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"Biggest game of the year".

Filppula.

Who cares about the real world? Real world is overatted, a joke. Internet is where it all happens nowadays.

Filppula has Selke potential and he will easily be better than Hossa in couple of years.

Even if you would score 40+ goals you could still be accused of murdering and even if you would win that Selke you would still be just another Soft Euro™.

Or is it?!

Just because there isn't a rule about hitting to the head doesn't mean that HEADHUNTING is legal.

People get older.

Too bad it doesn't work the other way around then. : D

Great man, great player! : D

I'd like to point out one thing, even though this is an old thread. And I'm not saying Babcock is bad. I'm a strong supporter of him. BUT. I see no discussion about Todd McLellan. Why is that? I personally think that he was more responsible of that successful game style than we would think. I'm not saying McLellan is better coach than Babcock. But I do think we lost a lot when he left.

Andersson "works under" Kenny, so basically he gets the credit as he should. Kenny is responsible for making the final decisions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw3e64sosEg

If you keep your stronger hand as the bottom hand I believe you get a better shot, but I think most players have stronger hand as the top hand.

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He says that he made the final decision when the tournament went further. There's couple reasons IMO. Jokinen isn't a leader and he doesn't like to play with younger players. Many older players are retiring so he wanted too. Also, he's role was not so big in this tournament as we already have good centers. He may have some issues with Jalonen who will be the coach for 3 years. I know he's not gonna play in World Championships, but he's certainly not too old to play in 2014 olympics so it's kinda weird.

We've seen many crappy NHL coaches who've been OK players but don't know nothing about coaching. Guys who can only yell at their players, but don't really understand the game. That's my stereotypical image of NA coach. Do the NHL teams need to use only NA coaches? I know BAG, Bykov and Jalonen made some mistakes in this tournament but they're still better than many NA coaches. I don't wanna see any more dougsheddens here in Finland.

Only that he isn't a playoff choker. He's just never been in good enough teams to get there.

BAG just wanted to screw it up. Just to annoy everyone. He's a good coach.

And that's about it then.

Helm-Datsyuk-Helm Zetterberg-Rafalski-Maltby Franzen-Helm-Filppula Datsyuk-Abdelkdader-Lidstrom Stuart-Lilja Helm-Ericsson Kronwall-Lebda Osgood Helm

My preview: USA 0 - 6 Finland & Canada 0 - 6 Slovakia.

Which means that things aren't going well for us.

As said before, Finland has been a tough opponent for USA in recent years.