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Title: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on April 24, 2009, 02:08:57 PM
Official website http://www.iihf.com/channels/iihf-world-championship-oc09/ (http://www.iihf.com/channels/iihf-world-championship-oc09/)

Any ice hockey fans here? I love to watch World Championships! Of course I support Russia :) Now the first game Russia vs. Germany begins )))
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: HeyJude18 on April 24, 2009, 04:42:09 PM
I'm still watching NHL playoffs!  Unfortunately my team's out  :o

BUT of course Canada will win, we'll redeem ourselves after the loss to the Russians last year!  LOL
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: DarkSweetLady on April 26, 2009, 08:25:29 PM
NHL!

 Penguins!!!!! :)

As far as Worlds.... no clue.... canada!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: HeyJude18 on April 26, 2009, 10:09:25 PM
I just got home from dinner and Canada was beating Hungary 4-0 at the end of the first
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 01, 2009, 11:55:39 AM
Preliminary Round

2 A FRI 24 APR 16:15 BLR - CAN 1 - 6
3 B FRI 24 APR 20:15 SUI - FRA 1 - 0
5 C SAT 25 APR 16:15 USA - LAT 4 - 2
6 D SAT 25 APR 16:15 NOR - FIN 0 - 5
10 A SUN 26 APR 16:15 SVK - BLR 1 - 2
11 B SUN 26 APR 20:15 RUS - FRA 7 - 2
14 D MON 27 APR 16:15 CZE - NOR 5 - 2
15 C MON 27 APR 20:15 LAT - SWE 3 - 2
17 B TUE 28 APR 16:15 RUS - SUI 4 - 2
20 A TUE 28 APR 20:15 CAN - SVK 7 - 3
23 C WED 29 APR 20:15 SWE - USA 6 - 5
24 D WED 29 APR 20:15 FIN - CZE 4 - 3
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 01, 2009, 11:57:53 AM
According to statistics Canada plays great! Russia plays good too but frays ours nerves  :)

Tomorrow's games
RUS - SWE 6 - 5 in OTime - Hard but very interesting play!
CAN - CZE 5 - 1 - Devastating score :)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: HeyJude18 on May 01, 2009, 04:05:49 PM
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CAN - CZE 5 - 1 - Devastating score :)

Wow, and the Canadian media was saying that it was a game that was going to give the Canadians a run for their money (as compared to the others)!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 02, 2009, 03:45:47 PM
I'm watching now Czech Republic versus Slovakia. After the second period Czech leads 8-0. It is frankly pitiful  :( Czechs are easily smashing Slovaks.

In about 2 hours Russia will play against the USA :) I think it will be a very interesting game!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 07, 2009, 03:50:30 AM
Russia scored Belarus 4:3 in a very hard game and the USA scored Finland 3:2!

The hockey is such an unpredictable game!
Otherwise one draw the following conclusion:
During championship Finland beat many teams including Canada, but they lost to Belarus and to the USA. Russia beat every team including Belarus and the USA, so Russia have to win Canada if they meet  :P
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: HeyJude18 on May 08, 2009, 01:08:46 AM
^as you may think Dmitry lol!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 08, 2009, 01:34:33 PM
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^as you may think Dmitry lol!

Sure thing  ;)


Today will see who will fight in final!
(http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1852/iihf.jpg)
Two teams from North America vs. two European teems.
By the way the US team do their best since last championship. In 2008 they lost to Finland in Quarter-final, now they won! Great job!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Kevin on May 08, 2009, 01:45:43 PM
We don't get icehockey much on TV here, and when we did I found it unwatchable. It moved so fast I couldn't see the puck and it just looked like a bunch of guys skating willy nilly about the place.
But I lived in Sweden for a year and got into it. Amazing how the more I watched it the slower it seemed to get until finally I could see the puck and make sense of the tactics.
Come on Svenska!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 08, 2009, 04:29:33 PM
Russia - USA 3 - 2 !! Very difficult game!!!
Teams showed equal game with variable advantage.
Russia played very strange, nervous.

GO Canada!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 08, 2009, 08:27:55 PM
Congratulations Canada! Canada scored Sweden 3 - 1! It was an interesting game!

May 10 RUS - CAN - super game!  :)

Again we meet in final!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Bobber on May 08, 2009, 09:51:58 PM
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We don't get icehockey much on TV here, and when we did I found it unwatchable. It moved so fast I couldn't see the puck and it just looked like a bunch of guys skating willy nilly about the place.
But I lived in Sweden for a year and got into it. Amazing how the more I watched it the slower it seemed to get until finally I could see the puck and make sense of the tactics.
Come on Svenska!

I guess I should live in Sweden for a year as well.
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: HeyJude18 on May 09, 2009, 03:08:07 AM
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Again we meet in final!

