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险象环生。
精华 好看，紧张，精彩！定格冬奥会疯狂瞬间，呐喊中加健儿非凡表现。看你还能孩子多久 (^_^)
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险象环生。
do you remember Gonchar I mentioned earlier? it's him scored. Sens need this kind of D-Man
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呵，很好了。别忘记，这是俄罗斯队。
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something to read during the break... Interesting.
Canada-Russia Rivalry Has Long, Bitter History
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
Published: February 24, 2010
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — When Canada played Russia in an Olympic quarterfinal Wednesday night, all of Canada and much of Russia stopped to watch the world’s two longtime superpowers of hockey.
“It’s a pity that one of these two great teams can’t get a medal,” said Vladislav Tretiak, the Russian general manager and Olympic goaltending hero of the 1970s. “Just imagine that one of these teams will go home tomorrow.”
Canada and Russia have had problems in this tournament. The Canadians were pushed to a shootout by Switzerland, then were stunned by the United States, forcing them to play an extra qualifying game against Germany. The Russians lost in a shootout to Slovakia.
Most fans figured a Canada-Russia clash — Sidney Crosby versus Alex Ovechkin, perhaps the world’s best players — would be the gold medal game Sunday. It would be a fitting climax to the Vancouver Games and a chance for Canada to avenge the defeats dealt by Russia in the last two world championship finals and in eight straight Olympic contests stretching back to 1960.
The all-consuming rivalry began in 1972, when the Canadians, fed up with their amateur teams losing to the Russians, sent their best N.H.L. players against the Soviet national team in the eight-game Summit Series.
It was supposed to be a slaughter. But the Soviets won two games and tied one in Canada. Canadians booed their team in the fourth game, at Vancouver, prompting Phil Esposito to make an emotional postgame appeal for support on national television.
Four games of savage intensity followed in Moscow, with Bobby Clarke breaking the ankle of the artful Soviet star Valery Kharlamov at a coach’s suggestion. Canada rallied and won the series in the eighth game on Paul Henderson’s goal with 39 seconds left. It is the most famous single moment in Canadian hockey history.
The series set the tone for all future Canada-U.S.S.R. clashes: the Soviets’ triumph over the World Hockey Association’s best Canadians in 1974, their 6-0 demolition of the N.H.L. All-Stars at Madison Square Garden in 1979, Canada’s last-minute victory in the 1987 Canada Cup, with Wayne Gretzky passing to Mario Lemieux for the winning goal, and Russia’s elimination of Canada in the 2006 Olympic quarterfinals.
“It’s been a rivalry since 1972,” Tretiak said. “It doesn’t even depend on the role of the team at the tournament, if one is favored or not.”
Russia had been on a roll against Canada. In the 2008 world championship final in Quebec City, Ilya Kovalchuk scored the winning goal in overtime, prompting Ovechkin, who also scored a goal, to chip out the lucky loonie the Canadians had buried at center ice with his skate blade. He still has it.
A year later in Switzerland, the Russians beat the Canadians in the world championship final again.
Crosby got the last laugh, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins over Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals to win the Stanley Cup last year in seven memorable games.
“There is no personal war,” Ovechkin told Russian reporters on Tuesday. “It is not Ovechkin plays against Crosby — it is Russia battling Canada, two major hockey powers meeting in a duel. It will be interesting and exciting.”
Canada-Russia Rivalry Has Long, Bitter History
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
Published: February 24, 2010
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — When Canada played Russia in an Olympic quarterfinal Wednesday night, all of Canada and much of Russia stopped to watch the world’s two longtime superpowers of hockey.
“It’s a pity that one of these two great teams can’t get a medal,” said Vladislav Tretiak, the Russian general manager and Olympic goaltending hero of the 1970s. “Just imagine that one of these teams will go home tomorrow.”
Canada and Russia have had problems in this tournament. The Canadians were pushed to a shootout by Switzerland, then were stunned by the United States, forcing them to play an extra qualifying game against Germany. The Russians lost in a shootout to Slovakia.
Most fans figured a Canada-Russia clash — Sidney Crosby versus Alex Ovechkin, perhaps the world’s best players — would be the gold medal game Sunday. It would be a fitting climax to the Vancouver Games and a chance for Canada to avenge the defeats dealt by Russia in the last two world championship finals and in eight straight Olympic contests stretching back to 1960.
The all-consuming rivalry began in 1972, when the Canadians, fed up with their amateur teams losing to the Russians, sent their best N.H.L. players against the Soviet national team in the eight-game Summit Series.
It was supposed to be a slaughter. But the Soviets won two games and tied one in Canada. Canadians booed their team in the fourth game, at Vancouver, prompting Phil Esposito to make an emotional postgame appeal for support on national television.
Four games of savage intensity followed in Moscow, with Bobby Clarke breaking the ankle of the artful Soviet star Valery Kharlamov at a coach’s suggestion. Canada rallied and won the series in the eighth game on Paul Henderson’s goal with 39 seconds left. It is the most famous single moment in Canadian hockey history.
The series set the tone for all future Canada-U.S.S.R. clashes: the Soviets’ triumph over the World Hockey Association’s best Canadians in 1974, their 6-0 demolition of the N.H.L. All-Stars at Madison Square Garden in 1979, Canada’s last-minute victory in the 1987 Canada Cup, with Wayne Gretzky passing to Mario Lemieux for the winning goal, and Russia’s elimination of Canada in the 2006 Olympic quarterfinals.
“It’s been a rivalry since 1972,” Tretiak said. “It doesn’t even depend on the role of the team at the tournament, if one is favored or not.”
Russia had been on a roll against Canada. In the 2008 world championship final in Quebec City, Ilya Kovalchuk scored the winning goal in overtime, prompting Ovechkin, who also scored a goal, to chip out the lucky loonie the Canadians had buried at center ice with his skate blade. He still has it.
A year later in Switzerland, the Russians beat the Canadians in the world championship final again.
Crosby got the last laugh, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins over Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals to win the Stanley Cup last year in seven memorable games.
“There is no personal war,” Ovechkin told Russian reporters on Tuesday. “It is not Ovechkin plays against Crosby — it is Russia battling Canada, two major hockey powers meeting in a duel. It will be interesting and exciting.”
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等着夺金赛，一定好看。