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Finland gets the all important next goal to tie it 1-1 after Canada had pretty much been in control.

Finland has to clean up the turnovers if they are gonna have a chance to win this game. Also gotta make their chances count offensively as so far it seems like their best chances haven't even got on net.

If Canada wins in regulation they will be the #1 seed and USA stays at #3, if Canada wins in OT/SO USA moves up to #2 and Canada would get the #3.

I believe as long as Finland wins no matter if it is regulation or OT/SO it sets up a Russia/Canada quarter but if they do it in OT/SO it would move USA up to #2 and set up a quarter against Czech/Slovakia rather than staying at #3 and probably Switzerland.

If Canada or Finland win in regulation it looks like USA would most likely get the Swiss in the quarters in the 3/6 game. If Finland wins in OT/SO I think Canada and Russia would set up as the 4/5 game and USA would get the Czech Republic/Slovakia winner in the 2/7 game.

Yeah I had to laugh when during the 2nd he said Callahan with the nice move through the defenseman there and I knew right away it couldn't be Callahan and had to be Oshie just because Callahan can't make a move like the one Oshie did there.

Love that the U.S. uses these throwback jerseys as their 3rd they look much better than Canada's ugly black 3rds.

Good game tonight but wow were the refs ever bad tonight. Still not sure how either of the UND goals were disallowed and on the 2nd one even if they wanted to argue it didn't cross the line it should have been a penalty shot because then there defenseman froze the puck in the crease. A lot of different guys contributing tonight which is good to see and I thought it was a good game for Zane to get back into where there was never really a whole lot of pressure on him, I think if he had been playing the last couple weeks he stops Miami on that breakaway. Also did anyone see what happened to give up that breakaway? I saw Schmaltz was on the ice and wondered if he got picked at the blue line but never could tell from the replays shown on TV.

Great game with high intensity and great pace. International reffing was once again not real great. Thought the disallowed goal for the Russians was the right call but I thought it was because Radulov deflected it on the way in and thought it was a high stick but I guess it was because the net was off and that was the right call to make too. Thought Kane would end it for sure in OT when he had the breakaway and was surprised he didn't shoot at all in the shootout. Oshie was amazing in the shootout and easily could have been perfect if not for a couple of great saves by Bobrovsky. Really could tell U.S. defensemen were worried about Russian speed and at times it caused problems because of bad gap control and almost backing in on top of Quick.

I don't understand it either but everyone in the Big 10 does it, must be a conference rule.

Solid win tonight, the defense seemed pretty solid as a group but Schmaltz and Simpson really stood out to me as having good games. I thought the powerplay was better tonight than last weekend although it would be hard to not be. Saunders with a solid performance although I thought he was gonna give the early 1 goal lead right back with a mishandle but made a great pad save. Saunders still really seems to have trouble with his glove hand and giving up rebounds that way which needs to be cleaned up. Really hope to not see too many 4 on 4 situations tomorrow as I think it really favors Miami with all that speed. Need to make it tough on Miami getting through the neutral zone again tomorrow night and limit the penalties.

Yeah definitely not the best jerseys today. When I first saw the Canada game I thought Canada was in the white based on the jerseys and I definitely think their black jerseys may be the worst in the Olympics. Here is a pic of Canada's black jerseys:

Good post Mariucci and I think a lot of opposing teams fans would share your view if Hakstol was fired.

Nice job with this Mafia!

Gersich will turn 18 in July and it looks like there are only 4 or 5 younger than him on the team. From the games I've seen of Gersich he is a good skater and got some good skill and has a chance of being a pretty high end player but I wouldn't be surprised to see him play a year in the USHL before coming in just because of the roster situation. The newest Sioux commit Zach Yon had 4 goals and 1 assist in a 10-2 win for Roseau yesterday. He will play a year or two in the USHL but the thing that has impressed me about him is that he seems to be a natural goal scorer and when he gets a chance he doesn't miss it very often.

I believe this Sioux team has won every game they've played this year when CBSSN has broadcast the game and they have the game tonight so hopefully that streak can continue.

Yeah didn't understand that either. I know goal differential is a tiebreaker but nobody gets eliminated during pool play and I doubt Norway will be in a spot where the tiebreaker will matter anyway. Take the chance try to cut the lead to one and give yourself a chance to really pull a surprise. As Herm Edwards said "You play to win the game" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42iiCcFbxE

My hope is that Zane is ready for Friday night, don't know what the chances of that are but he did practice yesterday.

Pretty good opener from the whole U.S. team, still might like to see Parise and Brown switch lines sometime in the tournament. Seems like Russia could kind of turn it on when they needed to against Slovenia, should be a good test for the U.S. Saturday. I'm probably in the minority but I don't really mind the jerseys and like the jerseys Nike makes as a whole, the only part I really wish they would get rid of is the fake laces.

I believe there is at least one more younger brother who isn't at the high school level yet. Ausmus is definitely a skilled puck moving d-man but he will probably need to prove himself in juniors a couple years before the interest from schools really pick up kind of like Tucker Poolman had to out of high school.

I wonder how much other teams fans laugh about some of these comments in this thread and really this topic as a whole?

Canada beats USA 3-2 with a very controversial 2nd goal for Canada as the whistle had blown and then the puck went in and the ref reviewed it and decided to call it a goal. USA didn't look to be at there best but part of that was probably due to a lot of holding and interference that was allowed to go on which helped the Canadians slow the U.S. as well as the physical nature of the Canada team. Reffing wasn't a real strong point throughout the game as the calls were very inconsistent and only 1/3 on catching the Canadians with too many (wo)men on the ice.

I take it most if not all of this post was made in a sarcastic nature?

So to get back in the game we should have took stupid penalties and put Omaha on the powerplay and our coach should have got kicked out when there wasn't really anything to argue about because that would fire the team up? I really can't agree with these statements that you think should have been done. I agree it was a very poor effort but sometimes there isn't much a coach can do to get through to the players in that situation. I'm sure the message has been sent in practices this week that the effort was unacceptable and I'm sure the players knew that but having experienced college athletics both as an athlete and a coach, and I'm sure most who have been athletics really at any level would agree, it is very hard and rare to see a team just suddenly increase the effort during the game, usually it is either there right from the start of the game or its not and there isn't much that anyone is able to change that during the game.

Looks like the lines were switched up for todays practice and the only line that was the same was Pavelski's. Van Riemsdyk-Pavelski-Kessel Parise-Backes-Callahan Pacioretty-Kesler-Kane Brown-Statsny-Oshie Extras: Wheeler-Stepan Suter-Shattenkirk McDonagh-Carlson Orpik-Martin Fowler-Faulk