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http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=...ubname=olympics

 

Women's Hockey: Swedes stun USA

Canadian Press

 

2/17/2006 2:34:38 PM

 

TORINO, Italy (AP) - Sweden shocked the United States with a 3-2 shootout win in a women's Olympic hockey semifinal Friday.

 

That means for the first time since international competition in women's hockey began in 1990, the U.S. and Canada won't meet in the championship match - and it's largely because of Swedish goalie Kim Martin.

 

Martin made 37 saves and stopped all four American attempts in a shootout, while Maria Rooth scored twice in regulation time and added the clinching shootout goal in Sweden's 3-2 victory in the semifinals.

 

When she was only 15 years old, Martin led the Swedes to the bronze medal in Salt Lake City. On Friday, she was the difference in a watershed win that decisively proves world-class women's hockey can be played outside North America.

 

"This is the greatest thing to happen to women's hockey in Sweden and everywhere around," Martin said. "We knew we were getting better and better all the time. We needed to beat the U.S. or Canada to show it."

 

 

 

Rooth scored two goals in 3

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It's good the US is doing relatively crappily. Since most of you don't live in the states, you don't have to put up with those "We're America, and our athletes will own everyone at everything!" commercials that they run all the time. I just think it's so neat that they're doing so badly after all of the premature boasting.

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Actually we couldn't send our NHLers to the Olympics and the Russians withheld most of their players from the NHL so they could own the sports.

 

Anyways I still hope Canada wins on Monday, I think the sport has shown that has now already proved it's not a two way sport. However, if the Finns were to win the bronze that would help a little more too...

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Yeah, seeing how we're Canada, and our atheletes PWN hockey.

Not long ago there was a place called the USSR, they were much better owners of the sport in question.

That's because the Olympics wouldn't allow "professional" players, but the CCCP army guys were more "professional" hockey players than our NHL guys were.

 

Fucking pinkos.

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Yeah, seeing how we're Canada, and our atheletes PWN hockey.

Not long ago there was a place called the USSR, they were much better owners of the sport in question.

That's because the Olympics wouldn't allow "professional" players, but the CCCP army guys were more "professional" hockey players than our NHL guys were.

 

Fucking pinkos.

It wasn't because of it. We're just the master race.

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