It all comes down to this. USA vs. Canada. David vs. Goliath. The blogger vs. the blog namesake. Friendships will be torn, families will be split, and I'll be having a great time watching what's going to be an awesome game.

The much anticipated rematch is coming tomorrow afternoon. To nobody's surprise, Canada is already talking some serious trash. I'll admit, I didn't want this. Beating Canada makes them angry, and they have the talent where they should be running the train on everyone.

But they almost lost to Slovakia last night. Inches away from overtime.

Switzerland took them to a shootout.

They couldn't even score on Thomas Greiss for like half a game.

I remember what happened last time Canada was sure they were going to win.

Yikes.

Does a game with a bunch of 19 year olds played have anything to do with tomorrow? Nope. But it does highlight a nice little trend of Canada looking past the United States. Canada figures there's just no way they can lose twice. I think there is a way, and it comes from the hard work and strong system that the Americans have been playing over the past few years, opposed to Canada who just throws the best five players on the ice and hopes for the best. Sorry Canada, but every game you've played has been a close one against a terrible team or a near forfeit because Russia made the mistake (the same one San Jose makes) of thinking that Evgeni Nabokov is anything close to a clutch goalie. No close games yet. Well, one. A loss to America.

Any way we can get Al Michaels to call this game?

'MERICA

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Coffey said:

... America's "strong system" is called Ryan Miller. They have no game plan but were lucky enough to avoid Russia and Sweden. When Brian Rafalski is your best offensive player, your team just might suck. Canada doesn't just "throw the best five players on the ice and hope for the best". Are you saying the greatest hockey minds in the world don't know what they are doing? Canada was sandbagging a bit early in the early going so as to not make a mockery of this competition. Once Babcock benched Broeduer this team has become the finest team ever to take the ice. It too bad Team USA will fail miserably in the Gold metal game. This is their big chance to build hockey in the USA and get a national TV contract. The blowout will set USA hockey back 10 years.

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February 27, 2010
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Baroque said:

	... So Canada was not playing well in the early games on purpose, because out of the goodness of their hockey hearts they didn't want to just overwhelm everyone else? Right. And not only have games been won on hot goaltenders, but playoff series have been won the same way. It doesn't make the win worth any less.
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February 27, 2010
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LaChoy said:

	... HF just put out a new prospect ranking. RWC came out with about a month ago. You going to put one out soon?
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February 28, 2010
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r0bert8841 said:

... What's with all the bashers? Good post like always. My gut is telling me Canada but my heart is US. US and Canada are the only 2 teams that played a real physical game so Canada better be ready this time. Brendan Morrow and Mike Richards emergence is what has caused Canada's transition in my opinion. Crosby and the 3 sharks have looked ok the whole tournament and their goaltending hasn't been more than avergage.Don't expect them to show up in this big gritty game. If Canada were to win look for Heroics from Getzlaf, Perry, Morrow, Richards, Nash, Staal and Weber. The US has looked goooooooood! I really want them to win. I see Kane being nonexistant in this physical matchup, he seems to disappear in physical games, which is why the black hawks won't make it past the Ducks or Wings in the playoffs. Miller has been great but US's defense is pretty underrated. Noone really stands out defensively besides Suter and noone offensively besides Rafalski, but they are all solid defensemen who don't shy under physical contact for the most part. The US mostly has been scoring the gritty dirty goals by Langenbrunner and Drury. Malone, Kesler, Brown, Ryan, and Kessel will have to step it up offensively if the US wants to compete with Canada's 4 lines of high powered offense. And Coffey terrible post. " America's "strong system" is called Ryan Miller. They have no game plan but were lucky enough to avoid Russia and Sweden. When Brian Rafalski is your best offensive player, your team just might suck." First off America wasn't "lucky" to avoid Russia or Sweden, they EARNED it by beating your beloved Canada. Also Rafalski is 3rd in the entire Olympics in point, despite having less games than every player in the top 10 except Malkin and Parise. Rafalski has more points than anyone on team Canada. Yes the same Rafalski that scored 2 goals and 1 assist in the US's victory over Canada. That is pretty sad bud. Roenick said last night Rafalski may be MVP of the Olympics and he is right. Who on Canada deserves MVP? Noone! Noone has stood out enough to warrant it. It really is between Miller and Rafalski at this point. Also a US win would be HUGEEE for the NHL. I didn't realize how much of an impact the win on Canada would make until I got to school Tuesday and everyone was talking about it! And most of these people I have never heard talk about hockey before. In almost ever class their was a discussion about hockey haha, I found it amusing because noone really had a clue but I just sat back and listened. If US can pull off a gold here that would be huge for hockey in the US and I am really rooting for it to happen.

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February 28, 2010
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KyleKujawa said:

... LaChoy, I'm on a slightly different schedule. I usually put them out at the beginning of the year (September), mid-season (Dec/Jan), and the end of the year (April/May). The most recent ones I did are only two months old, you can check 'em out on the top of the page if you haven't seen them yet. And Robert, no point in arguing with someone like Coffey about how awesome Team Canada is or isn't. To say that that US doesn't play a system when they just stole WJC glory from Canada and beat them on home ice last week is just ignorant and a little sad. The only thing that'll erase his words will be his tears once the US lands the hat trick of Canadian embarrassment in a few hours .

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Canada Gold said:

	... HAHAHAHA! I love your blog Kyle. It's great. Also, Canada "brought it" and told the Yanks to STFU! Back to being on the same side tomorrow night. That is all.
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Coffey said:

... Congratulations to Team USA on an excellent showing in the Olympics. I didn't expect them to earn a medal when the team was selected. The way USA played yesterday earned them some respect throughout Canada. I did find the post-game comments by Ryan Miller to be classless. It was the biggest hockey game in decades and Miller called it just another game. If the US had won I wonder if he would have felt the same way.

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