How Great was it to see the USA Hockey team beat the favored Canadians 5-3 last night in Vancouver. The US outplayed Canada to the puck, played very focused, and mistake free. Ryan Miller played very well for US in goal, and Brodeur has been struggling a little bit for Canada. Its expected that Canada will be switching to Roberto Luongo as their goalie for their game with Germany on Tuesday. USA has won Group A, and will get a bye as Canada has to play Germany, in which they should win, and then they will play Russia who is a very skilled team as well. If Canada beats Russia, then they would have to play most likely Sweden who is very good as well. Canada has put themselves in a tough situation to win Gold. US will have to deal with Slovakia or Czech Republic along the way which are good teams, but not the Russians or Swedes. This was an upset, beating Canada in their house and their country. But its still nothing like the college players that filled the US team in Lake Placid that beat Russia (USSR at the time). These teams today are loaded with NHL talent. Canada has the flashy names, but US has some solid players as well. The Miracle team in Lake Placid beat a Russian machine that destroyed every team in its path including an NHL all-star squad in an exhibition game. Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the Miracle team in Lake Placid in 1980.
Hopefully the 2010 US team will continue to play well, and beat Switzerland later this week. Team USA is a much younger group than what they sent to Torino in 2006, and they are playing a lot better too.
How Great was it to see the USA Hockey team beat the favored Canadians 5-3 last night in Vancouver. The US outplayed Canada to the puck, played very focused, and mistake free. Ryan Miller played very well for US in goal, and Brodeur has been struggling a little bit for Canada. Its expected that Canada will be switching to Roberto Luongo as their goalie for their game with Germany on Tuesday. USA has won Group A, and will get a bye as Canada has to play Germany, in which they should win, and then they will play Russia who is a very skilled team as well. If Canada beats Russia, then they would have to play most likely Sweden who is very good as well. Canada has put themselves in a tough situation to win Gold. US will have to deal with Slovakia or Czech Republic along the way which are good teams, but not the Russians or Swedes. This was an upset, beating Canada in their house and their country. But its still nothing like the college players that filled the US team in Lake Placid that beat Russia (USSR at the time). These teams today are loaded with NHL talent. Canada has the flashy names, but US has some solid players as well. The Miracle team in Lake Placid beat a Russian machine that destroyed every team in its path including an NHL all-star squad in an exhibition game. Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the Miracle team in Lake Placid in 1980. 
Hopefully the 2010 US team will continue to play well, and beat Switzerland later this week. Team USA is a much younger group than what they sent to Torino in 2006, and they are playing a lot better too.
This is cool. If USA makes it to the finals will you and Susie have a championship hockey game party with cheese dip?
ReplyDeleteNice to see you have your PH.D now. We will have a gathering for sure and dip.
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