EHM The Blue Line

Hello @all

I am selling 2 tickets for 02 World in Prague.

1 x Ticket Sweden - Germany (2. Kat.)

1 x Ticket Germany-Latvia (2. Kat)


If interested just let me know!

Tickets are sold

In the following games I'll be there.

Germany - Latvia
Germany - Sweden
Sweden - Canada
Czech Republic - Austria
Czech Republic - France

My first World Championships. I'm very excited.

Cool! Have fun!
Wish I could join you

Enjoy !

SWE vs. CAN sounds very interesting!!

I'm sure Sweden wins though.

jhcjobpb wrote:SWE vs. CAN sounds very interesting!!

I'm sure Sweden wins though.

We're almost out of the playoffs, so maybe Canada will have Crosby? That would be sweet to watch.

I don't think Pens will let Crosby go (even if he wants), but I think that Canadian roster may look much better than during Olympic year

Crosby likely won't go.

Going to be interesting tournament (Eichel, Larkin, Faulk, Moses for US, Giroux, Benn, Seguin, Spezza, ROR, MacKinnon, Duchene, Hall, Ekblad, Rielly for Canada... and more to come).

I got tickets for Canadian games against Latvia and Sweden, pretty excited

Anže Kopitar has more or less decided to play for Slovenia in Ostrava, it should be official tomorow morning. I'll be there for the games Denmark-Belarus, Slovenia-Slovakia, USA-Belarus, Finland-Slovenia and Slovenia-Norway. I'm a bit disappointed not to see Russia, though. But it will be a great expirience, as it's also my first WC

Icos wrote:Anže Kopitar has more or less decided to play for Slovenia in Ostrava, it should be official tomorow morning. I'll be there for the games Denmark-Belarus, Slovenia-Slovakia, USA-Belarus, Finland-Slovenia and Slovenia-Norway. I'm a bit disappointed not to see Russia, though. But it will be a great expirience, as it's also my first WC

Will be awesome to see SLO play if they'll get Anze there!

Finland also managed to land a few NHL players (it isn't so common for us to land more than three): Aleksander Barkov and Jussi Jokinen from the Panthers, Leo Komarov from Maple Leafs, Rasmus Ristolainen from Sabres and Jyrki Jokipakka from Stars. Still looking for that NHL goalie though which could in theory be any of the following three: Tuukka Rask from Bruins, Kari Lehtonen from Stars or Antti Niemi from Sharks. Rask would presumably be awesome but I assume he won't come since not making the playoffs with Bruins was probably a huge letdown for him. After him I'd personally choose Niemi since Lehtonen's level of play varies too much and he has already seen several WCs while Niemi has only three international games.

Either way I'll be waiting anxiously for the event since we have a great team for our standards now.
Which of course means nothing as last WC showed...

Gutted that Kim Hirschovits isn't in the Finland squad...did he retire from internationals? Glad to see Huhtala there though, he was always one of my favourite Blues players.

MontySteelers wrote:Gutted that Kim Hirschovits isn't in the Finland squad...did he retire from internationals? Glad to see Huhtala there though, he was always one of my favourite Blues players.

He has never played for Finland in World Championships. Only a few games in EHT.
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TEAM CANADA SQUAD so far:

GOALTENDERS
Martin Jones
Mike Smith

DEFENCE
Tyson Barrie
Brent Burns
Aaron Ekblad
Jake Muzzin
David Savard

FORWARDS
Matt Duchene
Cody Eakin
Jordan Eberle
Tyler Ennis
Claude Giroux
Taylor Hall
Nathan MacKinnon
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Ryan O'Rielly
Tyler Seguin
Jason Spezza
Tyler Toffoli

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TEAM USA SQUAD so far:

GOALTENDERS
Alex Lyon

DEFENCE
Justin Faulk
Jake Gardiner
Torey Krug
John Moore
Connor Murphy
Mike Reilly

FORWARDS
Marc Arcobello
Matt Hendricks
Dylan Larkin
Trevor Lewis
Jeremy Morin
Steve Moses
Dan Sexton
Ben Smith
Jimmy Vesey

jhcjobpb wrote:

MontySteelers wrote:Gutted that Kim Hirschovits isn't in the Finland squad...did he retire from internationals? Glad to see Huhtala there though, he was always one of my favourite Blues players.

He has never played for Finland in World Championships. Only a few games in EHT.

Yeah, just thought with him having the kind of year he did he might have been in with a shot of making the squad.

That is a star-filled Canadian team!

Kind of fits in this thread, GB are 2 games from promotion from Div 1B. This was the GWG (in regulation): https://instagram.com/p/1jIFHSLEYJ/ Crazy time to try that at 2-2 against the tournament favourites!

Who do they play in those two games?

Netherlands(the hosts) and Lithuania

Finland might not get a NHL goalie this year. Niemi, Rask and Lehtonen said no.

Calv wrote:Netherlands(the hosts) and Lithuania

No chance. Those two have way too much star power. Now if you had said Jamaica and Dominican Republic

Calv wrote:Kind of fits in this thread, GB are 2 games from promotion from Div 1B. This was the GWG (in regulation): https://instagram.com/p/1jIFHSLEYJ/ Crazy time to try that at 2-2 against the tournament favourites!

Ben O'Connor what a guy

MontySteelers wrote:

jhcjobpb wrote:

MontySteelers wrote:Gutted that Kim Hirschovits isn't in the Finland squad...did he retire from internationals? Glad to see Huhtala there though, he was always one of my favourite Blues players.

He has never played for Finland in World Championships. Only a few games in EHT.

Yeah, just thought with him having the kind of year he did he might have been in with a shot of making the squad.

I'd say he isn't physical enough or that he's too inconsistent to be in the team. Either way I think he had a shot but this year just wasn't the time when Finland would've been short of centers. And I wouldn't say Huhtala will surely be there this year (again) either but we'll see. Possible Liiga players to make the team would be Joonas Donskoi, Joonas Kemppainen and Lasse Kukkonen from Kärpät and Olli Palola from Tappara.

We also got Tuomo Ruutu from NJD but like CJ said; don't think we'll have an NHL goalie this year. Our goalies will probably be Juuse Saros from HPK, Liiga (Predators draftee, the WJC 2014 hero), Atte Engren from Atlant Mytishchi, KHL and probably Mikko Koskinen from SKA St. Petersburg, KHL who has had a big season (and is also tall in length ).

GB missed out on promotion, they lost a bit surprisingly to Lithuania. South-Korea finished first.

The Netherlands relegated, which is probably the best thing what could happen for us. One step back, before making two steps forward.

Satyr wrote:GB missed out on promotion, they lost a bit surprisingly to Lithuania. South-Korea finished first.

The Netherlands relegated, which is probably the best thing what could happen for us. One step back, before making two steps forward.

Our problem was goalscoring by the sounds of things, plenty of shots not many of them quality goalscoring opportunities though. I think we missed Clarke (injured) and other players such as Dowd, Shields & Lachowicz didn't really step up. Still, silver is better than we expected going in and with a new coach hopefully we can push for gold next year. Not sure who is dropping down yet from 1A, but we performed well against Poland before the tournament so I'm hoping its them.