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The WJC Thread. USA! USA! USA!

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dxmnkd316 said:
You're joking, right..? :eek:
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No, he's not. You should have seen the all package ticket. Granted, a great deal if you actually went to every single game.

Even some Canadian friends of mine who are big hockey fans and well off are choking at those prices.

Go to buffaloworldjuniors.com. There are still tickets available for most any day...
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
I was shocked at how expensive the tickets were. Since last year I have seen commercials on the NHL Network hyping this event, trying to sell it as affordable with "great seats starting at just $25 a game." Well that is a little misleading. Games at the secondary venue not featuring Canada or the USA, sure, those are "affordable." Lower bowl seats in round games featuring the two favorites for $100 or more? Medal round tickets for $140-250? Hardly affordable. Of course the Canadians will once again "prove" they are more devoted to the sport than fans of the USA, as if that makes them somehow better, or more well endowed or something, by filling the place for their games, and showing up in droves for ours to root against us.
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During breaks in games, they are advertising next year's tournament to be held at Edmonton and Calgary. They are setting up priority seating lotteries because of the expected demand. So, yes, they can brag about how endowed they are...

1996 and the USA winning changed their tune. Ever since then, I have yet to see an international hockey game with Canadian fans involved where they didn't root against the USA, no matter who we were playing. Makes me wish North Korea or Iran had an international team in some of these events. How foolish do they want to look?
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Oh, they would still root for North Korea.

Like I said, they are the only fans in the entire world who have ever (and done it more than once in different years) booed another country's national anthem at a sporting event (or perhaps anywhere).

They can't possibly look any more foolish!
 
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If there were 14,000 tickets sold and 10,000-12,0000 in the house for USA Finland, I would imagine that 4-6,000 Canadians 'ate' their day pass or tourney passes and didn't show up for the USA Game, 5,000 Canadians stuck around for the USA game because their package included it, and about 5,000 true blue USA fans were in the house.

In other words, the USA could not make this tourney work financially without a large Canadian fanbase nearby.
 
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Puck Swami said:
If there were 14,000 tickets sold and 10,000-12,0000 in the house for USA Finland, I would imagine that 4-6,000 Canadians 'ate' their day pass or tourney passes and didn't show up for the USA Game, 5,000 Canadians stuck around for the USA game because their package included it, and about 5,000 true blue USA fans were in the house.

In other words, the USA could not make this tourney work financially without a large Canadian fanbase nearby.
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Unfortunately the tourney just doesn't have the draw or appeal yet outside of Canada, which is a **** shame.

This is my favorite level of hockey to watch every year.
 
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Puck Swami said:
If there were 14,000 tickets sold and 10,000-12,0000 in the house for USA Finland, I would imagine that 4-6,000 Canadians 'ate' their day pass or tourney passes and didn't show up for the USA Game, 5,000 Canadians stuck around for the USA game because their package included it, and about 5,000 true blue USA fans were in the house.

In other words, the USA could not make this tourney work financially without a large Canadian fanbase nearby.
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Which was a key factor why the tournament was given to Buffalo out of the three American sites that bid for it.

That, and the fact that Golisano and the Sabres guaranteed the WJC $4 million.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
During breaks in games, they are advertising next year's tournament to be held at Edmonton and Calgary. They are setting up priority seating lotteries because of the expected demand. So, yes, they can brag about how endowed they are...



Oh, they would still root for North Korea.

Like I said, they are the only fans in the entire world who have ever (and done it more than once in different years) booed another country's national anthem at a sporting event (or perhaps anywhere).

They can't possibly look any more foolish!
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Look at this way.....the Canadians see the U.S. as a legit threat. This was not always the case but the 96 World Cup changed all that. Then the NTDP began to produce more and more elite level talent and the U.S. began to dominate international play at the U-18 level. So its no surprise that Canadians would be rooting for Finland against the defending Gold medal champions.

