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Team USA Goaltending Betrays Them in World Junior Loss to Slovakia
Team USA Goaltending Betrays Them in World Junior Loss to Slovakia
by Bruce Ciskie FanHouse is keeping hockey fans updated on the happenings at the 2009 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships in Ottawa. No matter the angle I want to take with this update, it keeps coming back to one thing. When you have a win-or-go-home situation in hockey, the result so ...
Video:  SLOVAKIA v FINLAND --- World Junior Championships
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Video: SLOVAKIA v FINLAND --- World Junior Championships
youtube.com — (posted by worldhockeynews) In one of the tightest battles yet at the 2008 World Juniors, Slovakia defeated... Finland 3-2 in a shootout to secure third place in Group B. --- Slovakia will seek its first medal since they took bronze in 1999... (more) Video: SLOVAKIA v FINLAND --- World Junior Championships
Team USA Gameday: Slovakia
Team USA Gameday: Slovakia
flyers07-08.blogspot.com — JVR and the U.S. National Junior Team are primed to take on the Slovaks this afternoon in... a game that earns the winner the right to take on the ever-dangerous Team Sweden. Coming off a 7-4 loss to the Canadians in which they blew a 3-0 first ... (more) Team USA Gameday: Slovakia
Slovakia upsets USA 5-3 at world junior quarterfinals
Slovakia upsets USA 5-3 at world junior quarterfinals
usatoday.com — Jaroslav Janus led Slovakia to a surprising quarterfinal victory over the United States in the world junior... hockey championship, ... (more) Slovakia upsets USA 5-3 at world junior quarterfinals
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Hockey Roundup [Whoo!!]
We Eat Children — ... upset the highly touted American team at the World Junior Hockey Championship lost to Sweden this afternoon 5-3. Flames first rounder Michael (or is that Mikael?) Backlund potted two goals to put the Swedes over the top. It looked for a little bit that Slovakia was going to pull it off, they had the lead twice in the game, but Sweden was too strong.  Still you gotta love the fact that Slovakia put the US out. I imagine this will cause much soul searching amongst the Americans with some blaming the goaltending ,  ...

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