Canada vs. Russia
Posted by Mother Pucker on February 25th, 2010
If someone would have told me that the final score in this game was going to be 7-3 and wanted to make a million dollar bet on it, I would have taken it. I did not expect that result, but holy smokes does it ever feel good! The boys played their hearts out, fed it to Russia all game, and got the bounces they needed.
This game was slated to be an Ovechkin vs. Crosby duel, but those two hardly had a sniff of anything as the rest of Team Canada dominated. What to blame it on Nabokov? Maybe you can, but why not throw some of it around at Ovi, Semin, Malkin, etc who were supposed to be the most lethal offense in the tournament?
Well, I don’t really have much to say about this game right now because a) I’m hungover and b) I can sum it up with only three words:
THAT WAS AWESOME!
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