On August 27 2013 05:14 QuanticHawk wrote: Outside of their goalie situation, why would you think that?? They're stacked elsewhere, as usual. That defense is insane.
Goalie controversy isn't really new either, but this is the first time the goalie controversy was over kinda meh goalies. Lu and Price should be the 1 and 2, but that's more because they're the best out of a weak group than being that good themselves the past year or so.
It's just a hunch. I don't have a good feeling about it and it goes beyond the goalie situation and ice surface. It's going to be a struggle to repeat the Vancouver Games. I was really worried about the USA team back then when Miller was playing like a monster for several months. The States have improved at every position. That's just one example. There are a number of countries to be concerned about and I just hope we'll be able to score a lot of goals.
Canada will put together another team full of slow saw-him-good veterans and push that "good ol' Canadian style" of just rubbing everything into the boards and whacking ankles only to realize that all of those things lead to failure on large ice. Just like they do every other time that the games aren't played on NHL rinks.
Oh, and I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread:
On August 27 2013 02:16 Flaccid wrote: Haven't been watching much TSN this summer and only now learned that Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole have moved to Fox. Maybe now I can start to take Bobrovsky seriously.
Ha ha ha, I love those guys. It sort of sucks that they're with Fox now. ;/ Toronto Star's Damien Cox touched on all my points with regards to Canada. Talk about timing. His worries are the same as mine.
On August 27 2013 05:14 QuanticHawk wrote: Outside of their goalie situation, why would you think that?? They're stacked elsewhere, as usual. That defense is insane.
Goalie controversy isn't really new either, but this is the first time the goalie controversy was over kinda meh goalies. Lu and Price should be the 1 and 2, but that's more because they're the best out of a weak group than being that good themselves the past year or so.
It's just a hunch. I don't have a good feeling about it and it goes beyond the goalie situation and ice surface. It's going to be a struggle to repeat the Vancouver Games. I was really worried about the USA team back then when Miller was playing like a monster for several months. The States have improved at every position. That's just one example. There are a number of countries to be concerned about and I just hope we'll be able to score a lot of goals.
the only country that is clearly better today than in 2010 is the US. Sweden is the same, solid and with Lundquist in net anything is possible but not any better. Slovakia has aged. Finland has aged. Russia is just a joke, as politics and corruption seep into every aspect of sport they are once again going to try to shove KHL trash into the Olympic team and it will be the same miserable results. The Czechs best goalie is the dude on the Jets and Chara is now 36 years old. It will be between America and Canada, unless Lou or Price have one of their patented meltdowns.
Chara is great. Thinking of him makes me sad that Pronger will likely never play another NHL game. Dude was amazing and it's awful to see someone of his talent have his career cut short. I'm grateful I got to watch him up close for at least one season. Edmonton had some defensemen who are now in the Hall of Fame but it's easy to argue that Pronger's 05-06 season is the best we've ever seen from an Oiler.
Taylor Hall is coming off a remarkable season, even by Canadian Olympic team standards. No Canadian player in the lower-scoring Western Conference put up more points than Hall; in terms of even-strength scoring per hour only Jonathan Toews (3.19 PTS/60) had a better rate than Hall (3.15 PTS/60) in the West. Hall finished eighth overall in Relative Corsi league-wide last season and was 20th overall the year before that. In his first three seasons in the league, he’s clear of every Canadian left wing other than 41 year-old Ray Whitney in terms of points-per-game, despite the fact that he’s just started his career and has played for a pretty awful team.
Hall is a special player. He’s Canada’s best scoring left wing at the age of 21 despite playing in the West and there’s a pretty decent case that no other Canadian left wing drives out-shooting the way he does when he’s on the ice. He took a leap forward last year and was the best left wing in the NHL, despite Chris Kunitz's nod as first-team All-Star.
Man, I think any of the media talking heads implying that Kunitz needs to be there (and on the first line no-less) because of his "chemistry with Crosby" is an insult to the best player on the planet. A sack of potatoes would have chemistry with Crosby and score 30 goals.
I would much rather see Nash with Crosby, or maybe Tavares. Not proven chemistry, but they're all sick players by themselves already, I can't imagine what it'd do to their game if they played alongside Crosby. Crosby-Stamkos-St.Louis would be hilarious even though it would make no sense lol
It's funny. I was thinking in a positive way about how surely Canada has learned its lessons from Turin 2006 when "Gretzky and Friends, Canada edition" finished like 400th place in the tournament. Then I noticed that a good chunk of guys from that roster are again going to make this current team and got sad. Then I realized that one of those people isn't Kris Draper and got happy again.
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