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Cournoyer and Savard. Such tradition. McAvoy, Larkin, and Slavin really stepped up.

Yes. Definitely playing to protect a one goal lead, but not Alamo style . An All Star team that has been together one week and they are executing it well so far. Hope Ruff and the Sabres are watching. Nice work by US to get that clean shot.

He was injured when the selected players.

Only two players on the US roster have more goals than Tage. A healthy Tage would help this team, probably as a winger. He needs to experience this, it would help him grow playing in games of this magnitude.

This game is seriously good. Wow.

Watching the USA and Canada with my brother tonight. Simple pleasures and good times.

Dahlin no ice in OT. I am sure this sounds like sour grapes but Erik Karlsson is again on the ice for an OT GWG against. That's two for two. I guess he took away the pass, and Ullmark is responsible for the shooter, but the guy is a liability on defense, he always has been.

Sweden going to OT. They better play Dahlin this time. I though he had an assist on the first goal but not seeing it.

Ok, the Sabres organization and the Sabres culture is bad right now, but "Sabres Curse" is really a stretch. . ROR, Eichel, Reinhart, etc., did not curse their new teams. They won Cups. We have enough Sabres reality to complain about without making up new things.

Big, strong, physical, skilled and talented, they care … what is the problem?

Lankinen will get the next game. I don’t understand how he didn’t get this one. Would like to see UPL play.

The weather in Buffalo right now. I’m in town for a few weeks, family commitments and such. It’s wet and cold, the sky is grey, lots of ice, then snow, then more ice, then more snow. 6 more days …

Can someone shut Steve Levy up? Just let Gretzky provide more hockey analysis and let PK do his a Bisonette imitation. That would be better. Agree on 5/6/7. He has some value.

Ok. Now stop the politics. We don’t need to be reminded about it, this place is for hockey.

Why are these ESPN guys so surprised that Finland is playing well? It’s a crazy message to think they wouldn’t, especially since they have a defense first hockey culture. These are All Star teams with 3 days of practice.

Brady scores to even it.

Joker puts a floater by a surprised Hellebuck (sp).

For Peterka you could modify the song “Labamba” by Richie Valens. “ Pa Pa Tuerka”, guitar riff, “Pa Pa Turka”, guitar riff …. and so on.

Overall Sweden got better as the game went on and they forced an OT. I didn’t see it but Hamilton implied that Karlsson was a liability on defense. I can go with the thought that Forsling is the best of that bunch right now, he is 28 and in his prime, Dahlin is still only 24. I would not trade Dahlin for any of the Swede defensemen straight up.

Game 1 of an All Star team, the coaches are figuring it out. Listening to Hamilton and Marty I get the opposite feel on Dahlin. He played well but they played him on the 3rd pair. They played Karlsson more and he was the cause for 2 goals, including the game winner. Karlsson is a poor defensive defenseman and they paid for that decision.

He is still moved to wing playing with Kulich. I think Ruff likes him at wing and so do I. He should also be a wing on USA if circumstances were right and he made the team. As it stands, the USA team has 4 nice lines with some good checkers to balance and compliment the scorers.

That because the owner of the Sabres killed his team while the owner of the Bills revived his team. Wait, no ... what? Huh?

I think Tage could have, and should have, been selected for the US Team. He is s PPG player and tied for 9th in the league in goals, despite playing on a really bad team. Anyone know why he was overlooked?

We can throw in a 2nd rounder for a sweetener if needed.