Your daily shot of Olympic Hockey to go with your Vodka February 19th, 2014 QUARTERFINALS #1 Sweden drops #8 Slovenia 5-0 – I said it yesterday, King Henrik needs to be the King Henrik of 2006 and today, he was. Lundqvist stopped 19 of 19 shots which isn’t too hard to do against the talent Slovenia sports.…
Your daily shot of Olympic Hockey to go with your Vodka February 18th, 2014 QUALIFYING ROUND Apologizes for no wrap-up on group play nor a preview for this round, been a little busy the past few days. In case you didn’t know, Sweden, Canada, and the USA all won their respective groups and thus earned…
Your daily shot of Olympic Hockey to go with your Vodka February 15th, 2014 TODAY’S SCORES: GROUP A: Slovenia upsets Slovakia 3-1 – This a pretty evenly matched game. The difference was that Slovenia was able to put together a string of goals in the third period while Slovakia missed a string of opportunities. Slovakia had…
Your shot of Olympic Hockey to go with your vodka February 15th, 2014 The Quarterfinals of the Women’s Tournament today, the losers move into the consolation tournament that begins tomorrow. Sweden downs Finland 4-2 – Group B represent! The Fins were outshooting the Swedes 23-19 and had 1-0 through two periods. They succumbed to something…
Your daily shot of Olympic Hockey to go with your Vodka February 14th, 2014 TODAY’S SCORES: GROUP B: Canada blanks Austria 6-0 – Once again, the defense starting off the scoring for the Canadians with Shea Weber and Drew Doughty both scoring in the first period. Coach Mike Babcock was much happier about this start than…
Your morning shot of hockey to go with your coffee (or evening here in America) February 13th, 2014 The Women’s Tournament has been well underway but yesterday, February 12th, was the first day of the Men’s Tournament. Unlike the Women’s Tournament, the Men’s features twelve competing countries that separated into three groups of four. Through…
Your shot of hockey to go with the Russian Olympics February 11th, 2014 Well in case you haven’t heard, the Philadelphia Area got hit HARD last week by an ice storm so that’s why we haven’t written anything in the last seven days. I know you’ve missed us. The thing that bummed me out the…
Your morning shot of hockey to go with your coffee. LAST NIGHT’S PICKS: Quick Hits again. Here are my picks in case you missed them. Asterisk indicates who I picked Bruins blank Flames 2-0. – Captain Zdeno snipes two, both assisted by Jerome Iginla, deadly combination. Sabres down Jets 4-2. – Despite blowing a two-goal lead by letting up four…
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