Wilbur

Now that they changed the playoff format it makes the task a little less daunting. I mean, beat Germany and you are basically in the playoffs. Slovakia has improved mightily over the years and of course playing Canada and the defending champs will be tough. I guess I'm not even sure what guys can return next year.

SUOMI!! Great great hockey game.

Dear Hockey Gods, Please let one team score before the overtime ends. A shoot out is no way to decide an international championship. Yours truly, Wilbur

This game has OT written all over it.

Okay, now that Sweden has tied it can they play 5-5?

Every game the U.S. plays next year is a road game. The anthem will get jeered, etc. Hope the group is ready for massed Canadian craziness.

I'm for getting rid of the black jerseys. Way too many horrible losses in those things. Green helmets, green jerseys, white pants. Throw in black pants on the road.....

Back to back fourth place finishes. It would be amazing if they didn't medal next year in Montreal/Toronto.

2-1 late in the third. I'm hoping for a Russian cheap shot then a scuffle followed by Russian showboating.

Agreed. I think they both should have gotten fighting majors though.

If you're going to attack a Russian that's the way to do it. How they both didn't get fighting majors baffles me.

Mmmmmmuahahahahaha.......Love it!

Hak post game: ~Okay with the effort. ~Made some bad plays defensively. ~Thinks Rocco is okay. ~Wanted to give the young guys some ice time to get some production going. ~Murphy needs something good to happen. ~Parks was good. ~A very valuable weekend for us, needed to play games before CC to get back into the thick of things. In a lot better mood than I thought he'd be in.

Cannot wait to hear Hak post game....that is if he still is the head coach. I bet TH or Haj fires him.

Hah....not bad.....thought you'd moved southward. I think your celebrity status around the site here makes it pretty easy to remember.

1:09 remaining in the game. Get that over with, leave Canada.....never go back....ever.....

Wife dragged me to her hometown in western ND, how about you? Gosh...Wisconsin? No or Arizona now?

How ya been Brian?

4-3 UND now......

39-15 are the SOG.....Rocco still not back....ufff...... Things just keep looking up.

No goal from the sounds of it.

Brian, goal or no goal?

TH is setting up a pretty exciting post game interview with Hak.

3-3. Guess you can't give 5-3 power plays to teams.

I would but the bulldozer has to go to Colorado, and then head out east. Plus people are a lot happier with that program after the whole ofer in the the NCAA tournament ended.