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Capacity of WFCU is 6,500. Whats neat about hosting this tournament is that they will be using other arenas in the county that have been recently renovated or rebuilt. A win win situation for the whole community.
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Last year's winner Team Ontario (Regional Rep) beat the USA (National Team) 5-3 to win their 3rd Gold Medal in 4 years, Windsor should get a huge bump from this. Best hockey played on the Planet for 17-year olds, amazing how many go on to play in the Pros. I remember watching a young guy play for the Spruce Grove Mets right up until he got traded to the St. Albert Saints, of course I am speaking of Mark Messier!
6 Cups later...
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CANADA WINS FOURTH STRAIGHT GOLD AT IVAN HLINKA TOURNAMENT
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Oh look who just beat Sweden again! Canada's under-18 men's hockey team won the gold medal for the fourth consecutive year after a 4-1 victory over Sweden at the Ivan Hlinka memorial tournament Saturday. The victory was even sweeter for Canada after the Swedes hammered Canada 5-1 in the teams' first game at the tournament. Canada progressed as the tournament went along. After the opening loss to the Swedes, Canada beat the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Russia by a combined 17-1 scoreline en route to the final.
?I don?t take vacations. I don?t get sick. I don?t observe major holidays. I?m a jackhammer.?Comment
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Rick Rypien found dead. Rumors saying he hung himself
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Apparently he had a history of depression, from Crowsnest Pass, Alberta....on beautiful place.?I don?t take vacations. I don?t get sick. I don?t observe major holidays. I?m a jackhammer.?Comment
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Yes, he had had been taken time off for person reasons last year.Comment
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Tragedy strikes, Russian plan crash several NHL players on board, including former Asst. Wings coach & player Brad McCrimmon.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is a leading force in Russian hockey and came third in the KHL last year. The team's coach is Canadian Brad McCrimmon, who took over in May. He was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Hartford and Phoenix.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz1XHs70N6o
CANADIAN COACH MCCRIMMON AMONG 43 DEAD IN RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH
TUNOSHNA, Russia -- A Russian jet carrying a top hockey team crashed just after takeoff Wednesday, killing 43 people, including the team's Canadian coach, and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into a riverbank on the Volga River immediately after leaving an airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, 240 kilometres northeast of Moscow. It was sunny at the time.
The plane was carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where the team was to play Thursday against Dynamo Minsk in the opening game of the season for the Kontinental Hockey League. The ministry said the plane had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew.
KHL confirmed that Canadian Brad McCrimmon was among the dead. McCrimmon took over as head coach in May.
A native of Saskatchewan, the 52-year-old was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Hartford and Phoenix.
Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.
Eleven foreign players were reportedly onboard the jet. A Czech Embassy official said Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek were among those killed, and Latvian officials confirmed the death of Latvian defenceman Karlis Skrastins.
The plane that crashed was relatively new, built in 1993, and belonged to a small Moscow-based Yak Service company.
Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a picturesque village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the Volga River. One of the plane's engines could be seen poking out of the river and a flotilla of boats combed the water for bodies. Russian rescue workers struggled to heft the bodies of large, strong athletes in stretchers up the muddy, steep riverbank.
One resident, Irina Pryakhova, saw the plane going down, then heard a loud bang and saw a plume of smoke.
"It was wobbling in flight, it was clear that something was wrong," she said. "I saw them pulling bodies to the shore, some still in their seats with seatbelts on."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin immediately sent the country's transport minister to the site, 15 kilometres east of Yaroslavl. President Dmitry Medvedev also planned to tour the crash site.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is a leading force in Russian hockey and came third in the KHL last year.
The Russian team featured several top European players and former NHL stars, including Slovakian forward and national team captain Pavol Demitra, who played in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues and Vancouver Canucks.
Other top names on the team include Russian defenceman Ruslan Salei and Swedish goalie Stefan Liv.
The KHL is an international club league that pits together teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia. Lokomotiv was a three-time Russian League champion in 1997, 2002-2003. It took bronze last season.
A cup match between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in the central Russian city of Ufa was called off midway after news of the crash was announced by HHL head Alexander Medvedev. Russian television broadcast images of an empty arena in Ufa as grief-stricken fans abandoned the stadium.
"We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane," said Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak.
Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, called it the "darkest day in the history of the sport."
"This is a terrible tragedy for the global ice hockey community with so many nationalities involved," Fasel said in a statement.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with family and friends of the victims."
In recent years, Russia and the other former Soviet republics have had some of the world's worst air traffic safety records. Experts blame the poor safety record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
Medvedev has announced plans to take aging Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. The short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980 and about 100 are still being used by Russian carriers.
In June, another Russian passenger jet crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. The crash of that Tu-134 plane has been blamed on pilot error.
In other plane crashes involving sports teams, 75 Marshall University football players, coaches, fans and airplane crew died in a plane crash in Kentucky on Nov. 17, 1970 on the way home from a game.
Thirty members of the Uruguayan rugby club Old Christians were killed in a crash in the Andes in 1972.
The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a crash on their way to the 1961 world championships in Brussels.
In 1949, the Torino soccer team lost 18 players near Turin, Italy, while the Munich air crash of 1958 cost eight Manchester United players their lives.
-- With files from The Canadian Press.Last edited by Optimus Prime; September 7, 2011, 12:07 PM.?I don?t take vacations. I don?t get sick. I don?t observe major holidays. I?m a jackhammer.?Comment
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Man, that's terrible! Goddamn Russian POS equipment.Comment
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Looks like the NHL approved a major realingment today:
I can't say I understand all the particulars, but it sure looks like Detroit got a boost from this in that we won't see them playing so many games at 10:30 EST as part of the "West" anymore! I like that. I could never make it through any of the playoff games when I had to work the next day.
Quick glance at their "conference"
Chicago
Columbus
Dallas
Detroit
Minnesota
Nashville
St. Louis
WinnipegComment
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Awesome. The most unexpectedly awesome thing that a pro league has done in a long time. A nearly perfect solution to the league's challenges. I wish we could get back Toronto as a division rival, but I'll gladly take that.Comment
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I'm pretty satisfied with this....Comment
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Instead of conferences A,B,C, and D, they should change the names to the Howe, Yzerman, Illitch and Berensen conferences. Then we'd REALLY have something.
Great move by the NHL, though. Hard to believe Gary Bettman was involved in it.Comment
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Yeah, this will mean that every 1st and 2nd round playoff series will be played within a reasonable geographic distance from both teams and should be in the same time-zone or within 1 time zone. No more 1st and 2nd round series with teams flying back and forth from Detroit to Anaheim every other day.
Good god, it almost makes too much sense.Comment
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