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Reply-to:Yeah totally agree with the post below! Everyone else is on the other forum chatting away without you about other stuff.

What other forum?

It's really nice to see other women (good people) reaching out to other's in a postive way.  It's the way it should be...no judgements, or b.s.

I hope this girl really gets away from this idiot and whomever wrote those nice, friendly, supportive posts to her (a complete stranger) should be an example to anyone who feels it necessary to wrip other's to shreds.  I don't have an account, but I'm glad that board has been cleaned up by the moderator's or "team lori."  She obviously has some good friends and pull.  Hey she is DW's gf, why not????

Reply-to: Anonymous (Veteran) wrote on Fri, 18 May 2012 02:21:22 GMT: But doesn't Sids Mom and Dad have people, actually strangers,  come up to their house and ask for Sid or things like autographs? Unless they have it now, but they haven't any security either, anyone on the street seems to have easy access to their home.

Good question.  The same can apply to all NHL players' parents especially those that are from small towns and cities.  Surely the Crosbys had something set up security-wise with Taylor being only 9 when Crosby first started with the Penguins and gradually build up the security as Crosby got more “famous” especially after the 2009 Stanley Cup and the 2010 Olympics, no?

Reply-to: Anonymous (Legend) wrote on Thu, 17 May 2012 21:53:09 GMT: Probably because so many Canadian and US players still in SC playoffs.

Apologies in advance for this long "shop talk totally unrelated to Malkin" post.

I don't belive that because of the Stanley Cup playoffs that was why Canada and the USA were ousted from the Worlds.  They both made a lot of stupid moves and kind of had meltdowns at the end. 

Here's why I say that the Stanley Cup Playoffs had no bearing on the Worlds.  The Worlds Preliminary Rounds didn't start until May 4.  On April 27 there were 22 NHL teams to choose players from (8 were still in the playoffs). On May 9 another 3 NHL teams had available players.  That's a total of 25 NHL teams that had American and Canadian players available for the Worlds.  I think that is more than plenty of excellent players to assemble a roster from, no? 

Additionally, tons of players were invited to be on either Team Canada or Team USA and they said all no for various reasons.  They don't get paid to go to the Worlds, and I honestly think a lot of NHL players view it as a vacation because the hockey organizations pay to have families and friends come over.  And when  you have your team's captain (Getzlaf) carousing around at 4:00am in the morning with a bunch of other players (Benn, Perry, and who else) I don't know if that's good leadership or what?  Anyway, getting off track here.

It is clear leaving the Worlds this early is not good for either Canada or USA when it comes to Sochi 2014 because this year was the qualifying year for determining the round-robin pools (and practice times).  I am not certain what the issue was that both USA and Canada lost.  Both teams did very well up to now.  Canada was number one in its pool to boot.  There's awesome players on both rosters.  Yes, some "superstars" were missing like Kane, Toews, Crosby, etc., but that shouldn't be the reason. 

So now with Canada seeded 5 and USA seeded 6 this puts them in separate round-robin pools against whoever wins the gold, silver, and bronze at this year's Worlds.  So instead of playing against "weaker teams" from the start they'll be playing "stronger teams" and could very well be booted early at the 2014 Olympics.

In either case I just find it interesting both the USA and Canada with an all-NHL roster failed and teams that have very few NHL players continued on to the next round.