USA hockey out of contention

[MadeInNewJersey]

i would agree lundqvist has proven to be the better goalie so far, but in a tournament setting when you're on fire like niittymaki is that counts for a lot. should be quite the matchup

Absolutely, any goalie who can get hot as hell over a 2-week tourney can shift the entire tourney in favor of his team.

 

[Dark One]

That was a helluva game. Congrats to Lundqvist and Sweden.

 

[Hell Mike]

WÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ HOCKEY OLYMPIC MEDAL WÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ!!!!!!!!1

 

[Hell Mike]

go lidström

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I missed most of the game (only saw the 3rd period), but hell yeah I'll take it.

Add another accomplishment to the young Lundqvist's resume

 

[Hell Mike]

this calls for a beer and burger celebration! the last half minute was heart attack inducing

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Yeah, that was an insane flurry of activity by the Finns!

 

[Hell Mike]

Once again I thank the Swedish national hockey team for granting me this DELICIOUS hamburger and beer dinner

 

[Hell Mike]

oh and btw Maiden tix released tomorrow \m/

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

For the Swedish shows in November?

Enjoy Trivium

 

[Hell Mike]

yes.. and no. Got In Flames and Mastodon last time, that was no fun but I can take some gay crappiness for the sake of MAIDEN. I'm gonna buy tix for both Stockholm dates.

<-- should be in the smiley list

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I'm super fucking jealous, make no mistake about it. And as gay as this will sound, I bet Trivium is pretty cool in that setting, i.e. opening act hero worship in a big arena.

 

[Hell Mike]

Never heard 'em and probably won't before that either thanks to my kickass prejudices. we need DTP

 

[dorian gray]

awesome game this morning. one of the best ive ever seen.
niiiiitymaki was named tourny mvp or some shit. TOO BAD ONLY SHITTY USA GAMES WERE SHOWN HERE it woulda been nice to see more of finland and sweden

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

awesome game this morning. one of the best ive ever seen.
niiiiitymaki was named tourny mvp or some shit. TOO BAD ONLY SHITTY USA GAMES WERE SHOWN HERE it woulda been nice to see more of finland and sweden

Maybe if you had cable you wouldn've seen every game like the other 70% of the USA did.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

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Good post, you present your case for Lundqvist extremely well. I do think that the Olympics hold a high degree of weight as well. There is a ton of importance placed on winning that gold medal and I don't think that the majority of NHLers involved see it as a side competition by any means. I guarantee you it means a lot more to them than the grind of the regular season.

Nittymaki has also had his fair share of accolades. He led the AHL (not exactly a cakewalk league) Philadelphia Phantoms to the title during the lost NHL season, winning Playoff MVP honors in the process.

Anyway, obviously it will be difficult to make a wholly fair assessment about who is the best until a few years down the road. This season, Lundqvist indeed has better regular season numbers.

Bring on tomorrow and bring on Thursday. You can bet, no matter what happens tomorrow, Thursday's game will be extremely important to both goalies. Should make for a great contest.

not that Lundqvist played, but the Rangers didn't need him to

I'm bumping this because you forgot to, btw.

6-1 Rangers, LOLLERZ

 

[dorian gray]

haha yeah i saw that. good job flyers

 

[Erik]

Once again I thank the Swedish national hockey team for granting me this DELICIOUS hamburger and beer dinner

hahahaa

 

[Dark One]

not that Lundqvist played, but the Rangers didn't need him to

I'm bumping this because you forgot to, btw.

Have you laughs now, we'll see what happens when it counts.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

With only 23 games left, you better start thinking it counts right now. The Flyers are going nowhere. Ha ha ha

P.S. that was our backup goalie