OT: IIHF World Championship
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Unfriendly Ghost
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Don't like that Team USA didn't wait. Howard might have turned it down, but Abdelkader and DeKeyser would have looked good on that roster.
Pavels Dog
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Yeah and hopefully Tatar, Jurco, Franzen, Sheahan, Lashoff, Kindl, Dekeyser, Quincey, Legwand, Alfredsson, Glendening, Miller, Abdelkader and Babcock can redeem themselves too.
Seriously though I hope Nyquist goes. Sweden needs the help and he'd get a big role on that team. Go get another medal Gus.
kuick
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Will be a good experience for all the kids going.
But I'm glad the vets are choosing to sit out. Nothing to prove by going. Rest up for next year.
But I'm glad the vets are choosing to sit out. Nothing to prove by going. Rest up for next year.
Unfriendly Ghost
Kasper
Wonder why Howard would sit out. Maybe there's some traction to the concussion thing? He'd probably get to play if he went.
mindfly
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Young kid at home, new fat contract.. Vacation sounds better than 3 weeks in Belarus right.
True but the worlds are a big deal over here and they don't have that many more opportunities. Look at players like Sundin or Forsberg (icons, no one can say anything bad about them without an outrage) who always turned up and they sure as hell didnt mind getting celebrated by a 100 000 fans in Stockholm when they brought the gold home. One year the commercial tv network who owned the rights for the WHC actually rented a jet to fly Forsberg over, and he came, and he won and he loved it just as we all did. Its all a matter of priorities, guess Swedish hockey players are becoming less interested to carry their national colors. You are starting to wonder if they forgot where they came from, what made them celebrated NHL players.
Oh well, its their loss. A hockey career is short and if you want to be remembered as a great player you need to do it at home or you will end up as another statistic or even worse, a stingy guy without heart or sense of belonging.
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Shaman464
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For an American with a fat new contract and a kid at home Minsk is heaven. If you have dollars in your pocket Minsk is like the Wild West and Vegas combined. But if I were team USA I wouldn't want to use Howard.
jcbio11
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Jurco isn't going anywhere, they didn't let him. Shame, because he would have made the team for sure and international matches are better learning experience for him than AHL IMO.
Tatar could be reunited with his WJC first line teammates from team Slovakia's 4th place finish year. Tatar - Viedensky - Panik.
Tatar could be reunited with his WJC first line teammates from team Slovakia's 4th place finish year. Tatar - Viedensky - Panik.
The Zetterberg Era
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Depends on what happens with the Griffins, but if the Griffins repeat and he plays 20 minutes a night through the middle of June that is better for his development. Understand Slovaks being disappointed, but I think this is the right call for his career and development. He did get to play in the Olympics already, so it isn't like they are keeping him from international experience where the talent is loaded as much as possible. We will see in the second round, of course if the Griffins lose, he also would be available for the medal round assuming they get there, he can do like some of the bigger NHL players and fly right over after elimination if he wants to.
Completely disagree. I can understand how you, as a Slovakian, would prefer to see Jurco play for Slovakia, but me, as a Red Wings fan, would much rather him have a nice run with GR again. He will get top line minutes in GR, and he could be this years Tatar on the AHL playoffs. He's already off to a good start with a goal in his first game, despite the loss.
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If they're bad together, I feel less anger about the trade but I am sad that Nyquist would be performing badly. If they're good together, I enjoy that Nyquist is performing well but it brings up those old wounds about the Hook.
Great.
Unfriendly Ghost
Kasper
The Wings should trade for Trouba. He fits pretty well with DeKeyser.
Not that Winnipeg would ever do it, of course.
Not that Winnipeg would ever do it, of course.
The Wings should trade for Trouba. He fits pretty well with DeKeyser.
Not that Winnipeg would ever do it, of course.
I'm really starting to think Buff is gone. They're placing him at forward next season and he's said he's absolutely against that. On defense you have Buff, Enstrom, Bogosian, Trouba, and Stuart. Someone needs to go.
Tournament started today, right?
EDIT: It did.
Canada lost to France in a shootout...
DeKeyser was 0+1 today, and Abdelkader was 0+0. (USA won 5-0)
Tatar was 0+1 (Slovakia won 2-1)
Russia is probably the team to be right now. They're deep. Bobrovsky in net, with a roster having Ovechkin.
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Abdelkader with average hands is a 45 point player this year. I can't think of many players on the team with worse hands. Drew Miller, Luke Glendening, and incredibly, of the regulars, that might be it.
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