Congratulations go out to Perry and Kristeen. I'll give you more details when I get them. Apparently he was waiting on one knee when Kristeen came home from work.
Back to the game. Sweden came up with a much better effort than Switzerland. That gave us a much better look at what Canada is bringing to the table. Their high pressure penalty kill made it all too apparent that our power play is far from ready for the big games. We had way too many turnovers in general. Schenn's line got all of the first unit power play time, and was ineffective, but nobody else's line did any better with the second units. All 12 goals so far have been scored by 12 different players. While it's nice to have balanced scoring, at some point somebody's going to have to step up and be the guy that the team can rely on to score when they need it. That being said, somebody's going to have to earn and deserve the top ice time too. I hope that I'm wrong, but so far I'm getting the impression that Schenn is going to be one of these guys that looks fantastic against the weaker sisters, and just disappear when the game is on the line. Did you even hear his name once in the third period?
Roy looked very good, and it looks like there's still going to be quite a decision in regards to who's going to be the number one. From what I've seen so far, I'm looking for the big guys (Foligno, Ashton, and Johansen) to be the ones who come up big in the big games. No game tomorrow, so for those of you that don't want to see anything about hockey... too bad. It's probably still going to be about hockey.
Stay tuned.
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