The 2007 Ice Hockey World Championship thread

It's that time of the year again...

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Welcome to the 2007 Ice Hockey World Championship thread!

This year's championship is taking place in Moscow, starting on Friday 27 April and ending with the final match on Sunday 13 May.


The playing teams:

Group A
Sweden
Switzerland
Latvia
Italy

Group B
Czech Republic
United States of America
Belorussia
Austria

Group C
Canada
Slovakia
Germany
Norway

Group D
Finland
Russia
Ukraine
Denmark


Let the discussion begin!

 

Some players are still coming in from the NHL, so we'll have to wait for the official rosters.

But go Canada, as always!

 

But we already have Gaborik, Demitra and Satan confirmed! So it looks pretty hopeful - and it's about bloody time we scraped a medal; last year's IHWC was dreadful for us...

GO SLOVAKIA!!!

 

...ahh screw the color/highlighting formats

GO CANADA!

 

GO CANADA!

 

GO SWEDEN!

 

Icons are up!

 

Yay, icons!

 

Go Canada!

 

Today's results:

USA - AUT: 6 - 2 (3 - 1, 1 - 1, 2 - 0)

UKR - FIN: 0 - 5 (0 - 1, 0 - 3, 0 - 1)

BLR - CZE: 2 - 8 (1 - 4, 1 - 1, 0 - 3)

RUS - DEN: 9 - 1 (3 - 1, 5 - 0, 1 - 0)

SUI - LAT: 2 - 1 (0 - 0, 2 - 1, - ) still playing

GER - CAN: 2 - 2 (1 - 1, 1 - 1, - ) still playing

Scheduled for tonight:

SWE - ITA

SVK - NOR


My internet was down since Thursday night and I was worried I wouldn't be able to watch our first match tonight... Luckily, it's just come back on.

 

USA, USA, USA

6-2 nice

 

Canada beats Germany 3-2!

Roster

Hmm....definitely not the best team we've had. Should be an interesting tourney.

 

Slovakia is winning 2 - 0 over Norway after the 1st period... Two goals in one minute - nice job, boys!

 

Sweden defeated Italy easily by winning with 7-1. I'm mostly happy about Tony MÃ¥rtensson scoring a goal since he had a very hard time during the final games of the Swedish Elite Leage play offs.

Still, I wonder about the goaltending. Backlund can make astounding saves but also give up easy goals. Anyway, Monday's game should be interesting.

 

The only ones that stand out are Rick Nash and the Staal brothers.

 

Final score Slovakia - Norway: 3 - 0

It was to be pretty much expected, but our new goalie Jaroslav Halak was pretty good, considering that this is his first World Championship. Also it came as a rather big surprise that, apart from one exception, none of our players was sent off!

We're up against Germany on Monday, and I suppose it should be a relatively easy win as well...

 

Well, Jonathan Toews was pretty good at the World Juniors and the goaltending is decent, although both of them went downhill this year compared to last. The second goal Roloson let in was awful. The big person that's clearly missing is Crosby but of course he's in no shape to play.

Halak was a pleasant surprise for Montreal when their goalie, Huet, had injury problems.

 

QFT

 

Sweden has only one NHLer on their team and that's Toronto's own Alexander Steen.

 

Today's scores:

FIN - DEN: 6 - 2 (3 - 1, 1 - 0, 2 - 1)

CZE - AUT: 6 - 1 (2 - 0, 1 - 1, 3 - 0)

RUS - UKR: 8 - 1 (2 - 1, 3 - 0, 3 - 0)

USA - BLR: 5 - 1 (3 - 0, 2 - 0, 0 - 1)


Coming up tomorrow:

SUI - ITA
SVK - GER (GO SLOVAKIA!!! )
LAT - SWE
CAN - NOR

 

w00t! Canada won 4-2 over umm... who was it again. Umm... I think Norway or something. Watched the highlights earlier today.

 

Yes it was Norway.. And they played pretty well, all things considered.

That's the downside to being Canada: EVERY team gets up for the games against you.

We've gotten the W's so far, and we're starting to see signs of the team gelling from a chemistry perspective.

I know alot of people diss this tournie because the 'best' players aren't there, but i actually prefer having the 'non-allstars' here. You don't have all the egos, thus guys accept their rolls more readily.

Course, word now is that Dion Phaneuf is on his way out to join the team. What a boost to the blueline that'll be!

 

Canada is 3-0!

 

w00t! Sweden won 6-0 over the Swiss.

 

Where's that Mar17swgirl? Why isn't she posting today?s score?

Oh that's right - because the Canadians beat the Slovaks.