Your savory breakfast links:
- Seedology 101: Today marks the final day in the preliminary round, with the final group rankings determined at the end of the CAN-FIN game. Here’s a guide to the next round of Olympic hockey from a couple of Nashville hockey bloggers. [Talking Puck]
- U-S-A! U-S-A! T.J. Oshie‘s splendid silken mitts in the shootout iced a 3-2 United States victory over Russia. [NBC Olympics, NHL.com, IIHF, St. Louis Game Time]
- The full video replay of the game is available here –> [CSNW]
- And gorgeous photos available here –> [Jeff Cable Photography]
- Now that was a hockey game. [Frankovic, PHT, CSNW, NHL.com]
- About that whole waived-goal-because-dislodged-net controversy. [IIHF, Puck Daddy, NBC Olympics]
- “The Americans didn’t surprise us.” – Alex Ovechkin [R-Sport via RMNB]
- Oops. Pavel Datsyuk ‘s opportunistic goal may have earned John Carlson a seat on the bench, and maybe even the press box. [RMNB]
- Heja Sverige! Team Sweden completed its sweep of Group C with a 5-3 victory over Latvia. [NBC Olympics, NHL.com, IIHF]
- Nicklas Backstrom and Marcus Johansson each notched an assist on the day. [IIHF, CSNW]
- Something about Erik Karlsson makes Caps players get all huggy and cuddlebug-y. [RMNB]
- Tre Kronor has punched its ticket to the quarterfinals and gets a couple extra days of rest as well.
- Team Czech Republic could not solve Swiss goaler Jonas Hiller and Suissa only needed one goal from Simon Bodemann for the victory. [NBC Olympics, IIHF]
- And Martin Erat watched much of the game from the bench. [CSNW]
- Ovi brought NBC reporter Kevin Taylor to Mari Vanna for a chat and some borscht before leaving for the ‘Lympics. [NBC Olympics (video)]
- Closer to home, the Hershey Bears rolled over the Penguins of Wilkes Barre-Scranton 5-4, and swiped their second-place spot in the East Division standings for good measure. Oh, and Philipp Grubauer is 7-1 in his last eight starts. [Patriot-News, SHoE]
- The Reading Royals announced they have a new owner, a local businessman who bought the team specifically to keep them in Reading. [Reading Eagle, BCTV, Royals Hockey]
- And finally, happy 38th birthday to Colin Forbes and happy 58th birthday to Paul Nicholson.
