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Bosc Ulrich II
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Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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I saw the last 10 minutes of the third and thought for sure Canada was going to lose in OT. I've seen peewees hold the blue line better than this team has in the tournament.
Oh well, lucky for us the Swedes let us walk out in front of the net and stand there enough in OT. 4 in a row, good stuff as always, boys 
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Jyrki21
Rebel Sell + Moneyball = Life
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1594
Location: Ottawa, ON
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This article is an excellent summary of why I don't particularly care about the WJCs (or, for that matter, Olympics). He ends up taking a lot of shots at Pierre McGuire, who I actually do like, but just as a symptom more than a cause of the problem:
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Columnists/Buffery/2008/01/09/4760359-sun.html
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Soured on entire world junior experience
Biased announcers such as Pierre McGuire and too many victories for Canada
And so it is with some trepidation and shame that I stand here today and confess that I was hoping that Canada would have lost that gold medal game at the world junior hockey championship last weekend.
Hate me if you will (and some, believe it or not, do), but it just feels wrong that we should win the damn thing every year. It's four in a row and, with next year's event in Canada, will likely be five.
The thing is, there's no way Canada should be winning five world championships in a row in anything, other than barrel jumping.
To me, winning all these titles means that the rest of the world really doesn't care about our game ... and that's kind of sad.
We're always bragging about how great we are in hockey. But it's like the Thais bragging about how they rule in elephant polo. (There really is a World Elephant Polo Association, and we're ranked lower in elephant polo than we are in soccer ... believe it or not). |
Could not agree more.
And then the shots at McGuire, which I only highlight because they're funny:
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Pierre gets all gushy-like when he's talking about hockey people, especially Canadian hockey people. Everyone in hockey is a "quality individual." Every Team Canada skater is "a special player." Every Canadian coach is doing an "unbelievable" job behind the bench.
When members of Team Canada were lining up to receive their gold medals (yawn), Pierre started going on about how this one Team Canada trainer was an "underrated guy" because he sharpens skates and makes coffee -- all the stuff that Mother Teresa did when she was living in Calcutta. Underrated? I didn't know there was a rating system for trainers. I demand to know why the Canadian trainer scored so low. |
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saskhab
'03-'04 Goalie Profiles Coming Soon!
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
Posts: 2963
Location: Saskatoon!
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Yeah, the WJC appealed to me a lot for just a couple of years. I think it was more a case of it just becoming new to me since for most of my life I didn't have TSN.
Who wins is really insignificant now. I'll watch it for high quality hockey, and to watch certain players I don't see much of, but I didn't let out any cheers when Matt Halischuk scored. And to be honest, I smiled a bit when Sweden tied it up in the final minute. I'm more glad that Sweden has some good young players coming along again, because it was good for the hockey world the last time they had good young players coming up.
I'm probably the only person that digs the World Cup/Canada Cup format the best of all international tourneys, though. The only problem with that one is that there are no qualifications for making the tourney, it's just a selection process based largely on which nations have the most NHLers.
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