[tigerthelion]

I'm not going to defend McCabe, but it seems to me that the problem with Canada this tourney has been the offense, not the defense.

I think the coaches are misusing McCabe. Everyone knows his specialty is the powerplay, but he's lucky if he gets on the second unit for the last 30 seconds or whatever of every given powerplay chance. Strange that his own club coach, Quinn, isn't taking full advantage of his team's best point man on the PP.

One of the other main problems is related to the offense, with the forwards. They were a little better today, but it still seems too often they are positioning themselves too far up the ice. This leaves the defensemen with few options but to try long passes, and the European teams with their trapping style gobble these up and turn them into offensive chances against us.

These issues need to be fixed tomorrow... because it's quarter-final time, go big or go home.

And guess who they play? Russia. Whoa. hock:

Yeah. Canada/Russia in a quarter final matchup. hock: A great team is going to go home without any chance of a medal. What a wide open tournament. Finland, Russia, Canada, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Sweden all have a legitmate chance of gold and ...oh yeah that Swiss team has shown that it can beat anyone on any given day.