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[CTG]

Still unbeatable... My team faced maybe the stongest European club in female handball. And we won!

Female handball, European Champions League:

Györi ETO KC - Oltchim Valcea (ROM) 30-27 (16-13)

The maybe your team is the strongest European club in female handball... 

Definitely they aren't the best team. They won't win the final. 100 percent.

[BonzaiJoe]

The danish teams also appear to suck this year. It's a good thing I don't care. I only care about AGF, my local football team. A team of Stunts fame because we spent part of a memorable evening of WSM 2005 by their stadium.
After a problematic start of the season, we finally got things going at the end of the autumn with 7 points in the last 4 matches. The standings are as follows:

1 AaB                               18 11 3 4 36-27 36
2 FC København                 18 9 7 2 23-11 34
3 AC Horsens                     18 8 6 4 27-24 30
4 FC Midtjylland                  18 8 5 5 26-22 29
5 OB                                 18 6 10 2 27-15 28
6 Randers FC                      18 7 5 6 25-15 26
7 FC Nordsjælland                18 6 7 5 28-25 25
8 Esbjerg fB                        18 6 4 8 35-33 22
9 Brøndby IF                       18 5 6 7 23-26 21
10 AGF                              18 5 3 10 20-28 18
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11 Viborg                           18 4 2 12 15-36 14
12 Lyngby                          18 2 4 12 18-41 10


Things are looking interesting in the top, with Horsens a huge surprise at 3rd place, and Brøndby a big disappointment at 9th place.

[CTG]

BJ: football is another topic...

[CTG]

Female handball, European Champions League:

Nürnberg - Györi Audi ETO KC 25-36 (13-18)

Anita Görbicz scored 12 goals.

This results also means that ETO is already in semi-finals, independently from the last two matches.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

It's a great game, Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 (in the 35th minute). Crosby is injured, not playing, we're doing this without the young gun! BÖFF!

[CTG]

It's a great game, Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 (in the 35th minute). Crosby is injured, not playing, we're doing this without the young gun! BÖFF!

Don't be so happy, you will be deleted from my MSN.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS - PHILADELPHIA FLYERS 7-1

awesome victory against our eternal rival, giving a chance for Buffalo to knock them out of the playoff berths!!! böff! i'm very happy this evening!

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Pittsburgh-Philadelphia 4-2
Pittsburgh ensured its Atlantic division title, and still in chase for Eastern conference title. Will start the playoffs from 1st or 2nd position.
Philadelphia ensured its playoff berth. Will start the playoffs from 6th, 7th or 8th position.

Remaining games from the season for these teams:
Philadelphia-Pittsburgh

Possible conference quarterfinal opponents for them:
Pittsburgh: Boston, Ottawa, Philadelphia
Philadelphia: Pittsburgh, Montréal, Washington, Carolina.

Division-1 Ice Hockey WCH will get its start soon. After a season in the Austrian league for Volán, after building some good young players in the team, after knowing that János Vas (Iowa Stars, AHL) can come this year, after our players playing in the French league (Márton Vas, Balázs Ladányi, Viktor Szélig) finished a great season, after knowing that the Palkovics-Ocskay star pairing is in great form, after knowing the Ukrainian team are not as strong as last year's Slovenian team was, we have a small chance to promote to level "A". Japan and Estonia could be a tough opponent, too. Japan, 3rd seed behind Ukraine and Hungary, will be playing on home ice. Lithuania and Croatia should not mean a serious threat to our national team.

First match, 13th April in Sapporo: HUN-EST

[CTG]

Very expensive victory for Györi ETO in female handball, Hungarian Cup final. Our team white-washed the opponent (ETO-Dunaferr 30-20), but we lost Görbicz for several weeks because of a very stupid injury (broken ribbon in her ankle). This is the worst nightmare before the EHF Champions League semi-finals...

