Ice Hockey World Championships 2012 { Russia Won the Gold Medal! }
General Discussion
Pages: 1
Ice Hockey World Championships 2012 { Russia Won the Gold Medal! }
The championships have ended! You're late to the party! 1st: RUS 2nd: SVK 3rd: CZE 4th: FIN
Where are them Canucks? Where are them New English and the Upper Midwestern peeps? Where are them Nordics, Germans, Frenchmen, Kazakhs, Russians, Czechs, the other Europeans and the Yankees?
Watching the ice hockey world championships, surely! This year, 2012: will any of the three large ice hockey countries win? You know what happened in the yesteryear. I have faith in Brent Sutter's Canada this year.
The tournament will be hosted by the last year's finalists in Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland (and Tsung's island) but the cross-over system will be implemented as of the semi-finals which will be played in Helsinki. Medal games will be played in Helsinki as well. This particular tournament will also determine the countries’ seeding for the men’s Olympic Ice Hockey tournament in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The United States vs. France will launch the tournament in Helsinki in Friday 4th and Germany vs. Italy coevally in Stockholm respectively.Wikipedia Home Page | IIHF Home Page There were countries from literally every continent competing for the qualification but ultimately only 16 nations qualified for the elite-pool tournament. 13 nations from Europe, two nations from North America and Kazakhstan from Asia are represented. The full list of 16 goes here:Group Helsinki: Finland • Canada • United States • Switzerland • Slovakia • Belarus • France • Kazakhstan
Group Stockholm: Russia • Sweden • Czech Republic • Germany • Norway • Latvia • Denmark • ItalyThere were 46 countries competing for qualification of which many didn't just make it such as Austria, Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Croatia, Iceland, China and Mexico.
Which group and what nations will you support? My full support goes to the team Helsinki, whomever from it triumphs. Share your thoughts and... as Nephrite the moderator–gentleman likes to pull it out: Get hippo hype!
Tournament begins in 8 HRS @ 4:15am CST spanning from the May 4th to May 20th
Where are them Canucks? Where are them New English and the Upper Midwestern peeps? Where are them Nordics, Germans, Frenchmen, Kazakhs, Russians, Czechs, the other Europeans and the Yankees?
Watching the ice hockey world championships, surely! This year, 2012: will any of the three large ice hockey countries win? You know what happened in the yesteryear. I have faith in Brent Sutter's Canada this year.
The tournament will be hosted by the last year's finalists in Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland (and Tsung's island) but the cross-over system will be implemented as of the semi-finals which will be played in Helsinki. Medal games will be played in Helsinki as well. This particular tournament will also determine the countries’ seeding for the men’s Olympic Ice Hockey tournament in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The United States vs. France will launch the tournament in Helsinki in Friday 4th and Germany vs. Italy coevally in Stockholm respectively.
Group Stockholm: Russia • Sweden • Czech Republic • Germany • Norway • Latvia • Denmark • ItalyThere were 46 countries competing for qualification of which many didn't just make it such as Austria, Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Croatia, Iceland, China and Mexico.
Which group and what nations will you support? My full support goes to the team Helsinki, whomever from it triumphs. Share your thoughts and... as Nephrite the moderator–gentleman likes to pull it out: Get hippo hype!
How do you think the United States will manage this year? It hasn't won a world championship since 2004. The team USA is undergoing a generation switch from what I've heard but there's quite a lot talent amongst them. Jack Johnson seems like a good leader with experience.
You know what? I read that they are selling tickets to the USA vs. France game for mere five euros and giving tickets free in gas stations and furniture stores. The tickets were originally super expensive but now that they realized that people aren't buying them, they are basically handing out the tickets for free to fill the grandstand. Maybe I should go there wearing some Goro attire and a bucket in my head or something equally as crazy.
