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Jagr's already a little banged up. Welcome back? Chara is scary looking.

Hossa has an A on his jersey. Nice. That and good set up for the Gaborik goal. Glad he's playing. Glad they're both playing actually.

Is Jagr still "dying alive"? Oh, and Havsplat got an assist.

Tomorrow's, or today's rather, game against the USA should (hopefully) be pretty interesting. I'll be sure to watch Filppula with some extra attention the way some others here do.

Chara, man, you can't just lay there. You gotta get up right away.

Assist from former Wings prospect Blatak!!!

Elias scores. 1-0 CZE

That pic is more strange looking than Z flipping off the camera.

Wow. Hope he doesn't get injured again.

I don't like the sound of that actually. I perceive that as Team Sweden taking a game lightly and for granted. But that's just me and I'm wrong a lot. So did I but like Dat's Sick said earlier, I'm hoping that's the line that Franzen will work his way onto for a more permanent spot. But I like how they said Franzen won't stay there. What do you and anyone else in Sweden think of Hornqvist? It was only one game and we really shouldn't judge too much from it but I couldn't help think that he'll eventually fall into the bottom six and that I'd rather have Sammy (yes, Sammy) in that kind of role instead of him. A line of Modin-Pahlsson-Samuelsson could do a nice job against anyone else's bottom six.

Uhh... Maybe. Or Yevgeniy Pupkov. Best player in the world... at having an interesting sounding name. I don't even know if he's even playing this year. Or Sergei Kolosov. The Russians would own with him on the back end. That's right. No but maybe countries like Latvia and Belarus would produce better players if they had the kind of access and training that the Russian do. Who knows?

If the Soviet Union didn't split up then... I'm not sure if Team Russia would be any better actually.

Any updates from the Swedish press on the team and how they felt about the first game? Translated in English of course.

Yeah anybody know why he isn't on the team? He's at a PPG in the KHL.

She said it first.

Bahahaha. Is that perhaps the greatest Epic Fail of any opponent in Red Wings history?

Oh, if only. Love for that to happen. Can't believe I'm actually liking JR a little bit. You probably used to dislike him a little bit too with your Dad being a Hawks fan right?

Is it me or could you cut the tension with a knife between JR and Milbury?

God Milbury...... Shut.. up.. I hate the sound of his voice. Him and Pierre are just the worst.

Haha, yeah, as someone earlier put it: Go Detrouver Red Canuckings. Or something along those lines.

Good win for Sweden but I can't help feel disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ39aoCqUzE

Hmm... I don't know about that penalty.

Great defense by Alfredsson there.

I'm not feeling good about any of those candidates that could be Sweden's #6 defenseman.