Canada-Russia series - anyone watching?

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Canada-Russia series - anyone watching?

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Just wondering what the interest is in the upcoming Canada Russia Junior series.

Hockey in August? Why not?

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It makes for a long season for these kids - not sure how helpful that will be. For those that might be familiar with the Junior players - how do you think they'll fare?
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It will be decent hockey but of course won't carry any of the weight it did in 1972.

In that series hockey was almost a side issue ... it was one world or culture against another ... both completely unknown to each other.

What do they say ... "priceless" ... something you just can't re-create ...

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Post by Madcombinepilot »

woot!!!! GAME 5 (6?) IN SASKATOON ON WEDNESDAY THE 5TH!!!!!

I know this is not as exciting for some of you all, but hey, we don't gett his quality of hockey very often...
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The hockey was quite good actually.

Ilya Kablukov (Canucks draftee) opened the scoring on a weak goal.

Edmonton has an offensive dynamo on their hands with Sam Gagner.

Kyle Turris played both ends of the ice well and did warrant his number three overall pick.

Alexei Cherepanov was knocked off his game and didn't get too many scoring chances.

Canada was shaky and nervous in the beginning but really settled down, especially Steve Mason.

Jonathan Bernier is expected to start the next game.

Prediction: 6-2 Canada.
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Damn straight!

Hockey - anytime. Good hockey - worth getting out of bed for. Canada/Russia - worth being drunk before you go to work for.
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Post by Bartman »

Competative hockey in August! Who's going to complain about that. Hell yah I'm watching!
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Bartman wrote:Competative hockey in August! Who's going to complain about that. Hell yah I'm watching!
After 4 games, I'm not too certain of the "competitive" thing. Too bad really.
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you goin' MCP? I'm hopin' to be there too. I hear ya with the quality hockey thing, and as a matter of principle I'm boycotting the Flames preseason game.
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Even though the Canadian boys are kicking the snot out of the Russians, I'm still watching, This series really shows what coaching does for a team, Russians have no coaching.
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stevethiessen wrote:you goin' MCP? I'm hopin' to be there too. I hear ya with the quality hockey thing, and as a matter of principle I'm boycotting the Flames preseason game.
As a matter of principles (and I have very few) I boycott everything to do with Flamers - unless it's their sorry asses get kicked.
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Jovorock wrote:Even though the Canadian boys are kicking the snot out of the Russians, I'm still watching, This series really shows what coaching does for a team, Russians have no coaching.
You really think coaching is making all the difference? Way I see it, it's that the Russkies have no heart, no grit. When the canadians stop them from going to the net, they give up. When the canucks push them off the puck, they give up. When we crash the net, they give up. See the pattern?

Now granted I didn't watch game 6 or 7, but did I need to?
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SRsez wrote:You really think coaching is making all the difference? Way I see it, it's that the Russkies have no heart, no grit.
I didn't see game 7, but the Russians did play better in game 6 & 7. It was heart and coaching that doomed the Russian team for sure.
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Jovorock wrote:It was heart and coaching that doomed the Russian team for sure.
Both of those are needed for one to affect (effect?) the other. And vice-versa.

A prime example was 2 seasons ago: Squeaky couldn't coach a heartless captain.
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