what an upset!!! Swiss team defeats Czechs!!

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WOW...

I know Hasek is out, but Czechs should be able to score more then 2 goals..

all is not lost since this is the prelim. round

 

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And they just beat the Canadian team as well today 2-0 which a cnn.com newsfile described as "an NHL All Star team."

 

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Simply incrdible. Swiss do have very strong goaltending though, but that's all of their NHL guys. Everybody else are the Euro league guys. Both Canada and Czechs should be concerned.

 

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The player Paul DiPietro that scored the two goals for the Swiss team is a Canadian. He used to play forward for the Montreal Canadians. He is from Ontario and married a Swiss girl and moved there.

 

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DiPietro hasn't played in NHL in 10 years, though so that's a huge upset to have a bunch of NHL superstars scoring zero goals and a ex-NHL star scoring 2!

I was wondering about how he came about to represent Swiss. I know they are very strict with citizenships, but I guess they will make an exception for the Olympics.

Italian team is made up mostly of Italian-Americans and Canadians of Italian descent. Got to give these guys a lot of credit, especially their goalie, Jason Mazetti!