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Originally Posted by SquireMD
niedermeyer and pronger will never have tired legs...niedermeyer, at 32, is STILL the best skater in the tourney
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Niedermeyer is a great skater, but is he the best still? There are a bunch of great skaters in this tourney. The teams that get to the medal games will play 8 games (5 in the round robin, then three in the eliminations). The Men's hockey tourney begins on the 15th of Feb and completes on the 26th, meaning these teams will play 8 games in 12 days... guys like Pronger, Foote and Niedermeyer will have a rough go of it.
And despite that, I think Canada can get to the final game... the USA is in much worse shape with an older defense and no proven money goaltending (Canada's saving grace will be Martin Brodeur...if they make sure that Luongo and Turco get some playing time...) The one thing that the Czechs have that they didn't really have in 2002 was a quality #2 goalie... with Vokun on the roster, Hasek will be able to take a break...