Worlds Championship: Canada vs Belarus

504Heater wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:Do people actually put any stock in the fact we beat Belarus? Who cares, an all-star team of OHLers could prob beat them.

When the play someone else not worthy, we'll see how good Team Canada is.

Didn't they come within mere minutes of winning the Gold last year? And it was neither Spezza nor Heatley's fault that they didn't.

So...technically, Spezza is a Silver Medal Winner. Yippie, but still...

Neely4Life wrote:
I absolutly hate this tournament. The only year it had any real merit outside of Europe was the lockout year. This is a tourny full of current losers.

504Heater wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:
I absolutly hate this tournament. The only year it had any real merit outside of Europe was the lockout year. This is a tourny full of current losers.

Meh. Just don't watch or comment on it then.

I think it's great that they're there voluntarily for their country and doing really well.

shabbs wrote:tsn.ca should be streaming them. Are they not?

Mojo wrote:I tried streaming this game yesterday but could only find poor quality feeds; one in Danish, the other in some other language I don't understand. Did anyone find any English streams that I could use for the next game? I couldn't even find any websites that showed the live score or a box score afterward. Also, could somebody post the lines for this game? Thanks!

Neely4Life wrote:Point being, it doesnt even matter what these two do in this tournament short if being shoved down the depth chart.

If Heatley is the tourny MVP again, who cares, same with Spezza or Fisher, who cares. Its a tournament with extremely weak opponites and players who failed to either make it to the playoffs or got knocked out early.

There might be 2 or 3 guys from this team that are on the olympic team. Sure it would be nice if Canada won (I dont even think they will make it to the finals) but this tournament is more of a testiment to a Senators team that underachived and only played hard when they wanted to.

Its sickening that the Sens have the most players in this tournament of any NHL team. Pisses me off more than anything.

wprager wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:Point being, it doesnt even matter what these two do in this tournament short if being shoved down the depth chart.

If Heatley is the tourny MVP again, who cares, same with Spezza or Fisher, who cares. Its a tournament with extremely weak opponites and players who failed to either make it to the playoffs or got knocked out early.

There might be 2 or 3 guys from this team that are on the olympic team. Sure it would be nice if Canada won (I dont even think they will make it to the finals) but this tournament is more of a testiment to a Senators team that underachived and only played hard when they wanted to.

Its sickening that the Sens have the most players in this tournament of any NHL team. Pisses me off more than anything.

No, it's not "players who failed to make it" it's players from teams that failed to make it. Are you going to say to me that Higgins is a better player than Lecavalier because the Habs made it and the Bolts didn't?

2 or 3 from this team on the Olympic team, are you serious?

The Guy With The Mustache wrote:Weber, Phillips, Doan, Heatley, St. Louis, and Spezza all have a real chance of making it.

and don't forget about Ian White

davetherave wrote:Anyone see this hit by Scott Upshall on the Hungarian player Benk?

Upshall received a match penalty and a one game suspension.

One wonders why he wasn't simply suspended from the tournament.

This is supposed to be a friendly international competition, representing one's nation for pride and demonstrating sportsmanship.

Upshall seems to think he's still in Philly.

Cronie wrote:I'm on the fence as to how to think about it.

I mean, that is (as some would argue) how North Americans play this sport of ours; having said that, did he absolutely HAVE to treat this Hungarian player the same as he would an NHL brother? Maybe, maybe not. Whether this fella had his head down or not, I'm personally torn on whether he could have let up a little bit, while at the same time admiring the huge hit.