2007 Canada-Russia Super Series

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Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League, and the Russian Ice Hockey Federation are set to compete in an eight-game series in this summer featuring the best Under-20 World Junior players from Canada and Russia.



SCHEDULE

Date	Away	Home	Time (ET)	Venue
Mon, Aug. 27	Canada	Russia	9am	Ufa Arena, Ufa
Wed, Aug. 29	Canada	Russia	9am	Ufa Arena, Ufa
Fri, Aug. 31	Canada	Russia	8am	Ufa Arena, Ufa
Sat, Sept. 1	Canada	Russia	6am	Ufa Arena, Ufa
Tues, Sept. 4	Russia	Canada	8pm	MTS Centre, Winnipeg
Wed, Sept. 5	Russia	Canada	8pm	Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon
Fri, Sept. 7	Russia	Canada	10pm	Enmax Centrium, Red Deer
Sun, Sept. 9	Russia	Canada	8pm	GM Place, Vancouver

Canada's 2007 Super Series Roster
Goaltenders

Player	Catches	Ht.	Wt.	Birthdate	Hometown	Team	NHL
Jonathan Bernier	L	6'0	185	08/07/88	Laval, QC	Lewiston	LOS 2006
Leland Irving	L	6'0	177	04/11/88	Swan Hills, AB	Everett	CGY 2006
Steve Mason	R	6'3	186	05/29/88	Oakville, ON	London	CBJ 2006

Defence

Player	Shoots	Ht.	Wt.	Birthdate	Hometown	Team	NHL
Karl Alzner	L	6'2	209	09/24/88	Burnaby, BC	Calgary	WAS 2007
Keaton Ellerby	L	6'3	185	11/05/88	Calgary, AB	Kamloops	FLA 2007
Drew Doughty	R	5'11	190	12/08/89	London, ON	Guelph	DRAFT 2008
Josh Godfrey	R	6'0	187	01/15/88	Kingston, ON	Sault Ste. Marie	WSH 2007
Thomas Hickey	L	5'10	182	02/08/89	Calgary, AB	Seattle	LOS 2007
Logan Pyett	R	5'10	199	05/26/88	Milestone, SK	Regina	DET 2006
Luke Schenn	R	6'2	210	11/02/89	Saskatoon, SK	Kelowna	DRAFT 2008
Ty Wishart	L	6'4	205	05/19/88	Comox, BC	Prince George	SJ 2006

Forwards

Player	Shoots	Ht.	Wt.	Birthdate	Hometown	Team	NHL
Zac Boychuk	L	5'9	176	10/04/89	Airdrie, AB	Lethbridge	DRAFT 2008
Cory Emmerton	L	6'0	190	06/01/88	St. Thomas, ON	Kingston	DET 2006
x - Angelo Esposito	L	6'1	180	02/20/89	Montreal, QC	Quebec	PIT 2007
Sam Gagner	R	5'10	190	08/10/89	Oakville, ON	London	EDM 2007
Colton Gillies	L	6'3	189	02/12/89	Surrey, BC	Saskatoon	MIN 2007
Claude Giroux	R	5'11	172	01/12/88	Ottawa, ON	Gatineau	PHI 2006
Zach Hamill	R	5'10	180	09/23/88	Port Coquitlam, BC	Everett	BOS 2007
Stefan Legein	R	5'9	170	11/24/88	Oakville, ON	Mississauga	CBJ 2007
Milan Lucic	L	6'2	220	06/07/88	Vancouver, BC	Vancouver	BOS 2006
Brad Marchand	L	5'9	183	05/11/88	Hammonds Plains, NS	Val d'Or	BOS 2006
David Perron	R	5'11	180	05/28/88	Fleurimont, QC	Lewiston	STL 2007
Brandon Sutter	R	6'3	170	02/14/89	Red Deer, AB	Red Deer	CAR 2007
John Tavares	L	6'0	196	09/20/90	Oakville, ON	Oshawa	DRAFT 2009
Kyle Turris	R	6'1	170	08/14/89	New Westminster, BC	Burnaby (BCHL)	PHX 2007
Dana Tyrell	L	5'10	185	11/20/88	Airdrie, AB	Prince George	TB 2007

x - Injured

Russia's 2007 Super Series Roster

Goaltenders

Player	Catches	Ht.	Wt.	Birthdate	Team	NHL
Sergei Bobrovsky	L	6'1	174	09/20/88	Novokuznetsk	-
Semen Varlamov	L	6'1	180	04/27/88	Yaroslavl	WSH 2006
Vadim Zhelobnyuk	L	5'11	185	04/22/88	Dynamo Moscow	-

