Team Russia 2010 Olympic Preliminary Squad

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Brodeur has three stanley cups and a gold medal in his resume.

Luongo has two World Championship gold medals and a World Cup gold.

I think that stands up nicely to Swedens goaltending.

Well it sucks for Canada that we don't have a time machine to make these guys play for us now, the way they did then. Because players change over time. They both s*** the bed in the playoffs. Luongo is a great goalie but hasn't shown me anything under true pressure yet. And Brodeur has to be the most overrated goalie to ever strap on pads and no, I'm not kidding. The guy routinely loses to bum opponents and pisses away seasons with bad play in the postseason. Yeah yeah 3 cups, the way I see it, if you play on the most trapping, defensive oriented team in history which stats wise, does in fact give up the fewest scorign chances, you will win 3 cups eventually. For some reason no one wants to believe this and I know I'll be pointlessly flamed but look it up, it's all there.

I've never been the hugest Osgood supporter but I say add him. He has proven he can step it up under pressure the past two seasons now. f*** Turco, he's good but not Olympic good. f*** Fleury, he "won" but Bettman knows why I put that in quotes(*ahem*manufacturedchampionion*ahem).

Ozzy has proven time and again, when his D fails, he steps it up. The other two, do not.

This is also why Sweden will have goaltending that will keep them in it.

And did anyone else notice it said semen varlamov? lol semen....oh man.

[Guest mindfly]

http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2009/07/re...f_european.html

HÃ¥kan Andersson talks about the upcoming olympics and the changes that has been made in swedish hockey since 2002 etc pretty good stuff

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