Canuck Brunch/WJHC Open Thread
by Kent Basky on Dec 26, 2011 9:57 AM PST
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PrintRidiculous savings on all manner of electronics? Leftover Turkey? Presents from relatives who showed up late after being stranded on the highway in a blizzard? No, my favorite part about Boxing Day is the hockey, and today we have a kickass double header for you. Team Canada opens the World Junior Hockey Championships in Edmonton against Team Finland, while the temporarily homeless Oilers are in Vancouver to take on a Canucks squad that is highly unlikely to show the sort of Christmas kindness and generosity they extended to the Calgary Flames Friday night. I hope you all had an awesome Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) and it was filled with the things that truly matter: good times and good food with family and friends. And that means you too, Oilers fans. Except Zona, who is no doubt a couple Christmases away from becoming a coal baron... Previews of both games after the jump...
First up today is the WJHC kickoff, and unlike some years where Canada eases it's way into the tournament against one of softer teams, they've got quite a challenge right out of the gate in Finland. Canada defeated the Finns in a pre-tournament game last week by a score of 3-1, but we all know these games can be much different when they count, right?
The big story for Canada before a game has even been played is goaltending, as there's already a controversy over who will man the crease for Team Canada. Mark Visentine started against the Swedes Friday night, but was pulled in favour of Scott Wedgewood in a game Canada lost 5-3. Ironically, that was the same score of last year's final as Visentine and Team Canada coughed up a 3 goal lead to lose the gold medal to Russia. Many have questioned the inclusion of Visentine at this year's tournament, as he and Wedgewood both had inferior stats to the other training camp invitees Tyler Bunz and Louis Domingue. It's sounding like Visentine will get the start today, here's hoping he can overcome his demons and not show the kind of performance like he did Friday, giving up 4 goals on 17 shots to the Swedes. He was in goal for the pre-tournament win over the Finns though, it's worth noting.
The Finns are led by the Granlund brothers, they of Youtube fame. No word yet on who will start, my guess is they will go with Chris Gibson, who plays for Chicoutimi of the QMJHL. The Finns have a tough, skilled squad and are looking to improve upon their 6th place finish in Buffalo last year. They haven't won the tournament since 1998, and this is not a far-fetched dream for this team, one bad game from an opponent can often pave the way for someone else, as we have learned in this tournament.
Canada will be looking for big things not only from it's 3 players with NHL experience: Brett Connolly (Tampa Bay), Devante Smith-Pelley (Anaheim), and , who played a handful of games with Winnipeg before being sent back to junior. Team Canada also has it's own set of brothers to watch, as Dougie and Freddie Hamilton suit up in red & white. With just 4 returning members from last year's squad, this team has even more pressure than usual to get back to the top of the junior hockey heap. There's a definite BC flavour to this team, as the head coach is Vancouver Giants bench boss Don Hay. Hay won gold with Team Canada in 1995 during his stint with the Kamloops Blazers. One of his assistant coaches, Ryan Huska is a former Blazer, and he also has a former Vancouver Canuck behind the bench in Scott Walker.
Later tonight the Canucks resume their assault on Minnesota's lead in the Northwest Division as they take on Ryan! Nugent! Hopkins! and the Edmonton Oilers. Canucks coach Alain Vigneault was not pleased at all following the 3-1 loss to Calgary Friday night, so it would hardly be a shock to see the Oilers bearing the brunt of a beating scoreboard-wise tonight. Roberto Luongo, who was outstanding in the loss to the Flames Friday should get the start tonight, while Nikolai Khabibulin is expected to start for the Oilers. Both games this season between these teams have been feisty, one-goal affairs, and there's no reason to expect any different. I would imagine we see Keith Ballard back in the lineup tonight, most likely at the expense of Alexander Sulzer, who has played well since being called up. My guess is that Vigneault will want to keep Andrew Alberts size in the lineup against the Oilers knuckledraggers.
BAND OF THE DAY- WOODS OF YPRES
I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of the main man behind Canada's criminally underrated Woods Of Ypres on December 21st. David Gold was about to see all his hard work pay off as the band's 5th album 'Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light' is due to be released by Earache Records in February. The band's doomy style is comparable to bands like Type O Negative, and as a fan of the band for many years, I was thrilled to see them sign the deal with Earache and finally start to see some recognition. The loss of such a talented musician leaves a huge hole in the Canadian metal scene. RIP. The band had released a single in anticipation of the album release, ironically titled 'Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye)'.
