Pretty certain you meant the screwup from Sven Kramer's coach at the 10 km skating? A real shame indeed. He would have easily won it if it wasn't for that.
He was elbowed in the face. His chin strap came undone and as he fell to the ice his helmet flew off and he hit his head on the ice.
But overall, on paper the Slovakian players are a 100 times better than Norwegians but the game was even. If Slovakia plays like that against Sweden, they're going to get their ass handed to them pretty fast.
Somebody please keep Nubukov off the Russian goal, sucking in 6 goals already when 2nd period beginning. Oh well, rematch 4 years later in Russia when home advantage changes (and Brodeur retired ).
Its not just the goalie. Canada are faster, more agressive and look like they communicate better with each other. I mean when you see 1 Canadian run past 5 Russians without any big trouble, you should start to worry...
After Russia got eliminated, now is Czech nubs vs Finns (as i can cheer for them aswell, i will) 1-0 right now, a tense match, you could almost cut the tension with a knife.
Never seen so much exiting games in one week.
Except for Canada-Russia, they really destroy them in one and an half period. Canada playng very good + Russia playng very bad = no fun (well if your not canadian ).
Wath the russian were thinking? All their forwards standing still on the blue line too far away from defensemen with puck... bah! And Canada looked scary, almost won every race for the puck and battles in the corner, hmm Canada-USA rematch for gold?
Well they won the last 2 world championships by defending, now they didnt even defend, but ofcourse Canadas preparation and home advantage turned out to be a major factor. They took hockey to another level, im sure Russians will follow them when next winter olympics take place in Russia where home advantage changes (And players will be prepared)