Olympic Hockey

[harvey lee]

I totally agree. I would not pull Brodeur at this time. He is simply to good.

[PierBridge]

Luongo is playing in his home rink and is a better fit for Canada right now then the wondering, often thinking he's defensemen Brodeur.

No surprise Luongo will get the nod from here on out. Brodeur is certainly one of the All Time greats but many believe has seen his better days and maybe shouldn't have been picked for the back-up role.

USA!

[OnAFly]

jwmiller - I agree, Broduer really got the scapegoat treatment after that loss. No one on that team played really well the whole game and Miller was just plain hot.

Harvey - I can understand getting Luongo in net after that loss. It's a psychological thing. It's like when a team changes goalies after 4 goals where the goalie gets hung out to dry. It's not his fault, but the team needs some type of change. They both top notch goalies. You can't go wrong, really.

[hoppe56307]

Did anybody watch the Canadas game last night and see the goal one of the defencemen shot THROUGH the net. I have never seen anybody shoot though the net before.

[OnAFly]

Yeah, Weber has a cannon. Watching the replay, it barely missed a guy who went down to block the shot. I'm sure he's happy it missed him after seeing how hard the shot was.

Canada finally decided to play a hockey game last night. I'm hoping for a USA-Canada Gold Medal game. That rematch would be awesome.

[harvey lee]

I do believe we will meet canada in the finals if all goes correct. One never knows.

I personally would rather beat The Soviet Union.

[Bear55]

Yeah, Weber has a cannon. Watching the replay, it barely missed a guy who went down to block the shot. I'm sure he's happy it missed him after seeing how hard the shot was.

Canada finally decided to play a hockey game last night. I'm hoping for a USA-Canada Gold Medal game. That rematch would be awesome.

Be careful what you wish for. I would rather play Russia or Sweden myself. Then again we might not even make the gold medal game, lots or work left to get there.

I would agree that Brodeur played fine, but when Canada loses to the US they have to blame someone. In my eyes the US won because we out worked Canada, got some puck luck, and had a very good goalie in nets.

[scsavre]

As far as this Broduer talk goes. Did he play great? NO. He played pretty good. Doesnt really matter when you let in 5 out of 25. The thing with Broduer is, he is the only goalie in the league that plays the puck like he does. Team Canada defense need to know this.... when Marty gets the puck or goes for it. Get open. Do not skate towards him. When they skated towards him. What happened? Marty had no one to pass to. And now the goalie and the 2 two defense are all bottled up, making for a pretty good scoring chance from the point.

Why do you think Paul Martin was picked for the team. He knows how to play in front of Broduer. Watch a devils game. Broduer is a 3rd dman out there.

To be honest, if the team learns how to play with Broduer better, I say put him back in. He has cups, and is awesome in the clutch.

Neither of their goalies were playing all that good going into the tourny.

Go USA, a couple of awesome goalies going head to head today. And USA, please dont look past your competition today. That is what is good about being an underdog. You usually play one game at a time.

[Quackaddict9]

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USAs second goal was one that Brodeur should have got.. It was a shot on the ice from the point thru traffic that just slid under his pad and found the bottom corner of the net

You have to give Rafalski credit for that on ice "pass shot" that got under Brodeur...only if he was a Butterfly style goaltender, that one would've been stopped IMO

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[solbes]

It's going to be tough to get any work done, come 2pm. I completely agree about not looking past them. Solid goaltender that could get hot.

[jwmiller33]

As far as this Broduer talk goes. Did he play great? NO. He played pretty good. Doesnt really matter when you let in 5 out of 25.

Why do you think Paul Martin was picked for the team. He knows how to play in front of Broduer. Watch a devils game. Broduer is a 3rd dman out there.

To be honest, if the team learns how to play with Broduer better, I say put him back in. He has cups, and is awesome in the clutch.

Neither of their goalies were playing all that good going into the tourny.

