EHM The Blue Line

Canada's coaching staff has announced the line combos.

Draper - Sakic - Iginla
Gagne - Thornton - Nash
Heatley - Lecavalier - St. Louis
Smyth - Richards - Bertuzzi
Doan

Pretty surprised to see Draper up there. They'll probably put together a shut-down line as the tournament goes on.

In real life, do the big name players from the international teams not turn up to the minor tournaments, such as the Deutschland Cup etc? I take it that this is the case, given the lack of breaks in the domestic seasons. Also, is the winter olympics the pinnacle of international ice hockey, or is that the World Championships? I am guessing the latter

Nope, big name players do not show up in small cups, since they're playing either NHL or they just dont care.

As for olympics, its the most appreciated tournament in hockey, since it gathers all the top players, and is held only every 4 years. Wolrd Championships are there every year while NHL is still being played. The players who are available due to their teams getting eliminated from the play offs and who actually enjoy representing their country will do so if possible in WC, but teams are mostly consisted from euroleagues/ahl players.

Hockey schedule for tomorrow (UK times):

Group B Game 1 - Kazakhstan v Sweden, 1030 Torino Esposizioni
Group A Game 2 - Italy v Canada, 1200 Palasport Olimpico
Group A Game 3 - Switzerland v Finland, 1430 Torino Esposizioni
Group A Game 4 - Germany v Czech Republic, 1600 Palasport Olimpico
Group B Game 5 - Russia v Slovakia, 1900 Torino Esposizioni
Group B Game 6 - Latvia v United States, 2000 Palasport Olimpico

archibalduk wrote:Hockey schedule for tomorrow (UK times):

Group B Game 1 - Kazakhstan v Sweden, 1030 Torino Esposizioni
Group A Game 2 - Italy v Canada, 1200 Palasport Olimpico
Group A Game 3 - Switzerland v Finland, 1430 Torino Esposizioni
Group A Game 4 - Germany v Czech Republic, 1600 Palasport Olimpico
Group B Game 5 - Russia v Slovakia, 1900 Torino Esposizioni
Group B Game 6 - Latvia v United States, 2000 Palasport Olimpico

Good stuff, I'm home for 3-onwards.

Here's the Swedish line-up for the game against Kazakstan:

Freddy Modin - Mats Sundin - Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Mikael Samuelsson
Jörgen Jönsson - Henrik Zetterberg - Tomas Holmström
P.J. Axelsson - Sammy PÃ¥hlsson - Mika Hannula

Nick Lidström - Daniel Tjärnqvist
Mattias Öhlund - Niclas Hävelid
Kenny Jönsson - Christian Bäckman

In goal: Stefan Liv of HV71, the SEL leaders heading into the Olympic break.

Is sweden really going to play Stefan Liv on the first game? Sure he is a good goalie, and will propably allow 0 goals, but i think its important to use the playing goalie right from the start, just so he can get used to the team etc.

eme wrote:Is sweden really going to play Stefan Liv on the first game? Sure he is a good goalie, and will propably allow 0 goals, but i think its important to use the playing goalie right from the start, just so he can get used to the team etc.

That's what I thought too. Also, Lundqvist should get used to the big ice.

Yikes your starting lines are incredibly strong.

I've been looking through the Radio Times and it appears the BBC plans no coverage of the ice hockey apart from perhaps the Canada game. It doesn't mean they won't show bits but I don't think we'll be seeing any full games today

archibalduk wrote:Yikes your starting lines are incredibly strong.

You think? Personally, I hate them.

Today I think it should've been:
Zetterberg - Sundin - Samuelsson
Axelsson - PÃ¥hlsson - Alfredsson
Sedin - Sedin - Modin
Holmström - Jönsson - Hannula

Sweden 3-1 up at the moment-no shocks here then..

Hopefully the BBC will be putting highlights up on their site. If so I'll post the links here. I could do with BBC digital really-then I might be able to watch the games live.

I'm watching the Canada game over the internet from the BBC. 1-0 to Canada - Iginla scored.

To be honest, the quality is virtually unwatchable

Yeah, the picture quality is shite. I saw an Italy goal and tought it was 1-1...then realised it was actually 6-2

I reckon Switzerland-Finland could be quite a good game-providing Aebischer is on form

Canada laboured in the first third, but found their beat after Italy scored a shock equalizer and took the hosts to cleaners. No surprises here, either.

7-2...definitely dead now.

Live streaming doesn't count on your download limit does it?

I seen the third period of Italy v Canada fair play to italy they kept it competitive and they are not even in the elite division

There's only one John parco he looked great for them an ex eagle there

Anyway here is a good live stream link that i just found. I dunno wether or not streaming counts to download limit but I reckon it probably wouldn't wth this one as it just play in internet explorer I can't guarantee for certain though

Anyway Here is the great link

live olympic hockey

Enjoy I know i am just watching finland and switzerland now.

grazza wrote:I seen the third period of Italy v Canada fair play to italy they kept it competitive and they are not even in the elite division

There's only one John parco he looked great for them an ex eagle there

Anyway here is a good live stream link that i just found. I dunno wether or not streaming counts to download limit but I reckon it probably wouldn't wth this one as it just play in internet explorer I can't guarantee for certain though

Anyway Here is the great link

live olympic hockey

Enjoy I know i am just watching finland and switzerland now.

That is a great link! the quality is really good-thank you!

Just saw Finland score-3-0

This is heaven for me-I've got three programmes running-live Hockey on one, EHM-my Koln season and finally TBL (of course)

That's a much better stream than the BBC

Yes, I imagine that streaming will count towards your download limit as you're transferring data. Whilst you watch a stream, the data is downloaded to your computer and cached.

archibalduk wrote:That's a much better stream than the BBC

Yes, I imagine that streaming will count towards your download limit as you're transferring data. Whilst you watch a stream, the data is downloaded to your computer and cached.

It does? off that goes then...

I-... I don't mean to brag or anything but I have 12 different channels (4 in HD) all devoted to the olympics and all broadcasting a different event. (when theres that many events going on that is)


Canada's defense

E5150_ca wrote:I-... I don't mean to brag or anything but I have 12 different channels (4 in HD) all devoted to the olympics and all broadcasting a different event. (when theres that many events going on that is)

Boooooo