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what a shot by that guy.

haha i think thag announcer is right, the latvia goal pissed them off.

some of the russians are kind of puck-hoggish. I guess they need a little time to get used to their teammates.

wondering the same thing right now. I turned on cnbchd all excited to watch the game only to be welcomed by china and finland's women's teams.

Pavs will be centering ovie and semin. wow, what a line.

great scenario for the wings and for sweden.

I'm no patriot and don't like alot of americsn players, so I'm american going for sweden and/or russia....actually ordered a sweden zetterberg jersey.

they are good. most the guys get to rest, which is great for guys like stuart who have racked up the minutes with all the injuries and if Mule gets to end up playing, it will only bring him back even closer to full game shape, though to me, he hasn't looked far from it already.

kronwall.

yah same thing I noticed tonight, kronner makes a huge difference.

this is great, center ice is showing the game in HD today. Hahah bert's kid is a little punk, that's awesome.

damn, I would love to see a whole game of them playing like that because when they get in that desperation mode, it is ridiculous how dominant they are.

good period overall. The last play there was brutal by big e. The first goal, you can't really do much about though wiht the way joe got behind howard like that. Mule looks great again.

for the most part, pittsburgh already has their fans so crosby isn't gonna change anything. not only in the city of pittsburgh but in the east coast. When Gretz came to Los Angeles, it was a big deal because he kind of changed the market for west coast hockey and all of the sudden all these little california kids wanted to play hockey. Nothing is really gonna have an impact like that at this point, nothing can make that big of a change for the NHL. They've been on a downward fall for a while, the Winter Classic was a cool idea but even that is gonna get stale now.

not for one season of this bulls***. If we miss the playoffs are make it and get knocked out early, then the same type of s*** happens next season, yeah, then he's in trouble.

coaches don't fire assistant coaches.

well I saw pavs playing with miller and maltby, so maybe they are just running three centers with 4 sets of wingers.

howie had the post covered too, it trickled over the top of his pad though. Bad turnover by stuart though.

haha what, he tries to pass it in front to cleary, it hits a skate and goes in and all of the sudden he's a great finisher? hahaha

eeeel seguuundoooo...toyoootaa centerrr hahaha that was great.

or franzen will turn 3 defensemen inside out and set up flip beautifully at the side of an open net and he'll shoot it wide.

Ya' know...I love Hoaward and he plays great pretty much every night but god damn is his rebound control attrocious. If we end up in the playoffs, that will cause some serious trouble.

I work at 1 on friday, I'll see if I can get it covered or switched so hopefully I can make it.

Notice how I said if things stay how they are...as in if Howard keeps playing good, I don't believe they will yank him just for ozzy's experience. and technically, yes, it is january...for one more day. Then the olympics start in 2 weeks and then the NHL resumes in march which means there will only be a little over a month of hockey left. So playoffs are not as far away as you are hoping to make it look like.