The Sicatoka

CZE 7-1 SUI after two

PPG CZE 6-1 SUI

CZE 5-1 SUI The SUI seem to be melting and their timing is off.

Anita Pointer died at age 74 on New Year's Eve. In memoriam, everyone "Jump" and do the "Neutron Dance".

CZE 3-1 SUI CZE has a 4x4, a SHG, and a 5x5. After scoring 22 seconds in the SUI have disappeared.

Barely 3 minutes in and ... CZE 1-1 SUI At least this is on NHLN.

CZE-SUI up next

SWE advances to semi 3-2 over FIN Opponent TBD (they are re-seeding after quarters).

SWE SHG SWE 3-2 FIN with one minute to go FIN pulls goalie with one minute left (and still on PP) SOG 35-20 FIN

FIN 2-2 SWE late third Now SWE takes a page from UND's book: score, take a penalty minute later. < facepalm >

FIN 2-1 SWE mid third FIN takes a page from UND's book: score for lead, take a penalty minutes later. < facepalm > Shots: 26-14 FIN

If Bubs is dealing with a family issue that comes first. Always. Give him time and space. (Part of me wonders if this, whatever it is, has been going on longer than we know, and we shouldn't know, and if it's been weighting on Bubs. Never forget: a team feels what the coach feels even if the team doesn't know what the coach knows.) Part of Bub's job is mentoring successors. He seems to be doing well there based on what we see from Dane and Karl so far. Bubs, he'll be back when it's time to be back.

Third underway, still 1-1 SWE-FIN. Shots are 20-11 FIN through two.

Pretty sure The Ocho comes with WatchESPN.com (free) with ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN News. At least The Ocho shows the entirety of an event. I missed none of the scheduled Corgi races that I stayed up to watch.

SWE 1-1 FIN after two. Probably the best period of the tournament so far coming up ... but not visible in the US unless you bow to the god ESPN+. And yeah, I am that bitter*. *I already pay for ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN News. That's enough.

LAT 5-2 AUT final in relegation game one. SWE 1-1 FIN mid second per the game center site (because NHL-N is run by fools).

"Winged" helmets are nothing special. It's a reference to how leather football helmets were made. Meh. Ugly. (Looking at you Michigan, and Delaware.) If Princeton wanted to impress me they'd steal a page from the "White Tigers" look.

The NHL should step clear of WJC Quarterfinals day completely.

Effectively Disney/ESPN.

Any Canadians out there willing to give up their Provider, Username, and Password for http://tsn.ca/live ?

I ain't giving Disney more money. See above.

And find FIN-SWE is on ESPN+, subscription. With it not on NHLN is should be on WatchESPN (free for cable subscribers) not the subversion, I mean subscription ESPN+.

Turn on NHL Network expecting FIN-SWE and I see a bunch of mooks sitting in Fenway talking about an outdoor regular season game. I'm not going to win friends with this but ... - I'm done with outdoor gimics (the league will be too when bad ice ends a guy's career) - not interested in BOS in January - not interested in PIT in January I would rather be watching SWE-FIN than PIT-BOS. <- There. I said it.

Today: FIN-SWE at 10 Central CZE-SUI at 12:30 USA-GER at 3 CAN-SVK at 5:30

"Jake Taylor" quote here.