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Originally Posted by Lampshade
That was a rough 3rd period to watch. We dominated the rest of the game, shame they fell apart in the third. Good job of the russians picking that up though, I guess we know why a big chunk of the NHL's russian now :P
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whats funny is the TSN announcers were saying the NHL was starting to shy away from getting players from Russia for there was a noticeable lack of interest in the sport over the last few years there. Supposedly their domestic league (KHL?) is in a lot of trouble and up until last year they didn't even have a junior program (i dunno what they meant by that because hasn't Russia been in the World Juniors every year since forever?!?!? - maybe they mean a OHL/WHL like program?)
Gotta hand it to them though - they didn't play dirty and turned up the skill in the 3rd.