There are many key differences between Team Canada in 2010 compared to the outfit that disappointed by losing 2-0 to Russian in the quarter-finals at the 2006 Olympics in Turin
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Team Canada much different than it was in 2006
- February 24, 2010 2:26 PM |
- By Erin Valois
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By Jeremy Sandler, National Post
There are many key differences between Team Canada in 2010 compared to the outfit that disappointed by losing 2-0 to Russia in the quarter-finals at the 2006 Olympics in Turin.
Only eight players from the Wayne Gretzky-led squad in Italy are back with the team this year, compared to 12 of 23 players on Russia's roster.
Another key difference for Team Canada this time around, is the offence is not AWOL.
Back in Turin, Canada failed to score a goal in three of its last four games, losing by identical 2-0 scores to Switzerland, Finland and Russia, while beating the Czechs 3-2.
Canada's eight goals against an overmatched German squad may not count for much, but they also scored two regulation goals against a defensively disciplined Swiss team and put three pucks behind Ryan Miller on a night the U.S. goalie helped steal a 5-3 win for his team.
Russians who played at Turin 2006
Evgeni Nabokov, Ilya Bryzgalov, Andrei Markov, Fedor Tyutin, Anton Volchenkov, Sergei Gonchar, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Alexander Ovechkin, Viktor Kozlov, Evgeni Malkin and Maxim Afinogenov
Canadians who played at Turin 2006
Martin Brodeur, Roberto Luongo, Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger, Dany
Heatley, Jarome Iginla, Rick Nash, Joe Thornton
About the Author
- Bruce Arthur Bruce Arthur is the National Post's national sports columnist. A Vancouver native, he has been with the Post since 2001, and a columnist since 2005. He is covering his second Olympics, after the 2008 Games in Beijing. He expects these Games to be slightly less propagandistic, and for China to win slightly fewer medals.
- Joe O'Connor Joe O'Connor is a roving sports feature writer with an open-ended beat. He joined the National Post in 2002, and has spent the past seven years bouncing from sport to sport, offering fresh perspectives and delivering unique stories wherever he goes. Whether it has been getting Don Cherry to open up about his love life; George Chuvalo to talk about heartbreaking loss; or racing down the side of a mountain with former Crazy Canuck, Dave Irwin, the veteran Postie chases a story wherever it leads. Before joining the newspaper he was a two-time silver medalist at the National Magazine Awards. Vancouver will be his first Olympics.
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