RL09

Looks like it's going to be a massacre tonight

97BlackAckCL

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Typical Torts, coaching up his players to take cheapshots in freaking exhibition games... WTF dude?

Yumcha

FWIW, we kinda knew the style the US was going to play with who they picked. Backes, Kesler and etc. are all types who will make you remember at the corners...

I would not say the hits were cheap per se though. But, the US is definitely amped up and ready to go to war.

97BlackAckCL

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I dunno, the highlights I saw were pretty dirty, Kesler getting ejected for a boarding, and a number of other borderline hits...

Yumcha

That's...Kesler being Kesler. I mean, I dunno...I don't think Torts has a rep for goon-squading his teams? He's got his shenanigans with the press and all but I don't think he's that sort.

It was a definite street-fight...for an exhibition game, I don't think we've ever seen anything like it. Gotta give Toews credit for jumping Kesler though. If there was ever any doubt of how he's team-first, that was it. Glad he's a Blackhawk.

97BlackAckCL

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The Canada v Russia game was pretty boring last night. Glad I didn't drop $300 on tickets or I would have been pissed.

1-0 until late in the third, then they told the goalies to quit stopping pucks and it ended up tied 2-2 to give the fans OT

Definitely wasn't as thrilling as they billed it up to be

e30cabrio

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USA gypped. "illegal puck directed off body"?????

Van R "chested" it, it hit Stepan's helmet & went in.


I demand a recount!!!!!


lol


IS IT NHL hockeytyme yet????

e30cabrio

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This looks like a Ranger game.

Yumcha

Wow, never thought Team Europa would shutout the US.

e30cabrio

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It was a Torts era Rangers performance.

TacoBello

Nhl! Nhl! Nhl! Nhl! Nhl!

RL09

The Canadian roster is simply invincible, i.e:

Patrice Bergeron, Sidney Crosby, Ryan Getzlaf, Claude Giroux, Brad Marchand, Corey Perry; Tyler Seguin, Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Jonathan Toews, Joe Thornton.

Defensemen:

Jay Bouwmeester,Brent Burns, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Shea Weber.

Goaltenders:

Corey Crawford, Braden Holtby, Carey Price.


It feels like when the NBA dream team were allowed to play the Olympics.

TacoBello

And lost in the first round?

Yumcha

black label got his wish...Seguin looks to have a serious injury.

black label

Sort of, Segs plays for an actual NHL team with higher aspirations than a good draft pick next summer. It's really just Canadian teams whose players are supposed to get hurt, and maybe anyone whose off season training routine includes rape

RL09

Of course, I could use all sorts of degenerate bad words describing your intellect, right before asking you: what first round? it just started yesterday and the Czech republic first to be demolished.

But I won't.

black label

I thought Seguin only had a hairline fracture on his heel? I'm no doctor but I'd think all he'd miss is training camp. Guys come back from a broken leg in about 6-8 weeks (lower leg, not the femur).

Yumcha

Oh okay okay...sorry, I forgot...you were hoping for career-ending or season-ending injuries. Got it.


Sorry, disregard my stupid post (cuz, that's all I do, right?) about Seguin.

black label

Whoa there, slow your photosynthesis homey... I said no career ending injuries, just a couple months to a season. I'm not a monster, I'm just a

Yumcha

NA kids are great to watch.

Completely dismantling the greatest hockey team in the universe (including other universes like Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Star Trek, Trasnformers, and My Little Pony): Finlandia.

97BlackAckCL

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e30cabrio

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Not sure if it's team USA sucking or Canada being awesome.

At least Lundqvist is back & Sweeden is rocking.

Oh Sickest TL

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e30cabrio

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McD a Ranger D-man technically scored the only US goal.


lol

Yumcha

@ Team USA...

Well, most hockey observers had a right to question the Yanks' choice of players. I mean, Abdelkader, Backes, Jack Mudderfawking-Johnson, Dubinsky, and etc. are GOOD players...but, when you're showcasing the best talent and it's mostly speed speed speed and skill...going with sandpaper/grinder-types like those does not exactly help.

And oh, Finlandia just lost to the Swedes. They meant to do that.

e30cabrio

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Hank!!!!

97BlackAckCL

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Torts strikes again!

e30cabrio

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Wonder when he won't be able to skate on that cup run anymore.

97BlackAckCL

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He benched his Columbus players at the world cup, I can't imagine his players will be bought in much this coming year

Yumcha

Bringing in Torts to be the bench boss was always a weird gambit...The US players are thinking even if they lost, the blame would go to him anyways. So, all in all, was not going to pan out well, IMO.

I personally don't mind Torts as a coach. But, you had to think his past baggage would be a factor.


When the US built this squad and gave it this grinder mentality, they already were at a disadvantage against the hockey powerhouses. This is not the same team that lost to the Beavers in the Olympics and etc. They have to re-evaluate. Although, the kids in the NA squad from the US are very promising and hopefully they will be on the roster for the next international tourney for the Yanks. But, yeah...some of the choices for the WCH team are just terrible. How can the likes of Palmieri, Backes, et al come even close to the skill you see on the Beavers?

97BlackAckCL

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The issue wasn't Torts' coaching so much as it was his choice of players and roster IMHO

Yumcha

Yup. Agree. Only so much a grinder-type can do against player after player that can skate and dangle circles around them.

How can you hit someone you can't catch?

RL09

Phil Kessel delivers death blow Tweet after USA loss

By Jen Neale20 hours agoView photo

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ARLINGTON, VA – AUGUST 27: (EDITORS NOTE: This image has been retouched at the request of USA Hockey.) Phil Kessel poses after being named a candidate for the 2014 USA Hockey Olympic Team at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex on August 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)Just minutes after Team USA let out a big old, wet fart against Team Canada, an American hero took to social media to express his thoughts.

That man is Phil Kessel.

In the immortal words of Mortal Kombat: FINISH HIM.



BOOM! PHILBERT WITH THE WIN.

That is what the kids refer to nowadays as shade.

Kessel, as many have noted, was not included on the first round of Team USA hockey invites for the World Cup. He wasn’t on the second round either. He wasn’t an injury replacement. Finally he seemed to take himself out the running by having surgery on his hand after he hoisted the Stanley Cup over his head.

For whatever reason, the brass at USA Hockey (or maybe Dean Lombardi?) just didn’t want to include Phil in the World Cup of Hockey team from the get go.

Perhaps he lacked the grit and tenacity the team was looking for? Well, their plan went over real well. Now they look even more like a-holes for getting surreptitiously called out by one of the best American talents.

USA Hockey, you just got Phil-Kwan-Doh’ed.

Yumcha

Team USA does not respond well to Phil's Tweet: USA's Backes: Phil Kessel's tweet 'will be remembered' - Sportsnet.ca

Yumcha

Finlandia has not had a tournament to remember.

Yumcha

And Team Yanks not looking great tonight.


Who put together this awful squad? Oh right. The greatest hockey GM who is never wrong: Deano Lombardino.


He meant for this to happen. Really.

RL09

In anticipation tomorrow's game. This is the last time these two met; it used to be total war.

e30cabrio

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Watching Carl & Hank together again. How cool would it be for Carl to win the cup & World in the same year?

Yumcha

Toews' line was super-impressive in checking Ovie's line yesterday. Talk about a clinic in shutdown. Good game.

e30cabrio

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Is it wrong I am thinking it's better not having Hank play three more games?