Sully & Brown score as USA beats Sweden, 5-1

[Vargsmal]

Originally Posted by 2konen

Go Finland!!

i like the finns too, but the swedes own.

[finfan]

Originally Posted by 2padstack

Team USA is really young but fun to watch and super talented. Other than some miscues on breakouts and the powerplay, Team USA looked great. It will be interesting to see how they fare on the international size ice (cumberland county arena is NHL size since it is a AHL stadium) especially because they were surprisingly physical this game. It was nice to see Kings players so far from LA and seeing them do well was a bonus!

actually they will play north american size ice at WC, because they are playing canada this year. I think US will surprise many people this year..

btw, there is hockey outside nhl, and Esche played russia this season. He seems to be third goalie at team USA

[BigBrown]

Originally Posted by GoalCall

I'm pretty sure the rinks at the World Championships will be the larger IIHF size, not the small North-American NHL style.

Afraid not, they will be using NHL-sized rinks for tournaments scheduled in North America now, atleast for a couple of years.

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[GoalCall]

Originally Posted by BigBrown

Afraid not, they will be using NHL-sized rinks for tournaments scheduled in North America now, atleast for a couple of years.

NHL.com - News

Ah my bad then, didn't hear about this ... Now if they could only get them to use the North American icing rule as well ...

[kingsfan28]

Were due for a win. It's only been 48 years since our last gold medal in this tourney.

[Bogey Man]

Originally Posted by elkhockey

He did.

Shows how weak Team USA is in net.

I'm guessing Thomas will see most of the action.

Looking up Esche on Wikipedia, he did indeed play for the Russian Super League's Ak Bars Kazan.

USA may be lacking in depth in goal, but I maintain that Thomas and Anderson are a perfectly capable duo.

[2padstack]

Originally Posted by trdi

Thanks, karma for you. How about PK, were they also used?

I cant remember exactly, but i dont think either got significant pk time. Again it was hard to tell without names on jerseys plus Patrick O'Sullivan was wearing #9 while someone else had 12. (Brown still had 23).

[tom91381]

so O"sully got the game winner.

[PRMan!!]

Originally Posted by Bogey Man

Looking up Esche on Wikipedia, he did indeed play for the Russian Super League's Ak Bars Kazan.

USA may be lacking in depth in goal, but I maintain that Thomas and Anderson are a perfectly capable duo.

I would have thought Ryan Miller would play for us...

[XtremeDave]

Originally Posted by PRMan!!

I would have thought Ryan Miller would play for us...

Apparently when you play 76 NHL games in a season you get the rest of the spring off.