Slovakia beats USA 4-2

Well well, Slovakia made the group rather interesting.. Winning USA keeps them in the play for the top-4 position.

Slovakia was better during the whole game, and USAs goalie Howard wasn't that good today. It made possible for Slovakia to win.

USAs best player was Paul Stastny, USA's was Zdeno Chara.

The another game in the evening (In Stockholm) is in number 1-6 for Sweden (in the 2nd period). They are playing against Denmark.

Comment on Chara's MVP: Usually the MVP is a forward, who has scored the most points, or the goalie, who was making many saves. Defs do good work, too. And now they got some credit for it.

The other Game ended 4-6 for Sweden. Denmark fought well on the third and made 3 goals, but the gap was a bit too big to be lost.. Next time then. But the MVP were: Philip Larsen (Den), Loui Eriksson(Swe).

Canada-USA was the best game so far

Yesterdays game between USA and Canada was rather fantastic. It contained speed and exciting happenings, many goals and some great saves. Especially Cam Ward was an interesting character - He was great, but he let two easy goals. Some great saves were forgotten due to his early mistakes. Pity.

Cam Ward on Canada at 2008 WC

But what was great on team USA, was that they were very balanced and hungry looking team. For the first time in years, they seemed like they could actually have a chance to win these games. They have many good scorers, big but active defensiveline, good, winning goalie (though he wasn't that brilliant in the game against Canada, but hey, we all make mistakes!).

On the contrary, Canada wasn't weak neither, and they too have a potential team to fight for the championship. They played aggressive, made good passes and tried to hold the puck. They also own two good goalies, who can usually play for the victory.

We will eagerly wait what will happen. I hope these two teams will give us more entertainment in the future games. And I'm sure they will do.