Please Sidney Don't Hurt 'Em: Canada vs Norway Game Thread
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 16, 2010 3:30 PM PST
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GAME TIME: 4:30 PM PST
TV: CTV
STARTING CANADIAN GOALIE: Roberto Luongo
Ah yes, it's time to put aside the hatred for some of these Canadian players (ahem Crosby) and find it within myself to cheer them on. It's not a tough transition really. When Mario Lemieux (who I usually can't stand) lifted his skate to let the Pronger pass go to Kariya who then scored on Mike Richter in Salt Lake City I found myself almost worshiping the guy for his brilliance (see the video after the jump). Brilliance that I could care less about when he was a Pittsburgh Penguin. The same rule applied in the 1987 Canada Cup when Mario scored the winner there against the "evil" Russians.
This time around it's all about cheering for a guy named Sidney Crosby. See the similarity there? Another Penguin. Doesn't matter. He plays for us now. And I really want this Canadian team to win gold in Vancouver. Crosby can lead the team in scoring and I will love it. But that's it. As soon as he puts on a Penguins jersey the love "dies" in a sense, immediately.
More after the jump..
Expect a route in this one. Goals-for applies in international play. Nice how there is immediate familiarity with some of the guys right off the hop:
-Niedermayer-Pronger
-Getzlaf-Perry-Niedermayer-Pronger
-Thornton-Heatley-Marleau
-Seabrook-Keith
Team Norway's roster can be seen here. You may recognize a few names there.
It's easy to be cocky in these preliminary rounds, but gold is far from guaranteed in these Olympics, especially with the continued emergence of USA, Russia and Sweden mostly.
Enjoy the game! Here is a clip to get you into the groove...like you needed it (oh Burnaby Joe you were so damned good).
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still get chills from that
nice clip to get it all rolling
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 16, 2010 3:49 PM PST reply actions
Don’t expect a rout if Norway plays a sound defensive game like they’re supposed to.
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sound defensive game should hold up against the swiss, germans, etc. It’s an upset if Canada doesn’t win by 5+, IMO
by Passive Voice on Feb 16, 2010 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
what i remember most of the 2002 games was actually that game against belarus. it was grade 6. our teacher stayed in the staffroom while about 10 of my classmates and i watched the game on the television in our classroom.
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Whoa!! Me too!! I remember they got the whole school in the gym, we all watched that game on like 3 27" tvs… Remeber cutting out a canada flag from construction paper and taping it to a ruler, ahh elementary, good times.I think I was in grade 5
by kiyotok on Feb 16, 2010 4:20 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Score/scorer predictions?
May or may not count for points XD
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5-2 canada
blowouts don’t tend to happen in men’s hockey.
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god, if they score twice, bob’s gonna get pilloried
by Passive Voice on Feb 16, 2010 4:25 PM PST up reply actions
i might as well go with jarome iguana with the winner.
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Because it basically has zero bearing on our chances of winning this tourney, I think it would be fun if Canada only took backhand shots. i think it’d be an interesting experiment. i’d think we would still score a couple goals, which oughta be good enough, right?
Every game matters cause of goal difference. Plus you want to be building towards the knock out round and getting better every game. If you take a team lightly you will get burned. Having said all of that I think Luongo should have to play blindfolded. That should help the team with it’s communication!!!
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i don’t think goal diff will matter much for us. if this team’s plays up to their potential and gets even halfway decent bounces, it’ll probably be the difference between playing sweden and playing USA, CZ or FIN in the semis, and that assuming sweden doesn’t blow it with a loss in there somewhere.
by Passive Voice on Feb 16, 2010 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
if this team plays*
that’s assuming*
christ
by Passive Voice on Feb 16, 2010 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
9-0 us. Heatley with a hattrick and the winner
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You gotta love Heater eh?
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
He’s alright. I still think he should be in jail right now.
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Damn, a defense corps that doesn’t worry me. I like this feeling.
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I can just see Brodeur facepalming on the bench
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 16, 2010 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
Canada really needs a burrows to beat a goalie like this…there’s no greasiness happening with all the superstars on the team.
dammit… tried logging in on the wifes puter and it’s saying I wasnt using the right password…
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MGMT again :)
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btw, i’ve seen that around here quite a bit, what does that mean?
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It’s a band.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
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New album April 13th
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
Nice plug!
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Thx
I’m pretty pumped. Love their stuff.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
Still not sick of their last release and I’ve played it heaps of times.
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Agreed. It’s so varied. One song will be dancy and happy and the next thing you know it sounds like a Stones song.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
Good period. A team that hasn’t seen much of each other as a unit against a team that has been practicing together for a while and playing pre-tournament games. Canada looked pretty sharp and moved the puck well. The break out is something to watch on a team that hasn’t practiced together much and against a trap no less. Thought it looked good. The goals will come as long as this team is creating scoring chances I am not worried.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
1-0 Norway
My guess is that Norway players were not told they are playing against a bunch of NHL superstars …
maybe the fact that they’re getting badly outchanced and outshot will be a clue for them ;)
by Passive Voice on Feb 16, 2010 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
so, it turns out that this goalie is only known for international play.
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Raycroft is out of work
replacement: Pål Grotnes
Did you guys watch the end of that women’s curling game? Pretty exciting stuff.
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you used curling and exciting in the same sentence…oh my ;)
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 16, 2010 5:21 PM PST up reply actions
it can be exciting.
i curled for 5 years, it was actually quite fun.
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Any game on ice is good in my books. Except ringette, what the hell?
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
btw, our 1st canadian competitor is doing his routine right now for figure skating.
ooh, just fell on the triple axle.
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ah, patty chan.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
Good, I was worried.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 5:36 PM PST up reply actions
agreed
nashville better lock him down
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Cheering a Flame. I can’t do it.
