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Real Corona · Mar 14, 2014

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And? When was Znarok a candidate for the Latvia job? Nolan's done very well with them I don't know how you gather that Latvia felt Znarok wasn't worthy.
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I'm not familiar with Latvia's program. I just wonder if the guy was a strong coach, why wouldn't they have hired him first?

Dmitriy · Mar 14, 2014

He's made a name of himself with the two Gagarin Cup wins, I guess he just wasn't a hot item prior to his KHL success. Sochi was obviously out of the question because he was under contract.

Anyway good for Nolan, I hope he can get another NHL job he's a good guy. Saw a piece about him on Real Sports (I think?) a while ago and he rose up from a terribly hard life.

Real Corona · Mar 14, 2014

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He's made a name of himself with the two Gagarin Cup wins, I guess he just wasn't a hot item prior to his KHL success. Sochi was obviously out of the question because he was under contract.

Anyway good for Nolan, I hope he can get another NHL job he's a good guy. Saw a piece about him on Real Sports (I think?) a while ago and he rose up from a terribly hard life.
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He's the Sabres coach.

Dmitriy · Mar 14, 2014

Real Corona said: ↑

He's the Sabres coach.
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Didn't know that, but looks like it's an interim position for now.

goliath74 · Mar 14, 2014

Znarok had coached Latvia senior team between 2006 and 2008.

Dmitriy · Apr 29, 2014

Anyone checking out the Gagarin Cup Final at all? It's been some epic stuff. Watch till the end for some NHL throwback.

Dmitriy · May 1, 2014

Metallurg take game 7, 7-4. The Russian outfit is coached by 'Iron' Mike Keenan btw.

Dmitriy · May 10, 2014

IIHF WC started yesterday. Russia 5 - 0 Switzerland , Belarus 1 - 6 USA. This is basically a home tournament for Russia is the first game is a sign of things to come.

Dmitriy · May 11, 2014

Canada pulled a Russia in their first game and lost to France (beat Slovakia yesterday 4-1). Latvia also beat Finland 3-2.

Real Corona · May 11, 2014

USA USA USA

Dmitriy · May 12, 2014

Russian Empire 6 - 1 American Empire.

Dmitriy · May 13, 2014

Classical Russian win; dependable goaltending and relying on superior individual skills to win.

Belarus 4-3 Switzerland
France 5-3 Slovakia

Real Corona · May 13, 2014

The Russians just kicked the shit out of the US. The US defense played horrible, and from the American perspective the one hope is that they take a lesson from this going forward in the tournament to be more sharp and precise. Vasilevsky made a couple of really good saves but mostly the Russians just kept the US to easy shots. I'm not taking too much from this game because just like last year, when the US lost to Russia and then annihilated them in the rematch, anything can happen in one game.

Dmitriy · May 13, 2014

Absolutely but Znarok can take a bit of a breather after this one.

btw one of Russland's goals came on a 3 on 0 break, the hell.

Dmitriy · May 13, 2014

Oh and Slovakian keeps going down the you know what; 3-5 to France this time.

Real Corona · May 13, 2014

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Absolutely but Znarok can take a bit of a breather after this one.

btw one of Russland's goals came on a 3 on 0 break, the hell.
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Like I said, the US team was playing like a bunch of headless chickens at some points.

Dmitriy · May 24, 2014

Semifinals start in about 5 hours. , Russia-Sweden and Czech Rep.-Finland

Dmitriy · May 25, 2014

Russia wins it 5-2 over Finland. 5 on 5 Finland outskated Russia but lacked the skill to be truly dangerous, Russia's PP made the difference.

Real Corona · May 25, 2014

Russia basically owned this tournament this year. Pretty impressive showing.

yasik19 · Jun 28, 2014

Finally, a Russian player.

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2014/6/27/5830434/nikolay-goldobin-san-jose-sharks-nhl-draft-2014

Dmitriy · Jun 28, 2014

Go on Sharks, return to the early 90's years when you had all those Russian artists.

Dmitriy · Sep 23, 2014

Two bits.

1. IIHF has granted S. Korea a place in the 2018 games. Uhhhh, they better have the body bags ready to go unless the host team naturalizes a good number of Canadians (they already have if I'm mistaken).

2. 2015 WC has been moved from Ukraine to Poland. Interestingly enough the Poles have a little hockey history behind them; they've scored wins over both the USSR and Czechoslovakia in two different tournaments in two different decades...and in the latter case in Prague.

Dmitriy · Oct 3, 2014