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Canada should win, but Russia does have the best player in the tourney. That Ovechkin kid is simply amazing.
 

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Go Yo Canada Go YOYOYOYOYO

last year Canada vs. Russia, Canadians lost but.....here we go~ This is a brand new year 'n' a brand new group of players!!!!!!!!
 

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the Finnish's going to take the USA on the same day
...predictions??!!
 

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CANADA vs. Russia live on TSN @ 7:00 -9:00!!!!!!!!!
unfortunately..i'm not able to watch it!!!!! :(
 

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Does anyone know if it's going to be on NHL Center Ice like Canada's other games?
 

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nope...btw, looking forward to monday morning jacqueline??? i need at least another week of R&R.
 

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btw, you can probably catch the game in the SLC or one of the residences...
 

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fecking good games these junior hockey games. The Canada - Finland game was superb IMO. Russians were definately better than us yesterday, but the ironic thing was that we defended for 2 periods and let them play and didn't go much forward and it stayed 1-1, and then in the third when we opened up the play and tried to take control we got three in the face immediately. Nonetheless, it's good to see we have good juniors, we put quite alot of resources into the junior national teams which seems to be paying off (atleast compared to sweden where they don't hold the junior team in such high regard) and we had one of our major players injured, Mikko Koivu, sakus brother. Not as good as Saku but would have been a good reinforcement.
 

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IMO, Canada vs. USA was supreb. I was nervous for the Canadians 'coz the game was so tight!!!!!
Finally, they won 3:2!!! PHEW~~

here are more news for the finals:
The Canadian captain and teammates Jay McClement, Carlo Colaiacovo and Nathan Paetsch were members of the Canadian team that twice carried two-goal leads, but lost to the Russians by a goal in the final of last year's world junior tournament.

The scene is similar on the world junior stage this year as Russia and Canada will meet in the final again on Sunday, but Upshall hopes the last act will be different.

“It's important to tell the guys what kind of feeling it was last year to come up short,” said Upshall. “These chances are once in a lifetime.

“Fortunately four of us here from last year get a chance at it again. It's not just important for the country, but for ourselves as individuals.”

Canada's recent history against Russians in big games at this tournament has not been good -- Canada lost to Russia in the final in 2002, the semifinal in 2000, the final in 1999 in Winnipeg and the quarter-final in 1998.

“We've seen each other in some important matchups and tomorrow is just going to be another one of those games,” said Upshall.

Canada and Russia have been the fastest teams at this tournament and they've employed that velocity in different ways.

The Russians are masters of the stretch pass, springing a player from seemingly nowhere and all of a sudden they're all alone in front of the opposition's goaltender.

They are especially adept at picking off passes and pouncing on defensive miscues.

“I remember facing the Russians at under-17 and it seemed like they had too many guys on the ice,” Canadian defenceman Steve Eminger said.

It's difficult to know how strong the Russians are defensively because they were not at all tested by Finland in the semifinal, although head coach Rafail Ishmatov said he was not happy with his team's defence.

The Russians create a lot of room for themselves with their skill and like to beat opposing players one-on-one.

Moncton Wildcats forward Evgeni Artyukhin commented on Friday that “the hockey arena is too small” and Canadian head coach Marc Habscheid wants his players to use their speed to confine the Russians.

“When you deal with skilled players, if you give skill a lot of time, skill will eventually beat you,” he said. “I don't think we want to wait around for them and wait for their skill to develop.”

Sunday's final will likely turn into a puck-possession game with both teams trying to keep the puck in the offensive zone as much as possible.

“You're not going to get scored on when the puck is in the offensive zone,” said Eminger. “If they're trying to do the same thing, it's just going to make it tougher on our defence.

“We've got to get the puck up to our forwards and spend more time in their zone than in our zone.”

Then there are the intangibles. The Russians have nine players returning from the squad that won gold -- defenceman Denis Grebeschkov is playing in his third tournament -- to Canada's four veterans.

But both Upshall and Colaiacovo said Saturday they felt fresher at that point in the tournament than they were last year in Pardubice, Czech Republic, and they attribute that to home-ice advantage.

“The atmosphere throughout here has helped us so much, being comfortable at the hotels, eating Canadian food, no time change, it's benefited us in positive ways,” said Upshall.

Canada's strategy has been to pepper the opposing goaltender and wear him down and the Canadians will likely face their nemesis from last year's final, Calgary Flames draft pick Andrei Medvedev, on Sunday. He is big at six foot one and 216 pounds, but mobile.

