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I hope you are right. But...as of now, he has been a dissapointment to me.

Yes, I do think Radke is already a dissapointment. He was very highly thought of, coming in. He was INCH's #2 ranked incoming defenseman. Everybody was comparing him to Ballard or Roche. I know he is young and has shown some offensive flash, he has a very long way to go to be mentioned in the same breath as those type of players.

Sic...3 forwards with WJ experience? edit...I forgot about Spirko.

Parise is a pretty good goalie when he stays in the net. But...he is a hack. He seems more worried about chopping the back of some guys legs than stopping the puck. The diving to try to get a call has to go. He should have been called for an unsportsmanlike diving penalty in the 2nd period tonite.

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Scouting artile from Hockey's Future.

If you look at Heisenberg's site, they removed the '06 from Oshie's name.

I was sitting very close to Ovechkin. Most of the taunting was well deserved and funny for that matter. But, there was also alot of profanity and just plain stupid things being said. There was even one moron who left his seat to come stand in front of me and yell a very obnoxious and profane comment at him and then run back up to his seat (while the puck was in play). That is the stuff that is un-called for.

After reading this in the Forum yesterday, I kind of questioned Lee being picked (and Goligosky for that matter). Why select "offensive defenseman" if you are not going to let them play there game?

Besides jerseys and pucks, they really didn't have any non-USA or Canada stuff. They clearanced out most of the merchandise yesterday. Buy one get on free jerseys (except US and Canada). Only Belarus, Slovakia and a real cheasy CCCP jersey were left. I saw the Czech coaches buying small USA and Canada jerseys.

I was actually very impressed by Hagemo. He made a couple of mistakes, but I thought he was very solid. He plays alot bigger than he is.

I just hope that if Ovechkin does his little "move" on Glass in between periods, that one of Canada's monster D-men beat him down like Suter wanted to do. Ovechking is an amazing hockey player (I think the best in the tourney), but I have never seen a more arrogant player, ever. I can't think of any other time I have seen a player (Ovechkin) come out before the goalie to start the game or periods.

It doesn't appear that I will be able to drive from Fargo for the games today. Satelite guys...help me out. Is there any way to see TSN?

Anybody know where Casey Borer was last night? Also, any updates on Chris Bourque?

Here is an artile from the Forum on the attendance.

I think for the most part the officiating has been good. With the exception of the linesman (who looked about 15 years old) for the Canada-Sweden game. I have never seen someone throw so many people out of the faceoff. It was rediculous.

I'm lazy. I remember hearing about another Slovakian (an aquaintance of Spirko's) playing in the USHL. Is he playing on the WJ team?

Hey PCM or anybody else that was there, is this true? I read this on HF boards. Both Slovakia and Belarus ended up bringing only their white uniforms to the game. As a result, one team had to find dark uniforms to wear. It turned out to be Belarus, which had to borrow a local high school team (Grafton-Park River High School) dark uniforms to play the game. The borrowed uniforms did not bring Belarus any luck as Slovakia went on to win the game 3-1.

That is what Betsy is for!

Don't worry, Sal from Cando will be there.

Hockey News picks the US to win the tourney.

What are the IIHF rules regarding fighting?

Here is the Forum link.

When I think of arena rock, I immediately think of mullets.

Canada has to be the favorite to get the gold. They are going to be very good. They cut 2 of the top 3 scorers in the WHL.