2009-iihf-world-championships Stories - Defending Big D
Canada 6, Belarus 1 -- a good start
Team Canada 2009 took to the ice earlier today in Kloten, Switzerland. The club had no opportunity for exhibition games, but the opening preliminary round match against Belarus was pretty much that. The squad, ably coached by Lindy Ruff, Barry Trotz and Dave Tippett, played a pretty solid...
Oilers Chose Not To Offer Rookie Max To Omark?
A couple of articles in Sweden today picked up on Kevin Prendergast's comments praising Linus Omark's performance at the IIHF World Championships, including the Norrbottons Kuriren, which had this to say: Det har inte gått NHL-klubben Edmonton Oilers obemärkt förbi. Som tidigare...
Predators make their mark at IIHF World Championships
Russia completed a repeat performance by winning the Gold Medal game at the 2009 IIHF World Championships Sunday, beating Team Canada 2-1. The winning goal came off the stick of onetime (and future?) Nashville Predator Alexander Radulov, on one of his patented "hestitate & shoot" wristers that went...
Russia Wins 2009 WCs; Oduya Best Devil
Today ended the 2009 IIHF World Championships in Switzerland. Russia took the gold medal in a 2-1 win over Canada. The real star of the show had to be Ilya Bryzgalov; as Canada just pounded him with 38 shots, but he was only beaten once by Jason Spezza in the first period. Russia was able to...
Loui Eriksson, Sweden win bronze medal at World Championship
It was close for much of the game, with both sides trading big saves, big hits and bad penalties through the first two periods. Jack Johnson put the USA ahead 1-0 in the second period with a big blast from the point on the power play, but Sweden answered quickly. Loui Eriksson scored a power play...
Where To Watch The World Championships
This is highly touted Oilers' prospect Linus Omark. He's currently leading the Swedish entry at the World Championships in scoring (tied for 4th in the tournament) with 2 goals and 8 assists through ten games. A few other players of interest to Oiler fans: Jaromir Jagr: 7GP - 3G - 6A - 9PTS,...
WC Semifinals: And then there were 3 Devils...
The Quarterfinals have ended today: Russia beat Belarus 4-3, USA defeated Finland 3-2, Canada downed Latvia 4-2, and Sweden knocked off the Czech Republic 3-1. It was a quiet Quarterfinal for the Devils. Scott Clemmensen was just a back up for USA's win over Finland - a game that featured a ton of...
Finally, US fans can watch the World Hockey Championships
During the opening days of the World Hockey Championships over in Switzerland, I tried to contact the IIHF on a number of occasions to get information as to how hockey fans in the US might be able to watch the action. Unfortunately, the IIHF never got back to me, but I have received a schedule and...
New Jersey Devils News and notes, May 6, 2009
New Jersey Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello mum on Larry Robinson and Brent Sutter futures - (The Star Ledger)Devils at the 2009 WC Quarterfinals - (In Lou We Trust)New Jersey Devils: The Year That Was and The Year That Will Be (Part I) - (Bleacher Report)Letter of the day column - (Ottawa...
Devils at the 2009 WC Quarterfinals
The round robin part of the 2009 IIHF World Championships in Switzerland has ended. Eight countries, including all four with New Jersey Devils on the roster, will move on to the Quarterfinals. Slovakia, Norway, France, and tournament hosts Switzerland all missed the cut. Maybe they'll make it...
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