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I see a clear win for Sweden. Hopefully we'll lose with dignity.
why so pessimistic? got some finnish blood in you?
I think it's gunna be a close game I'm looking forward to it.. 4-3 in OT, with either team winning.. Jagr with a pair
And it won't be even close. It is a plain fact they just know our button. Their organized and patient play makes our skill players frustrated and we don't even have any skill or quality players this year (okay Jágr and Voráček, but that is it, Marek is a total fairy!).
Just as well as Swedes can't beat Russians to save their lives we can't beat Swedes to save ours. That is a fact. We beat them on those silly Euro hockey tour just to lose the only match of the season that matters to them (WCHamps) year by year.
We lose to them on big tournaments on regular basis even with our A-teams (we might outshoot them, outplay them, but they just find the way to win and that's the only thing that matters), so we have no business lumbering any points out of them with this C-team we have this year.
Sad but. We're going to go further with 0 points and will get smacked by Danes, Canadians etc. and then whacked by Russians in the 1/4 finals and then this misery will be finally over.
Please no predictions like this, they don't work, especially at this tournament. Every match is different and I see no purpose in being defeatistic.
The purpose is of course to prevent severe disappointment. If they lose, well you expected it, if they win you're pleasantly surprised. Better that, than the other way around surely?
Please no predictions like this, they don't work, especially at this tournament. Every match is different and I see no purpose in being defeatistic.
Guys why do you join this atrocity and wrote our Czech names crippled? Do you expect anybody will appreciate that, do you have no pride? Or you expect me to believe you don't have Czech keyboard layout installed? It only takes 2 clicks in Windows.
See the Swedes write Bäckman and BĹG, not Backman and BAG. I implore you, countrymen of mine, grow a pair, because this make me sick. I'm terminally sick of reading Ruzicka and Blatak. Those are not their names!
Last edited by William H Bonney: 05-13-2010 at 11:47 AM.
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Guys why do you join this atrocity and wrote our Czech names crippled? Do you expect anybody will appreciate that, do you have no pride? Or you expect me to believe you don't have Czech keyboard layout installed? It only takes 2 clicks in Windows.
See the Swedes write Bäckman and BĹG, not Backman and BAG. I implore you, countrymen of mine, grow a pair, because this make me sick. I'm terminally sick of reading Ruzicka and Blatak. Those are not their names!
The pessimism of the Czech fans certainly makes me doubt that this game will actually be worth watching.
Might as well watch a film or something if this is such a certain victory for Sweden.
Just watch and enjoy. You will be given all the reason to do so. We don't have the lineup to match your team, we knew it all the way, as we received some 25+ "not coming" from our NHLers. Paradoxically, the Danes have more NHLers on their team than we do, don't know if I should laugh or cry.
Same deal for Sweden. Not only did our NHLers turn down their invitations, so did the best players in SEL. Also, BĹG is an idiot and picks crappy players because.... well i dunno, because he's BĹG.
vs. 
Rafail Kadyrov
Konstantin Olenin
Antonin Semionov
