[align=center]2010 OLYMPICS GROUP B GDT
FEBRUARY 17 • 9 PM ET • 12 AM ET (2/18) • 6 AM CET (2/18)

vs.


Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lines:

Czech Republic:

Patrik Eliáš-Tomáš Plekanec-Martin Havlát
Petr ?ajánek-Roman ?ervenka-Jaromír Jágr
Tomáš Fleischmann-David Krej?í-Martin Erat
Milan Michálek-Josef Vaší?ek-Tomáš Rolinek

Tomáš Kaberle-Marek Židlický
Filip Kuba-Pavel Kubina
Jan Hejda-Zbyn?k Michálek
Miroslav Bla?ák-Roman Polák

Tomáš Vokoun
Ond?ej Pavelec

Scratches: Jakub Št?pánek(goalie)


Slovakia

Richard Zednik-Jozef Stümpel-Zigmund "Ziggy" Palffy
Marian Hossa-Pavol Demitra-Marcel Hossa
Miroslav Satan(injury)/Marek Svatos-Michal Handzus-Lubomir Bartecko
Branko Radivojevic-Martin Cibak-Tomas Kopecky

Lubomir Visnovsky-Martin Strbak
Zdeno Chara-Andrej Sekera
Milan Jurcina-Andrej Meszaros
Ivan Baranka

Jaroslav Halak

Injuires: Marian Gaborik (1-2 games), Miroslav Satan(0-1 games)[/align]

The first "quality" game of the Olympics. Can't wait. Would not be surprised if Slovakia ends up with a medal.

Slovakia will suprise some people.

Huge rivalry here....tantamount to OSU/Mich. Anything can happen

I can't wait to see Jagr play again.

1-0 Czech Republic-Elias(1)

Jagr is flying around tonight, with a mullet.

Gaborik is playing tonight.

Ziggy Palffy's family name has been pronounced "POWL-fee" for over 1,000 years. But when he's out there, it's "PAWL-fee".

What the hell? It's not like we're talking about Vladimir Chebaturkin or Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers here.

1-1

Slovakia goal-Gaborik(1)

NNN wrote: Ziggy Palffy's family name has been pronounced "POWL-fee" for over 1,000 years. But when he's out there, it's "PAWL-fee".

What the hell? It's not like we're talking about Vladimir Chebaturkin or Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers here.

Hahaha

Too much from the Czech's. Slovakia was unable to generate much on their PP and outside of their top 2 lines, they rarely could control the puck. Halak was good, but Vokoun was outstanding, and you have to like the Czech's chances to possibly win it all if Jagr is playing like he did. I expected him to look average at best but he showed some flashes of still being great.

Tough turnaround for Slovakia having to face Russia tomorrow night. If they lose that, which is more than likely, they are looking at being in that 7th seed area with maybe the toughest road to the medal round.

True. Jagr was flying around out there tonight. In the 3rd period the Czechs started playing a trap system and Slovakia wasn't able to do anything.