world-championships Stories - Canes Country
Bits: One More Year of Mustaches and Mohawks, Gillies Re-signed
If you've not been told your favorite hockey team is a disgrace to the NHL in the last 24 hours, then you probably aren't aware that the Isles have re-signed Trevor Gillies to a one year, two-way contract yesterday. [Fanshot discussion here] [Team release here] The merits of the move will be...
Sunday Links and IIHF Supplemental Discipline For Hit On Radek Martinek
[Updated with IIHF rules and video support of headshot policy @10:40 AM EDT ] For those who missed yesterday's news from the world championships, Radek Martinek suffered a concussion and hematoma and will most likely miss the remainder of the world championships in Austria. [Fanshot Here]...
Sunday Links: 'Because these kids are hopped up on sugar' edition.
A news item many of us missed this week was NHL disciplinarian Colin Cambell's *appearance* on The Best of Cybulski & Compa on TSN Radio 1050. Lighthouse Hockey will have more on the podcast tomorrow and we have plans for a roundtable (translated: we don't have it scheduled yet, but we're getting...
Czechs surprise hockey world, shock Russians ... MPS makes All-Star team
Hands up, anybody who saw that coming. Didn't think so. As the week opened, Czech hockey fans were bemoaning what had been a miserable performance by their team, which was on the verge of missing the medal round after disappointing losses to Norway and Switzerland. Commenter Czechboy was...
Rangers News: Dubi Leading World Champs in Scoring
The United States hockey team may only be participating in the relegation rounds at this point of the tournament, but forward Brandon Dubinsky, who was named to the squad after his Rangers were eliminated from the playoff race in April, now leads the entire tourney in scoring with three goals...
Canada-Czech Republic Post Game: Beer Fest Yawn Fest
WC Game Six: Canada 2 Czech Republic 3 Another international game, another game without heart from Canada's team. This has been an atypically sloppy and undisciplined affair, but watching it in Czech (the language, not the country) has provided an even greater challenge to stay motivated to...
World Championships: Team Canada Weekend Recap
After losing to Switzerland last week, Team Canada bounced back to beat Norway in a 12-1 blowout on Friday. Jordan Eberle in his first game with the team led Canada with a goal and three assists. This was the most goals scored by Canada at a World Championship since 1967. Steven Stamkos was kept...
Eberle sparkles in World Senior debut
WC Game Four: Canada 12, Norway 1 Usually I write a more balanced report about the whole of Team Canada, but this is after all an Oiler blog, and today the young Oiler prospect really was the story. I spent much of what was an otherwise desultory game isolating on the youngster, and was very...
WC & Oiler news: Eberle added to Team Canada roster
"We'll be OK. We have a lot of guys with a lot of firepower on this team and I don't think a lot of it's been unleashed yet." -- Jordan Eberle, on Team Canada's scoring depth Judging from that comment, Jordan Eberle doesn't lack for confidence. :) The quote comes from a Globe & Mail article that...
World Championships: Canada loses game 4-1 and more importantly Stamkos
Team Canada got handed it's first loss of the tournament yesterday by Switzerland, losing 4-1. The biggest news out of the game was the upper body injury that Steven Stamkos got by getting hit in the jaw by Swiss player Timo Helbing's elbow. After the hit Stamkos did return but then sat out the...
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