So the World Cup of Hockey starts August 30th and I’m fucking stoked. My first introduction to watching hockey was during the Olympics when I was a kid and I still love the world tournaments. We got Lots of
big names for Canada, USA, Russia, Czechs and Sweden.
Canada arguably has the best goaltending with Brodeur,Belfour and Luongo, solid D and a hell of a lot of guys who can score. USA has a damn good team also but they’ve sucked it pretty hard in recent international games. Who’s going to start in net there? Esche had a good playoff run and DiPietro played damn well in his own right. The talent on Russia/Czech/Slovakia teams is looking sweet also, Russia has a guy from the superleague in net who should be exciting to watch, they also have speedy forwards in Datsyuk,Bure, Samsonov and Kovalchuk. What about Kiprusoff for Finland? He’s coming off a hot finals, will losing work against him? Or will he rebound brilliantly??? You get the picture and I can spout off names forever, so I'll save some for later.
We’ve got tons of hockey fans from all over that post here. Let’s hear who will walk away the champ! Of course I want USA to win, but I’ve gotten used to disappointment.