Guest,

While I agree with you about the quality of hockey that we saw at this tournament, I must say that I think the NHL has done and continues to do a tremendous job of enforcing the rules and returning the game to what it was. All of these new "obstruction" rules are simply new names for infractions that were routinely called when I was growing up playing in the sixties and seventies. They have also pretty much eliminated goon teams like the Big Bad Bruins and the Broad Street Bullies of the seventies who won games strictly by brawn and intimidation. It's not perfect yet, but it's no longer WWF on ice the way it used to be.

Cudos to the Russians who played a tremendous game and narrowly defeated a talented and determined Canadian team, and yes my hat is off to the Americans for showing the class to acknowledge the hospitality that they received in Halifax.