Posts from 2008 World Ice Hockey Championship (Canada)

GUYS!!!! I'M SPEECHLESS, JUST PURE EMOTIONS!!!!!! AND THE SUPPORT WAS AMAZING, AND KOVALCHUK, AND NABOKOV, AND THE MAIN REFEREE WHO DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE LINESMAN!!!!

Hooray!!!!!!!!! Hooray!!!!!!!! Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our guys are amazing!!!!!

Kovalchuk!!!!!!! Ilya, well done!!!! It's superb skill to score when it's most important for the team!!!!!!

We are the champions!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE ON THE VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our guys are great!!! I don't even know what's going on in the streets right now!!!!!
I wanted to play Heroes, but I couldn't find anyone. So I went to watch.
It was a match for the ages!!!!

RUSSIA is the BEST in the WORLD!!!!!!!
We are the champions!
Fedorov, Ovechkin, Kovalchuk, Semin, Afinogenov, Nabokov, Morozov, and the rest!!!
I've already lost my voice, but I'm happy as a child!!!

RUS-SIA!!! RUS-SIA!!!!!!!
KO-VAL-CHUK!!! KO-VAL-CHUK!!!
Hoorayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

I cried with them... =)))

We had been waiting for this for fifteen years – a period during which an entire generation changes. And a generation of hockey players and fans has grown up who have not seen our team at the top of the world.

A generation, the most "advanced" members of which, just yesterday, confidently spoke of the Canadians as "magicians" and "aliens." For whom the foreign and alien hockey brand "Made in Canada" means something great and bright, and our sacred, native brand "Made in Russia" is just a second-rate product.

We don't have any more of this lost generation.

But now we have a great team again, capable of winning everywhere, against everyone, and despite everything. And we are proud that this team is the RUSSIAN NATIONAL TEAM. And also – a feeling of connection to it, which brings a lump to the throat and tears to the eyes. A feeling of unity.

And yet, it all started as expected. The tired old script: the first period, and the Russian national team is "playing by the whistle." It seemed that the hosts had already achieved the desired result, which they only needed to maintain for the remaining two periods, so that later, as before, they could condescendingly praise the Russians for "almost making it," but they were a "worthy opponent who was almost lucky."

And then, it was difficult, very difficult, incredibly difficult, on the verge of possibility, – we went against the script. Step by step, moment by moment, we did something that made even the Canadians panic. For whom their reality was crumbling on their own home ice. In overtime, the reigning world champion, Rick Nash, was penalized for a violation that only happens when there is "panic on the ice" – for throwing the puck out of play. And no matter how much that American linesman ate ice, tore his striped jersey, or swore on his mother that the puck touched a Russian stick as it flew out, the European head referee made the right decision.

Thank you, Russian national team! I bow to you, Russian hockey players! Glory to you, head coach Vyacheslav Arkadyevich Bykov! And – come home soon.

www.championat.ru

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I will add that we fought hard for this victory. Everything was against us! But we are Russians, we are RUSSIA!!!

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Thank you for the information, Hero In. I think we'll "connect." I myself have goosebumps from the upcoming event.
The World Hockey Championship is a kind of state within the state of hockey. The only spectacle for which I can "jump up" in the middle of the night (except perhaps volleyball). I'm looking forward to it...

I told you that we would "connect." Already four classmates have called and said that I am a prophet (for the match prediction and confidence in victory even after the first period).

15 years... almost half a lifetime... I remember when Fedorov was just leaving for the NHL...
Too bad, I'm working... otherwise I would definitely go to the airport to greet him... =)

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I told you, we'd "make a deal." Four classmates have already called and said I'm a prophet (prediction for the match and confidence in victory even after the first period)

But I had a different strategy this year... if in the previous ones I said that we would beat everyone and we lost, then this time I said in key matches something like "well, we've blown it..." and we won =) and today, when we scored the first goal, I tell my girlfriend, like, well, it's all over... if we scored, it means we'll lose, because we play better when we're losing, not when we're leading =) to which she said "so we'll definitely win, since you're saying that" =) And voila - 1:3 =) But I knew right away how it would all end =)))

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And the REFEREE is the main one who didn't listen to the linesman!!!!

lol =) he completely gave himself away =) it immediately became clear who the undercover agent was =)

P.S. Damn... this database upload limit is so inconvenient =(

lol =) he totally blew his cover =) it immediately became clear who the mole was =)

I think the press will continue to stir up controversy about the judging and many other things, including the national team's "grand arrival" at the ice stadium. In short, they clearly overdid it.

