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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
WE FOOLED THEM ALL BOYS.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, yes! I'll have to rewatch that bit a few times for sure. :)

Re: What's up with Your Team: Camp, Camp, Camp

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that might actually be true in Sieloff's case, since the same season he had that preseason NHL fight, he had five in the AHL. Don't know why you'd cherry pick the NHL fight stats of a guy who's only played one NHL game his whole career.

Also, even assuming that fights are indicative of the dirtiness of a player, the other guy being the instigator doesn't suggest anything in Sieloff's favor. He didn't start the fight, but the fight could very well have been started in response to something shitty he did.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
If now they could reveal in the final that they had Canada fooled too...

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I somehow only learned today that the final is a best of three? On one hand, I think that's kind of cool. On the other hand, I think it makes it much less likely to see an upset.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be hilarious. After all when they played Canada they were both already through.

Re: What's up with Your Team: Camp, Camp, Camp

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
sa

Should also be noted that's 5 fights in only 48 games played.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Halak has stolen a few series before, you never know.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the dream.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
lol, me too. The announcers said it like I should know and I sat here like "what, best of three??? since when??? is this to assure canada's victory more firmly???"

I have questions

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Also to assure more $$$

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It's such a weird format. I don't doubt that it was to squeeze as much money out of people as possible, but I'm thinking making it more likely for the favorite to win was a nice side effect for them.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Not my ideal final, but close to it. No sexy matchups for Bettman, all of my guys (except for two who won't be playing) get to go home, and I get to turn off the TV and stop caring about the whole stupid affair \o/

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Appropriate that a team made up of players from several countries is now carrying the world's hopes with it.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just impressive to me how every round has a different win/advancement condition. First round is by points, second round is single elimination, third round is best of three. Just, what.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and then when they cut to the management team they were all jumping up and down, too. It was so cute.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I would really like to hear the reasoning behind it. It's just bizarre.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I like how most of these are guys would never get a sniff of a gold medal came playing on their individual team, but now they get to together!

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Team Europe did an excellent job picking their goal song. It fits so well and it sounds so good.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
They said something about there being only 8 teams. They didn't want the final round to be decided by one game, but they couldn't figure out a way to get more games into the preceding rounds without unduly burdening a few teams.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not new or bizarre, it's how the WCoH has always been. It's because it was partly inspired by the Summit Series, which was, as the name implies, a series of games between two teams. When they decided to do the Canada Cup and then later the World Cup, they had to have a way to decide the finalists from an expanded field, but they still wanted to have the final be a series between the best.

The only bizarre part was the rly obvious attempt to engineer a USA/Canada final, which had a lot of people grumbling that they didn't just have a USA/Canada series instead if that's what they wanted.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think they really cared that much about Canada winning as much as making it to the finals in the first place. I think they were hoping for a Canada/US final match up (lots of side eye when the groups came out with Canada and US together with Europe and Czech) to milk for the $$$.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
DA

Yeah that's probably the best part to me, somewhat of a unique experience for many of them to play in a round like this internationally.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
1996's final was a best of three series, 2004's was just one game. For some reason, the 1981 Canada Cup final was also only a single game.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-25 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That's still six out of eight with a final series rather than a final game, so it's not bizarre or new.