As for the booing of national anthems, its quite disrespectful but unfortunately more common than you think.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlHNOq8k46A

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/archive/index.php/t-290287.html
 
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jnacc said:
Look at this way.....the Canadians see the U.S. as a legit threat. This was not always the case but the 96 World Cup changed all that. Then the NTDP began to produce more and more elite level talent and the U.S. began to dominate international play at the U-18 level. So its no surprise that Canadians would be rooting for Finland against the defending Gold medal champions.

As for the booing of national anthems, its quite disrespectful but unfortunately more common than you think.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlHNOq8k46A

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/archive/index.php/t-290287.html
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In defense of St. Louis for that first one (which I hate to do on principal), I think they were booing the singer, not the anthem. That was terrible!
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
Which was a key factor why the tournament was given to Buffalo out of the three American sites that bid for it.

That, and the fact that Golisano and the Sabres guaranteed the WJC $4 million.
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Its actually rather interesting the IIHF is taking the tournament back to Europe in 2013. Seems like they're throwing away a lot of money, but I assume there are some political factors involved.

Finland opened the round of games today by pasting Switzerland 4-0.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
During breaks in games, they are advertising next year's tournament to be held at Edmonton and Calgary. They are setting up priority seating lotteries because of the expected demand. So, yes, they can brag about how endowed they are...

... booed another country's national anthem at a sporting event (or perhaps anywhere).
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Maybe they aren't upset with the USA as a whole just upset with the neighborhood near the arena that resembles a "Zombie Wasteland".

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/pu...the-hockey-world-hockey-world-?urn=nhl-301095

Emerson Etem of Team USA had to apologise for his tweet that portrayed a less than flattering view of Buffalo, NY.

However, hockey bloggers around the world have been highly critical of the host city:

Two sports bloggers from Sweden who are here covering the tournament had this to say.

"Coming to Buffalo was like falling into a scene from the movie "28 Days Later" minus all the zombies. The streets were horrible fate," bloggers said.

A fan from Finland also had negative comments. "Downtown is like a ghost city after six p.m. so all you can do is sit in a hotel lobby bar. HSBC is a nice arena but take one wrong exit from the highway and you find yourself in a very, very, very scary ghetto," the Finland fan said.
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The advertising to let the fans know that the tournament may be located somewhere else next year may have been a smart move since the majority of the fans attending seem to think that having the tournament in Buffalo was a mistake.
 
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Okay, Bob McKenzie just repeated the "Brock Nelson didn't return" after his upper body injury line, yet several here have claimed he blocked a shot in OT on Sunday after the hit. Who's right, and is there video proof online?
 
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moose97 said:
Okay, Bob McKenzie just repeated the "Brock Nelson didn't return" after his upper body injury line, yet several here have claimed he blocked a shot in OT on Sunday after the hit. Who's right, and is there video proof online?
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Either way he isn't playing tonight. Neither is Morin.
Hopefully neither is out that long...
 
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I don't think Kassian deserved a game for that.

Best wishes towards a speedy recovery for the Czech player, though.
 
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Couple of things. Canadians have bought over 63% of the tickets for the WJC in Buffalo, and a similar percentage last time it was in the States in Grand Forks. The harsh reality is that USA Hockey can not come close to selling out or making money when they host the WJC without Canadian fans. Another thing. I don't think a WJC game has ever been held in a Canadian rink as small as that Niagara U. rink I'm watching the Swedes beat the Russians in right now. No one in the world supports U-20 hockey like Canadian fans, no one.

As for Canadian fans cheering against USA, what do you think is going to happen?! Canadians tend to cheer for the underdogs. USA is a big rival for Canada in all things -- there's what, 33 million Canadians and over 300 million Americans? So of course Canadians will do whatever they can to beat Americans in any sport, and probably cheer for anyone playing the USA (except probably the Russians ...). That's sports. Not life. Canada is USA's biggest trade partner, and most loyal ally (except for the Bush misadventure in Iraq ...). That will probably never change ... unless you vote in another Bush or Caribou Barbie.
 
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The Drunken Canucks cheer against the US no matter who they are playing, including the Russsians. Who cares though? Screw them. Makes beating their smarmy punk arses and seeing the entire country on suicide watch all the better.
 
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