World Cup
 

Oh baby, you knew it was coming!

Can't wait for this thing to get started. Lemieux, Sakic, Iginla? What more could you want?

I've got my Team Canada jersey all ready and my Team Canada hat, and my Molson Canadian on standby for Tuesdays game. I am, however going to try to catch as many games as I can. All 19 are being shown on CBC. unfortunatley I have to miss Monday and Tuesday's day games due to work. cry:

Here's the sched:

[img]http://img10.exs.cx/img10/663/schedule2.jpg[/img]

US Canada game will be a great game. They've already played each other twice, both team winning once. rock:

http://wch2004.com/

Go Jon LeClair!

Great Britain will win

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":3e834]Great Britain will win[/quote:3e834]I think Belarus might take it this year happy:

[quote=Coleman][quote="Fluffy_Bunny":a9aee]Great Britain will win[/quote]I think Belarus might take it this year happy:[/quote:a9aee]

Just ask Sweden from 2 years ago:

[img]http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/ice_hockey/news/2002/02/20/sweden_belarus_ap/lg_salo_ap-01.jpg[/img]
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BWHAHAHAH!!! Just thinking of the puck bouncing of Tommy Salo's head makes me laugh. Stupid Edmonton Oilers. No wonder they suck so much. Salo has never been the same since that incident.

Fortunatley for Sweden, it's only the top 8 Hockey nations, and Belarus isn't one of them.

ha, i didn't know about that. I just knew that Belarus SUCKED ASS in all of the NHL games that I've played for consoles.

US Canada is on now. Go watch it.

0-0. Good pace to the game so far and Esche just made a HUGE save on Iginla.

Sundin is pissed off and he wants at least some championship...Canada will still kill Swedan.

ROFL

He scored a goal today. What's he got to be pissed off about? rock:

Never winning the stanley cup :(

1-0 Canada

St. Louis > life.

^ 1337, we will win it. becasue we are canada

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/apricanicus/funny%20shit%20and%20gifs/get_a_brain.jpg[/img]

2-0

ROFL

mario in the pentaly box?

2-1 he was about to go round with some dude... brodeur got away with some shit there

not really, if the idiot didnt slam into him then maybe he could be called for it

don't think he could stop with that monkey on his back eek: face washing him with the glove is fine once, but pulling him back down was dirty pool

2-1 Canada wins. Good game. Pretty exciting. Good hockey.

gg usa

[quote="Mr. maple":1e255]gg usa[/quote:1e255]

[quote="Mr. maple":6077d]gg usa[/quote:6077d]
sick sig

Super Mario drops the gloves, comes to defence of Martin Brodeur

Pierre Lebrun
Canadian Press


Tuesday, August 31, 2004


[img]http://media.canada.com/cp/hockey/20040831/h083124A.jpg[/img]
Team Canada captain Mario Lemieux goes after Team USA Steve Konowalchuk. (CP /Ryan Remiorz)



MONTREAL (CP) - Mario Lemieux shrugged off a moment few will ever forget.

The 38-year-old superstar raised a few eyebrows, not to mention cut the air supply to the Canadian coaching staff, when he dropped the gloves and went after American forward Steve Konowalchuk in Tuesday night's 2-1 win to kick off the World Cup of Hockey. Lemieux had seen enough of American forwards crashing the net and going after Canadian goalie Martin Brodeur.

"They did do that a few times," Lemieux said after the intense victory. "But I was just the closest guy to Konowalchuk, so I went for him.

"He landed on Marty, so somebody had to jump in."

Lemieux barely had a grasp of Konowalchuk before linemate Jarome Iginla jumped in to relieve Super Mario of his tough guy duties.

"That really fires you up," Iginla said of seeing the Hall of Famer drop the gloves. "It's a little surprising, but he competes. You can tell when he's upset and he was a little upset tonight."

Konowalchuk downplayed the incident.

"It just started as a scrum," he said. "Brodeur pulled me in the net, so I gave Brodeur a little shot, then Mario came in, then Iginla came in, and that's how it happened. ...

"I guess if you push the goalie, you expect somebody to come," he added. "Whether it's him or anybody else, it doesn't matter. In a game like this, everyone has to do things like that."

Either way, Lemieux's decision to go after Konowalchuk lit a fire on the Canadian bench.

"They were in Marty's face all night," said centre Brad Richards. "Mario sent a message that it was enough. He took control of it.

"That's the leadership that's going to show us the way."

Vincent Lecavalier, who worshipped Lemieux growing up in Quebec, was also proud of his captain.

"It shows he's ready to play," Lecavalier said. "It shows what kind of leader he is.

"We want to protect Marty. They were charging the net, trying anything to get back in the game."

During the same fracas, veteran defenceman Scott Niedermayer fought American centre Jeff Halpern, another surprising sight. Niedermayer certainly isn't known for the fisticuffs.

"In hindsight, it probably wasn't the smartest move, we were down to five defencemen (because of the injury to Ed Jovanovski), it was tough enough as it was with the five of us," Niedermayer said. "It was kind of stupid but ... he just kept going and wanted to do something and eventually wore me down and we went."

Lemieux was no worse for wear after the incident and pronounced himself fit to play in Wednesday night's game against Slovakia, showing he's come a long way since recovering from hip surgery seven months ago.

Playing back-to-back games has usually been a no-no in the NHL with Pittsburgh, but this is the World Cup and Lemieux is fired up.

Lemieux doens't take no shit.

Lemieux needs to retire.....again rolleyes:

Sweden 5 - 2 Germany

Sundin stood for one goal, and
one assist, Salo made a mistake
similar to the Belarus-situation,
only this time it bounced off the
top of his glove.
Anyways, wtf is up with Canada
and those yellow jumpsuits? oOo:

man teh yellow is the pimp

[quote="Mr. maple":2a1c2]man teh yellow is the pimp[/quote:2a1c2]

Good game all-around. Canada launched outta the gates, but the US really took it to the canucks in the 3rd.

I think both teams can take away positives from the game, as well as things to improve upon.

Canada: Compete for 60 minutes. A quick start is good, but doesn't last long. Keep Ryan Smyth in the lineup too. He was one of the hardest working skaters out there last night.

USA: Start skating early and don't get behind. Keep crashing the net like they did on Brodeur. It didn't yield any goals, but it did cause some havoc and chances.

The yellow jerseys were to honour the 1920 Gold Medal Winning Winnipeg Falcons.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegS ... 10967.html

they should wear a different vintage jersey every game rock:

[quote="Mr. maple":2684a]they should wear a different vintage jersey every game rock:[/quote:2684a]

better yet for you jizz hounds they should play naked...that way you could get stiffys watching flapping wang dangers

[quote="Mr. maple":b4d63]they should wear a different vintage jersey every game rock:[/quote:b4d63]

that was a great game...

It's nice to hear the HNIC theme song in August/September...

might not be hearing it for awhile after this tourney ed:

Canada vs Slovakia on now.

2-0 in the 1st.. Go Canada!...

3-0 woot