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                 Blubberboy 
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                       Posted - 12/25/2006 :  18:30:22
                        
                        
                      
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		Poll Question: 
		
 What is the best hockey country?(Canada is not included)
		
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                 Blubberboy 
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                       Posted - 12/25/2006 :  18:31:16
                        
                        
                      
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                       FINLAND!!! I am a bit Finish so that is why.
  Go Vancouver. | 
                     
                    
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  12:55:49
                        
                      
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                      |  You put Czech Republic in but forgpt Sweden????? | 
                     
                    
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                 Kashmire 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  13:15:43
                        
                        
                      
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                       "Other" for Canada    I really like the talent coming from the Czech Republic. Jagr, Kaberle, Sykora, Havlat, Hejduk, Elias, Straka, Michalek(s). Canada and Russia are most dominant though, both countries have endless talent. | 
                     
                    
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                 -oil-country- 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  13:55:15
                        
                        
                      
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                       quote: Originally posted by Kashmire
  "Other" for Canada    I really like the talent coming from the Czech Republic. Jagr, Kaberle, Sykora, Havlat, Hejduk, Elias, Straka, Michalek(s). Canada and Russia are most dominant though, both countries have endless talent.
 
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                 1 Crosby fan 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  14:51:04
                        
                        
                      
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                       I voted other for Canada because Crosby,Sakic,Heatley,Thornton,Brodeur,Luongo,Turco,Phaneuf, and lots more
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                 bablaboushka 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  15:08:16
                        
                        
                      
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                       He meant to exclude Canada probably because he knew everyone would pick it.
  I don't think that there's any question that Finland has the best goalies (Kiprusoff, Toskala, Lehtonen). Sweden has the old guys (Forsberg, Sundin, Naslund, Lidstrom) so I count them out. Russia has a bunch of good youngsters (Ovechkin, Malkin, Semin).
  I give Russia and Finland a tie. | 
                     
                    
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  16:00:28
                        
                        
                      
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                       oh ok then i picked other for Sweden
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                 KariyaSelanne 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  18:24:41
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  Swedan Right Now, Russia In The Future. | 
                     
                    
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                 leigh 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  18:58:14
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  CANADA but second would be Russia or Sweden | 
                     
                    
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                 Blubberboy 
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                       Posted - 12/26/2006 :  19:36:21
                        
                        
                      
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                       THANK YOU BABLAOUSHKA!!!
  Go Canucks | 
                     
                    
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                 Mikhailova 
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                       Posted - 12/27/2006 :  06:34:53
                        
                        
                      
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                       Excluding Canada, I said Russia. Finland was a close second. (Had this poll been done in 1980 I would've said USA   )
  BTW Blubberboy, it's Finnish, not Finish. | 
                     
                    
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                 C-mac19 
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                       Posted - 12/28/2006 :  16:03:34
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  I think canada but other then them russia has produced some great hockey players | 
                     
                    
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                 -oil-country- 
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                       Posted - 12/30/2006 :  22:24:41
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  excluding Canada i'd say Russia  they have alot of young talent like Ovechkin,Kovalchuk,Semin,Malkin,Frolov,Afinogenov etc. and then there are some Veterans like Yashin,Fedorov,Vyacheslav Kozlov,Zubov,Kovalev etc. | 
                     
                    
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                 Blubberboy 
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                       Posted - 12/31/2006 :  15:49:11
                        
                        
                      
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                       Sorry
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