Thought it needed its own thread and not to clutter the NHL thread.

Go USA, wait...are these like our usual douchebag American players?

Good to see my motherland win 8-1 last night. Tavares is a beast.

nice performance last night for team canada

sorry Kazakhstan

this must be how a team feels after beating the lions

yeah really. Looking at a score like that makes me cringe. The worst part is they didn't even seem to be really trying in the last period and still managed to pit 5 goals.

Kazahkstan doesn't REALLY belong in the tournament... they're just kind of the team that fills that last spot and gets beat up on, I guess.

Well Canada totally destroyed Germany tonight. Germany's goalie got Player of the Game honours by stopping 47 shots but he let 5 go by.

Canada is still undefeated.

can we get some leading scorer info?

SCORING LEADERS
http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/172/IHM172Z05_85B_1_0.pdf

As of 30.12.2008
Including Game 12
(Ranked by highest PTS/ highest G/ lowest GP)

R Name No Team Pos GP G A PTS PIM +/-
1 TAVARES John 19 CAN F 3 5 4 9 0 +5
2 HODGSON Cody 18 CAN F 3 2 7 9 2 +5
3 SCHROEDER Jordan 19 USA F 2 3 4 7 0 +2
4 BENN Jamie 24 CAN F 3 4 2 6 4 +2
5 BOYCHUK Zach 11 CAN F 3 3 3 6 0 +7
6 ENNIS Tyler 22 CAN F 3 2 4 6 0 +3
7 EBERLE Jordan 14 CAN F 3 1 5 6 0 +6
8 Di DOMENICO Chris 25 CAN F 3 2 3 5 0 +4
8 KARLSSON Erik 5 SWE D 3 2 3 5 0 +4
8 SUBBAN P K 5 CAN D 3 2 3 5 2 +10
8 SVENSSON PAAJARVI Magnus 21 SWE F 3 2 3 5 2 +5
12 ELLIS Ryan 8 CAN D 3 1 4 5 0 +4
13 KLYUKIN Nikita 21 RUS F 2 0 5 5 2 +3
14 KLOPOV Dmitri 9 RUS F 2 3 1 4 0 +3
14 van RIEMSDYK James 21 USA F 2 3 1 4 0 +1
16 FLAAKE Jerome 9 GER F 3 2 2 4 4 +4
16 HJALMARSSON Simon 29 SWE F 3 2 2 4 2 +5
18 DADONOV Evgeni 26 RUS F 2 1 3 4 2 +3
18 WILSON Colin 33 USA F 2 1 3 4 2 0
20 ANDERSSON Joakim 18 SWE F 3 1 3 4 6 +5
20 FAUSER Gerrit 23 GER F 3 1 3 4 2 0
20 PETERSSON Andre 20 SWE F 3 1 3 4 2 +2
23 BACKLUND Mikael 22 SWE F 3 2 1 3 0 0
23 KANE Evander 29 CAN F 3 2 1 3 0 +1
25 ROMAN Ondrej 10 CZE F 2 1 2 3 0 +2
25 TATAR Tomas 14 SVK F 2 1 2 3 0 +1
27 FISCHHABER Simon 5 GER F 3 1 2 3 0 -1
27 JEKIMOVS Roberts 14 LAT F 3 1 2 3 0 -4
27 PIETRANGELO Alex 10 CAN D 3 1 2 3 0 +2
27 POHL Patrick 19 GER F 3 1 2 3 0 +2
27 ULLSTROM David 24 SWE F 3 1 2 3 0 +3
27 WEISS Daniel 24 GER F 3 1 2 3 2 +4

USA plays KAZ tonight, hopefully they keep KAZ scoreless like Germany and Canada has.

KAZ is GF 0 : GA 24.

I don't want USA to give up a goal to KAZ

If/when Canada wins, this will be the 5th year straight, no?

the drive for five is still alive!!

Does McCollum know he's supposed to be keeping the puck out of the net? The first two Slovakia goals were awful.

I was thinking today about how sick Canada's team would be if they had Stamkos, Doughty, Schenn, Bailey, Gillies, Turris and I'm sure I forgot a couple others.

Awesome game vs the US. I'd love to see a rematch for Gold.

You might not see it because McCollum is a joke.

It doesn't help Slovakia's goalie is playing the game of his life.