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Category Archives: IIHF

Golden Day for Russia

18 May, 2008

With a single shot, Ilya Kovalchuk silenced the home crowd and brought an end to the Russian national team’s 15-year championship drought. Russia took the gold over Canada today in a wild 5-4 OT victory. The Washington Capitals’ Russian contingent were by far the most dominant scorers on the team, totaling 37 points in just [...]

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Going for Gold; Finland Shine Bronze

18 May, 2008

Five Washington Capitals will be sporting World Championship Medals at the end of the day. At 1 p.m. today, Russia and the Capitals line of Ovechkin, Fedorov, and Semin face defenseman Mike Green and company from Canada. Both teams are undefeated in the tournament with eight wins. At least with the first loss comes silver. [...]

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U.S. Youth Not Yet Serving up Medals at the Worlds

17 May, 2008

Since the American entry in the 2004 World Hockey Championships finished with a bronze medal, the U.S. has finished 6th, 7th, 5th, and, most recently this past week, 5th in the tourney. Not so good. “Young” seems to be the springtime flavor of excuse for middling showings by the Americans in this tournament. Yes the [...]

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2008 IIHF World Championship Bracket – Semifinal Update

15 May, 2008
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"We have kept the way we played the game in Washington"

13 May, 2008

Pavel Lysenkov has been a busy man with interviews in Quebec City and therefore Dmitry Chesnokov has been a busy man with translations in Washington. Again, we thank both gentlemen for passing the following along. Sergei Fedorov scored the game winner against Switzerland (5:3). After the game he met with Pavel Lysenkov at Hotel Concorde, [...]

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2008 IIHF World Championship Bracket

13 May, 2008

Bronze Medal Match will be 5/17/08 at 3 pm. All times Eastern Daylight Saving Time. All games are broadcast on WCSN.com

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"I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t understand sometimes what?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s going on at this World Championship"

12 May, 2008

As always, many thanks to our friend Dmitry Chesnokov for translating and passing on the following. As a result of a poll conducted by “Sport” [Russia's public sports channel] and Sovetsky Sport [Russia's largest newspaper], Washington Capitals and Russian national team forward Alexander Ovechkin was named Athlete of the Month in April. Alex received 51.4% [...]

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"I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t understand sometimes what?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s going on at this World Championship"

12 May, 2008

As always, many thanks to our friend Dmitry Chesnokov for translating and passing on the following. As a result of a poll conducted by “Sport” [Russia's public sports channel] and Sovetsky Sport [Russia's largest newspaper], Washington Capitals and Russian national team forward Alexander Ovechkin was named Athlete of the Month in April. Alex received 51.4% [...]

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Sunday Bloody Sunday at the Worlds

12 May, 2008

A World Championship that in its first week was marked by superb officiating (you didn’t hear anything about the guys in stripes, right? That means something.) took an abrupt turn for the markedly worse Sunday, as incompetent on-ice work by the four men in stripes working Sunday’s U.S.-Finland tilt had a partner in crime off [...]

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Q & A with AO

6 May, 2008

[OFB Admin Note: Thanks to Dmitry Chesnokov for translating the following Q&A that Pavel Lysenkov conducted with Alexander Ovechkin.] Sovetsky Sport continues the tradition of “on the road” Q&A sessions with players at major hockey tournaments. Sunday night, right after the game against the Czech Republic, NHL’s highest scorer and simply a great guy Alex [...]

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