Matus

1:30 am here, tuned in, really looking forward to this one, whenever I miss a game, I read this forums the whole game thread, it's better than any newspapers , you can feel the vibe! hopefully one of the slovaks will score Jurco or Tatar of course

Hey Guys, I'm following forum for some time as I'm rooting for Tatar and Jurco - and Detroit of course I'm from Slovakia and thought I'd give my 5 cents about the game, I think the first period we were a decent side to USA, and it all looked so good when Tatar scored early in second, but then mayham begun, too early it was 3:1, and our guys completely lost concentration, unfortunately, we are a small country with much smaller number of players, and because of injuries (VIsnovsky, Granak mainly) we nominated defenders that normally we would never consider for this kind of tournament. Jurcina and co. were -4 (Chara can't play all the time) and he was there everytime you guys scored. Also you've got such a big momentum that almost every shot was a goal.. Before Budaj could make a save, he already allowed two goals to go in.. anyway! It's good to get this kind of shower early , and recover for the rest of the tournament, hopefully it will be a lesson for the whole team and we'll show you that indeed there's more potential to our players than this