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TSNBobMcKenzie Bob McKenzie
New F lines for CAN: Schwartz-Scheifele-Gallagher; Huberdeau-Strome-Stone; Howden-FHamilton-DSP; Bournival-Jenner-Connolly; Pearson.
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for proving to me just now that comments still load automatically o n my new playbook :)
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I saw
on twitter that you got one, sounds like you’re enjoying it. :) I love how as grownups we get to have all these great tech toys now that we (or at least I) used to drool over while watching & reading sci-fi as kids.
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yeah, i think i’m starting to annoy people with how much i talk about it…..
my mom already had one, although the screen is smaller i still am happy with it.
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Also
Team Canada (with Ryan Parent in the lineup) is taking on Vitkovice in the Spengler Cup opener on TSN2 at 11am PST.
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today's WJC games (times are EST)
Canada vs Finland 3:30 PM
Sweden vs Latvia 5:30 PM
USA vs Denmark 8:00 PM
Russia vs Switzerland 10:00 PM
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JamiesonCanucks Jim Jamieson
#Canucks All hands on deck for morning skate. Appears Ballard back in, he’s paired with Alberts.
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And just a reminder
We love to do these open threads for the tournament, and thank you for choosing to spend time here. All we ask is that you keep it respectful as usual. This community works because of it’s relatively troll-free environment. Have fun, enjoy, and don’t be a dick.
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hey
did you not read the post above? NO TROLLING!!!!
heh. fuck him. hope you and the family had an awesome day in my old hometown, Sean.
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hope you did too, Kent. I didn’t know you hailed from here. Not a bad joint actually. But our Xmas day is tomorrow because that’s when the whole fam arrives.
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 26, 2011 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
yup I grew up there
still have family and friends there, and fond memories of my days at Cable 10 and CFBX at TRU. Watched tons of Blazers hockey (spoiled back in the day, that team never lost it seemed…)
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no doubt about the Blazers. Solid franchise.
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 26, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
I was visiting teams stick boy
in 81-82, won their first league championship that year
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yup
and same to you
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you live here? Hey! Let’s have an NM meetup on the fly! haha. Any other Loopheads here?
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 26, 2011 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
sportsnetmurph Dan Murphy
#canucks Roberto Luongo sporting a new “retro” mask at skate. Looks like an ode to Curt Ridley.
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and by Curt Ridley, you mean:
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 26, 2011 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
sportsnetmurph Dan Murphy
Judging from #canucks morning skate it looks like the only change will be Keith Ballard in for Alex Sulzer.
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neatebuzzthenet Neate Sager
Sixth time Canada has gone to #WJC with 4 returning players. Prev. results: 2 gold (‘96, ’09), 2 silver (’03, ‘11), 1 bronze (’83). #WJC2012
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ctv_kelcey Kelcey Brade
Lively morning skate for the @VanCanucks. Result of Xmas turkey or Friday’s loss to the Flames? #Canucks, #Oilers meet for 3rd time tonite.
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Lambert talks about how the Wild are about to surrender the NW lead
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a good read
and chuckle inducing after seeing Brian from Hockey Wilderness go after Cam on Twitter again this morning…
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yeah
i caught the endof that hoopla again.
i guess we can put that pair in the book of people who don’t like each other…..
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wow. It’s Xmas. Where is the love?
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 26, 2011 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
you're asking Wild fans to be rational?
why not ask for something simpler like world peace or flying cars?
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I don't hate Minnesota
There are two confirmed Minnesotans at my school, and they’re both bewilderingly gorgeous. Doesn’t excuse having retarded hockey fans though.
by Passive Voice on Dec 26, 2011 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
Spengler cup feed (in German)
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/99753/1/watch-team-canada-vs-adler-mannheim.html
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Marty Turco
is in goal for Canada… wonder what he’s got riding on the game?
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1-0 Canada
Joel Kwiatkowski scores to give Canada the lead
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who?
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2-0 Canada
It may have been Dominic Pittis, or former Canuck Byron Ritchie, but either way Canada is off to a good start here
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feed works well on playbook
but all videos stop when i switch tabs…..