Go USA, a couple of awesome goalies going head to head today. And USA, please dont look past your competition today. That is what is good about being an underdog. You usually play one game at a time.

Brodeur only got scored on 4 times... You don't count empty netters against a goalie or his GAA.

Also, i don't think Paul Martin would have been picked for the team SOLELY because he "knows how to play" with Brodeur, but I do agree with what your saying how the defensemen have to know how to play with their goalie. Paul Martin is an American and I don't really know what your saying by your comment about him, but I don't think a player is ever selected for a team because he played with the goalie in the reg season. Regardless, Marty is Canadian and Martin is American so they wouldn't ever be on the same team.

Brodeur has been playing professionally for 19 years, and I'd say that almost anyone who has played in the league in the past 2 decades (whether it be with or against Marty) knows how aggressive Marty is with playing the puck in his own zone.

[snowman678]

As far as this Broduer talk goes. Did he play great? NO. He played pretty good. Doesnt really matter when you let in 5 out of 25. The thing with Broduer is, he is the only goalie in the league that plays the puck like he does. Team Canada defense need to know this.... when Marty gets the puck or goes for it. Get open. Do not skate towards him. When they skated towards him. What happened? Marty had no one to pass to. And now the goalie and the 2 two defense are all bottled up, making for a pretty good scoring chance from the point.

Why do you think Paul Martin was picked for the team. He knows how to play in front of Broduer. Watch a devils game. Broduer is a 3rd dman out there.

To be honest, if the team learns how to play with Broduer better, I say put him back in. He has cups, and is awesome in the clutch.

Neither of their goalies were playing all that good going into the tourny.

Go USA, a couple of awesome goalies going head to head today. And USA, please dont look past your competition today. That is what is good about being an underdog. You usually play one game at a time.

I'm a little confused over the Paul Martin comment, what difference would it make that he know how to play in front of Brodeur, Paul would have been on the US team.

[OnAFly]

I'm in a terrible position here. I have a meeting scheduled for 2:00-4:00. I can't even keep track of the game while I pretend I'm working. Lousy work is getting in the way of my hockey again!

GO USA!!!

[spearchucker]

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USAs second goal was one that Brodeur should have got.. It was a shot on the ice from the point thru traffic that just slid under his pad and found the bottom corner of the net

You have to give Rafalski credit for that on ice "pass shot" that got under Brodeur...only if he was a Butterfly style goaltender, that one would've been stopped IMO

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The USA would have shot different on a butterfly goalie, so it doesn't really matter.

[Bear55]

Anyone find a stream that works? End of first 0-0, sounds like Hiller is making some crazy saves. We need to put one in soon or this game could get far too interesting.

[solbes]

There's an NBC stream that probably works fine. My work blocks it. Dooohh. I'm checking some Boston Globe blog site to get updates on what's going on. Too hard to wait to watch the DVR when I get home.

[JimBuck]

Currently been using the official site for updates. Not necessarily play by play but it works at work. I tried the streaming thing they have setup but I don't wanna deal with getting my cable provider involved in the office.

Solbes nice call on the NBC stream. Hoorah!

[Bear55]

AHHHHHH!!! Getting an error on the NBC stream!

Edit: WORKING NOW!

[solbes]

Why can't we get one puck in the net. I'm getting antsy!

[goblueM]

whats the score?

[Bear55]

All zeros, US not looking to good right now. They can't seem to bury their chances and the Swiss had a few scoring opportunities.

[Bear55]

Wow I think we just scored with less than a second to go! Its under reivew, no goal!

[JimBuck]

WOW! NO GOAL!

[harvey lee]

No goal by .01 of a second.

For those that cannot watch, the puck was shot at the Switz goalie and it bounced over his shoulder and into the back of the net, but it was a tenth of a second late.

End of 2 0-0.

Shots on goal after 2,

USA 32

Switz-about 8

No shots on goal after 5 penatlies for both theams combined.

[goblueM]

.01? ouch. that's going to come back to haunt us i bet