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IIHF World Championships

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"...ridiculous "injury" that the russian faked"

Try to put on the shin guard and then ask somebody to slash you with full force right behind the knee, where the shin guard doesn't protect you, and then pray that your MCL remains not damaged. I've strained my MCL once, I couldn't get up for a couple of minutes.

Edit: spelling

I hear you and saw what you saw. I have ruptured my MCL+ACL, same knee. The MCL was slightly torn prior, a violent slash crashed the entire knee.

Those late minute slashes to the Russki was overly nasty, wouldn't have minded a game penalty.

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So how exactly is Nyquist shameful. He's tied with one of the worlds best centers/primary scorers in point totals :w00t:

For the record, I too am critical of Nyquist such as his playoff issues- and have even suggested trading him if Okposo was brought in. But all in all, this tournament has actually been a good one for him.

I'm not ignoring you on this one, just haven't been able to formulate what makes Nyquist shameful/regressing overall, not the IIHF worlds where he scored enough there to be on par, despite going invisible in some games where he faced tougher competition.

I have been thinking about this and will try to find the time to analyze what made him fall off the curve as he did, as it was rather unexpected statistically, which ticks my interest. Unfortunately I'm quite busy with a school thesis and may not be able to deliver in time (preseason), but will try.

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Didn't watch the game, just the highlights but what the hell happened to the US team ... ?? They looked like boys playing with men.

Good to see Datsyuk have a good game, enjoy playing with your comrades.

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Didn't watch the game, just the highlights but what the hell happened to the US team ... ?? They looked like boys playing with men.

Good to see Datsyuk have a good game, enjoy playing with your comrades.

To be fair they pretty much were. Their two best players were teenagers, after all.

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Overall a good year for finns, U18 Gold, U20 Gold, 2nd in World champs...

Surprised that Laine was MVP.

Individual Awards as selected by the Directorate:
Best Goaltender: Mikko Koskinen, Finland
Best Defenceman: Michael Matheson, Canada
Best Forward: Patrik Laine, Finland

Most Valuable Player as selected by the media:
Patrick Laine, Finland

All-Star Team as selected by the media:
Goaltender: Mikko Koskinen (FIN)
Defencemen: Nikita Zaitsev (RUS), Michael Matheson (CAN)
Forwards: Patrik Laine (FIN), Vadim Shipachyov (RUS), Mikael Granlund (FIN)

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If the Leafs are certain to sign Stamkos, they could draft Laine. Guy is Ovi 2.0. Otherwise, a franchise C is more important, and they don't have any.

Then again, they can draft Matthews, sign Stamkos and trade away Kadri - their C will be very strong then with Stamkos, Matthews and Bozak...

Anyway, as good as Laine is, I would still draft C.

Aho is already drafted by Hurricanes

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If the Leafs are certain to sign Stamkos, they could draft Laine. Guy is Ovi 2.0. Otherwise, a franchise C is more important, and they don't have any.

Then again, they can draft Matthews, sign Stamkos and trade away Kadri - their C will be very strong then with Stamkos, Matthews and Bozak...

Anyway, as good as Laine is, I would still draft C.

Aho is already drafted by Hurricanes

Kid hasn't touched NHL ice yet he is going to be the next greatest goal scorer of all time? Sorry but we won't see another Ovi for awhile.

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Stamkos plays more like a winger though anyway, so if the Leafs were to trade for him, I'd still go with Centre. I also don't think it makes a lot of sense to have a guy like Stamkos and a guy like Ovechkin (Laine) on the same team....too similar (would be good to have one on line 1 and one on line 2 though.....). Laine seemed to make a few slick passes in the tourney as well.

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So wait... there's 2 Sebastian Ahos?

Isn't there a Swedish defenceman with the same name?

Yes confusing but true, and I can't believe that the Swedish one hasn't been drafted yet. He's small but really good skater and puck mover. He's on the same team as Axel Holmström in the SEL.

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Ease off speculative fellow wings. You are delusional if you think Toronto will draft anyone else but Austin Matthews. And this is coming from someone who wrote that Laine should be drafted first.

Both picks will be great in a few years.

Let's hope our scouting staff can find us another Larkin (15th).

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Short update on Nyquist: he did not make the Swedish team that will play the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, September.

All in all I agree with the decision to leave him out when looking at the roster.

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Short update on Nyquist: he did not make the Swedish team that will play the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, September.

All in all I agree with the decision to leave him out when looking at the roster.

I hope this is the kick in the ass he needs to motivate him to bring his game to another level.

One can dream...

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Abby made team USA among an impressive group of forwards

Meanwhile, no kessel :D haha what's that quote? hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard?

Congrats to Abby, he deserves it. He's gotten better and better every year imo

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