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JamiesonCanucks Jim Jamieson
#Canucks AV confirms Ballard in for Sulzer tonight
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love this
gmacsports Gordon McIntyre
Shortest presser ever. AV confirms Ballard is in vs #Oilers, says ’that’s it?’ and exits stage left #Canucks
AV is still pissed after Friday. Good. No team should suffer the humility of giving up an empty netter to Jokinen…
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3-0
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Joel Perrault
with another top corner snipe. Methinks we might see a goalie change soon in this one as Vitkovice is getting stomped on right now…
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i think i figured out a system
can have live streams going full-screen on one device, and blog on the other.
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very close to a 4th goal there
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now 4-0
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Shawn Heins
with the blast from the point…
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Vitkovice
certainly not shying away from the physical play
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#Oilers take the ice for morning skate in Vancouver. Ryan Whitney is absent.
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SUNdvandiest Derek Van Diest
Ryan Whitney not on the ice for the #Oilers this morning. Didn’t make the trip to Vancouver.
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scoring so far...
First Period
Goals:
02:29 CAN 8 Joel Kwiatkowski
03:03 CAN 9 Domenic Pittis (19 Stacy Roest)
06:49 CAN 3 Mark Hartigan
10:15 CAN 15 Brett McLean PP
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BradZiemer Brad Ziemer
Former #Canucks on Spengler Cup team include coach Marc Crawford, Byron Ritchie, Joel Perrault and Brandon Reid.
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brandon reid and jason king
remember those two
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5-0 Canada
Rico Fata with a late one…
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haha
camcharron Cam Charron
“I watch the Spengler Cup because Canada always blows out their opponents in the WJHC” -Arguments I heard yesterday.
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paul_romanuk Paul Romanuk
Apparently Vitkovice tech crew was in charge of the feed #spenglercup #tsn2
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2nd period underway
Canada leads 5-0 after 1
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I am confused....
am I watching the wrong game? The one I have on is just starting, and doing the anthems
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two games
one is World Juniors, other is Spengler Cup
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Canucks scratches according to the Oilers dressing room
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lol
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Tha Stanch helps us make do without Pierre
http://blogs.theprovince.com/2011/12/26/understanding-ray-ferraro/
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Lu's new mask
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that’s a winner
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 26, 2011 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
JohnLuTSNMtl John Lu
#WJC2012 Canada d-pairs: Murray – Harrington; Gormley – D. Hamilton; Oleksiak – Beaulieu; Pysyk
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Canada pp
after a vicious chop to the ankle, and Kwiatkowski quickly scores to make it 6-0.
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Loud boos as Team USA announced. Louder boos as #Canucks Ryan Kesler appears on screen.
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typical of Albertans
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when he wears that uniform
I’d boo him too
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disagree
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NHLbyMatty Jim Matheson
Ryan whitney has tendinitis right ankle out vs canuucks. Hemsky bad sinuses out too
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he's their Salo...
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UGH
DiPietro.
No sympathy for him. He’s getting paidddddddddd.
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—Henrik Sedin on re-alignment
nice chance from Scheifele there
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that was a Sedin-like goal
was it not?
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will be disappointing
if we don’t see at least one new youtube sensation from that line in this tournament
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Team Canada is making Finland look like a team of john scotts
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DonCherryParody Don Cherry Parody
YKNOW HOW COME THE FINN LAND JERSEYS ALWAYS SAY SUOMI IS THAT SOME KIND OF CAR THEY DRIVE OVER WHEREVER THEY LIVE EH LET’S GO! BEAUTY!
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weird
because their PP is supposed to be their strong suit. Nerves maybe?
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Just wanted to stop by and wish Team Canad….Errrrr…….. UUUUSSSSAAAAA best of luck in the tourny!!!! Hopefully I will still be welcome back after trolling my own home site. And I do think its a bit of bull that USA gets boooed when entering. Its cool, I would be nervous too if I saw Campbell in net.
Set your sights to improve...And rest inside the flames.
haha
just like it took the Canucks a couple cracks to defeat the Hawks, another look at Campbell and USA will result in a victory for the good guys (that’s us)
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Canada leads 6-0 in the 3rd
in the Spengler Cup, they’re being outshot 33-22. Strong game from Turco
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Just found out my cousin gave birth to a healthy boy this morning!
