smiles 0 #1 January 6, 2006 Canada won the gold medal on Thurs. night when they blanked Russia 5-0 to win their second straight world junior title. Head coach Brent Sutter, great defence, great hitting, superior goldtending & 22 hearts of GOLD, what a team!!! Teams like Russia, the United States and Finland had a wealth of talent-- but Canadian's know their hockey eh?--despite having a younger and less-experienced roster. While the non-goal that should have been a goal for Russia (it wasn't disallowed, it just wasn't called) would have changed the score, it would not have changed the end result. The person to blame is not the ref, or goal judge, its the Russian coach. Also a team with heart uses a situation like that to build on. If Canada was disallowed a goal it would have made them play harder to get it back, but not Russia. However, it does illustrate that the IHF needs to review the system for officiating. The performance of the American referee was the best of any of Canada's games, but, maybe the IHF should consider going to a two man system like the NHL (especially with no centre ice). SMileseustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanuckInUSA 0 #2 January 6, 2006 Congrats to Team Canada. They played very very well all tournament long. Of course I'm not very impressed with what happened in a certain semi-final game Wednesday evening. Pretty classless by some of these Vancouver fans. There is more to life than the game of hockey and these fans should be ashamed of themselves. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #3 January 6, 2006 DANG! I wish I could have seen that on TV here. It's like pulling teeth to see Hockey here (and to make things worse....my Fav. TEAM is Tampa bay Lightning) NOt popular in PA._______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arai 0 #4 January 6, 2006 canuck what happened? (the classless comment) I tried to watch as many games as I could and I know that canada was chearing any team playing against the US. I've seen some articles mentioning why canada was booing the us team and it totally left out what was my understanding of the whole reason the us started getting boed. At the end of the canada/us game where canada was sliding a puck into an empty net for the win, Jack Johnson threw an super cheap elbow and ( I think) should have been suspended for a game.) after that canada cheared hard for any US opponant, and boed any time jack johnson touched the puck. what your talking about sounds harsher though so I'm curious as to what happened. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #5 January 7, 2006 great game! Justin Pogge made two awesome saves in the early going that may have saved the game. If the Russians had gotten up two goals I think they would have won. (My boss played for Canada in the 1968 Olympics and played in the Gold Medal game against Russia that year. They got beat by the Russians. He said they've always been the same...if they get a lead they are hard to beat. He felt the saves by Pogge were crucial.) This was a complete team effort by Canada...who were definite underdogs coming in, with the US and Russia both expected to be the Gold medal contenders....and a great job of coaching by Brent Sutter. Just an excellent hockey game! I'm looking forward to watching some of these young guys at Saskatoon Blades games....a lot of them are from the WHL. The Russian goalie, Khudobin, is the Blades' goaltender, but he has had an inconsistent year for the Blades...brilliant one game and a sieve the next..-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arai 0 #6 January 7, 2006 I never saw any booing of the american team, I saw cheering for their opposition and booing for jack johnson. but i did miss a game or two Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiles 0 #7 January 7, 2006 The fans were obnoxious (as usual) You would think they would be booing Bertuzzi now--- sure Jack Johnson was in the wrong when he took out Downie but the excessive booing was beyond the scope of the wrongdoing. Hockey fans here are crazy SMiles Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
