GDT: Group A • Feb. 16 • Canada vs. Norway • 7:30 PM ET

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Date & Time: Tuesday, February 16th @ 4:30 PM
Location: Canada Hockey Place
TV: CTV (CAN) / CNBC (USA)
Stream: CTVOlympics.ca (CAN) / NBCOlympics.com (USA)

Canada Roster

Nash - Crosby - Bergeron
Marleau - Thornton - Heatley
Staal - Getzlaf - Perry
Morrow - Toews - Iginla
(Richards)

Niedermayer - Weber
Keith - Seabrook
Pronger - Boyle
(Doughty)

Luongo
(Brodeur)
Fleury

Norway Roster

Skrøder - Vikingstad - Thoresen
Olimb - Bastiansen - Aasen
Røymark - Hansen - Holtet
Ask - Forsberg - Spets
(Ylven)

Jakobsen - Holøs
Kaunismäki - Trygg
Lund - Bonsaksen
Tollefsen

Grotnes
(Smith)
Lysenstøen


(Unknown lines, just listed players in order from CTV site)

Tournament Standings	Wins	OTW	Losses	OTL	Points
Belarus	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	-	-	-	-	-
Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-
Finland	-	-	-	-	-
Germany	-	-	-	-	-
Latvia	-	-	-	-	-
Norway	-	-	-	-	-
Russia	-	-	-	-	-
Slovakia	-	-	-	-	-
Sweden	-	-	-	-	-
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-
United States	-	-	-	-	-

Related Articles

• Luongo gets call for Canada against Norway
• Crosby tight-lipped about Canada's plan
• Getzlaf in, Carter told to go home

Tournament Format Notes

• All teams advantage past round robin
• Top 4 teams receive a BYE
• Bottom 8 teams play qualification playoff
  • Game E1 - 5th vs 12th
  • Game E2 - 6th vs 11th
  • Game E3 - 7th vs 10th
  • Game E4 - 8th vs 9th
• Quarter Finals
  • Game F1 - 1st vs E4 winner
  • Game F2 - 2nd vs E3 winner
  • Game F3 - 3rd vs E2 winner
  • Game F4 - 4th vs E1 winner
• Semi Finals
  • Game 1 - F1 winner vs F4 winner
  • Game 2 - F2 winner vs F3 winner

Here are the stats for the Norwegians from Elite Prospects

Player Name	Age	Position	League	Team	Games	Goals	Assists	PIM
Mats Zuccarello Aasen	22	RW	SEL	MODO	48	18	33	56
Tore Vikingstad	34	C	DEL	Hannover Scorpions	42	13	42	47
Martin Laumann Ylven	21	LW/RW	SEL	Linköping	47	2	4	32
Patrick Thoresen	26	LW/C	KHL	Salavat Yulaev	49	20	31	69
Martin Røymark	23	RW/LW	SEL	Frölunda	48	5	3	10
Per-Åge Skrøder	31	LW	SEL	MODO	47	17	16	39
Kristian Forsberg	23	C/RW	SEL	MODO	48	2	1	14
Mads Hansen	31	C	SEL	Brynäs	42	4	15	26
Lars Erik Spets	24	F	Norway	Vålerenga	42	15	32	28
Mathis Olimb	24	LW	SEL	Frölunda	48	7	24	31
Morten Ask	29	C	DEL	Nürnberg Ice Tigers	42	10	23	33
Anders Bastiansen	29	C	SEL	Färjestad	48	8	9	22
Ole-Kristian Tollefsen*	25	D	AHL	Grand Rapids Griffins	18	0	2	23
Alexander Bonsaksen	23	D	SEL	MODO	41	0	2	20
Jonas Holøs	22	D	SEL	Färjestad	44	0	11	16
Tommy Jakobsen	39	D	Norway	Lørenskog	42	4	15	64
Juha Kaunismäki	30	D	Norway	Stavanger	38	0	6	89
Lars Erik Lund	35	D	Norway	Vålerenga	38	12	17	18
Mats Trygg	33	D	DEL	Kölner Haie	31	7	8	34
Marius Holtet	25	LW/RW	SEL	Marius Holtet	48	5	4	38

*Tollefsen hasn't played in the AHL yet since being sent down after being traded to Detroit. His stats are from his time with the Flyers.

