by Anne
The United States Men won their first game against Latvia 4-2 this morning!
It would seem that only current and former Los Angeles Kings are able to score in this tournament, but Brown, O'Sullivan and Johnson were kind enough to let this gent score too:
It would seem that only current and former Los Angeles Kings are able to score in this tournament, but Brown, O'Sullivan and Johnson were kind enough to let this gent score too:
Nick Foligno and Drew Stafford put down their Sabre/Senator masks to celebrate Staffy's goal
Woooo! Drew Stafford scored Team USA's 2nd goal!
Jack Johnson (LAK, duh) scored twice and was named the Team USA player of the game, which means he was photographed with the awesome cow mascot:
Jack Johnson (LAK, duh) scored twice and was named the Team USA player of the game, which means he was photographed with the awesome cow mascot:
Nice.
Goaltender Robert Esche who made 18 saves on 20 shots declared this was the best that Team USA has ever played against Latvia in his eight years playing in this tournament. Apparently Matt Niskanen was really freaked out about playing Latvia (click to enlarge):
Just close my eyes and SHOOT
Images from IIHF.com
Team USA fired 38 shots and were 0-4 on the power play.
Also, for those who might not remember, I'm very pro-Robert Esche. Here's a sentence from the game recap about Robbie:
Their next game is Monday against Thomas Vanek and Team Austria at 10:15 am EST.
Also, for those who might not remember, I'm very pro-Robert Esche. Here's a sentence from the game recap about Robbie:
"Robert Esche won his eighth career game in World Championship play. He has a 1.87 goals against average and a .938 save percentage in 13 career games played at the World Championship"Well done, sir. How's Russia?
Their next game is Monday against Thomas Vanek and Team Austria at 10:15 am EST.
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ReplyDeleteHold on...that mascot has two different eye colors! Wow!
ReplyDeleteGo Team USA. :D Austria had their butts handed to them by Sweden (not very surprised), so it'll be interesting to see how Monday turns out.