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Category Archives: World Championships

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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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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