World Championships update

By Rich Hammond on May 7, 2008 10:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) |

This is the final day of the preliminary round of the World Championships. As far as the Kings' interests go, the United States (with Dustin Brown and Patrick O'Sullivan) finished second in Group B and will start the ``qualification'' round with a game Thursday against the third-place team from Group C. That's likely to be Slovakia (with Lubomir Visnovsky), but that group's standings won't be determined until today. Slovenia (with Anze Kopitar) finished fourth in Group B and dropped into the relegation round and will play Friday against the fourth-place team from Group C, which will probably be Norway.

2 Comments

JD said:

Note that Raitis Ivanans is playing for Latvia (and leading them in penalty minutes with 29).

May 7, 2008 12:53 PM

GMatsuda said:

Wow...a new look to the blog and what a photo! Rich...you should be a model! :D

May 7, 2008 1:33 PM

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