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Ice hockey, as always

NHL

Eastern Conference Quarterfinals
Montréal (1st seed)-Boston (8th) 4-1, 3-2, 1-2, MTL leads 2-1
Pittsburgh (2nd)-Ottawa (7th) 4-0, 5-3, PIT leads 2-0
Washington (3rd)-Philadelphia (6th) 5-4, 0-2, series tied at 1-1
New Jersey (4th)-NY Rangers (5th) 1-4, 1-2, 4-3, NYR leads 2-1

Western Conference Quarterfinals
Detroit (1st)-Nashville (8th) 3-1, 4-2, DET leads 2-0
San José (2nd)-Calgary (7th) 2-3, 2-0, 3-4, CGY leads 2-1
Minnesota (3rd)-Colorado (6th) 2-3, 3-2, series tied at 1-1
Anaheim (4th)-Dallas (5th) 0-4, 2-5, DAL leads 2-0

Division I WCH

Group A: Austria (1st seed, relegated from elite division, host), Poland (2nd), Kazakhstan (3rd), Great Britain (4th), Netherlands (5th), South Korea (6th, promoted from Division II)

Group B: Ukraine (1st seed, relegated from elite division), Hungary (2nd), Japan (3rd, host), Estonia (4th), Lithuania (5th), Croatia (6th, promoted from Division II)

3 points for victory, 2 points for victory in overtime/shootout, 1 point for loss in overtime/shootout, 0 point for a loss.

INNSBRUCK ARENA

NED-KAZ 3-6
GBR-POL 1-1, Poland wins in penalty shootout
KOR-AUT 0-8

POL-NED 6-4
KAZ-KOR 3-0 after 2 periods
AUT-GBR 20:30 CET

Day 3 (Wednesday): KOR-GBR, POL-KAZ, AUT-NED

SAPPORO ARENA

CRO-UKR 0-4
EST-HUN 3-5 (1-2, 2-1, 0-2, Hungarian goals by: Kovács 2, Ladányi, Vas M., Fekete)
LTU-JPN 0-5

UKR-EST 3-1
HUN-LTU 6-0 (2-0, 2-0, 2-0, Hungarian goals by: Ocskay 2, Vas M., Palkovics, Kovács, Ladányi)
JPN-CRO 3-0

Day 3 (Wednesday): CRO-EST, UKR-LTU, HUN-JPN (the winner will probably fight for promotion on Saturday against the Ukrainians; Hungary is the better team but it's always hard to play against the fast skating Japanese - and they are playing at home... I can't, I won't and I don't even dare to predict the outcome of that decisive match)

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Hungary-Japan 4-2 (lucky circumstances, but we won )
Hungary-Croatia 3-0

Standings:

1 Hungary 12/4
2 Ukraine 11/4
3 Japan 7/4
4 Lithuania 3/4
5 Croatia 2/4
6 Estonia 1/4

The situation is like in the 2002 Division I WCH, we will play the final and decisive battle for promotion. That year we lost 2-6 to Denmark. This year there was no dominant team in this group, I think we have more chance now. Hungarian ice hockey team have never played in Pool A since the early years of ice hockey (when there were only a few countries playing this great game).

NHL news:

Pittsburgh Penguins swept Ottawa Senators out of the Stanley Cup playoffs, 4-0 win of series.
Dirty Philadelphia leads series against Washington 3-1.
Pittsburgh will probably face the New York Rangers in the Conference Semifinals.

BÖFF!

[BonzaiJoe]

Who are you playing in the final?

Denmark will be playing the A-group championship in a few weeks! As usual, the group will have two impossible matches vs ice hockey giants, and one difficult match with an equal team, which makes all the difference I hope we can surprise!

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Who are you playing in the final?

Denmark will be playing the A-group championship in a few weeks! As usual, the group will have two impossible matches vs ice hockey giants, and one difficult match with an equal team, which makes all the difference I hope we can surprise!

Against Ukraine of course

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

We have done it! That's amazing! We were better than the Ukrainian team, and won against them 4-2! Hungary will travel for 2009 WCH in Switzerland! Let's hope we will meet Denmark and/or France and/or Germany there!

[BonzaiJoe]

Congratulations!

I agree, you should meet Denmark there

If we're still in the A group by then, that is... Our only NHL player (Frans Nielsen) just dropped out of the WC squad too.