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Like I said early on, they look like they're skating in glue.

You would put three of your team's five centers on one line? Why?

Finland creates a lot of chances with their speed that they don't have skill enough to finish. If there were a team in this tourney that was faster, and had better goal scorers, it would eat Canada up...oh wait...sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.

I can almost hear him now, "Alright Team Canada, we don't have as much firepower as we used to. We're gotta have to get heavier on the puck and grind out a win". edit: The Beatles reference was awesome though.

What do you mean "Saku's no biggie"? How is Selanne suppose to perform optimally without his little bubber there with him?

Well you know what they say, two Koivus don't make a right.

To be fair though, whether he could have stayed on his feet or not, it was still an interference.

Selanne agrees.

Jamie Benn looks like Rick Nash's cousin from the deep south.

Canada looks like they're skating in glue. This is the first game of their I've seen. Are they usually this slow or are they just tired for some reason?

Last night's the last time I puked, but I'm guessing we did so for different reasons. Chances are, the last time I puked and the last time Patrick Kane puked were for the exact same reason.

I was seriously just thinking the same thing. I'm having a lot of fun watching these games. And while I'll be crushed if the USA doesn't bring home the gold, the good thing is that I'll still not feel as terrible as I did at the end of the 2009 playoffs...so there's really no downside.

I was going to say that it's probably not a good idea to play with lines against a team that's been playing well, in a game that will determine your seed for the medal round. But then I realized I was talking about Mike Babcock. Line changing is the air he breathes.

Just read an article about this. Everyone is changing their lineups today because they've played so much over the last three days. Pretty much every team is using it's reserve forwards and backup goalie in this final round robin game.

Dude, you're barking up the wrong tree. Fact is, the Franzen hate around here makes no sense and never will. Somewhere along the line Franzen got a certain reputation and people ran with it. Now they spend all their time trying to justify this hate post hoc with a variety of silly reasons. Franzen's a floater (he isn't, you don't score as often as he does by not playing), Franzen's streaky (he isn't, or at least not more so than Zetterberg who typically has longer scoring droughts than Franzen), Franzen doesn't play defense (he does, in fact he's so responsible Babs has been using him on the PK), Franzen's contract will be horrible when he's 40 (maybe, but so will every other back diving contract like his. What makes him different?) Franzen's injury prone (he isn't, at least no more so than Dats and Zetterberg and far less so than Kronwall) Now, here's the funny part. People say all these things about Franzen, and then when he's playing and scoring and making a difference (which is nearly every game) you say "I thought Franzen was a bum" and they'll reply "Well he isn't a bum NOW, because he's trying". Soooooo stupid.

Well too bad for the Slavaks, but they played a heck of a game nonetheless.

I really want Tatar to have an Oshie moment, but I don't hold out too much hope for the Slovak goalie in this one.

Tatar has been better than Hossa in this tourney, I agree.

Good win for the USA. Two things. 1) Tighten up that defense, 2) Blake Wheeler stays in the lineup. Also, calling it...Tomas Tatar is the hero over Russia in overtime/shootout.

That looks like a mug shot.

You still don't move Helm. I do not feel comfortable moving forward with Dats, Weiss, Andersson, and Glendening as our centers. Any injury to the top two means you've got guys in way over their heads. And truth is, we need centers worse than defensemen. Hypothetically, if we made zero moves we'd be much better on defense three years from now and much worse at center. Moving a center for a top four d-man just fills one hole by creating another.

I'm starting to suspect that there's no love lost between the Eastern European teams and Russia. It's almost like they've got a history or something.

This picture rules so much. It would only be better if there were a wolf howling at the moon in the background. They wish it was basketball. At least then they'd be able to talk about it. Not talk about it intelligently, but talk about it nevertheless. I can almost hear it now, Steven A. Smith and Skip Bayless arguing up a blue streak about whether or not Jimmy Howard or Jan Mursak is the next Michael Jordan. Cutting edge sports journalism at it's finest eh boys?

What? Tatar...playing defense? Everybody knows that Tatar can't play defense. Just ask Babs.

This is your best post. Your all time best post.