Art Vandelay
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You may not agree with them but they are certainly funny.
http://live82.ihwc.net/english/article/ranking/
http://live82.ihwc.net/english/article/ranking/
You may not agree with them but they are certainly funny.
http://live82.ihwc.net/english/article/ranking/
those are the power rankings from last year after the tournament ended.
Sweden won, czech silver, finland bronze, canada 4th,
they will be updated soon after Canada plays!
The ranking is based on results, not which players are on the teams.
Sweden is reigning world and olympic champion, so they are of course ranked as number one.
Until next week or so.
You may not agree with them but they are certainly funny.
http://live82.ihwc.net/english/article/ranking/
Every year it's fun to read. Like this one - Oilers Goalie + International Hockey = Shoot From Center Ice
Simply priceless.
Hey, you can't stop Jamal Mayers--you can only hope to contain him
Kind of ironic coming from a Swede. Salo didn't deserve all the scorn heaped upon him by the Swedish press.
Those were great.#3 Czech Republic
Hotter than Petra Nemcova (do your own Googling)
#8 Canada
Well, it's because Canadians don't believe in running up the score, eh?
lol canada is ranked 8th, 18 people turned Yzerman down to join the team...not the best team you'll see
lol canada is ranked 8th, 18 people turned Yzerman down to join the team...not the best team you'll see
Same excuses every year, eh? It's not like the other top countries have their best players either.
Canada has more players turn down invitations than any other team. (perhaps USA)
I'd say the smaller hockey-power a country is, the more being without your top-guys hurts.
Germany, for example, is without their top-4 defensemen (actually, more like top-6), top-6 forwards and top-3 goalies.
If you just take a look at the defense, it's like Anaheim playing without Pronger, Niedermayer and Beauchemin. The top defensemen are far superior to anyone else, especially on offense.
The big countries have the talent and the depth to replace pretty much everyone, the smaller ones are screwed if their best players are missing, because they have neither the talent nor the depth to make up for it.
Well, they may have depth, but it is at a low level.
If you just take a look at the defense, it's like Anaheim playing without Pronger, Niedermayer and Beauchemin. The top defensemen are far superior to anyone else, especially on offense.
Pretty funny that you say that actually........because all 3 of those are guys that could be playing for team Canada..........which 3 for team germany are equivalent of Pronger Niedermayer Beauchemin again?
That's the big difference between the big and the small nations. Take away the top four defensemen from Canada and you still have a defensive-lineup full of NHL-stars, take away the top-four defensemen from Germany and you go from NHL-regulars plus the best German goalscorer in the DEL to guys who have a hard time getting special-teams icetime in the DEL.
Countries who have less stars are hurt the most if those stars aren't there. So even if a country like Canada is missing players who are better then the players a country like Germany is missing, those players are far more important to Germany than the others are for Canada, as Canada's replacement players are of a much higher caliber than Germany's are. Especially in comparison to the players they replace.