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This reffing is terrible....I feel bad for the US boys.

When did the US PP turn so bad.

Canadian fans are going wild.

Looks a lot like college hockey.....this whole game has been special teams. Whoever gets more PPs wins I guess. US needs to battle back. I know the 5x3 goals are not his fault but I haven't been overly impressed with Gillies.

Yup, Carrick (USA) Laughton (CAN)

Well there are some NHL players in the tourney but you poi t is taken. hopefully we bury some early tomorrow AM and get lucky against Sweden. I want a second crack at the Canadians.

Congrats to the former Sioux players! Shocked Ryan or E Johnson didn't make the squad. Biggest snub in my mind is Bishop.

Very true, thanks. That's decent amount of money you can put away.

Yeah, many Canadian fans are ridiculous, almost as bad as goofer fans Agreed on the road ahead, its going to be nasty!

My current employer and previous employers 401k packages are/were a joke (however they are both publicly traded companies which watch their bottom lines extremely closely). I am an accountant so I know enough talk to keep a conversation going but am far from an investment expert. all I know is my dad's investment broker is setting my bro up with his company to go around the crap options employer provided 401ks have in them. Could be an IRA now that I think of it but those are extremely limited as well. oh well.

Agreed, I have actually started to like their hockey fans less and less over the years and my family comes from Canada.

However many companies will be reducing their match in the future and many employer sponsored 401k investment options are a joke. My advice (unless your employer has a sweet package) is to create something yourself. However, in response to your advice to gfhockey you are correct.

Very true. Go up there take care of business (i.e. don't embarrass themselves) and get back home to beat up on CC.

Better than nothing I guess.

There would be tons of guys that dominate in the O. The one thing I debate with my cousins (who are Cananadians and LOVE their CHL) is what about the 18-19 year olds that absolutely dominate the CHL and have nothing else to prove. The CHL is such a great league with so many awesome players however I wonder how beneficial it is to stay in the league only to score 130 pts against younger/smaller competition. My example is Nick Petan in Portland, the guy is 5'10 170lbs and he racked up 100+ pts last year. What benefit is there to playing against a bunch of 16-18 year olds and putting up another 130 pts? I believe he would be better off playing against older/bigger players to better develope himself. Oh well, just my 2 cents.

Ditto.

Germany beat the Czech, tourney is getting weird!

Agreed

Nice!

Haha me too. Actually I would like to give evidence that Canada does not blacklist their top notch players which head to college rather than play in the CHL. I gave the chucko example as evidence they blacklist their defected talent however I just remembered Schwartz was also a first round player and they let him on the U20 team (again it would have been tough to leave him off given he went in the 12-15 range). Can anyone else think of any others?

Ok good . It's hard to fully explain yourself typing from these dang iPhones.

Guy, I never once said toews was blacklisted. I was noting no one of toews caliber could ever be black listed. If you look at my initial post I noted as much. I do know others of less talent have, that being the year chucko wasn't invited when he went in the first round. I was actually on your side haha.

Sure it is. What other evidence could one possibly have?

Perfect, I totally get that the CHL is the top NHL feeder league but college hockey is a very tough league. All those Canucks simply think every good US player heads north.

I post on that site all the time. If you read many of their posts you know why I stick up for the talent in college hockey. Hopefully you weren't trying to bash me with your comment.