Except this time we'll kick some Russian butt :)  (ps, have I ever mentioned that deep down I love Russians? lol)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 10, 2009, 04:27:39 PM
Sweden scored the USA 4 - 2 and got bronze!
It seems the USA lost a "psychological war" during last minutes of match
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 10, 2009, 09:03:48 PM
I'm happy!
(http://www.chess-online.ru/images/smiles/ej.gif) (http://www.chess-online.ru/images/smiles/bp.gif) (http://www.chess-online.ru/images/smiles/ej.gif) (http://www.chess-online.ru/images/smiles/bp.gif) (http://www.chess-online.ru/images/smiles/ej.gif) (http://www.chess-online.ru/images/smiles/bp.gif)

It was fantastic game and very hard one! Russia scored 2-1!!! Our guys did their best! Thanks Canada for a great play!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 10, 2009, 09:12:08 PM
2008 IIHF World Championship
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/1583/2008.jpg)
2009 IIHF World Championship
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9430/2009g.jpg)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Jane on May 10, 2009, 09:12:15 PM
Congratulations and celebrations!!!!!!!!!!  Who will go to work tomorrow!????????? It`s time to celebrate!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 10, 2009, 09:19:48 PM
Thanks Jane! We don't work tomorrow because of the Victory Day we celebrate on the 9th of May. So plus one holiday we have )))
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: BlueMeanie on May 11, 2009, 09:17:13 AM
Congratulations!
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: HeyJude18 on May 12, 2009, 03:21:17 AM
Darn it all!!!!  Apparently not many Canadians actually watched the game...  (I was at work, I didn't have a chance to see it.  Funny being I work in a sports store.)

Congratulations to Russia though.  They played hard, the deserve it.
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship 2009
Post by: Dmitry on May 19, 2010, 05:34:04 AM
Ice Hockey World Championship 2010

(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4290/hockeyy.jpg)

Again: Russia vs. Canada )))
Now in Quarterfinal on the 20th of May

(http://imageshack.us/m/825/5224/2010iihfworldchampionsh.jpg)
Title: Ice Hockey World Championship 2011
Post by: Dmitry on May 13, 2011, 06:49:46 AM
Yesterday Russia beat Canada like an year ago in a very hard and very strange and very interesting game. Today we'll see two very interesting games. I believe Czech will beat Sweden, and Russia will beat Finland. The final match will be really a tough one. Czechs do their best on the current Championship.

(http://imageshack.us/m/546/182/2011iihfworldchampionsh.jpg)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: HeyJude18 on May 13, 2011, 12:40:19 PM
Hm, interesting how this is working out!  (Not gonna lie, I've been paying more attention to the NHL playoffs than the World Hockey Championships)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on May 14, 2011, 06:17:21 AM
To be true, I believe, Canadians send each year not their best players to the World Championship. I see also, all Canadians and Americans love NHL, and pay less attention to the World Championship.

By the way my forecast didn't come true. Sweden beat Czech, and Finland beat Russia. This year our players didn't show good game  :-\
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: HeyJude18 on May 15, 2011, 03:21:21 AM
Yeah, the world championships get A LOT less media coverage than the NHL playoffs.  If you think about it, that's where our best of the best players end up and then when their team's knocked out of the playoffs then they play in the world championships.  Even just a couple years ago in the NHL draft out of the top 10 draft picks, 7 were Canadian and 3 were Swedish.
Title: Ice Hockey World Championship 2011
Post by: Dmitry on May 18, 2012, 06:45:59 AM
2011

(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg819/scaled.php?server=819&filename=2011zy.jpg&res=landing)
Title: Ice Hockey World Championship 2012
Post by: Dmitry on May 18, 2012, 06:48:26 AM
2012

Here we go again!

(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg85/scaled.php?server=85&filename=2012tw.jpg&res=landing)

Hope, Russia will defeat Finland this time!
Unfortunately, Canada and the USA lost theirs games.
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: ibanez_ax on May 23, 2012, 10:06:56 PM
I'm guessing that logistically this is best time every year to have the World Championship.  Pity that it runs concurrently with the Stanley Cup playoffs which is what I will watch over the World Championship.  The little of the World Championship that I did watch was good hockey.
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Hombre_de_ningun_lugar on May 24, 2012, 02:50:23 AM
Why do only frozen countries play this game? :)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on May 28, 2012, 06:56:02 AM
Russian team did their best! Hurray! Russia is on the top of IIHF  ;yes

(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg171/scaled.php?server=171&filename=ihwc.jpg&res=landing)

I watched games in Internet in another country  :)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on May 28, 2012, 06:56:43 AM
Why do only frozen countries play this game? :)


Well, if South Africa is a frozen country...   ;D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHF_World_Ranking#Men.27s_rankings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHF_World_Ranking#Men.27s_rankings)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on May 17, 2015, 01:09:14 PM
Russia vs. Canada again!  cheer1
It will be a great game today!

(http://imageshack.com/a/img540/1954/WcREYd.jpg)
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Jimothy17 on May 18, 2015, 04:29:56 AM
Wow, great performance from Canada, 6-1 is quite the result. I feel for Alex Ovechkin though, two tough losses this week for the Great Eight.
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on May 18, 2015, 06:02:55 AM
Indeed, great! Canada played perfectly and showed highest class! They were very fast, accurately and had a reliable defense. I liked how they played. And I wonder what happend with Russia. Very bad play :-( Albeit, I saw from the very beginning of the championship that Russia do not play very good and have poor defense and as usual lose face-offs every time. It's a pity that we do not see interesting fight and saw some kind of tennis, as some Media tells.
Title: Re: Ice Hockey World Championship
Post by: Dmitry on May 20, 2016, 05:27:58 AM
The most interesting games during this weekend  cheer1 Go Russia!