Hooray, Russia is the champion! Congratulations to everyone on Russia's victory. Finally, they proved to the Canadians that we are not losers in hockey!

I became completely confident in our victory after Nash, with tears in his eyes, ran to complain to the referee, showing off his scratched chin, which could realistically withstand twenty hockey sticks without even noticing. At that moment, I thought that such weaklings couldn't become champions. And ironically, it was after Nash's penalty that Kovalchuk hammered the final nail into the coffin of the Canadian team.

Glory to Russia! Glory to Kovalchuk! Glory to Nabokov! Glory to Bykov! Glory to Fedorov! Glory to Ovechkin! Glory to Semen! Glory to Morozov! Glory to Zaripov! Glory to our entire magnificent team! Glory to all the fans, including you and me! Hooray!!!!!!!!!

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Probably, only you and I remember Fyodorov being in the national team... Well done, he was. Dribbling... Finish. Great job!

Hmm. Despite not being a big fan of this sport, I somehow ended up watching it. Indeed, the victory was beautiful and very hard-fought, which only adds to the emotions surrounding this fact. When I looked at the faces of the players listening to the anthem and then grabbing the cup, even a smile flickered across my stern face. That victory after 15 years... I think it was necessary for Russia. For our old, torn apart by foolish reforms, poor, worn-out, but proud and strong in spirit Russia. Well done, guys, excellent work. P.S. Just like in a video game. They won in the most hopeless situation...

I never really enjoyed watching sports competitions. Except for the occasional Olympic Games. But recently, with three finals happening (Russian football championship, UEFA Cup final, and World Hockey Championship final), I watched them all and cheered for my team(s) :)

But I enjoyed the hockey the most. What an intense atmosphere! Towards the end of the second period, I started to have pessimistic thoughts, but I didn't lose hope, and it paid off! An amazing game, an amazing victory! Congratulations! I'm incredibly proud of our team :)

P.S. It feels like everyone was only talking about this final today. I heard conversations about our victory at the bus stop, on the bus, and at school.

I was sure that Canada would win (of course, I hoped for Russia to win, but I would have bet on the Canadians). After the first, after the second, and even after the third period, I thought that the Canadians would win (Kovalchuk, as it seemed to me, played the worst of all – after his two mistakes, very dangerous Canadian attacks began). But after a minute of overtime, I suddenly realized that the Russians would win (there hadn't been a penalty against the Canadians yet). And now I was ready to bet any amount of money on the Russians. And that's what happened. Russia won!!! And in general, at that moment, it seemed to me that it was a rebirth of Russia. Several times, I (as, probably, everyone else) had moments when I clearly foresaw the near future (for example, a name of some country suddenly came to mind – and they immediately started talking about it in the news, or: there was a match between the Belarusian and Latvian national teams for the right to participate in the Olympics. I turned on the TV five minutes before the end of the game, our team (Belarusians) was leading by two goals. But for some reason, I was one hundred percent sure that Latvia would win. And that's what happened...). Maybe this was one of those moments when the gift of foresight awakened in me?))). It turned out to be a successful week: football, hockey... What's next? I suggest we all cheer for Bilan (Ani Lorak, Ruslana Alekhno) at Eurovision. And again, victory will be ours. And then in June, the European Football Championship will begin... Why not make progress there too? Now I am not so skeptical about Russian football players. Then in August, the Olympics will begin. Why not win it too?!! Everything is in our hands!!

My congratulations to the neighboring team, who have waited too long for their triumph!
Perhaps this is just the beginning of the team's great success in the future; the core of the team is still relatively young.