anyone been watching the pre-tournament exhibition games?
Canada/U.S.A. were some pretty intense games. Lot of edge there. Both teams showed that they are true contenders IMO.
Team North America (NA) has made Team Europe look like they were skating in sludge. Chara looks done. Josi looks like the only D who can play with the speed that NA has. In today's (Sunday's) 2nd game b/w the 2 teams NA finally had to do some work in the 3rd period as Europe finally showed some pride and came back from 5-1 down to 5-4. MacKinnon has been NA's best Forward so far IMO. Ekblad the best D (which was to be expected).
I didn't watch any of the other games as a whole, but have seen highlights and there have been ups and downs from the other 4 squads (as expected) with them all splitting their first 2 exhibition games. Biggest surprise I guess is that Ovechkin is on the 3rd line for Russia.
Looking forward to the real games starting on Saturday - I'm going to the Canada/Czech Republic game.
Hope some of the other hockey guys on here are as interested as I am and we can have some good discussion on here for the next couple of weeks.
Canada/U.S.A. were some pretty intense games. Lot of edge there. Both teams showed that they are true contenders IMO.
Team North America (NA) has made Team Europe look like they were skating in sludge. Chara looks done. Josi looks like the only D who can play with the speed that NA has. In today's (Sunday's) 2nd game b/w the 2 teams NA finally had to do some work in the 3rd period as Europe finally showed some pride and came back from 5-1 down to 5-4. MacKinnon has been NA's best Forward so far IMO. Ekblad the best D (which was to be expected).
I didn't watch any of the other games as a whole, but have seen highlights and there have been ups and downs from the other 4 squads (as expected) with them all splitting their first 2 exhibition games. Biggest surprise I guess is that Ovechkin is on the 3rd line for Russia.
Looking forward to the real games starting on Saturday - I'm going to the Canada/Czech Republic game.
Hope some of the other hockey guys on here are as interested as I am and we can have some good discussion on here for the next couple of weeks.