On Apr 29, 2:06=A0am, "captain." <spammersmust...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 24, 1:39 am, "captain." <spammersmust...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article <YmMPj.1693$PM5.55@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "captain."
> > > <spammersmust...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>better luck next time.
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> > >>Canada dispatches Russia 8-0 to capture world under-18 hockey title
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>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20080423/ca_pr_on_jr_ho/hky_u18_world_4=
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> > > That is a very humiliating score and is, in fact, rather surprising.
> > > In round robin, Canada actually lost to Russia 2:4. So there is
> > > absolutely
> > > no way the 8:0 score reflects the difference in class.
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> > our local s****ts channel is rebroadcasting the game at this moment.
it's=
a
> > drubbing. the backup goalie was scored on from the first shot after
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> > called in to replace the first guy who let in four goals during the
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> > half of the first period. the game is between the first and second
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> > as
> > i type this and the score is 5-0.
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> > it's interesting to me that the game is being played in kazan. it is
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> > of
> > the cities that i have read of in russian life magazine. it's an old
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> > with an engaging history. i wish the game would show more people in
the
> > crowd so that i can observe the people of kazan.
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> > russia can still be proud to have alexander ovechkin, in my opinion
the
> > most
> > exciting russian NHL player since pavel bure and the best offensive
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> > in the NHL today. if he keeps playing like he played this
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s,
> > that guy will fill stadiums in hockey towns. on top of that, he is a
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> > s****tsman and is a really positive force on his team attitude-wise.
bure=
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> > for all of his talent, was very reserved and moody.
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> What amazes me is that in junior competitions, Canada always finishes
> 1st, Russia - 2nd, and others never seem to be anywhere near. But when
> it comes to Olympics played on neutral ice - Russia finishes 4th way
> behind Sweden, Finland and Czech R, and Canada gets drubbed by
> Switzerland and Russia and funishes 8th. Weird.
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> - yes, drubbed :) but you know how it goes... the question is: what have
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ou
> done for me lately? this tourney speaks well for the young players who
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> be in the league soon.
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> since you mentioned the olympics, team canada has won gold as recently
as
> 2002 (in both men's and women's). and since the next winter olympics are
> going to be in my city, i just know that the russians will be claiming
> biased refs on this "neutral ice".
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Why? Since all other Canada-Russia games were reffed by Canadian refs
(i know this fact amazes and horrifies fans of all other s****ts, where
good s****tsman****p and fair play are respected and all games are
reffed by refs from neutral countires), I am sure that if the NHL and
the organizers are not as crooked as their former criminal leader Al
Eagleson, they will let a Russian ref do the Canada-Russia game in the
next Olympics (a hilarious idea,eh?), so I will have nothing to
complain about the ref.
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> team russia is popular here as well. i'll
> bet that in the non-canada games they will get good crowd turn out.
>
Too bad the Olympics are held only in one city. Otherwise, the
organizers could keep on sending European games to play their games
first on hte West Coast, then on hte Eat, then again on the West, etc,
making sur ethey are too tired to play. That's how the (later)
convicted criminal Al Eagleson did in the Canada Cups. BTW, when asked
how long he would change the Canada Cup rules, he gave the famous
answer that became the notto of Hockey Canada: "Until I assure
Canada's victories in all matches".
The fairness and "good s****tspam****p" of Canadian hockey officials is
exemplified by the following little, unim****tant yet symbolic story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Cup_%28ice_hockey%29
The 1981 win by the USSR caused controversy when Canadian officials
announced that the trophy would not be allowed to go home with the
winning team. A group of Canadian fans, feeling this was
uns****tsmanlike, raised money to produce a duplicate trophy to give to
the Soviet team.
No wonder Canadian hockey arrangements and "s****tsman****p" amaze the
fans of real s****ts, be it soccer, rugby, volleyball or any other
s****t under the sun, with the possible exception of baseball where US
officials have been almost as uns****tsmanlike.
Please understand me. I love Canada and Canadians. You guys may be my
most favourite people on Earth. But, aside from inventing puck hockey
in the first place, Canada has done too much to destroy what I value
most in hockey: fair and frequent top notch international competition,
and finesse hockey with blindingly fast skating, fancy whirlwind
movement and teawork and brilliant passing that used to be hallmark
Russia.
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> btw, i may be in the crowd. you can try to guess which one is me. hint:
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ar
> the zamboni entrance.
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Like big machines like fire trucks and zambonis, eh? Or talk to the
entering players? :-)
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> i'll try to get up to see the biathlon too.
>
Do so. But try not to stand next to the equipment like the targets.
People actually shoot at them. With real bullets. Not airsoft or
paintball. Really :-)
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> traffic
> will be **** though so who knows...
>
Get an early start.
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