2008-2009 IIHF World Jr. Championships

[RadioGaGa 162]

Team Canada played their last Pre-Tourney game last night. Check out Tavares' 2nd goal.

The reaction of PK Subban is pretty good too.

http://tsn.ca/world_jrs/story/?id=260754&a...s=topStory_main

[Dupes 1]

Tavares score a great goal!

[reyno2ac 0]

Sweet goal! And I just realized I'm using the same gloves as canada

[noodle3872 40]

It looks like playing lacrosse has certainly help John's hand-eye co-ordination!!!!

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  noodle3872 said:

It looks like playing lacrosse has certainly help John's hand-eye co-ordination!!!!

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Not sure if you watched all the videos...but he says that in one of them...

[noodle3872 40]

  RadioGaGa said:

  noodle3872 said:

It looks like playing lacrosse has certainly help John's hand-eye co-ordination!!!!

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Not sure if you watched all the videos...but he says that in one of them...

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I actually hadn't seen the video!

[-knowlzey- 0]

I was practicing one Tuesday at the Hershey Centre and Team Sweden was practicing before us! Unfortunately only about 5 guys were still on shooting pucks around, Hedman and others had gone off the ice already.

[jds 20]

I was sitting right above and behind the Slovak goal for that one and couldn't believe my eyes. The place went nuts.

[Viking 1]

I picked the right year to leave town for Christmas. I'll be back just in time for the tournament to be over when I get there.

[gelowitz 0]

  -knowlzey- said:

I was practicing one Tuesday at the Hershey Centre and Team Sweden was practicing before us! Unfortunately only about 5 guys were still on shooting pucks around, Hedman and others had gone off the ice already.

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They were practicing at Tomken Arena in Mississauga after I refereed a game...wow, those kids are skilled.

[Gummer12 134]

anywhere streaming games online? Or a schedule of who plays when/who, and did anyone see Tavares' goal?

[-knowlzey- 0]

TSN had online streaming last year, I don't know if they are doing it again this year. And what tavares goal are you talking about? He's had like 6 since the start of pre-tournament.

[Gummer12 134]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_dadd...?urn=nhl,131260

That one

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  wex12 said:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_dadd...?urn=nhl,131260

That one

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Yep I saw that, freaking unbelievable.

[Law Goalie 147]

TSN is indeed streaming some (though it seems not all) of the games. Go to watch.tsn.ca and look for "Live on TSN.ca" on the left-side menu. It's pretty well-hidden. I watched the Canada-Czech game there, but I don't know if they showed US-Germany or Latvia-Russia, or how they dealt with the overlap between those two games.

[TCsnipes9 0]

NHL Network is carrying team USA, and team Canada's games as well.

Here's a link to the brodcast schedule.

[chippa13 1844]

I almost didn't watch the USA/Germany game because the info on the Directv guide said it was a game from the 2007 tourny.

[shooter27 117]

Does anyone know whether they are playing the tournament on NHL of International sized ice sheets? Just looking at where the games are scheduled. I know Scotiabank place is an NHL sized surface (unless they found a way to retrofit it, which I doubt), but are they playing in any other buildings with and International sized sheet?

Thanks

[barrett 0]

Pretty sure all is being played on NHL sized surfaces

[k13 0]

  Law Goalie said:

TSN is indeed streaming some (though it seems not all) of the games. Go to watch.tsn.ca and look for "Live on TSN.ca" on the left-side menu. It's pretty well-hidden. I watched the Canada-Czech game there, but I don't know if they showed US-Germany or Latvia-Russia, or how they dealt with the overlap between those two games.

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Thanks for that! Parents canceled the sports package for the TV since I moved out, so I've gone without hockey for most of the Christmas break! :(

[habsfan87 0]

some of these games are ridiculous, I have to agree with the TSN boys that the goal differential rule must be changed and/or it needs to lose some teams or make 2 divisions or something. The teams don't want to run up the score but they dont have much of a choice, all they can do is try and play around with lines which may not be a good thing when the games start to count.

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  habsfan87 said:

some of these games are ridiculous, I have to agree with the TSN boys that the goal differential rule must be changed and/or it needs to lose some teams or make 2 divisions or something. The teams don't want to run up the score but they dont have much of a choice, all they can do is try and play around with lines which may not be a good thing when the games start to count.

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At about 5 or 6 the Canadian kids just totally stopped celebrating...I saw up to 9-0. I can imagine by 10-12, 15 etc...they probably looked almost embarrassed to STILL be scoring.

Yeah, they need to change the rule...or make it a much lower factor in the tie break...so it isn't AS important to keep scoring.

[EDIT]: As always...Bobby Mac has an idea: ---> http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/bob_mckenzie/?id=2...lated_world_jrs

[k13 0]

Pierre McGuire (douchecanoe) commentary makes these games unbearable to watch...

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  k13 said:

Pierre McGuire (douchecanoe) commentary makes these games unbearable to watch...

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His style may be grating...but I've never seen anyone who loves the tournament more then Pierre.

[habsfan87 0]

I like Pierres enthusiasm, and the fact that he has a comment on just about any player...but I agree, in a game like yesterday it's sometimes overdone, disecting a play on a goal that makes the game 12-0, at that point theres not much to commentate on.