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In a game that had been talked about being a possible gold medal matchup, Team Canada destroyed the Russians tonight 7-3. With two star studded teams going head to head tonight, it was a meeting between the teams where no matter who lost, they would be going home to much criticism from their countries. But instead of these two superpowers who were hyped to be a one of the most exciting games between two teams thought to be fairly even in strenghts, the game was anything but even. The game was exciting, yes, if you were cheering for Team Canada.
The Canadians came out hard in the first period with strong forechecking, physical play and shots...lots of shots. The Canadians outshot the Russians 21 to 12 in the first period, getting their first goal only 2 minutes and 21 seconds in to the game. It was set up by Dan Boyle after he walked in to the Russian zone undressing the Russians and from behind the net passed to Ryan Getzlaf for the goal. By the end of 20 minutes, Team Canada was up 4-1 with goals from Getzlaf, Boyle, Nash and Morrow.
Nabokov was pulled in the second period after letting in Corey Perry and Shea Weber's goal. Nabokov had let in 6 goals on 23 shots in 24 minutes of play. There is no doubt that Nabokov was less stellar, far from that, he was terrible but he was only part of Russia's problem. His defence looked overwhelmed by the waves of the Canadian offense, the KHL players looked out of place and their NHL superstar forwards were pathetic. By the time that Bryzgalov went in net, the score was already 6-1 and there was little hope that the Russians could come back.
There was plenty of things that Canada did right in this game. The checking line of Nash, Toews and Richards shut down Ovechkin's line restricting him to just 2 shots on net. Nash brought his physical game against Ovechkin and Shea Weber had a huge hit on Maxim Afinogenov. They outshot the Russians 42 to 28 and got a powerplay goal. Roberto Luongo played average with some of the goals he let due to a screens set up in front of him, but he came up with some key saves when he needed to.
Canada will now face the winner of tonight's last quaterfinal of Sweden vs. Slovakia on Friday at 6:30pm PST in the semifinal
 Vancity Canuck writes about the Vancouver Canucks at Benched Whale and the Tampa Bay Lightning at The Hockey Bay Blog in addition to her work on Bloguin's Olympic Hockey Blog.
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& their coach was simply either a moron or someone who made money last night.
All the skilled talent in the world but when you run into a freight train, nothing is going to help you.