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jnacc said:
For the longest time Canadians probably grew up dreaming about Stanley Cup championships with the Olympics being a long distant after thought. Simply put, Canada was not allowed to send their best to the Olympics so the value of an Olympic gold medal in hockey was suspect.

This is beginning to now change. Since the early 90's, millions of impressionable Canadian youths have been watching their country battle it out for supremacy on the word stage. TSN averages more viewers for this tourney than any others. I believe that over 3.5 million Canadians watched last year’s final. Winning a gold medal for your country is very much in vogue now in Canada and I suspect more so than even winning a Stanley Cup.

As for U.S players, at one time college hockey was everything but that time is now gone. Take a look at the composition of this year's U.S. WJC squad. Ten players on it have ties to the CHL and not the NCAA. Many many more are NTDP graduates whose sole purpose is to make the NHL and win medals for their country along the way. The NCAA is merely a way station on to bigger things. Sure the college boys would love to win a NCAA title but you can't tell me that it would mean more than a gold medal in the most prestigious armature hockey event in the world today.
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Actually, if a player wins a NCAA championship at a team like MN, and then has a career ending injury, he will always be able to turn his fame into a really good paying job in MPLS, selling bonds, real estate, insurance etc, and make a very comfortable living way beyond what he could otherwise expect. If the same thing happens to a player who's claim to fame is the WJC, when he is out of hockey, he has nothing, except he may be able to get a job making coffee at the Saskatoon Tim Horton's.
 
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Sweden is now up on Finland 5-1 in the 3rd.
Switzerland/Slovakia is about to start.
 
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Happy said:
Actually, if a player wins a NCAA championship at a team like MN, and then has a career ending injury, he will always be able to turn his fame into a really good paying job in MPLS, selling bonds, real estate, insurance etc, and make a very comfortable living way beyond what he could otherwise expect. If the same thing happens to a player who's claim to fame is the WJC, when he is out of hockey, he has nothing, except he may be able to get a job making coffee at the Saskatoon Tim Horton's.
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Only if he's from Minnesoooota. Face it Hap, Minny aint the center of the hockey world....never was and I'd argue that it's not even the center of hockey in the U.S. anymore.

These kids aren't playing so they could sell insurance or bonds for some little fly by night company in MPLS, they are playing to win and advance their hockey career and their is no finer amature tournament than the one we are watching here.
 
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Sweden beat Finland 7-1.
Sweden and Canada look to headed to a Gold medal rematch. Both very dominant.

The Swiss are leading Slovakia 1-0 in the 2nd period.
 
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brianvf said:
Sweden beat Finland 7-1.
Sweden and Canada look to headed to a Gold medal rematch. Both very dominant.

The Swiss are leading Slovakia 1-0 in the 2nd period.
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Interesting, with a solid win the Czechs might be able to overturn the GD tie breaker, although I'll admit it still unlikely.

After 2, the Slovaks are still behind 1-0.
 
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BoomGoestheDynamite said:
Interesting, with a solid win the Czechs might be able to overturn the GD tie breaker, although I'll admit it still unlikely.

After 2, the Slovaks are still behind 1-0.
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Very shocking about slovakia. switzerland looked god awful in the two games that I saw and barely beat Latvia. Russia will gladly take them in the crossover game. 'States better hope for a win tonight to get that bye, I don't know if they can beat Suomi.
 
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Swiss win 4-1. Not that surprising to me. Watching the US play both teams, it seemed like Switzerland was better. If I was the Russians, I wouldn't be completely thrilled with getting to play Switzerland. Conz could frustrate the hell out of the Commies. Maybe I'm crazy though.
 
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Dirty said:
Swiss win 4-1. Not that surprising to me. Watching the US play both teams, it seemed like Switzerland was better. If I was the Russians, I wouldn't be completely thrilled with getting to play Switzerland. Conz could frustrate the hell out of the Commies. Maybe I'm crazy though.
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No not crazy at all cause a hot goalie can make or break you in this tourney. Look what happened to the U.S. team last year. They peppered that Slovak goalie but simply couldn't get anything past him. So who knows, we may have our first upset this year during the Swiss-Russia match up.
 
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1-0 Russia at the end of the first period.

I'll take Finland in a quarterfinal. Thats a team we probably should beat 75 percent of the time. Of course after last year's debacle, nothings guaranteed.
 
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I don't think the most important question has been asked yet. Who has the name of the tournament? Switzerland's Nino Niederreiter seems like a pretty good one along with Finland's Eero Elo.
 
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Well, off to a new year's party at a home with cable, i.e. no NHL network. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Happy fricken' New Year's you lucky dogs.

Go USA!
 
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