You know what? I read that they are selling tickets to the USA vs. France game for mere five euros and giving tickets free in gas stations and furniture stores. The tickets were originally super expensive but now that they realized that people aren't buying them, they are basically handing out the tickets for free to fill the grandstand. Maybe I should go there wearing some Goro attire and a bucket in my head or something equally as crazy.
0
According to today's games, it doesn't look too good for them.
Belarus burned Kazakhstan by 3-2
Latvia returned the expired Grandiosa pizza to Italy by 5-0
Finland adjusted the clock for the clock makers (SUI) by 5-2
Germany couldn't handle the Putinka vodka losing to Russia by 2-0
Wednesday:
SVK–KAZ
LAT–ITA
CAN–SUI
SWE–GER
As for the next matches, the latter two must be worth watching, if you desire a better analysis on how Germany and Switzerland may deal with the top five countries (maybe they will win, maybe not). Latvia and Slovakia know how to play, but their opponents aren't exactly equal. The underdogs should put up some good fights though.
Trivia: The logo of the competition has acronyms "MM" and "VM" put in them. The first is Finnish for "maailmanmestaruus" and the latter is Swedish for "världsmästerskap" and the both mean "world championship".
Latvia returned the expired Grandiosa pizza to Italy by 5-0
Finland adjusted the clock for the clock makers (SUI) by 5-2
Germany couldn't handle the Putinka vodka losing to Russia by 2-0
Wednesday:
SVK–KAZ
LAT–ITA
CAN–SUI
SWE–GER
As for the next matches, the latter two must be worth watching, if you desire a better analysis on how Germany and Switzerland may deal with the top five countries (maybe they will win, maybe not). Latvia and Slovakia know how to play, but their opponents aren't exactly equal. The underdogs should put up some good fights though.
Trivia: The logo of the competition has acronyms "MM" and "VM" put in them. The first is Finnish for "maailmanmestaruus" and the latter is Swedish for "världsmästerskap" and the both mean "world championship".
0
Yeah, but the Finnish Lions sent the team USA back to India. 
Your guesstimation was mind-blowing – Russia's victory really came from out of nowhere! The Big Red Machine did basically everything to guarantee their victory this year; even their head coach changed. Malkin was great.
It's all about the Putin vodka, Putinka, these days in Ruscha, by the way. I guess I'll have to drink Putinka for misery because Canada didn't succeed this year either. This year was extraordinary in the sense of having two hosts. It's never occured in the past, but it will continue next year. The year after, 2014, Belarus – a country under dictarorship, is told to host it. There have been protests about that quite recently though for the sake of the Belarussian citizens' civil rights. We are left with one question however: What's your explanation for Germany and Switzerland, m0s3pH Stalin? ;-[)
Your guesstimation was mind-blowing – Russia's victory really came from out of nowhere! The Big Red Machine did basically everything to guarantee their victory this year; even their head coach changed. Malkin was great.
It's all about the Putin vodka, Putinka, these days in Ruscha, by the way. I guess I'll have to drink Putinka for misery because Canada didn't succeed this year either. This year was extraordinary in the sense of having two hosts. It's never occured in the past, but it will continue next year. The year after, 2014, Belarus – a country under dictarorship, is told to host it. There have been protests about that quite recently though for the sake of the Belarussian citizens' civil rights. We are left with one question however: What's your explanation for Germany and Switzerland, m0s3pH Stalin? ;-[)
Nephrite Wrote:
Props to Slovakia for going toe-to-toe yet again with the Big Six. If they win a medal at the upcoming Olympics they should start talking about Big Seven.
Props to Slovakia for going toe-to-toe yet again with the Big Six. If they win a medal at the upcoming Olympics they should start talking about Big Seven.
Yup, props to Slovakia. It's a lot about "Czechoslovakia", "Fennoscandia" and the big nations USA, Canada (=N. America) and Russia these days.See ya next year, folks!.
Pages: 1
© 1998-2025 Shadow Knight Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Mortal Kombat, the dragon logo and all character names are trademarks and copyright of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.