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
Come on. You can do it. Cheer for the Canadian hockey player Iguana. Not the Flamer guy. The former Kamloops Blazer not the loser from that shit hole in Alberta.
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omg
one of my FAVORITE movies…
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Lou may as well sit on top of the crossbar and have a beer
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 16, 2010 5:38 PM PST up reply actions
I was gonna say…hey Norwegians dive too!
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 16, 2010 5:39 PM PST up reply actions
Here’s some trivia: Who do you guys think has the most short handed goals on Team Canada? (In the NHL this season)
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Ding ding ding, that’s him.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
Nope, he only has two. Our guy has 3. Burrows has 4. Thorburn and Bourque have 3 as well.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
For Canadians, by the way. Hossa has 5 sh and there’s a few others with three.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
ohhhhh greasy goal from the 13th man!!!!
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Bergeron is going to be the 13th man, and a lonely one, if he keeps playing like he has been. Bad penalty. Already of the top line.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
and Iggy has taken his spot..naturally
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 16, 2010 5:47 PM PST up reply actions
Well that was a pretty good period. Two Canadian team members I just can’t cheer for: Pronger and Getzlaf, who I prefer to call bitchslap. And btw, bitchslap has looked pretty bad on the pp…everytime he gets the puck he gives it away.
Nobody answer this, it’s a trick! If you answer it wrong, you get neither, and both answers are wrong!
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:01 PM PST up reply actions
i’m just interested in how you guys rank them
by AdelaideNuck on Feb 16, 2010 6:02 PM PST up reply actions
Besides, I’d rather have my intramural hockey team win the playoffs (Not a chance, we’re currently 9th of 13), but maybe that’s just me.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:05 PM PST up reply actions
not sure. i think i’d prefer stanley, since olympic gold seems much less elusive.
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That was kinda my logic…Canada gets lots of golds, but winning the Stanley Cup is probably the hardest thing to do in any sports…so many teams, so many games to get there.
Gold, 1952, 2002… lots of gold. Right.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
don’t forget the women’s dominance, and how i’m only 20 years old and wasn’t around for all those years……
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One more Gold in our life time than Stanley Cups for the Canucks.
And no, I’m not going to count the women’s dominance because we’re talking about Men’s hockey, not international. Otherwise you could cite World Juniors, Four Nations, Davis Cup, etc.
But I think the social landscape change has changed, and we haven’t grown up with “hate the soviets!” sort of attitude, so maybe that can explain the reason most would prefer a Stanley?
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:16 PM PST up reply actions
stanley. as they say, you have to win four best of seven series to win stanley. but gold is very hard to get and i think canada is one of a few countries that have an equal chance of winning it.
6"4, 247lbs. Wow.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:21 PM PST up reply actions
Hey there, Don Cherry will have something to say about that hotdogging.
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blame it on the olympic goal differential tiebreaker. we’ll stop seeing these huge blowouts once they get rid of that rule
No, I meant the spin-o-rama on the 1-on-1, not the goals being scored.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:31 PM PST up reply actions
I’m curious how all the people who complain about the blowouts being unsportsmanlike would prefer to see it happen? Should the winning team just stop trying, to be nice? That seems stupid to me. Mercy rule? That’s an even bigger punch in the nuts than a 12-0 score. I don’t think the blowouts will stop until the teams become more equal.
Has Patrick Chan skated yet?
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Oh, the answer is no, not for awhile.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:43 PM PST up reply actions
Check this out...
Canada looks just OK
Norway was surprising me, and I have no idea why they changed goalies.
It may not be enough to beat the US on Saturday if they play the same way.
On the Forecheck-where Patric Hornqvist is never underappreciated.
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wow… really?
yes Canada hasn’t played it’s best game yet by far, but the US was far from convincing in their win over the Swiss. I guess we will have to show them…
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Commentators were saying they changed goalies so as not to tire out their go-to-guy for future, winnable games.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:45 PM PST up reply actions
can’t believe how dismissive the guy is though…
Iginla is exactly where he should be now… I was satisfied with him on the 4th line based on his play this season, his play tonight shows me he belongs on that 1st line
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Yeah, I gotta say I don’t think Canada played as well as they could, blowout score aside. How many times did Bitchslap pass the puck right onto an opposing players stick in the offensive zone? How many times could we not clear the zone on the first or second attempt, and only got it out due to outmuscling them off the puck? To beat Russia/Sweden/USA we gotta be better than this. But still….WOOOOO!
well good scrimmage for the team. be good to get a bigger challenge in switzerland with Hiller and Streit. glad luongo didn’t shame the nation by letting in any goals from norway.
pretty good game.
btw, i just completed my post for tomorrow’s open thread, and it’s all ready to go, so nobody steal my thunder please. thx :)
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 6:57 PM PST up reply actions
Hey guys, who’s starting for the Russians against Latvia? I have Nabokov in my pool team and damn it Bryzgalov better not steal starter from him.
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nabokov is starting, bryz is backup. varlamov is not likely to see any time at all.
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This is good news, thanks missy.
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by thelastjohnny on Feb 16, 2010 7:11 PM PST up reply actions
hmmm… I still don’t know why it insisted on starting a new account for me earlier, back on my puter now
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 16, 2010 7:13 PM PST reply actions
saw this on twitter
sroarke_nhl
Grotnes was injred, not pulled. Said he had cramps in his legs. hopes to be ready for USA on Thurs. 13 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 16, 2010 8:09 PM PST reply actions
lol
see I thought I was hearing things when they said that
thank dog lol
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 16, 2010 10:15 PM PST up reply actions
Martins Cipulis most likely.
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by Steckel Me Elmo on Feb 16, 2010 10:17 PM PST up reply actions
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