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Finland over Russia 4-3 in OT for Gold. USA over Sweden 8-3 for Bronze. Next year back to Toronto/Montreal.

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Semifinals Monday: Sweden vs. Finland, Russia vs. USA.

Matthews absolutely dominant today in QF. Hat trick.

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Update: Finland eliminates Canada 6-5. This will not go over well North of the 49th parallel!

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Russia scores extra attacker goal in final minute against Denmark to tie. Russia wins in OT 4-3. Sweden wins easily 6-0 over Slovakia. In relegation, Swiss over Belarus 5-1.

Canada trails host Finland 4-3 after 2. USA vs. Czech Republic up next on NHL Network. Semifinals on Monday.

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Thanks for that. Pretty good summary. Trying to be objective, I think I see both sides. The one thing that strikes me is the potential for schools to screw players by delaying them and then seeing who does/doesn't pan out. Somewhat similar to SEC schools over-signing football scholarships and then ...

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Here's good article on haves and have nots in College Hockey. link

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Canada vs. Finland in Helsinki would shape up as best QF match, by far.

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Swiss almost did it today. Took Canada to a shootout before losing, 3-2. This should solidify seedings, as long as USA beats the Swiss in regulation getting all 3 points, they would get #2 seed, with Sweden #1 and Canada #3. This is true even if Canada beats Sweden. Not sure how other Pool is settin...

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wlu_lax6 wrote:So this Auston Matthews kids the real deal right? Consensus #1 pick may end up in Arizona playing for his hometown team next year. Interesting that he went pro in Europe instead of junior/college puck.

Real deal, yes, but he is not in the McDavid, Eichel category. Still should go #1.

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Tournament started yesterday. Russia beat Czech Republic in a shootout 2-1. USA over Canada 4-2. Finland and Sweden will be strong. Swiss will steal a game, probably. Playing in Helsinki this year. Last time in Finland was 2004 where USA, led by Zach Parise, won the gold over Canada when Marc Andre ...

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I had a close friend run for mayor here, but I felt his attitude was not suited for the job. I never said anything bad about him publicly, still consider him a good friend, but I didn't vote for him, either. Did you wear his campaign swag? No, but don't remember him having anything other than yard ...

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I will say that Brady standing by a friend doesn't mean he'd vote for him. Not throwing a friend under the bus publicly is commendable. Trump's flaws are readily apparent, no need for Brady to pile on. Might be different if there were flaws he knew of that the rest of us didn't. I think we all fully...

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This would never have happened if Trump were still in charge!

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Phil with a solid 0-0-0 and -2 with 3 SOG last night with 17:14 TOI in a 6-2 loss to his former Bruins. Pens host Carolina tonight.

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Waiting for Sullivan to put Kessel in the "healthy scratch" category.

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Fuck. Just lost a pretty lengthy post. Don't have to rewrite it. 1) The B1G looks shady here, and that's unfortunate. They could've followed a more transparent approach and a lot of coaches who don't really care (this really doesn't affect that many players and not that many teams have 25 year olds...

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Went to a school program mid-day that my Granddaughter was in. Brand new school this year. After asked for a tour from her and to look at her room. Couldn't ... The classroom wings are autolocked when the double doors close, so the kids are "locked in" to their wings. If you don't have an ...

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I understand this to be hockey specific, and I do not know about non playing scholarship years, though would consider it doubtful.

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No Junior Hockey or NCAA Hockey discussion this year, so here: Minnesota Head Coach, Don Lucia, has brought forward a proposal that NCAA Ice Hockey players must be 20 years old or younger as Freshman (currently it is 21), or else lose years of eligibility based on their age. So a 21 year old would o...

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Tocchet probably there to act as fall guy for gambling issues. Saw an internet blurb (can't find it right now) that claimed Crosby wants to be traded to Montreal, and that Bob McKenzie of TSN and Mario know but are keeping it quiet at Crosby's request. Mario is supposedly on board because getting so...

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I really don't see a lot of talk about anything other than defunding of federal $$$ for PP over some of their practices, which I have expressed an opinion on earlier in this topic. Let’s stop trying to use these incidents as weapons against our political enemies. It’s getting to the point where repo...

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Planned Parenthood suspect: 'I am a warrior for the babies' This guy is a soundbite machine. Carla Fiorina must be so proud. I'm sure she is not proud. As neither are any Pro-lifers over this terrible atrocity, myself included. But, to say that the rhetoric from the Pro-lifers created this is disin...