I’m an uncle for the first time! (not technically but that’s how our people look at it)
Poutine & Meatballs
I am Auntie Lisa to all of my cousin’s kids so it’s not just your people :)
and I lived in SE Asia for a while so I totally know how strongly family oriented some cultures are :) it’s nice to see that actually :)
Go Canucks Go!
make that 7-1, TSN
Goals:
08:23 VIT 21 Nathan Walker (41 Petr Pohl) PP
12:33 CAN 17 Kurtis McLean (18 Jeremy Williams, 9 Domenic Pittis) PP
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I believe that Walker for Vitkovice
is from Australia, the first Australian native to crack a European Elite league lineup
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@ScottyHockey: Turco’s shutout bid was stopped by a ppg from 17-year old Australian national team player Nathan Walker.
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yeah
there are different tiers of world hockey. Each year at the World Championships one or two teams get relegated down, and the winners of the B tier move up. That’s why you had Hungary show up at the WC’s a couple years ago.
Here are the current world rankings for the Men (not juniors)
2011 Men’s World Ranking
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there’s a bunch. i think like israel has one.
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RealBakesTakes Matt Baker
Now that’s the craziest World Junior stat: No country other than Canada and Russia/USSR has won gold more than twice.
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Not a shock here
Finns started looking a little better after the time out and aren’t the Danes by any stretch
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yesssssss
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NMT: Kurtis McLean scores Canada’s lone goal in the 3rd period as it wraps up a 7-1 win over HC Vitkovice Steel in its Spengler Cup opener.
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@BrentButt: Feeling very Canadian…Watching World Jrs, eating cold turkey sandwich, drinking maple syrup, wearing a William Shatner mask
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my brother has a Holy Shat tshirt.
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theshaves Jason shaver
Eddie Lack has started 4 straight going 3-1-0 allowing just 8 goals w/ a 94.1 sv%. Peo Ben Bishop 3-1-0 in his last 4 6GA 95.7 sv% #stingy
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Mark Mancari has the 3rd longest active point streak in AHL 7 games 8G 5A 13pts. Peo Hensick 2-4-6 & Nesbitt 2-3-5 have pts in 4 straight
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Gibson with a huge glove save
Canada going back on the power play. Gotta give Finland credit, they are not backing down one bit.
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just got home and turned the
game on and they scored :)
have I missed anything exciting?
Go Canucks Go!
it's a lot closer
than the score would suggest.
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Huberdeau
having himself a whale of a game so far, 1 goal 2 assists and looking dangerous everytime he’s on the ice
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Smith-Pelley
to the dressing room, not good. that would be a big loss for team canada
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This game so far is like exposure therapy
for anyone previously traumatized by Chelsea Dagger. :)
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by Pseuccubus on Dec 26, 2011 1:47 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
felixpotvin Chemmy
Apparently seven shifts against a country no one’s heard of makes Mark Stone a draft steal.
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beautiful shot from Hamilton
on a great screen by Scheifele… 5-1 Canada
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puckworlds Bruce Peter
Remember folks, this was supposed to be the close game of the 4 today at the WJCs. #2012WJC
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I've been watching the entire game
and just thought of going on NM. Quel fail.
"It doesn't matter where they put us. Everybody hates us."
—Henrik Sedin on re-alignment
sheesh
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it’s Boxing Day, and the Canucks game doesn’t start until 7:00.
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Shots 26-15
Finn Goalie’s reaction:
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by raincity on Dec 26, 2011 1:58 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I assume they are speaking of Team Canada
only when they say these are the first brothers to play on the same world junior team at the same time…
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bah
you don’t think they’d do the same to us given the opportunity? remember the way the americans and russians laughed after beating us? pft. no mercy.
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I am totally comfortable having our team play as hard as we can against them AND feeling bad for how awful it must feel for the other team. :)
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Where are the YT goals?
I WANT YOUTUBE GOALZ
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Ray Ferraro
has suuuuuuch a Canadian accent.
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MarkLee93 Mark Lee
Watch your mouth, bub. RT @KentBaskyNM: Nice to see they learned how to count to 3 properly at Rexall #RNH #FakeHattricksForEveryone
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by Kent Basky on Dec 26, 2011 2:33 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
that's one of my favorite
fake twitter accounts
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yup
the real Mark Lee is not on twitter
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BTW
WTFhecalledyou"bub"
"It doesn't matter where they put us. Everybody hates us."
—Henrik Sedin on re-alignment
bahabahahahaha
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BruceMcCurdy Bruce McCurdy
Nathan Beaulieu blatantly crosschecks a Finn 20 feet from puck & two feet in front of referee. Some fans boo the call.