Defence

Player	Shoots	Ht.	Wt.	Birthdate	Team	NHL
Yuri Alexandrov	L	6'1	174	06/24/88	Cherepovets	-
Konstantin Alexeev	R	6'2	188	04/22/88	Novosibirsk	-
Maxim Chudinov	R	5'10	181	03/25/90	Severstal Cherepovets	DRAFT 2008
Pavel Doronin	L	6'1	180	08/21/88	Ufa Salavat/RUS 2	-
Alexi Grishin	R	6'3	194	09/28/88	Chekhov/RUS 2	-
Evgeny Kurbatov	/	6'0	196	05/18/88	Omsk	-
Kiril Tulupov	R	6'3	220	04/23/88	Quebec/QMJHL	NJ 2006
Ivan Vishnevsky	L	6'0	180	02/18/88	Quebec/QMJHL	DAL 2006
Vyatcheslav Voynov	L	5'11	180	01/15/90	Chelyabinsk	DRAFT 2008
Valeri Zhukov	L	6'2	189	02/08/88	N. Novgorod/RUS 2	-
Igor Zubov	R	6'0	187	07/04/88	Yaroslavl	-

Forwards

Player	Shoots	Ht.	Wt.	Birthdate	Team	NHL
Artem Anisimov	L	6'3	183	05/24/88	Yaroslavl	NYR 2006
Egor Averin	L	5'11	172	08/25/89	Avangard Omsk/RUS 2	-
Yevgeny Bodrov	L	6'1	163	01/08/88	Lada Togliatti	-
Alexei Cherepanov	L	6'1	181	01/15/89	Omsk	NYR 2007
Evgeni Dadonov	L	5'10	159	03/12/89	Chelyabinsk	FLA 2007
Nikita Filatov	R	6'0	159	05/25/90	CSKA Moscow	DRAFT 2008
Anton Glovatski	L	5'11	174	08/06/88	Magnitorsk	-
Mikhail Glukhov	L	6'2	189	05/13/88	Mytyschi Khimik	-
Ilya Kablukov	L	6'3	180	01/18/88	Novosibirsk	VAN 2007
Sergei Korostin	L	5'10	185	07/05/89	Dynamo Moscow/RUS 2	DAL 2007
Maxim Mamin	L	6'0	176	05/17/88	Magnitogorsk	-
Maxim Mayorov	L	6'2	187	03/26/89	AK Bars Kazan	CBJ 2007
Kirill Petrov	L	6'3	198	04/13/90	AK Bars Kazan	DRAFT 2008
Andrei Popov	L	6'0	187	07/15/88	Chelyabinsk	PHI 2006
Alexander Ryabev	L	6'0	172	08/24/88	Yaroslavl	-
Vyacheslav Solodukhin	L	6'2	189	07/31/88	SKA St. Petersburg	-
Alexander Vasyunov	R	5'11	187	04/22/88	Yaroslavl	NJ 2006
Sergei Zachupenko	L	5'10	183	01/05/88	Ufa Salavat	NJ 2006

Broadcast Information
All eight games of the Canada/Russia Super Series will be shown live, with TSN, Hockey Canada's official broadcaster, and Rogers Sportsnet each showing four games and RDS televising all eight games in French.

Peter Loubardias will provide play-by-play alongside Pierre McGuire, with Ryan Rishaug working as the rinkside reporter.

The three broadcasters will work together to bring all of the action from Russia and Canada into the homes of hockey fans nation-wide. The Super Series, a one-time event between the top under-20-aged hockey players in Canada and Russia, runs from August 27 - September 9, with four games being held in Russia followed by four games in Canada.

All games will be streamed live on TSN and Rogers Sportsnet Broadband

Date	Away	Home	ET	Network	Encore Showing
Mon, Aug. 27	Canada	Russia	9am	TSN & Broadband	Midnight ET/TSN
Wed, Aug. 29	Canada	Russia	9am	Rogers Sportsnet & Broadband	7:30pm local/Rogers Sportsnet
Fri, Aug. 31	Canada	Russia	8am	Rogers Sportsnet & Broadband	7:30pm local/Rogers Sportsnet
Sat, Sept. 1	Canada	Russia	6am	TSN & Broadband	7pm ET/TSN
Tues, Sept. 4	Russia	Canada	8pm	TSN & Broadband	Midnight ET/TSN
Wed, Sept. 5	Russia	Canada	8pm	TSN & Broadband	Midnight ET/TSN
Fri, Sept. 7	Russia	Canada	10pm	Rogers Sportsnet & Broadband	11:30pm MT on RSW and Midnight local on RSP
Sun, Sept. 9	Russia	Canada	8pm	Rogers Sportsnet & Broadband	1am ET on RSE/RSO, 11pm MT on RSW, 11pm PT on RSP

[hockeywatcher]

I got to watch most of the game. The Canadians were good, but they took a ton of penalties (it being international play), which eventually will catch up to them. This should settle in to be an interesting series once they get to know each other, though.

[hawthy]

I haven't seen the highlights yet. Does Canada look superior to the Russians or was it a game of bounces (I heard Turris scored on a penalty shot)? Did the score accurately represent the play?

