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The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Greatest Game
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
Talk of a new Summit Series heats up-- should it happen?
Many Canadians still consider this goal by Paul Henderson to be the most important goal of the last century. Photo courtesy of Toronto Star File. A question we'll see come up again and again in the next year will be the one raised by an NHL player agent Allan Walsh on Twitter - "Is 40th...
Kolosov adds Olympics to impressive resume
On a long-term scale, the shelf life of a prospect is pretty short. There aren't many prospects from 2004 that are still actually considered "prospects." Many have either already moved on to professional hockey or are back in Europe, looking in on the NHL picture. Some prospects, though, are just...
We Want U-S-A!
That's what we chanted last night at the Canada vs. Slovakia game and tomorrow we're gonna get it. With the USA's stomping over Finland and Canada's win over Slovakia, the Olympics may have written itself one of the greatest stories the NHL could ask for in a gold medal game: Canada vs. USA...
Canada - Germany GDT: Game face
Having slipped up twice in the preliminary round, Canada pays the price starting today with an "extra" game, a match-up with Germany simply to qualify for the quarterfinals, (hopefully) to be followed with a very tough road to the gold medal game, through Russia and probably Sweden, as the three...
Mercy Rules and Blowouts
Team Canada and Team USA's women's hockey teams have been handing out blowouts to teams in the Olympics like they are free candy. Because of that, a lot of talk has arisen about whether blowouts hurt hockey tournaments or whether there should be a mercy rule introduced. With Team Canada winning...
Jerseys and Tracksuits
I have made it through my first weekend of festivities and now that the late games of the hockey tournament have started to kick in, the tiredness has started as well. When you get told you look tired, it's almost like a badge of honour because you know that means you've been enjoying to events to...
Finland/Belarus Lines
Rosters for Today's Game: # FINLAND # BELARUS 8 SELANNE Teemu 8 MIKHALEV Andrei 9 KOIVU Mikko 10 ANTONENKO Oleg 10 HAGMAN Niklas 11 KULAKOV Aleksandr 11 KOIVU Saku 18 UGAROV Aleksei 12 JOKINEN Olli 19 MELESHKO Dmitri 15 RUUTU Tuomo 21 ZAKHAROV Konstantin...
What I Learned about Norway Because the Game was so Boring
Being an American, I don't know anything about anybody. With that in mind, I thought it might behoove me to learn a little bit about these people our Kings (er, I mean, Team USA and/or Team Canada and/or Team Slovakia) are playing against. Last night was Canada/Norway. So I'm starting with the...
My one and only live Olympic experience
I’ve been an Olympics junkie all my waking life. I first fell in during the ’64 Winter Olympics (I would have been 8), rooting on Vic Emery’s Canadian four-man bobsled to its shock Gold medal in Innsbruck, still the only medal Canada has ever won in the discipline. From then...
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