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IIHF Quarterfinal Recap: Hockey Season's Best Day?
It's tough to find a single day in the hockey calendar as exciting and full of top quality play as the quarterfinals of the IIHF World Championships. Sure, the Stanley Cup Playoffs provides drama on a nightly basis, and the World Junior tournament kicks into high gear in the semifinals, but...
IIHF World Championships: What's Done, and What's Ahead
This will be a double-up post, acting as both a refresher and a look ahead at the rest of the tournament. It'll also serve as Friday's Open Thread for today's action. With four games in the books, it's time to start looking at the possibilities for the tournament that's left. Here's your...
IIHF World Championships: Day 4 Open Thread
Each team has played 2 games, so perhaps it's a good time to look at the current standings after the first weekend of action: Helsinki Group Rank Team Record Pts GD 1 2-0-0-0 6 +5 2 2-0-0-0 6 +2 3 1-1-0-0 5 +6 4 1-0-1-0 4 E 5 1-0-0-1 3 -2 6 0-0-0-2 0 -2 7 ...
IIHF Worlds Recap: Small Swedish Crowds Cause Price Slashing
Well, this wasn't exactly the idea the organizers had in mind when they decided to have Stockholm and Helsinki split he hosting duties for the next two World Championships. There were two traditional European powers, who both wowed the audience in Slovakia last year, meeting in the Finals. It was...
IIHF World Championships: Day 2 Open Thread
I'll get more of a recap of the action so far after today, but for now let's focus on the games going on for Day 2: Game Team 1 Team 2 City CEST Start EST Start 7 Switzerland Kazakhstan Helsinki 2:00 PM 8:00 AM 8 Latvia Russia Stockholm 4:15 PM 10:15 AM 9 Canada United...
IIHF World Championships: Day 1 Open Thread
We've got a full slate of six games today to kick of the 2012 IIHF World Championships. Here's a quick list of games to use as a guide. For North Americans, the games start bright and early... so the early games, including the debut of the United States, might be over by the time you read this. ...
IIHF World Championship Predictions
OK, here we go. My NHL playoffs predictions this year have been so bad, and my World Junior ones were pretty dismal (USA for gold, they end up in the relegation round), so I guess this is my chance to redeem myself. Or continue making hilariously awful predictions to close out my season. First,...
2012 IIHF World Championships Preview: The Contenders
And now, for part three of the special: the top five world ranked teams in the tournament. It's this group of teams that have walked away with the title most often in recent years, although for some of them it's starting to be a real drought again. Canada last won in 2007, Sweden in 2006, and...
Third Period Suomi Wave Leads Leijonat to Gold
It took only sixteen years, but once again, Finland are the World Champions. The IIHF's Twitter feed stated that it was the first time since the 1995 Champions that Finland didn't have a player from that original championship roster, and officially the torch for a new batch of Finnish heroes to...
IIHF WC: Czechs and Russians Battle for Bronze
Bronze medal games are viewed by some countries as simply consolation prizes, and that description fits the two teams that are facing each other here quite well. With their deep, star studded rosters, the Czech Republic and Russia no doubt believe they deserved to be playing a rematch of last...
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