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or boo the player? How does McCurdy know?
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although maybe a stretch to think we would boo our own players (in a winning effort anyways)
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plus
they’re in Edmonton. :)
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This explains alot
FinHockey Ilari Hakasuo
@
@FarhanLaljiTSN @calum_dean Finns’ backup Aittokallio hurt himself in the warm-ups.
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tsnjamesduthie james duthie
Only negative in a near-perfect Cdn debut: Smith-Pelly left the building on crutches.
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AOsadchenko Andrey Osadchenko
Nice screening by Arturs Salija led to a goal. It’s a 1-1 hockey game here in Calgary
puckworlds Bruce Peter
Well, that tie game lasted about 12 seconds. Friberg has two for Sweden.
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football interlude
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and Gordon MacIntyre from the Vancouver Sun said this was in the Oilers’ dressing room. Random!
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maybe Hordichuk did it.
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So, apparently Weber got rocked by Fistric
At the end of the Dallas-Nashville game with what looked like a headshot. He might be out.
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Fistric is the guy that hammered Niederreiter too.
by Passive Voice on Dec 26, 2011 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
1-0 Minnesota after 1 period
Stupid Divealanche be more better…
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SabresDotCom Buffalo Sabres
GOAL. 2-0 #Sabres. Off the face off, Ellis puts a backhand past Neuvirth. 16:50 to play
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@joshuacooper: Also, if Shea Weber is out tonight, the #preds won’t have a defenseman listed over 198 pounds…
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mnwild Minnesota Wild
Ryan O’Reilly evens it up for Avalanche, nice back-door pass for PPG from Duchesne. 1-1, 9:26 left 2nd
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worst possible news I think...
TSNBobMcKenzie Bob McKenzie
Nothing official just yet but I’m hearing Devante Smith-Pelly’s X-rays showed a fracture and he’s likely out of #2012WJC. Stay tuned.
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Avalanche Colorado Avalanche
The Wild capitalizes on a defensive zone turnover to take the lead, 2-1, with eight minutes remaining in the second period.
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boooooo
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ehrhoff scored
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Girardi knee on knee with Tavares
and not an ounce of the kind of outrage that we saw after Kesler did the same (and didn’t even connect on the knee). The hypocrisy of hockey fans on twitter is so predictable…
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obviously
It’s because Girardi isn’t dirty
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by Semi_Colon on Dec 26, 2011 4:38 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
obviously
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wow
Washington sucks… 4-0 now
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Avalanche Colorado Avalanche
#AVS GOAL: Gabriel Landeskog stripped the puck from down low and ties the game, 2-2!
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ugh
TheViewfrom111 Mark Willoughby
Darren Helm has a massive collision with a team mate in pre-skate. Shaken up and leaves the ice spitting copious amounts of blood
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8-3 Sweden…..Latvia is asking for the towel.
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Sweden 9 Latvia 4
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any website that has
episode 2 24/7? I live outside N. America.
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http://www.mixturecloud.com/video=3KGUlm
Not sure how reliable this is, but I found that through google
TSNBobMcKenzie Bob McKenzie
I’m told it’s likely Smith-Pelly is out of #2012WJC due to fracture but there’s outside chance he may try to skate at some point during WJC
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That sucks
He was the guy I was most excited to watch.
by Canuckelhead on Dec 26, 2011 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
Chicago_Wolves Chicago Wolves
GOAL! Bill Sweat grabs the 1-0 lead for the #chicagowolves with his 7th of the season. 16:02 left in the 1st.
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good news bad news
mnwild Minnesota Wild
Jan Hejda puts Avs up on #mnwild 3-2, with 9:40 left in 3rd
bad news, Team USA scores 24 seconds in… 1-0 over Denmark
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Well that’s to be expected.. Denmark is probably the youngest and most inexperienced squad in the tournament. I hope Jensen pots a few though.
puckworlds Bruce Peter
Just like Latvia, Denmark ties it up early. Bau tips in a Jensen point shot on the PP.
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Jensen with more points!
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by Semi_Colon on Dec 26, 2011 5:28 PM PST via iPhone app reply actions
Woo
we gain 1st in the division with a win tonight. I bet the boys don’t let the opportunity pass them up again
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Jensen looking as good as he can
in a game this lopsided :)
every time I see denmark doing anything in this game it is Jensen or he is involved it seems :)
Go Canucks Go!
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