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After championship defeat, video embarrassments for Sweden
After championship defeat, video embarrassments for Sweden
The last Swede to win Olympic gold in men's platform diving was Erik Adlerz back in 1912. Based on his performance in the world junior championship loss last night against Canada, Swedish goalie Jacob Markstrom may be his nation's next great diving hope. Check out Jefflred's hilarious "The ...
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Puck Daddy: Swedish Dives and Bites
Pension Plan PuppetsPuck Daddy: Swedish Dives and Bites I can't believe that I forgot to mention that Thomas Hickey got freaking bitten by a Swede last night! No one else mentioned it other than Jennifer Hedger on last night's SportsDesk. Also, see Della Rovere alter his ...

Andersson's play impresses, but his biting skills don't
Snapshots — ... gave it to the Swedes, Nicklas Lidstrom excluded, for Team Canada's triumph. Kirk Maltby told St. James that Johan Franzen gave the taunting back: "He always thinks Canada is cheating or we buy the refs," Maltby said. "I think he just likes to build in a lot of excuses because we beat Sweden the last two years for the gold medal." There's no word as to whether the Wings' Swedes bet on a biting incident. Yahoo Sports' Greg "Puck Daddy" Wyshynski points to two YouTube clips as somewhat svidence of a possible biting incident between Andersson and Team Canada's Thomas Hickey: The ...

Slugs 4, Sens 2: You Want Fries With That?
Five for Smiting - Your Ottawa Senators Blog And Group Hug — ... Okay, for realz this time: If that great sage and eminent psychopath Mike Tyson has taught us anything, it's that it really isn't sporting to gnaw on an opponent's extremities. In other words, Roto, biting another player is about as chicken shit a move as can be imagined (YA HEARD ME SWEDEN!). By your own admission, there is a line. You crossed it. It is only by the grace of the officials' natural incompetence that you weren't thrown out of the game right then and there. And it is only by the grace of God and Jason's two ensuing goals that you weren't mashed ...

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