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I think a ban on assault weapons and semi-automatic weapons is a reasonable compromise. Don't see how this would violate the 2nd Amendment. And, yes, I realize some criminals will get such weapons regardless of any ban. Still seems reasonable to me. Of course I am an unusual Conservative. I've never...

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All of the GOP candidates trying to say that Planned Parenthood "brought this on themselves" can fall down a well. Especially you, Mike Huckabee . Totally agree. And while I suspect some in PP may have profited from selling aborted fetuses, I am, none the less, a big proponent of stem cel...

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Pro-Lifer here. Minority Swamper. Respect what Howard did for the women he helped. To my way of thinking: The end never justifies the means. How can one be truly a pro-life person and then kill another human? Inconceivable to me. I also do not equate these lunatics as Christians, Christ being a pea...

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Pro-Lifer here. Minority Swamper. Respect what Howard did for the women he helped. To my way of thinking: The end never justifies the means. How can one be truly a pro-life person and then kill another human? Inconceivable to me. I also do not equate these lunatics as Christians, Christ being a peac...

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I counted by hand, but if I did it right, Mariano appeared in 85 playoff games as a closer. 5 times he was asked to come in with the tying or go-ahead runner in scoring position. Familia was 3 times in just the World Series. Oh no, the poor poor pitcher had to come in 3 times with RISP. Who cares h...

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mister d wrote:Like it or not, that's not at all what closers "get paid" to do.

Let me get this straight. Closers do not get paid to get big outs without giving up runs late in games, usually with RISP when they arrive at the mound? OK ... what do they get paid to do, then?

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mister d wrote:Right, Game 4 is also his fault for not bailing out Clippard and Collins and then Murphy. Bad job.

Like it or not, fair or not, that's what closers get paid to do. And he didn't.

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They were 3-18 against Familia in the series. They didn't get to him, "it" got to Collins. But, he did blow 3 saves and 2 of them were his fault (not last night). That's not good. He's a strikeout type closer who didn't get strikeouts in crucial situations. Again, in the end, that's on hi...

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The Royals are amazing. They have obliterated all three of the closers they have faced this postseason. Their combined ERAs must be 100. What? Familia didn't give up any hits and did exactly what he needed to do to get out of that jam. If Duda makes a decent throw home, this game is over. Disagree ...

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And, Sunday night Game 5 will go head to head with Packers-Broncos. MLB should have scheduled a 5pm EST start Sunday. they could have honed in on the opening in the NFL schedule and had the game end just before the 8:30 NFL game. MLB is not the King of sports anymore. They need to realize that and ...

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And, Sunday night Game 5 will go head to head with Packers-Broncos. MLB should have scheduled a 5pm EST start Sunday. they could have honed in on the opening in the NFL schedule and had the game end just before the 8:30 NFL game. MLB is not the King of sports anymore. They need to realize that and ...

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And, Sunday night Game 5 will go head to head with Packers-Broncos. MLB should have scheduled a 5pm EST start Sunday. they could have honed in on the opening in the NFL schedule and had the game end just before the 8:30 NFL game. MLB is not the King of sports anymore. They need to realize that and a...

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Friend of mine named World Series Crew Chief. Gary Cederstrom, #38, from ND. He had the plate in Game 5 of Mets-Dodgers. This is his 3rd World Series assignment.

Great umpire, better person.

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Regarding them being 0-3, and your comment in the other thread about the Pens, it is so early in the season. Everybody's freaking out like this is the EPL and Big Sam Allardyce is going to solve all of your team's problems. Yeah, I know that it's early, but there's no reason to believe that the def...

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It appears Don Mattingly enforced his own 2 game suspension on Utley while in NYC.

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Jerloma wrote:How do the Penguins look this year?

Hey, they've got Phil Kessel now. What could possibly go wrong?

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Always wondered why when MLB changed plate collision rule they did not change the force play slide rule at the same time. Those rules, used at all non-professional levels of baseball, including D-I, mirror the plate collision rule, and go hand in hand with each other. I umpired HS and small college ...

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The International team has won only 1 of the previous 10 Presidents' Cups? Why does the international community tolerate this? Bernie Sanders would demand we give the Internationals the Cup this year, just to be fair. Nick Price shits the bed by sitting Sang Moon-Bae tonight. Only Korean golfer on ...

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