Habscheid continued Saturday with custom of not naming the starting goaltender until the day of the game but it is likely 18-year-old Marc-Andre Fleury will backstop Canada in the biggest game of his career so far.

Habscheid was an assistant coach of the Canadian junior team last year and was a player for the 1982 team that won a gold.

“Looking at the players and knowing what it's like, I'm just hoping and praying they can feel what tey should feel because they put so much into it,” he said.

The attendance at the 2003 world junior tournament has surpassed the previous record of 173,453 set by Winnipeg in 1999, reaching 189,976 after Friday night's semifinal between Canada and the U.S. The projected total is about 230,000.

Notes -- Slovakia defeated the Czech Republic 2-0 in the fifth-place game Saturday . . . 2002 Canadian junior team forward Chuck Kobasew, now playing in the Calgary Flames' system in Saint John, N.B., is expected to attend Sunday night's game . . . Scottie Upshall said former Canadian teammate Stephen Weiss phoned him to wish him good luck from Vancouver where Weiss's Florida Panthers were playing the Canucks. (From Sportsnet.ca) <hr></blockquote>
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Originally posted by usual_suspect:
<strong>btw, you can probably catch the game in the SLC or one of the residences...</strong><hr></blockquote>

i don't like watching games by myself only.. no fun with that...... Juz wonder if anyone watching that @ V1!
'n' I nearly forgot u're from K/W also!!
BTW, any radio link(s) to that ?? (ha, i know it's a bit wired....)
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The game vs the yanks was feckin brilliant, scored the winner with 8 minutes left. :D Whats that, the third time we've beat them in a year now? They're getting to be a bit like the Scotland of hockey.. :p
 

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Originally posted by jacqueline:
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i don't like watching games by myself only.. no fun with that...... Juz wonder if anyone watching that @ V1!
'n' I nearly forgot u're from K/W also!!
BTW, any radio link(s) to that ?? (ha, i know it's a bit wired....)</strong><hr></blockquote>

guaranteed you won't be the only one watching it...SLC used to get decent sized crowds for WC games in the early mornings of the summer, so a prime time hockey game should attract a gathering...V1, probably the same.

fan590 will have radio coverage.
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update for Finland vs USA
Finland 3:0 USA [20. JOKINEN, Jussi(9'16),
17. JUNTUNEN, Henrik(18'15), 4. PITKANEN, Joni(20'31)]
 

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Originally posted by jacqueline:
<strong>update for Finland vs USA
Finland 3:0 USA [20. JOKINEN, Jussi(9'16),
17. JUNTUNEN, Henrik(18'15), 4. PITKANEN, Joni(20'31)]</strong><hr></blockquote>

Tuomo Ruutu with two assists. This is a huge talent, fairly physical aswell. His brother is a reserve in Vancouver, Jarkko Ruutu. Needless to say that the younger one of the brothers inherited all the talent.
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FINAL SCORE!!
Finland vs. USA, 3:2
finland:[20. JOKINEN, Jussi(9'16),
17. JUNTUNEN, Henrik(18'15), 4. PITKANEN, Joni(20'31)]
USA: [7. SUTER, Ryan(55'18), 23. BROWN, Dustin(58'04)]so..Finland - bronze, USA 4th
 

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First period Canada 1:1 Russia
Exciting 'n' interesting to watch!

Goals:
Russia: 16. TARATUKHIN, Andrei(11'17)
Canada: 25. PARENTEAU, Pierre-alexandre(12'01)
 

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Second period Canada 2:1 Russia, (1:1, 1:0)

Goals:
Canada: 19. UPSHALL, Scottie (36'22)
 

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Third period about to start. I hope they can hold on to this lead... <img src="graemlins/nervous.gif" border="0" alt="[Nervous]" />
 

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is there anywhere online to follow this game? I've been looking for a while and I can't find anything.
 

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Originally posted by BusbyReds:
<strong>is there anywhere online to follow this game? I've been looking for a while and I can't find anything.</strong><hr></blockquote>

<a href="http://icehockey.iihf.net/0203/scripts/realtime/comstart.asp?qsFromDate=2002-01-01&qsToDate=2003-12-31&qsLayout=10" target="_blank">here u go</a>
well..if it's not working, try the one <a href="http://www.tsn.ca" target="_blank">there's link to the page on the right hand side</a>
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<a href="http://www.fan590.com/Fan590/realaudio.html" target="_blank">http://www.fan590.com/Fan590/realaudio.html</a>
 

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hey usual_suspect
got the radio link..no use 'coz canada's losing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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ahhh...they'll pull it out. they got 3 kitchener boys (eminger, roy, campbell) on the team...
 
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