Quarterfinals GDT: Russia vs. Canada (2/24)

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  [align=center]2010 OLYMPICS GROUP B GDT
  FEBRUARY 24 • 4:30 PM PT • 7:30 PM ET • 1:30 AM CET (2/25) • 3:30 AM Mos. (2/25)
  
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  Russia
  
  8 Alexander Ovechkin (A)-11 Evgeni Malkin-28 Alexander Semin
  71 Ilya Kovalchuk (A)-13 Pavel Datsyuk-61 Maxim Afinogenov
  25 Danis Zaripov-42 Sergei Zinoviev-95 Alexei Morozov (C)
  52 Viktor Kozlov-29 Sergei Fedorov-47 Alexander Radulov
  
  51 Fedor Tyutin-55 Sergei Gonchar
  37 Denis Grebeshkov-22 Konstantin Korneev
  79 Andrei Markov-5 Ilya Nikulin
  7 Dmitri Kalinin-6 Anton Volchenkov
  
  20 Evgeni Nabokov
  30 Ilya Bryzgalov
  
  
  Canada
  
  21 Eric Staal-87 Sidney Crosby(A)-12 Jarome Iginla (A)
  11 Patrick Marleau-19 Joe Thornton-15 Dany Heatley
  61 Rick Nash-51 Ryan Getzlaf-24 Corey Perry
  10 Brenden Morrow-16 Jonathan Toews-18 Mike Richards
  Extra Forward: 37 Patrice Bergeron
  
  27 Scott Niedermayer(C)-6 Shea Weber
  2 Duncan Keith-8 Drew Doughty
  20 Chris Pronger-22 Dan Boyle
  7 Brent Seabrook
  
  1 Roberto Luongo
  30 Martin Brodeur[/align]
• gorocks99

  

  Should be an awesome awesome game.
• capninsano

  I'm pretty excited for this one. I'm going to say 4-2 Canada
• bases_loaded

  

  Is this on television?
• thavoice

  ^^should be msnbc or cnbc htey have been carrying most of the games.
• Azubuike24

  

  CNBC has all 3 games starting at 7:30 PM EST.
  
  Canada/Russia
  Czech Republic/Finland
  Slovakia/Sweden
• bases_loaded

  

  thavoice wrote: ^^should be msnbc or cnbc htey have been carrying most of the games.

  Thanks...I don't know why these guys go through all the trouble of putting the graphics up but never mention the TV channel the game is on.
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  Azubuike24 wrote: CNBC has all 3 games starting at 7:30 PM EST.
  
  Canada/Russia
  Czech Republic/Finland
  Slovakia/Sweden

  Thank god for my DVR, or I would miss all of these.
• thavoice

  damn that slovak game will be on L A T E
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  I think the Slovakia game starts at like 12:30am.
• Non

  

  old-fashion ice whippin
  
  6-1 Canada
  
  early 2nd
• swamisez

  

  In Soviet russia Nabakov would be publicly flogged for that performance.
• bases_loaded

  

  swamisez wrote: In Soviet russia Nabakov would be publicly flogged for that performance.

  Don't think him or the coach would've went home to a complete family....ahh the good ole days
• KnightXC1

  

  Why in God's name the Russian coach waited that long to pull Nabokov is beyond me. 3 of the goals were very soft and just inexcusable. 6-2 midway through the 2nd so still time for the high powered Russians but they need to get at least 1 more in the 2nd.
• KnightXC1

  

  And as I type this Canada scores another. 7-2 America Jr
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Azubuike24 wrote: CNBC has all 3 games starting at 7:30 PM EST.
  
  Canada/Russia
  Czech Republic/Finland
  Slovakia/Sweden

  No. Czech play at 10, Slov at midnight.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  I'd say this was a very boring game, very lopsided. Russia laid a huge egg. 7-3 final
• thavoice

  ^^I thouht it was extremely exciting...until about midway through the 3rd period when Canada started to talke off the pressure and Russia was resigned to the fact they couldnt come back.
  
  It was up and down the ice for the first 45+ minutes...very exciting.
• thavoice

  KnightXC1 wrote: Why in God's name the Russian coach waited that long to pull Nabokov is beyond me. 3 of the goals were very soft and just inexcusable. 6-2 midway through the 2nd so still time for the high powered Russians but they need to get at least 1 more in the 2nd.

  Agreed. To come back from 4-1 deficit ya need to do something......give the team a shot in the arm...and many times changing a GT does that.
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  I missed this game due to work, I just got done watching the game about 30min ago. I must say that Russia is OVERATED, and I knew their defense wouldn't hold up against Canada's offense.
  
  USA vs Canda for the Gold.
• thavoice

  I saw Russia play a few times....other than a few players they didnt really impress me.
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  What I think hurt Russia is that they had way too many KHL players. I would've brought along Kalinin but thats about it. They left off Frolov, Kovalev, Zherdev (KHL), Anisimov, and Antropov.
• thavoice

  Did those KHL players get to have any extra time together prior to the Olympics? Maybe they did and the powerst that be felt that would help them in playing together longer. I dont know.
• gorocks99

  

  Or maybe Russia just wanted to promote their league as superior to the NHL.
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  thavoice wrote: Did those KHL players get to have any extra time together prior to the Olympics? Maybe they did and the powerst that be felt that would help them in playing together longer. I dont know.

  The two best russians in the KHL ar Kalinin and Morozov.
  
  The KHL is on par with the AHL and thats saying something.