switzerland

Host Dave Thorvald with Dan Funboy wrap up the Men's and Women's hockey tournaments from Torino 2006 in this enhanced podcast with pictures. 

Topics include team leadership, puck possession, tactical strategies, tournament surprise teams, and a bit of looking ahead to 2010.

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In-game notes Canada vs Switzerland

Switzerland coming off a huge win versus Czech Republic while Canada has been clipping along nicely withs comfy wins versus Italy and Germany. 

The Swiss start goalie Gerber over Aebisher but no let down in play early as Gerber (wearing his NHL Carolina Hurricanes mask) is playing out of his mind.

Broduer looks a bit tired and unsteady and is coming out of his net a little *too* much for my liking but doing his soft goalie hands routine with some long lead passes and even getting passes back from the D (which isn't my favorite play).

Bertuzzi had an apparent goal disallowed when the play had been whistled down since he was in the crease.  Sakic, Iginla and Bert are playing OK but not as dominant as recent games and overthinking the plays a bit.  Bert's positional play and passing looks very good and he buried one guy into the boards.

Up next, more Women's hockey, this time at the new E Center in West Valley City, a SLC suburb located in the flat remnants from when the lake was much larger.

While walking to the rink, we saw a fairly low-key sign in front of a hotel across from the rink saying "NHL Trophy Exhibit."  There were also a bunch of NHL and various Hockey Federation-marked vans around.  We wandered in and were greeted with EVERY SINGLE TROPHY in the NHL collection in a gallery with almost no one in it. 

_{Stanley, Dave and Guy}

I ran around like a lunatic touching the trophies, looking at the names, gazing at the splendor and smiling at our luck.   Dan had seen the glorious mug before so was a bit nonplussed (as is his style) but i made him take my pic with Lord Stanley.  I pointed at Guy Lafleur in 1977 and you couldn't smack the smile off my face.

I also ran my finger over the Vancouver Millionaires and the Seattle Metropolitans insciption and noticed the missing year 1918 when the Spanish Flu epidemic wiped out the cup tourney and sent Montrealers home sick and dying, and saw the corrected Adam Deadmarsh entry.  I also spent some time observing some favorites, the Selke (best defensive forward) and the Clarence Campbell (which the Canucks have won twice).  I wanted to stay longer to just "sit" but game was waiting.


_{Vancouver Millionaires won in 1915 over the Ottawa Senators}