Flyers React to Canada's Close Call

After Canada's desperate win against the Swiss in a shootout last night we were able to get in touch with some of the Flyers to get their opinion on the game. While most of the players who actually played the game had an air of disappointed relief, including Forward 13, there was a wide range of feelings expressed in the text messages that we received back from some of the guys. Outgoing text: How'd you feel about that Canada shootout win over Switzerland?

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Olympic Update: 2-19-10

As I am writing this blog at 11 PM on Thursday, the starting lineups have been announced for the upcoming game between Russia and Slovakia. Per IIHF.com, the five-man units shape up like this: RUSSIA Ovechkin - Datsyuk - Semin Nikulin- Markov Afinogenov-Malkin-Kovalchuk Gonchar- Tyutin Radulov - Fedorov - Kozlov Volchenkov - Kalinin Zaripov- Zinoviev - Morozov Korneyev - Grebesh

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All the Cool Dudes

This is my team for The Pensblog's clever little gold, silver, and bronze money maker, Rinkotology . Before you stop reading this blog forever after noticing that Sid the Kid is not only on my team, but the captain, let me splain some things to you. So the rules are this: 1 Player from each team. 8 forwards, 3 d-men, and a goalie. Captain gets triple points and A's get double. So there you go. Try and disagree with this team

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Women's Hockey Embarassing Canada and US at Olympics

  What is wrong with women's hockey? Look at these scores: Canada 18 - Slovakia 0 Canada 10 - Switzerland 1 Canada 13 - Sweden 1 And we're not much better: USA 12 - China 1 USA 13 - Russia 0 …and our women play Finland, who beat China by 1, today at 5:30. "It's not about running up the score," said Potter, who became the first women's player in Olympic history to record two hat tricks in the same Games. "It's about winning the gold. This is great for our team. You can always learn something from every game.

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Olympic update : 2-18-10

Of all the games played in the Olympic tournament so far, by far the most engaging match was yesterday's 3-1 win by the Czech Republic over Slovakia. It was a vintage performance for Jaromir Jagr, who scored the game winning goal and added an assist for the Czech team. Last night, he was determined to beat his former countrymen, and it showed in the way it was almost impossible for the Slovaks to

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