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...legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition for NHL rookie-of-the-year honors, presumably watched at home...
...tasted the big time, skated in the NHL, wore the Olympic sweater, and still returned to Harvard in the end? Why not a guy whose personality and enthusiasm have earned him a 36-20-5 record in just under two years—a guy who has lost only three games at home, here in Cambridge, where he belongs? Maybe he could even be a president-coach, sort of like the great player-coaches of yore...
...ready, because they want to beat them. They can't go forever being the top team." But while Canada's rivals are feeling motivated, they also are coping with some key losses. A leg injury suffered by Czech goaltender Dominik Hasek in the team's opener against Germany prompted NHL vice president Bill Daly to withhold the league's commitment to the Games beyond the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympics. Other top players who are out: Swedish forward Markus Naslund, Czech forward Patrick Elias and Finnish goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff...
...Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland. Team USA and Switzerland are both regarded as dark horses, while Russia--a longtime nemesis that hadn't been expected to be a threat--has been playing in Torino as if it has nothing to lose. The Russian team is young, assembled by former NHL star Pavel Bure and led by rising players, including NHL rookie-of-the-year candidate Alexander Ovechkin. That can't be reassuring for the Canadians. In Olympic history, Canada's record against Russia (and the former Soviet Union) is one win and six losses. The Russians don't seem intimidated...
...performance of the men's hockey team that matters most. That helps explain the passionate sideshows that have flared at Torino. There was, of course, the Gretzky gambling controversy. Then news broke over new legal action against Team Canada star Todd Bertuzzi in connection with an on-ice NHL attack against Steve Moore in 2004. But rather than become distractions, Canada's hockey players say that if anything, the controversies have further unified Team Canada. "Growing up in Edmonton, watching [Gretzky] play with the Oilers, I remember how much fun they had as a group," says forward Jarome Iginla...