Official Torino 2006 thread

Mairosu · Post by **Mairosu** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:40 pm

Germany one-nil up on Czech republic, whose key players are seemingly in a jetlag. Power play goal by Tino Boos, and a rather lucky one at that - he diverted a slapper from the point into the net.

German defense is hangin' tough so far.

eme · Post by **eme** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:50 pm

Go Finland! Seems as we're going to do some heavy damage on powerplay, and thats never a bad thing. NiittymÃ¤ki also played well, though the match wasnt that tough tor him anyways.

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:07 pm

Well hopefully live streaming won't fill up too much of my download limit-this Germany game is good...Hope Russia and Slovakia is close too.

flea · Post by **flea** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:12 pm

Well, the czechs have turned around the result with 2 goals from Kaberle (nice pass from Jagr on the second!!!).

This is normal, I think, the germans will play against the swiss for the fourth spot of this group. Both, swiss and germans, are better than Italy, but weaker than canadiens, finns and czechs.

I follow the games on a live stream (streamtvnow.com) because here in Spain there isnt a great coverage about hockey...I think they will do some games on TV, but I prefer to hear the guys from NBC who know about hockey than the spanish commentators who stink

This is gonna be a great tournament!!!

Greets

Post by **E5150_ca** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:59 pm

Hedjuk just completely missed the net on a penalty shot. Bad Luck. Still 2-1 for Czechs midway through the 3rd.

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:08 pm

Apparently we're are on unlimited broadband limit, so there will be no download limit (they will just get mighty slow). That means I can watch the live streams as I wish

How many progress from each group? I hope it is not like the WCs, were those teams even at the bottom of the group get a second chance..

Post by **E5150_ca** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:11 pm

Jagr scores on what looked like a harmless play, 3-1 with less then 2 minutes to play.

Would anyone be interested in play-by-play (provided by me

) for the Russian - Slovakia game? It starts in ~45 minutes and I can set up a chat room on aol or yahoo or something if enough people are interested. I kinda feel bad cause I get the game in HD and you guys have to watch on pants interenet feeds.

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:15 pm

4-1 it finishes.

The main Hockey Arena is nice, but the other one is terrible-there are no stands behind the goals.

Russia-Slovakia next?

flea · Post by **flea** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:33 pm

BlackCats101 wrote:Apparently we're are on unlimited broadband limit, so there will be no download limit (they will just get mighty slow). That means I can watch the live streams as I wish

How many progress from each group? I hope it is not like the WCs, were those teams even at the bottom of the group get a second chance..

The four first of each group go directly to the quarterfinals, the bottom two teams of each group play for 9th place.

Good game between the Slovaks and the Russians!!! Watch out for the Slovaks!!! Good defense and good offense!!! They will be hard to play and can beat everybody!!

Right now its tied at 3

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:03 pm

Slovakia were my dark horses for the tournament. For those of you following the link on NOS, the game is on Channel 2, not 5 as stated.

Slovakia were poor on that PP

GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
gREAT breakaway

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:15 pm

Gaborik as well

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:17 pm

GOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
yes!!! how quick???

EDIT: thats it-what a great result. Superb Gaborik-saw both the goals-his speed!

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:24 pm

Latvia ahead as well

Might have to watch that as well...

Systemfel · Post by **Systemfel** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:25 pm

What a game between Russia and Slovakia. Such skill and speed!

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:28 pm

Systemfel wrote:What a game between Russia and Slovakia. Such skill and speed!

Yeah I know...
I am facing a dilemma at the moment-do I stick with the rubbish pictures but Barry Davies commentary on the BBC, or go for the decent pictures but no commentsry?

Post by **E5150_ca** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:45 pm

Russian coaching =

They had there 4th line out on a key powerplay late in the game, and when there was 2 minutes left in teh game and it was still tied up. Good game though

And USA just tied it up as I was typing this.

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:46 pm

yep-its 3-3-cruel deflection.

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:56 pm

They are gonna have to make better use of their PP, Latvia

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:18 pm

That's it-3-3!

Fortune · Post by **Fortune** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:18 am

It was very nice match between Slovakia and Russia, in high speed tempo. Nice goals, hard hits (Zdeno Chara rulezZ

). I think that in some moments Russians play very hard, especially when Ovechkin hits hard on board Ronnie Petrovicky and ugly foul on Gaborik. It was nice match that I really enjoy. The biggest minus on match was referee.

Systemfel · Post by **Systemfel** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:43 am

Fortune wrote:It was very nice match between Slovakia and Russia, in high speed tempo. Nice goals, hard hits (Zdeno Chara rulezZ ). I think that in some moments Russians play very hard, especially when Ovechkin hits hard on board Ronnie Petrovicky and ugly foul on Gaborik. It was nice match that I really enjoy. The biggest minus on match was referee.

Ovechkin's hit on Petrovicky RULED. CHARA sucks.

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:25 pm

Today:
Men's Prelim. Round - Group A Game 7 - Finland v Italy, 11:00 Palasport Olimpico
Men's Prelim. Round - Group A Game 8 - Switzerland v Czech Republic, 12:00 Torino Esposizioni
Men's Prelim. Round - Group B Game 9 - Sweden v Russia, 15:00 Palasport Olimpico
Men's Prelim. Round - Group B Game 10 - Slovakia v Lavia, 16:00 Torino Esposizioni
Men's Prelim. Round - Group A Game 11 - Canada v Germany, 19:00 Palasport Olimpico
Men's Prelim. Round - Group B Game 12 - United States v Kazakhstan, 20:00 Torino Esposizioni

Sweden-Russia looks good...

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:28 pm

Hmmm, the NOS link doesn't work on the school computers because of the rubbish resolution...
I'll probably miss the Sweden game as well...darn English literature!

BlackCats101 · Post by **BlackCats101** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:03 pm

BlackCats101 wrote:Hmmm, the NOS link doesn't work on the school computers because of the rubbish resolution...
I'll probably miss the Sweden game as well...darn English literature!

EDIT: 4-0 Finland and 1-1 in the Czech game...

Mairosu · Post by **Mairosu** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:14 pm

Ouch, Czechs slipped to a 3-2 defeat.