[BoardsofCanada]

I missed the first but watched all of the second and third periods. I thought Canada was clearly better. They took 11 penalties but the PK was so good it didn't matter. Even with a 5 on 3 for over a minute, the Russians just passed it around, never getting a clear shot on net. I thought Sam Gagner was Canada's strongest player.

[hawthy]

One thing I hate about these international tournaments is the "call everything" (clean bodychecks) mentality of the european referees (I assume it was a european crew). Hopefully it'll be North American officials when the scene shifts back here.

If Canada can beat them in Russia with a more European called game, I predict it could be a rout when they get back to Canada, with the Canadians less tentative about taking penalties for physical play.

[sensdiehard]

I can't believe they are calling it a Super Series. I was about 7 when the first series was on. Guess that dates me pretty well. We were given time off of school to watch this tourney. We never get time off to watch rockets launch, vietnam, man on the moon or anything else, but we were given time off to watch this hockey tourney. It was huge. It was far more than just a hockey series.

Plus we weren’t playing the Russians. We were playing the Soviet Red Army team. Maybe a hockey game against Osama bin laden and al qaida sponsored by Monsanto would start to .fractionally represent the meaning of that 72 series.

Players were expected to and did do everything to win back then. And man did those Soviet refs ever cheat. Well it was expected of them, they were the evil empire after all.

This is just an exhibition series though. Who cares if we lose? Its not like its for a gold medal or a world championship or anything. Its just a little exhibition to make some money.

Go Canada, yawn, whatever.

[hawthy]

Originally Posted by sensdiehard

I can't believe they are calling it a Super Series. I was about 7 when the first series was on. Guess that dates me pretty well. We were given time off of school to watch this tourney. We never get time off to watch rockets launch, vietnam, man on the moon or anything else, but we were given time off to watch this hockey tourney. It was huge. It was far more than just a hockey series.

Plus we weren’t playing the Russians. We were playing the Soviet Red Army team. Maybe a hockey game against Osama bin laden and al qaida sponsored by Monsanto would start to .fractionally represent the meaning of that 72 series.

Players were expected to and did do everything to win back then. And man did those Soviet refs ever cheat. Well it was expected of them, they were the evil empire after all.

This is just an exhibition series though. Who cares if we lose? Its not like its for a gold medal or a world championship or anything. Its just a little exhibition to make some money.

Go Canada, yawn, whatever.

The '72 series was before my time, but I wish I could have been around to see it. For right now though, the NHL season is close enough to smell but far enough off to tease, I'm starved for hockey, and a collection of youth are playing with the red Maple Leaf on their chest....that's enough for me to get a little excited about this.

Like I said before though, I think they could have hyped this up a lot more than they did.

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awfully quiet in here...

We're Canadians. We LOVE junior hockey.

Canada won game one 4-2 over Russia to open the eight-game Super Series.

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VOD: Super Series Game 1

[Faraday]

Originally Posted by sensdiehard

I can't believe they are calling it a Super Series. I was about 7 when the first series was on. Guess that dates me pretty well. We were given time off of school to watch this tourney. We never get time off to watch rockets launch, vietnam, man on the moon or anything else, but we were given time off to watch this hockey tourney. It was huge. It was far more than just a hockey series.

Plus we weren’t playing the Russians. We were playing the Soviet Red Army team. Maybe a hockey game against Osama bin laden and al qaida sponsored by Monsanto would start to .fractionally represent the meaning of that 72 series.

Players were expected to and did do everything to win back then. And man did those Soviet refs ever cheat. Well it was expected of them, they were the evil empire after all.

This is just an exhibition series though. Who cares if we lose? Its not like its for a gold medal or a world championship or anything. Its just a little exhibition to make some money.

Go Canada, yawn, whatever.

I agree with some of what you're saying. I too was around for the original. It will never, ever be duplicated, it can't be because of the multi-faceted media reporting we have today. We weren't given time off, but tvs were wheeled into the classroom for everyone to watch, it was fantastic, such civic pride and involvement. I can't see that ever being repeated for anything let alone sports.

The biggest difference I can remember is the newspaper coverage and it's probably why I rail against today's hockey media. The guys in those days could bring the games, players and series alive. Most of them were writing pulitzer prize material, not fluff and inuendo like today. My dad would bring home the sports pages from every paper he could find at work during the series so I could pour over every line.

Your post reminds me of a line from Dryden's book. I'm paraphrasing but it went something like, "The best hockey anyone ever watched was that which was played when you were 10 years old".

That doesn't mean this series is a yawn. On the contrary, my description is "interesting". No reason to dismiss it.

[GLG]

Originally Posted by sensdiehard

Maybe a hockey game against Osama bin laden and al qaida sponsored by Monsanto would start to .fractionally represent the meaning of that 72 series.

I can see it now... some teen with a bomb tied to his body under the jersey sitting behind the Canadian net... waiting to pull the cord...

Hockey has changed. Butthead wants to remove the "violence" from the game with all his stupid rule changes. You'll never, ever see the kind of series we had in '72 again.