Spengler Cup : Canada vs. Magnitogorsk

[wilka91*]

No kidding. Between last night's WJ and tonight's game, it's turned into a pretty ****** weekend for Russia. All that's left now is the drinking, night all.

No actually it's not the "weekend" that was ******, but the "last 10 years"

 

[willie]

So are Thornton & Nash going to play for HC Davos against Canada? If so, that should make for an interesting game.

 

[Sykie]

They will.

Martin St-Louis too. He will play for Davos for this tournament.

 

[willie]

They will.

Martin St-Louis too. He will play for Davos for this tournament.

Wow. I have to think those three run amok over this Canadian team.

Why is St.Louis playing for Davos though? I thought he was on Lausanne. Is the team they send to the Spengler just an all star team from the Swiss league?

 

[stv11]

Wow. I have to think those three run amok over this Canadian team.

Why is St.Louis playing for Davos though? I thought he was on Lausanne. Is the team they send to the Spengler just an all star team from the Swiss league?

Davos traditionnaly rent four or five players from other teams for the tournament. This year, Martin St-Louis from Lausanne, as well as Oleg Petrov, Brett Hauer and Barry Richter from Zug are playing for Davos. The other teams also use some swiss league players to fill the roster spots of players involved in WJC (notably David Aebischer, who will play for Sparta Prag).

Concerning team Canada, there's no restriction on the players they can use, they simply decided not to use any NHL player.

 

[BAuldie]

I have a question about Team Canada...obviously they aren't a real club team like the other teams, but are there restrictions to which players they can name to the team? For instance what was stopping them this year from say, putting Martin Brodeur in net or Ryan Smyth up front?

They were saying during the broadcast that they decided against doing that because this is very possibly what the team would roughly look like going into the Olympics next year, so they wanted to keep them together.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

^Exactly. The Hockey Canada staff were considering using locked out NHLers, but given the uncertainty of the NHL being at the next Olympics, they put these guys together because it's a pheasible non-NHL Olympic Hockey Lineup. And they handled themselves very well against a team that had Nabokov, Sykora and Gonchar boasted on its roster.

Big test for this version of Team Canada will be the game against Davos tomorrow. Nash, Thornton, St. Louis...all huge offensive threats. And while Canada's defense and PK were very solid today against Magnitogorsk, they'll need to step up considerably to take Davos.

Alex Auld rules for Canada in net.

~Canucklehead~

 

[SwisshockeyAcademy]

Very pleased to see McTavish playing, the last time i saw him live he was playing for St.F.X , which were not the glory days of the program. He has been a good player in Europe for a long time.

 

[Russian_fanatic]

^Exactly. The Hockey Canada staff were considering using locked out NHLers, but given the uncertainty of the NHL being at the next Olympics, they put these guys together because it's a pheasible non-NHL Olympic Hockey Lineup. And they handled themselves very well against a team that had Nabokov, Sykora and Gonchar boasted on its roster.

Big test for this version of Team Canada will be the game against Davos tomorrow. Nash, Thornton, St. Louis...all huge offensive threats. And while Canada's defense and PK were very solid today against Magnitogorsk, they'll need to step up considerably to take Davos.

Alex Auld rules for Canada in net.

~Canucklehead~

Lets hope Auld steps up

 

[cassius]

I bet they are missin' Malkin

 

[Vman]

Is Auld playing in net vs Davos?

 

[aforc3]

Is Auld playing in net vs Davos?

here in the local newspaper of Switzerland says

that today Corey Hirsch is playing vs Davos

 

[Strizzi]

They were saying during the broadcast that they decided against doing that because this is very possibly what the team would roughly look like going into the Olympics next year, so they wanted to keep them together.

I guess that there's also another reason: These guys playing for Team Canada are mostly guys who are fighting for their jobs now with the influx of lockout players in Europe, so they need this tournament to advertise themselves.