Just letting you all know. 
Let me throw in my WOOHOO! too…
WOOHOO!!
Yeah, but we certainly tried to give it away.
We better play 60 minutes in the next game.
Czechs and Swedes are currently tied 2-2.
Is Brodeur the greatest goalie IN THE WORLD or what!
GO CANADA GO!!!
WHOOO HOOOOO!
Canada and Czechs tomorrow for the gold!!!
I’m really starting to think that Canada needs a new coach for the national team. The current seems out of his depth with all of the talent on the Canadian team. He only has one consistent line, and even they’ve been weak defensively. He has the strongest defence corps by far, but they’ve looked terrible out there. Canada hasn’t played well for a full game against any of the major hockey powers. Frankly, we’re lucky to have come this far as it is.
Well, to be fair, this years version is not our best but I agree with you. As far as getting this far? One answer; Brodeur doing his thing. I can’t stress my admiration for him strongly enough. No one in the league can steal a game the way he can.
We better play a full game tomorrow because the Czechs are going to be coming for us. We’ve burned them in the past and they are all about getting even.
To be honest, Brodeur has looked like he’s been fighting the puck a bit to me. Some of his saves have seemed quite unnatural and his positioning has been a bit off at times. He definitely closed the door today when he had to, though.
Go home boys!
<pours and toasts with C&C over ice>
I wish this was on TV here.
Wow. That was a terrible performance by Team Canada. I’m not going to blame Brodeur for that first goal, although I think if he was at his best, he would have stopped the shot that hit the post. That first goal is really the fault of Doan for not picking up the late man, and Souray for giving Jagr so much room. But the second goal? A open slapshot from the high slot? Brodeur has to make that save.
Not that it really would have mattered, what with the way Canada was playing. The only consistent line today was Draper’s line, and they were on the team to check, not to score. Gagne had some good shifts, but Thornton and Nash were invisible. If I didn’t already know what Canada’s roster was, I couldn’t even tell you who the rest of the forwards were. I certainly noticed the defence, though. Mostly when they were caught flat footed as the Czechs blew by them. Boyle’s a defensive liability out there. Jovanoski wasn’t much better, but at least he has size and even uses it on occasion. Hannan seemed mystified out there on the big ice. This may be the Sens fan in me talking, but I thought that the only consistent defencemen Canada’s had for the whole tournament were Phillips and Redden.
The Czechs, though, were awesome. Their defence was excellent. They were backchecking on every shift, which is rare for a European team. Whenever Canada made a mistake, they jumped on it and got an opportunity. Vokoun was as good as he had to be. He made Healey look like an idiot for critizing him before the game, not that it’s hard to do.
Congratulations to the Czechs on winning the Championship.
It was a good game, and there were a few lucky saves by the Czechs. The neat thing about this for the Czechs is that this is Jagr’s first World Championships win…He’s been absent from the previous teams.
I must add that Smyth acted like a jerk.
-Tcat
Didn’t see the final, but congrats to the Czechs - they always play a good hard game.
I think I speak for a surprising number of Canadian hockey fans - not all of them, but a historically high number - when I say I didn’t give a crap about this. “World Championship”? Is that the same as the Canada Cup, or I guess it’s the World Cup now? How many international tournaments are there now, anyway? I swear they’ve been pushing some international hockey tournament on us every month. “Tune in for updates from the World Junior Cham… no, it’s the Women’s Internationals this month… er, no… is it April?”
Good for the Czechs and everything, but the excitement’s just not there like it used to be.
Come on, RickJay. The World Championship. You know…held during the NHL playoffs, and generally won by the country with the most star players on the worst NHL teams. I realize the whole lockout thing has messed with the event by allowing anyone who wanted to play to be there, but I’d have thought you’d have remembered. 
RickJay , I think I reluctantly agree with you. Normally I would be glued in front of the TV for something like this but today I went with some of the boys to play golf.
I have always been a die-hard fan and so are most of my family but I think the strike has had deeper repercusions than a lot of people think. I am sick to death of millionaires arguing with billionaires over how to divide up the cash cow. Our local OHL team (the Frontenacs), now you know where I live, have provided me with all the hockey I needed this winter. Add to this, I have three grandsons playing rep hockey and by Xmas I didn’t miss the NHL at all.
As for the Canadian performance today, from what I heard, it reminds me of something Gretz said once; " In an important game your best players need to be your best players". It seems that wasn’t the case today.