Who won the world ice hockey championship?

[Cort Haus]

It's not a sport I now much about.

[Solver]

WE WILL BURY YOU!

We WIN! Take that!

[LordShiva]

Vpered!!!

[Asher]

Which one?

You're probably referring to the IIHF one which they hold every year during the NHL playoffs where the best players don't go because they're either in the playoffs or they're too busted up from the NHL season. I think Russia won that one this year, but no one cares about it...it's a bit of a joke.

The big ones are the Olympics and the World Cup (used to be called the Canada Cup for obvoius reason ). Even the World Jrs are bigger because they represent the best players in the under 20 year old age group. Canada's won that many years in a row.

The hierarchy is as follows:

Stanley Cup
Olympic Hockey
World Cup/Canada Cup
World Jrs
IIIHF World Championship
Russian league championships

[The Vagabond]

The Russian League is ahead of the Swedish and Finnish ones in the hierarchy.

[Asher]

Sweden and Finland have leagues?

[Ninot]

You left out the WHL/OHL/QMJHL leagues.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ninot
You left out the WHL/OHL/QMJHL leagues.

I was only counting majors.

But including those:

Stanley Cup
Olympic Hockey
World Cup/Canada Cup
World Jrs
WHL/OHL/QMJHL
IIIHF World Championship
Russian league championships

[The Vagabond]

Re: Sweden and Finland.

Sort of. Kind of farm leagues for NHL.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
It's not a sport I now much about.

We did, in a dramatic clash of two hockey super-powers (Russia-Canada).
That was a really incredible match, a tough competition, an unbelievable comeback as a demostration of superior fighting spirit (sorry Asher, you fought very well, but we were better).


Here you can read about the final:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...tory/TPComment

Just notice that this article is writen by a Canadian fan and doesn't reflect the reality fully (for example, we were penaltised twice for the same fault as Nash (and Canada scored when it was 3 vs 5), but the author don't give a damn about that. He whines about that fully deserved fault like that it is what costed Canada a defeat.
You have to search for this game at youtube.com or something. It's a real classic.
Sure I know that in England hockey is not very popular. But actually it's very close to football, basically - it's just faster than football.

p.s. Well, you can type "Russia-Canada 5:4" or "Canadian disaster 5:4" in any search engine and you'll get a lot of links about that superb struggle.

[Serb]

Oh, and don't trust a single word of Mr Snuggles (aka Asher), 'cause he is a well-known racist/nazi (or Russia hater to be exact - it's his infernior complex) and... well, he loves gay porno for a reason.
Actually, I don't care about his sexual orientation. Just two things I hate about him:
1) he hates my country and my countrymen
2) he can't face defeat like a man (Like Marco did)

[Asher]

Russia has never won anything except the pity of the world.

[Serb]

FOF, loser.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Mr Snuggles
Which one?

You're probably referring to the IIHF one which they hold every year during the NHL playoffs where the best players don't go because they're either in the playoffs or they're too busted up from the NHL season. I think Russia won that one this year, but no one cares about it...it's a bit of a joke.

The big ones are the Olympics and the World Cup (used to be called the Canada Cup for obvoius reason ). Even the World Jrs are bigger because they represent the best players in the under 20 year old age group. Canada's won that many years in a row.

The hierarchy is as follows:

Stanley Cup
Olympic Hockey
World Cup/Canada Cup
World Jrs
IIIHF World Championship
Russian league championships

You are such a bullsh!ter man.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Mr Snuggles
Russia has never won anything except the pity of the world.

We pwn you at Olympics 9:1 (I meant the total encounters: they defeated us only once since the begining of our encounters at Olympic stage. We crushed them 9 times). So, shut the **** up - loser.

[Serb]

Had you expressed at least a bit of respect for the Russian hockey, I would never said this:

YOU SUCK, MAN.
Shame on you.

[Solver]

If I respect your hockey, can I get some love from you?

[Asher]

I don't think any Russians who play in Canada or the US (that is, all the good ones) should qualify for the Russian national teams. They're essentially deserters.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Solver
If I respect your hockey, can I get some love from you?

Of course not.

I'll reply in English terms. I saw that some months ago at Euro News:
"You give respect - you get respect"

It's simple as that. And it's à great formula.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Mr Snuggles
I don't think any Russians who play in Canada or the US (that is, all the good ones) should qualify for the Russian national teams. They're essentially deserters.

You speak like an idot who don't know a sh!t about reality. And you just proved that

[Asher]

Reality is your best players don't play in Russia.

[Serb]

In reality some of them do...

but in any case, none of our players play for team Canada.
Our best players (even the ones who play in NHL, the ones to whom you appeal to) play for team Russia.
That's why you suck whenever you face us - you are out of class (though for most of the times you are the strongest competition ).