I’m watching this right now (sadly not in HD), but this arena is extraordinary – it sounds like a soccer match. 75k German fans shouting constantly. Very glad Universal Sports is carried by Cox Cable, wish they were airing more games. Looks to be USA and Russia so far. Hope they show some Canada, too.

but went ahead and spent the 99 cents it took to see the game online. Really impressive online quality.

Stadium’s loud and neither team looks very organized.

I’m stuck at work as well, and they’re sticklers for bandwidth use, unfortunately. But I’m following this via liveblog on the IIHF website:

http://www.iihf.com/channels10/iihf-world-championship-wc10/news/news-singleview-world-championship/article/liveblogging-the-world-record-game.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=4063&cHash=23e70bcac0

It’s definitely not like watching it, but I suppose it’s something.

Huh. Chris Savage is reffing this game. He used to ref WHL games around here all the time.

Still scoreless, and early in the 2nd period, I believe.

look like theyre finally starting to get their legs.

Germany sticks home a rebound after a guy flung one on net on a wraparound.

just hit the crossbar on a power play. At least puck movement on the PP looks much better than it did in the first period.

Man, I wonder if this is the same IIHF writer as at the World Juniors, because if it is, I should have talked to him more. This is good stuff:

Correction to our first period assertion that we’d never heard louder whistling. Now that the Germans have the lead, the shrill derision heaped upon the American power play is roughly akin to a horde of Nazguls from The Lord of the Rings having a scream-off with a junior high girl’s school attending its first Jonas Brothers concert.

The whistles in European hockey venues is quite distracting and weird to this North American fan. Team USA can’t be liking that.

Uwe Krupp prefers his 1-0 games to be after 3 OT periods, but he’ll take this one.

The IIHF is trying to gouge people by watching on their website: SEVEN EUROS for a single game!

http://iihfworlds2010.infrontams.tv/

Forty for the whole pop, though, if you REALLY want to watch all the games that’s .70 Euros per game.

TSN.ca should be providing the feed for Canadian games, but likely only available in Canada.

USA ties it up…

hopefully they can stick one in the net here late.

Heading to OT. Germany totally played for the tie.

And then they win in OT. Yikes. Wait – they are going to review it…

Looks like it will hold up – seems like it should. Darn.

“Good” goal. USA loses. ick.

but the Germans certainly played well. Goalie stood on his head and they won a lot of puck battles, especially early on.

Just so you know, the top 3 in each group of 4 all advance. Finishing lower might just put you on a tougher path to victory in the end. But as long as USA beats Denmark they’ll be through no problem. Beat Finland and they probably would still finish first.

Germany desperately does not want to finish last, so these early games are huge for them.

First unofficial GDT of the site! Will set up another one for tomorrow for Canada/Italy. That probably won’t be very interesting, and will just be in a regular rink, but you never know.

To those who watched/followed this, was it a case of the Germans playing their typical trap game perfectly and the young USA team just not coping well with trying to break it down?

Felix Schutz. Plays for Portland in the AHL, a Buffalo Sabres prospect.

Final attendance tally: 77,803. Might have broken a couple of fire regulations to get that total.