easily beats Germany to set up quarterfinal match with Russia
Team Canada did what it had to do to stay alive at the men’s Olympic hockey tournament, defeating Germany 8-2 in one of the four qualification playoff games. Canada will now face Russia in the quarterfinals tomorrow evening at 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST, a matchup that over 19,000 partisan fans at Canada [...]
First “The Goal”. Now, “The Hit”.
Having not played against Ovechkin in two-plus years, perhaps Jagr forgot exactly how predatory Ovechkin’s style of play is. Well, Ovechkin gave him the refresher course.
Slovakia Wins Wild One Against Russians
In a night of Olympic shootouts, the Russia vs. Slovakia battle did not disappoint. Down by one after the second period, Slovakia rallied back to force the overtime frame tied at 1 apiece. After sudden death solved nothing, a shootout was required to cap off the exciting matchup. Slovakia scored the game winner in the [...]
Olympic Day 5 Live Hockey Blog
Hello Everybody! The good Lord has given me a SNOW DAY today so I can stay home and watch Olympic hockey all day. (Hey who am I to question God’s will.) I decided that while I was watching I would grace you with my thoughts. So here is a (semi) Live blog of day 5 of the Vancouver [...]
3 ex-Penguins will carry flags in Opening Ceremonies
Three ex-Pens, all now playing in Europe, Jaromir Jagr (Czech Republic), Zigmund Palffy (Slovakia) and Aleksey Morozov (Russia), will be flag-bearers and lead their countries into B.C. Place tomorow evening during the Opening Ceremonies of the XXI Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Wheel of Goalies: Fleury, Johnson, Curry … Pechurski?!?
Pittsburgh defeated New York 6-4 Tuesday night at Mellon Arena, using four power play goals to squeak by the Islanders. Sidney Crosby tied a career high by scoring six points on two goals and four assists and Evgeni Malkin scored three of the four man-advantage goals to notch his sixth career hat trick and second [...]
Part 2: Profiling Vancouver-bound Olympian Penguins
Click for Part 1: Profiling Vancouver-bound Olympian Penguins Yesterday, three Penguins Olympic hockey players, Sidney Crosby, Marc-Andre Fleury and Sergei Gonchar were profiled and their projected roles for Canada and Russia were described. Today, Pittsburgh’s two other Olympians, Evgeni Malkin and Brooks Orpik are similarly profiled. What are their qualifications and what will their roles [...]
Part 1: Profiling Vancouver-bound Olympian Penguins
“Frequent-flyer miles” week concludes for the Penguins this evening when they play the fifth and final game of their season-long road trip at GM Place in Vancouver. Pittsburgh has won three out of the first four games on the trip as they take baby steps towards righting a listing ship that lost seven of nine [...]
Pacific division battles
Sharks vs Coyotes recap: The San Jose Sharks and Phoenix Coyotes played a playoff-type battle that was highlighted by a goaltending duel from two of Russia’s Olympic netminders. The Sharks would win the tilt in the shootout 3-2 (1-0). Evgeni Nabokov and Ilya Bryzgalov were at the top of their games in a Pacific division [...]
Russia unveils Olympic Roster
Ovechkin, Semin, Markov, Gonchar. Kovalchuk, Datsyuk, Malkin, Nabokov. How can Canada compete?