Goaltender Name	Age	League	Team	GP	GAA	SV%
Pål Grotnes	32	Norway	Stjernen	34	3.17	.903
André Lysenstøen	21	Finland2	HeKi	15	2.81	.909
Ruben Smith	22	Norway	Storhamar	35	2.85	.910

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***GDT made by One95**

(I stole it from him with permission)

[King Woodballs]

1st
Go Canada GO

[Next Best Thing*]

Well this will be a rout.

Is PK playing?

[Myron Gaines*]

I expect a "meh..." game from Canada

[Ferg033]

Come on Canada !!! Expecting a shutout from Bobby Lou tonight. 8-0 Canada

[InglewoodJack]

Price or Halak tonight?

[Fire Brunet*]

GO CANADA

[Theosis]

Originally Posted by InglewoodJack

Price or Halak tonight?

Desjardins

[InglewoodJack]

Originally Posted by Theosis

Desjardins

Nooo Canada hates Quebecois

ishekiddingorisheserious?

[HarlemsFinest]

question.

they're playing on an NHL-sized rink? how are they allowed to do that? howcome they don't have any international sized ice in vancouver? shouldn't you have an olympic sized rink....for the olympics?

[Habs]

Originally Posted by HarlemsFinest

question.

shouldn't you have an olympic sized rink....for the olympics?

No, it must be a conspiracy.

[Originalsix]

I love how the article title says "Getzlaf in, Carter told to go home"

[Tray4Adams]

Get er done Norway

[King Woodballs]

Originally Posted by HarlemsFinest

question.

they're playing on an NHL-sized rink? how are they allowed to do that? howcome they don't have any international sized ice in vancouver? shouldn't you have an olympic sized rink....for the olympics?

Same thing happend in 2002 with the Salt Lake City olympics.
With the NHL ice

[Analyzer]

Do I finally get to watch a team I like that plays a physical game and helps out their goalie by providing defense and timely goals ?

[HarlemsFinest]

cool, i hadn't noticed/didn't really follow it for 02.

i just thought that would have been something that was consistent throughout the Games. i guess all the players on any team that have even a chance, is because they're in the NHL and are used to it. but it may further disadvantage the joke countries who are used to sucking, but sucking on more open ice and less physical. this should be pretty fun.

[Habs]

Originally Posted by Analyzer

Do I finally get to watch a team I like that plays a physical game and helps out their goalie by providing defense and timely goals ?

The injuries prevent our team from back-checking and result in bad passes as well! Don't you know!

[JeromeHP]

iginla on the 4th line LOL

[Le Tricolore]

I'll be missing the game, but still.. go Canada.

[Next Best Thing*]

Just to be sure, aside from the whole TC concept... who are we cheering for on this team?

[JeromeHP]

Originally Posted by Next Best Thing

Just to be sure, aside from the whole TC concept... who are we cheering for on this team?

there's no "I" in "team"

i dont cheers for individual, i cheers for my country

GO CANADA GO

[Next Best Thing*]

Originally Posted by Markov79fan

there's no "I" in "team"

i dont cheers for individual, i cheers for my country

GO CANADA GO

indeed... well, Russia is a superpower, we'll see how it goes.

[Fire Brunet*]

Originally Posted by Markov79fan

iginla on the 4th line LOL

No hes not!!!
Wut you talking bout
It must be Ingila

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[nilan30]

Originally Posted by Next Best Thing

Just to be sure, aside from the whole TC concept... who are we cheering for on this team?

all players on Canada...no players on any other team

[JeromeHP]

Originally Posted by Next Best Thing

indeed... well, Russia is a superpower, we'll see how it goes.

top 2 line you could say russia has more fire power but canada has more depth and on defense canada is so much better than russia even with a gonchar and an injured markov

goalie, edge to canada nabokov/brizgalov has never won any big game