Video - 2008 Hockey World's - Finland - USA 3-2, Highlights

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Finland Steals A Win
Published 5/12/2008 by Ken (noreply@blogger.com) at The Power Play - The interweb's most insightful and delightful hockey blog!
As some of you may know, the 2008 IIHF World Hockey Championships are currently being played. Though some of you may not know that as from what I've heard, down in the US this is getting zero coverage. On Sunday Finland rallied from 2 goals down to beat the US 3-2. In addition to losing the lead, Team USA also lost it's cool. After Mikko Koivu (brother of Habs legend Saku) scored to put the Finns up 3-2, American forward Adam Burish was tossed for butt-ending a Finnish player. Then, just as the final horn sounded to end the game, American forward Dustin Brown drilled Finnish forward Jussi Jokinen into the boards with a hit to the head. The ...

A little dirty (but the Stars'll take it)
Published 5/15/2008 by jamestobrien (noreply@blogger.com) at The Battle of California
Some things never change. Do you think he has special goalie slash pads or something? I'd like to preface this carefully: this has been a really, really good playoff year. Aside from Earl Sleek, Emilio Estevez, Chris Pronger's wife and Brian Burke, I think most folks would probably say that this year's playoffs have ...