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It is hard to draw any conclusions from the very first pre-tournament exhibition game with a roster assembled from all sorts of teams. However, Thursday night's bout between Team Europe and Team North America gave us two things to chew on as we wait for meaningful tournament games. 1. Team North...
Since the outset of the tournament, the question for Europe is do they have the quality up and down their lineup to be competitive, score, and play solid defense. They are no Team Canada, clearly. They are no Team Sweden, no Team U.S.A, and heck...if the past two games have showed us anything, they...
It took them three games, but Europe finally looked like a team capable of not just competing, but really doing some damage on top teams. The oldest team in the tournament was ironically led by the hat trick of their youngest player on Wednesday night. Leon Draisaitl led the charge for Team Europ...
Why wait until late in the tournament to have the upset of the whole thing? The heavily favored Team USA stumbled on ill-discipline, brain cramps, and altogether sloppy play to lose to the veteran Team Europe 3-0 to open the tournament. For the Europeans, after a very rough start to the prelimina...
While some predicted the harsh downfall and struggles of the United States, others predicted the bright and exciting success of Team North America. Canada was going to be good. Sweden was going to be good. Perhaps no one, however, predicted that come the knockout rounds of the tournament, T...
Bovada had Team Europe as a +3300 to win the World Cup of Hockey. Now they are in the finals, setting up a David versus Goliath three game set to decide which team will reign supreme in the rebirthed World Cup of Hockey. Sunday, Team Sweden came in as favorites to take on the awaiting Team Ca...
If fans were expecting a blow out or a dominant Canadian performance, Tuesday's Game 1 of the best-of-3 final series was a huge surprise. Europe played extremely well, controlling portions of the game against the Canadians like few teams have in the tournament. However the dynamic duo from Boston...
All good things must come to an end, and Europe's cinderella story unfortunately fell just short. Although about most of Canada was about three minutes away from freak out mode... Europe played a stellar Game 2, which was similar to their level of play in Game 1. Team Europe opened the sco...
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