5-4 win on penalty shots, Go Finland!

[POSTI-Tuomo]

Go Jere Lehtinen! I just went ballistic! Unbelieveable penalty shootout. 😀


Anyone else watching World Championships? 😉

 

[peter_n]

erm, was this football? (he asked hopefully) Wait, hockey maybe?

 

[POSTI-Tuomo]

Oh, right. Forgot to mention this was ice hockey. 😉

After all, many of you don't watch these games, with NHL Playoffs and all dat.

 

[rover]

I don't think the World Championships are being televised here in the US. Yes the NHL Playoffs are being played right now, but the TV ratings for it are very low. It is too bad, the level of play has been great, to the level that makes hockey such an exciting game.

 

[POSTI-Tuomo]

I do hope Teemu Selänne would finally get to hold and kiss the Stanley Cup. He certainly deserves to lift it!

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

If it's not American Idol or Rosie exchanging barbs with Donald, it's not being televised.

Congrats, Finland!

 

[mikeh]

Congrats, but penalty shots as a tie breaker are a European *******ization of the game. Like soccer, it not only encourages weaker teams to play for a tie, but more importantly trivializes all the effort put forth by the players and decides hard fought battles with a little skill contest.
Hockey is play until you drop.

 

[Spyderman]

We dropped out yesterday against Sweden... but the referee wasn't fair...

and we got a goal just after our goalie was attacked like this:

unfortuanely the referee is "the god" and players can't do anything about it... 🙁

 

[Mikael.N]

Yeeeeaaa.SWEDEN rocks look and learn..

 

[Al Patterson]

I think penalty shots in hockey or soccer are lame. Play overtime until somebody can score a goal to win the game. Move along, nothing to see here.

Glad you're happy though...

 

[Trius]

I am happy for Finland in these tournaments ... until they play Canada in a game that counts, of course. 😀 But I agree about shootouts. They are sacrilege!

 

[NVARon]

I don't think the World Championships are being televised here in the US. Yes the NHL Playoffs are being played right now, but the TV ratings for it are very low. It is too bad, the level of play has been great, to the level that makes hockey such an exciting game.

Actually you can watch the games over the internet for a charge. There are details over at www.usahockey.com.

Let me echo the thought that shootouts s*ck.

 

[rover]

There is nothing like overtime hockey late in the NHL playoffs. That is when men play like boys again loving and fighting for the game, not the profession.

 

[peter_n]

Penalty kicks, at least in football, are a perfectly fair way of settling draws. Taking (and saving) penalties is a skill - a skill that very few players lower themselves to practice. A recent example is Liverpool & Chelsea, one of the teams practices the skill assiduously, the other one considers it beneath them. The team that practices won the match handily as they deserved to.

 

[dostacos]

I went to the Friday night fights once, and a HOCKEY game broke out 😀

 

[rover]

I went to the Friday night fights once, and a HOCKEY game broke out 😀

You sound like my father.