Murray, Malkin, Simon, Hörnqvist, Pettersson, Blugers to join their World Championship teams

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Malkin to join Russia World Championship team

Postby mikey » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:02 pm

Kharlamov didn't want to play in one and now look...

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Postby crusherstasiak » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:05 pm

You guys are saying that like Geno has a choice...
So much this. You people need to open your eyes, probably pretty good odds he faces threats and intimidation if he doesn't play
possible but there didn't seem to be any repercussion re. the way he skipped out to come to pgh. then again the penance mightve been 'from here on out you play for our international team or else.
i'm inclined to go with the solzhenitsyn-esque 'mother russia' thing. seems a very strong ideal with malkin i.e, from what ive seen in interviews they could throw him in a labor camp and he'd still suit up willingly

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Postby crusherstasiak » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:08 pm

Kharlamov didn't want to play in one and now look...
@Rigger then again there's Kharlamov :|

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Postby Factorial » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:11 pm

It would be sports terrorism if he decided not to play.

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Postby Jim » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:30 pm

As long as he gives Rutherford a list of teams that he will waive for... he can play whatever he wants.

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Postby slappybrown » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:53 pm

I don’t think that malkin doing flybys and cheating at the red line is gonna sap too much of his energy for the fall

I’d rather he not ply for the freak injury aspect of it but that tournament can’t have more than three actual regular season level full speed games at best (two semis and final) but people who actually watch this tournament in 2019 can tell me otherwise

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Postby Gaucho » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:16 pm

It's April. Geno, and every other NHL player, is (should be) in peak condition now. Him sitting on his ass instead of playing would accomplish nothing.

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Postby dodint » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:20 pm

I'm going to go ahead and consider Sid's thoughts over yours on the topic.

You have the Ghost of Malkin and High Glove Murray in your corner, though.

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Postby Gaucho » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:30 pm

I'm not in a corner. They're all adults and can do whatever they think is best, as far as I'm concerned.

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Postby mikey » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:37 pm

Yeah, I really have no issue with Malkin playing...

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Postby meow » Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:16 am

Let the hockey player play hockey

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Postby Beveridge » Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:39 am

We go through this every year. Whether it's national pride or gun to their head, Russians always play for the national team when they can.

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Postby shmenguin » Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:52 am

Known physically declining old guy hornqvist is also playing in this exhibition thing.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:01 pm

The WCs are still sort of a big thing, at least to Europeans.

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Postby shmenguin » Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:17 pm

The WCs are still sort of a big thing, at least to Europeans.
My overreaction aside...this is a silly opinion simply because you aren’t getting an accurate representation of each nation’s ability. Which makes the outcome pretty meaningless.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:35 pm

Known physically declining old guy hornqvist is also playing in this exhibition thing.
Maybe he'll bump his noggin and we can LTIR him to the shadow realm

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Postby dodint » Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:57 pm

There is a reason Malkin is 101...

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Postby Tomas » Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:57 pm

Dominik Simon will join the Czech team, together with:
Voracek (PHI)
Gudas (PHI)
Palat (TAM)
Frolik (CGY)

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Postby willeyeam » Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:03 pm

my condolences, Tomas

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Postby crusherstasiak » Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:30 pm

my condolences, Tomas
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Postby Kane » Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:38 pm

Why would they even want Gudas.

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Postby willeyeam » Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:42 pm

Why would they even want Gudas.
they took Simon, this isn't the 90s Czech team anymore

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Postby mikey » Tue Apr 23, 2019 4:05 pm

Gudas actually didn't suck peen this year...surprisingly.

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Postby Kane » Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:12 pm

:lol:

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Postby Tomas » Fri Apr 26, 2019 1:57 pm

So in addition to Malkin, Kucherov, Kovalchuk, Anisimov, Vasilevsky, Sergachov, Russians just added:

Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Orlov, Dadonov, Zaytsev

Meanwhile, Slovakia's NHL crew will be:

Marincin, Tatar, Sekera, Panik, Jaros, Cernak

And Czechs added Chytil...

Give Russians their gold already? :D

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