Just to be contrary I don't think Miller is as good as everyone is claiming. Yes he had to make a couple of key saves, but it's easy to stop 40+ shots if most of them hit you square in the chest! Someone should tell the Canadian team that in order to score one must shoot where the goalie aint, not where he is.

Also, having 2 men behind the American net and no one screening Miller out front makes his job even easier. I lost track of how often we had no one in front of Miller last night.

And a good goalie is where the puck is, not where it ain't.

Miller had coverage on his six. That's always a good idea.

Also, having 2 men behind the American net and no one screening Miller out front makes his job even easier. I lost track of how often we had no one in front of Miller last night.

Any time Staal wasn't on the ice, there was no one in front. How many times is Nash gonna try a wrap around move and have it turn into a turn-over before someone tells him to get in front of the net instead of behind it? He's a big, slow body...put him where he can do some good.

And if Shea Weber is firing em it might be some ankles breakin open.

We totally outplayed them and lost which means they hit a super hot goalie. Brodeur played well and most of the goals were redirected screen shots. Playing an extra game to get into the finals may be a good thing for them.

The end result was a 5-3 loss which I predicted the exact score in the frist period last night. (scroll back for proof)

But I will say this once again Ryan Miller did not score 5 goals!

Oh well. Shit happens. Time to move on and think about Germany. They'll be highly motivated to play the giant-killer here. If the Canadians don't waltz in with the idea that they'll beat teh Germans with their eyes closed, that'll be a good step towards making them play better as a team.

This "Own The Podium" nonsense really backfired. All it did was create a bunch of delusional fans that now think that anything other than a 10-0 victory every game is somehow a defeat. Someone didn't think it through too far to realize that this sort of attitude probably pissed off the other countries pretty good and has them rarin' to take a good hard shot at knocking off the prematurely self-crowned champs.

Also, the self-inflicted Heatley Curse makes it kind of hard to feel too sorry for them too.

....Hockey is anathema to NBC in prime time. A hockey game cannot be sliced easily into a series of short events, like ski or luge runs, figure skating programs or speedskating races. If the network cannot chop a sport into two-to-five-minute elements framed with a lot of ads, it is not likely to be shown from 7 p.m. to midnight.....