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Category Archives: IIHF

Hardware Hopes and World-Class Hockey Help Alleviate Some Local Heartache

3 May, 2008

Last week, in the throes of a sudden and sour end to the season, it was somewhat difficult to delineate just how successful a season the Capitals and their fans had enjoyed, wasn’t it? Lip service to a terrific run could be mouthed, but there was a pervasive sense that something quite magical had prematurely [...]

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Where to Watch the Worlds

2 May, 2008

The 2007 edition of the World Championship Tournament found half of OFB watching the games live and in person. What about the other half? We, too, watched live — just not in person. Like last year, we don’t believe that this year’s tournament will be on television, though we are hoping for a few games [...]

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At the Worlds, More Home Flavor Leading Team USA

1 May, 2008

Potomac, Md.’s, Jeff Halpern has been named captain of the American hockey team competing this week at the IIHF World Championships in Halifax and Quebec City. The former Washington Capital follows current Caps’ captain Chris Clark, who wore the ‘C’ for the Americans in Moscow last May. In all, nine members of the Washington Capitals’ [...]

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Varlamov: "I Am Ready To Spend a Year or Two in the AHL"

30 April, 2008

Tuesday’s SovetskySport published an interview with Russian national team netminder and Washington Capitals’ 2006 first-round pick Simeon Varlamov. Russia had just played Switzerland in an exhibition in Canada in preparation for the World Championships this week. Russia won 6-2, and Varlamov was in goal. Portions of the interview include: “At the team meeting before the [...]

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"Nej, tack"

30 April, 2008

With the World Championship tournament starting this weekend, Freelance writer and Off The Post author Risto Pakarinen has preview of Sweden and their coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson on the IIHF web site. Coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson was hailed as a hockey genius in 2006 when he took his team to both the Olympic and the World Championship [...]

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Worlds Go Retro

30 April, 2008

This year’s IIHF World Championship Tournament is going old school, if only for one game. Fifteen of the sixteen participating teams will play one preliminary round game with retro sweaters. The sweater each country will wear was selected from what they considered to be a significant year for their national team programs. Belarus is the [...]

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Team USA Preliminary Roster Set for the Worlds

11 April, 2008

USA Hockey this week announced the selection of 17 players for the American entry in the IIHF’s World Championships next month. The Worlds this year will be contested in Quebec City and Halifax May 2-18. Among the early selections: Potomac, Md.’s, Jeff Halpern. More Americans will be added after the conclusion of the first round [...]

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Watching Hockey with Peter the Great

10 January, 2008

It was a thrill for me to run into Peter Bondra in the Verizon Center press box Wednesday night, not only because this represented the first time I’d seen him since he’d retired from hockey but because I was so curious about his new role as General Manager for the Slovakian national team, which will [...]

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Young Guns to the North Are Golden Again

6 January, 2008

For the fourth consecutive year, Canada’s Under-20s claimed gold at the World Junior Championships. Two of them — Karl Alzner and Josh Godfrey — are Caps’ prospects. Ten players from Canada’s roster this year will be eligible for the next WJC, to be contested this December on Canadian soil. Godfrey finished third in scoring among [...]

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WJC Update: Early Dominance Against the Finns

31 December, 2007

You think the Tampa Bay Lightning have goaltender issues now? Their 2006 first-rounder, Riku Helenius, didn’t make it out of today’s second period against the United States at the World Juniors. U.S. 5, Finland 0. And it’s still early. JVR has already tallied a goal and three helpers. Colin Wilson has two goals and a [...]

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