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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Sure.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
For Finland, they've not done too shabby themselves in the three games they've played, aside from that loss that they took from Slovakia to open the tournament.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Oliver Kapanen, of course, playing for Team Finland.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
So far, it's been a very quiet tournament for Oliver Kapanen.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Team France, where Alexandre De Texier is there wearing an A, I might add.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Team France struggling a little bit.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Not necessarily a giant surprise there, given the competition.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
But De Texier has participated in both games that France has played, despite the fact that they have not come up with a win.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Really, the story of the teams, particularly for Habs representatives, is Team Slovakia, who have absolutely kind of taken this tournament by storm.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
They have a 2-0, 1-0 record.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
As I said, they kind of stomped on Finland with a big upset to open the tournament, beat the Italians in a very tight game, 3-2, and then dropped...
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Dropped an early morning Valentine's Day matchup against Sweden in what was a very tight game through two periods.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
They're like the first half of the game.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
And then things opened up for Sweden after that.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
Things got a little weird.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
We'll talk about that in a minute.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
First, let's just talk about how Juraj Slavkovski is once again the talk of the tournament.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
The great thing about how this game ended today, so it was quite obvious in the third that it didn't look like Slovakia was going to come back.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
They were down 5-2 against Sweden.
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Rumors and Reality: Noise or Opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens? | Canadiens Connection ep 387
They managed, Juraj Slavkovski set up... Evan Dvorsky.