6:38pm: Eric Staal is the player of the game for Canada. Sort of a no-brainer.
6:35pm: GAME END. 10-1 FINAL.
6:30pm: St. Louis missed a breakaway goal.
6:29pm: Heatley just missed a tip-in attempt.
6:26pm: Loving the drunk guy in the Team Canada Crosby sweater dancing. Perhaps alcohol was the key to dimming the boring nature of watching Canada wallop Germany 10-1.
6:24pm: McGuire mentions the early morning wakeup call for the 11th time this game.
6:23pm: Staal narrowly missed a redirect in front of the net. And then got a penalty for hooking.
6:18pm: three-on-one after an unsuccessful pinch by Green and the puck trickles in off of a Canadian players skate. Cam Ward has now lost his shutout bid. I personally blame Gord Miller who said the SO-word before the end of the game.
6:17pm: "THEY TAKE NUMBERS, EVEN IN INTERNATIONAL PLAY. GETZLAF JUST SAID, CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T WATCH YOURSELF IT'S COMING AGAIN!"
6:14pm: Jovanaski with a real nice defensive effort after Derek Roy coughed up the puck in the Canadian zone.
6:10pm: Germany should be taking a lesson from Norway who played very close-checking and kept the Canadians to the perimeter. Germany appears to be trying to match Canada. I would like to point out that trying to match Canada IS NOT WORKING.
6:09pm: MIKE GREEN SCORES!!! poor poor Robert Mueller didn't even know it went in. St. Louis gets his fifth assist.
6:08pm: German penalty. Staal fell awkwardly but appears to be ok.
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5:55pm: update from Russia-Sweden game. Sweden is up 1-0 and apparently Kovalchuk got in a fight, but as we all know players like Kovalchuk don't quite know how it works, and that was evident as both players still had their mitts on. Almost guys, almost.
5:51pm: Came across this. Apparently that dementia I was talking about the other day that seems to be running rampant amongst the Toronto Maple Leafs players hasn't affected everyone. Jason Blake is saying he would be open to a trade. That's code word for "THIS PLACE SUCKS!"
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5:50pm: PERIOD END. 9-0 Canada.
5:47pm: JAMAL MAYERS SCORES!!! again. wide. open. net. McGuire: "THE GERMANS SHOULD START THE BUS NOW!".
5:45pm: Pierre McGuire is still talking about the 8:30 am practice, he now thinks it is a good idea.
5:44pm: Germany still only has 9 shots. These guys are playing like a bunch of Slovenians.
5:43pm: man... 8-0... this is starting to get a bit boring.
5:41pm: STAAL SCORES!!! AGAIN!!! Tipped the puck into an open net with only one hand on the stick. Nice behind the back pass from St. Louis. Apparently Eric Lindross has the record for most goals in a game, which is five. Staal is one away. Let's go Staal.
5:40pm: Do you think the players try to hit the Skoda cars in the stands? I would.
5:39pm: Rick Nash just made a ridiculous move and was stopped by Meuller.
5:38pm: our buddy Mavs, who is the music guy for the entire tournament just played "The Price is Right" theme. Awesome. Almost as good as starting the game with "Barrett's Privateers".
5:37pm: goal.
5:36pm: They're reviewing the goal to see if the posts were in place.
5:35pm: DEREK ROY SCORES!!! Doan was aggravating in front of the net, the goalie was down and out and Roy had a big giant open net.
5:34pm: "And Spezza couldn't cash in." A line Ottawa Senators fans are used to hearing.
5:33pm: German penalty.
5:32pm: shots are 26-6. This is not a goaltenders battle.
5:28pm: ERIC STAAL HATTRICK!!! St. Louis threw a beautiful pass from behind the net right on to Staal's stick. It appears no one was willing to throw their new overpriced official hats they've been selling at the games. "dat's right good dere staal, but i spent 40 loons on this hat."
5:28pm: The top line is out there and they are not looking where they are passing.
5:23pm: McGuire is on fire. "IS PANG AVAILABLE TO PLAY?"
5:22pm: Apparently Germany switched goaltenders at intermission because it is now Mueller in nets.
5:21pm: ERIC STAAL SCORES!!! second goal of the game (and tournament) — he walked right through pretty much four players. ROOF DADDY!
5:20pm: Pierre McGuire: "LOOK AT THEM CRASHING THE NET, WE DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THIS AGAINST NORWAY LAST GAME. THEY'RE REALLY PLAYING INTO HITCHCOCK'S PLAN OF PLAYING NORTH AMERICAN STYLE HOCKEY!"
5:19pm: German penalty.
5:17pm: apparently German coach Uwe Krupp's son is playing in the US system right now, however if he plays another year he will be ineligible for the German national team. His other option is to go play with the Belleville Bulls in the OHL next year.
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5:11pm: still intermission, interesting story about Dany Heatley and how he almost ended up on Team Germany back in the day.
5:05pm: Cory Woron just looked so lost when the highlight clips didn't come on. "WHERE DID MY WORDS GO!?"
5:01pm: Belarus took the Czech Republic to a shootout, the day after taking the Russians to a shootout. I love Belarus, they always sneak in some sort of ridiculous upset. (see: Sweden, 2002 Olympics)
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5:00pm: PERIOD END. 4-0 Canada.
4:58pm: PATRICK SHARP SCORES!!! Sharp was trying to centre a pass and it redirected off of the German defensemans skate. The goaltenders five-hole is almost as big as Sean Avery's mouth!
4:53pm: Germany Penalty.
4:52pm: ERIC STAAL SCORES!!! 3-0 Canada. Staal's first goal of the tournament.
4:49pm: DANY HEATLEY SCORES!!! (through the giant five-hole again) He was pretty much in all alone. Heatley is on fire, 7 goals in 5 games.
4:49pm: Wikipedia tells me that Kotschnew is actually from Kazakhstan but has German citizenship.
4:47pm: Decided I better actually look up the name of the German goaltender, it is Dimitrij Kotschnew who is playing for the first time this tournament.
4:44pm: Heatley-Nash-Getzlaf line continue to pepper Germany's net with shots. What an insane line.
4:41pm: The German players all wear that god-forsaken T'blade skate system that makes the most annoying sound of life. If I wasn't afraid i'd miss some sort of terrible quip from Pierre i'd put it on mute.
4:36pm: Spezza comes up the right wing and puts a goal through the gigantic five-hole of the German goaltender. Nice to see Spezza doing something besides coughing up the puck to the other team.
4:31pm: puck drop. We're informed by Pierre McGuire 'THE CANADIANS HAD AN 8:30AM PRACTICE TODAY AND I SPOKE TO THEM AFTERWARDS AND MOST OF THEM DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE ABOUT IT"
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