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Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:52:00 PM

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QUEBEC - It wasn't supposed to end like this.

The ice at Le Colisee Pepsi was covered with a sea of red gloves and helmets and not one of them belonged to a Canadian player. Instead, you had Alex Ovechkin skating around kissing his new gold medal over and over while Ilya Kovalchuk grabbed a television camera and screamed into it.

The Russians got the sweetest revenge possible at the IIHF World Hockey Championship.

A year earlier, O Canada was played at Khodynka Arena in Moscow. This time it was the Russians who sang their national anthem on Canadian soil.

"Right now we are the champions of the world and it feels so great," said Ovechkin. "It's really special to win here because this is hockey and it's a hockey-mad country.

"It just feels wonderful. It feels so great."

All those good feelings came off Kovalchuk's stick. He scored the goal that tied the game in
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Dmitry
Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 5:37:45 PM
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE!))))

BEST OF THE BEST
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Dmitry
Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:21:20 PM
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Мы лучшии! Мы всем вам показали, кто умеет играть в хоккей! "Красная машина" сделала свое дело и катком прокатилась по всем вам!
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Sergey
Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:28:11 AM
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We are the best combined team in the world championship and absolutely deservedly have won!!!
Russia is the world champion! УРААААААААА!
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tiralie
Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:16:08 PM
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Sergey wrote:
We are the best combined team in the world championship and absolutely deservedly have won!!!
Russia is the world champion! УРААААААААА!

Yes you are! Congratulations.
I am an Ovechkin and Kovalchuk fan so it doesn't take that much to convince me Russia was the best here. You could tell Canada was off their game in the opening minutes and after Semin scored, well that just about sealed it for me. Seems you guys (Russia) wanted it more. I did see the last couple minutes of the Finnish/Russian game in person and up close and have to say the Russians played with real passion.
It will be interesting to see what happens at the Olympics...another rematch maybe?
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rebelshockey
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:53:49 PM

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They Represented Canada well............. up until the third and overtime periods. I think that the nation of Canada is in shock still and as a canadian it still stings inside me. But im going to say congrats to the russians you guys roxed our sox off you showed alot of character coming back but you also taught us an important lesson in momentum and consistancy. 2010 Canada will not be anything like this, and well Russia clames gold this year look out cause in 2010 they wont be facing a team canada that they can do this to.
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Webby1517
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:10:32 PM

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Had Detroit been out of the playoffs Sweden probably would have won with all the players they have:

Lindstrom
Samuelson
Zetterberg
Holmstrom
Kronwall
Franzen

These guys would all make a difference. Congrats to Russia and Canada.
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