Turn your head and Nabokov.  Now I know why San Jose chokes in the playoffs year in and year out.  When it comes to big games, Evgeni Nabokov is just plain terrible. In the two game’s he’d played, he was awesome. You couldn’t ask for anything more from him. In this game, all you could [...]

Through a series of unfortunate events, Canada meets Russia a few rounds too early. As I’ve said before, there are other worthy teams that have more than a legitimate chance.  However, these two feature the most stars, and would make for the best final matchup.  Instead, each team was upset in the round robin, and [...]

Mike Richards – A standout player on the Flyers and in the NHL overall, but not on this national team.  Richards had
one goal in the first game, and has registered 0 points since then.  He hasn’t gotten a ton of minutes, and a quick experiment playing with Crosby yielded no results.  As the level of [...]

What a great Sunday this should be! We have three straight blockbuster games lined up.  Russia-Czech Republic, USA-Canada, and Finland-Sweden.
Game 1:
Jaromir Jagr has been playing out of his mind, and proving on almost every shift that he left the NHL because he wanted to, not because he couldn’t play.  He’s just as strong, and just [...]

As of this writing, half of the teams have played 2 games. And right now, there are two pervading themes to this tournament: the favorites have not pulled away from the pack, and goaltending rules.  Case in point: Canada needed a shootout to beat Switzerland, and Russia lost in a shootout to Slovakia.  Meanwhile, the [...]