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Originally Posted by shadows

The US team ended up winning 2-0(the second goal was an empty netter). Hiller was great for the Swiss, and he totally kept them in the game. A little more luck for the Swiss and they just might have pulled off the upset victory. Alas...

Looks like the USA were wrong to have a dig at Canada for only narrowly beating the Swiss last week. They're a tough team to beat with Hiller in the side.
And it's unlucky the Swiss drew the USA in the quarterfinals, I wonder how well they would've done against Russia, Sweden or Finland?

Originally Posted by shadows

4-1 Canada after 1 period!

Two things of note. Luongo is playing well and the offense is alive for the second straight game. This bodes well if it continues.

Even after Sunday's loss to the USA, it never looked like Canada couldn't still win the gold. They just needed to be more positive and hope Brodeur stopped making odd mistakes or go for Luongo. I can't see them losing a repeat match against USA.

BBC are going to show Canada-Russia from 2:30 AM GMT (in about 40 mins), I thought they'd give us highlights of the 1st period and then go live for the rest of the game. Wrong.

So I tried to avoid the score and then the man on the public address system at the short track skating said, "Canada 7, Russia 2." This was followed by a huge cheer from the crowd.

When have you ever been able to clearly hear anything that anyone says over a public address system, especially when it's transmitted via the television?

So I gave up trying to avoid the score and knowing you'd post in-game updates here, I no longer needed to avoid the hockey thread.


I even watched the Czech Rep beat Latvia last night on the BBC, they aired it without, yes without, any commentary. No there wasn't a technical hitch. It was the oddest experience, watch live sport on TV with all the crowd noises but no one describing the game.