Why Iceland?

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First off Canada always will be better then the US at hockey.

Yeah the US won one world cup (off of an illegal goal though) and the olympics at a time they meant nothing but Canada never bombs as bad as the states did in Nagano.

As for the countries picked, they were piss poor choices. I don't recall ever reading about a hockey team from Iceland or Trinidad. Yeah there was the brief statement about the US beating Canada in the paper. There was not one mention of Sweden, Russia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, or Germany who are all the top six european hockey countries.

If you want proof this is a ridiculously made american movie, here are a bunch of hockey errors made by typical americans view of hockey:
-every time they do the flying V, it's offside.
-On the Luis Mendoza goal when a player flips a long bomb down to him and he finally stops there are 3 errors: it's both an offside pass as well as a blueline offside. Plus the closeup shots of him show him holding the stick right handed while the arial shots have him holding the stick left handed.
-No tournaments allow teams to add players right in the middle of it (ie. the knuckle puck kid) and in all hockey, kids under 18 can not stand on the bench without a helmet like Charlie does.
-In the shootout twice we see players stop, wind up, and then take a slap shot. Now first off, this would make for an unbelievably easy save for a goaltender but secondly when a player stops while taking a penalty shot, the shot is considered dead.
-The tournament goes by a double loss elimination and the last game is decided by a shootout as a tie breaker yet when they showed the standings at one point, some teams had ties.
-The retarted roping sequence would have been a match penalty (and who the heck brings rope on the bench anyways?)
-Teams can not change uniforms during the game in any sport let alone have a country in international hockey change to a team.
-the clock still runs during stoppages of play.
-There are several things wrong with the knuckle puck tying goal; Firstly somehow the ducks dress Russ in goal equipment during a 30 second timeout without apparently anyone noticing, secondly no team ever takes an extra set of goalie pads on the bench (and he couldn't have been burrowing Golberg or Gafneys since they both still had theirs on), thirdly you can not have 3 players dressed as goalies at the same time. You can scratch one from the game and dress a 3rd one in case of injury but obviously neither had been scratched since both the ducks regular goalies take shots in the shootout. Fourthly while in goal Russ removes his helmet; when a goalie loses his helmet, play is immediately blown dead and if he does it intentionally he receives a penalty. Fifth; Russ goes over centre when he shoots and goalies can not cross centre ice. Sixth; There are ducks players in the iceland zone before the puck is shot meaning it was offside. And seventh: No way in hell are you going to get a goal at the end of any period let alone a potential tyer in a championship without any kind of a protest.


Americans shoulds stick to making movies about boring baseball.

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They should have had the Ducks play the soviets, acutally it had just become Russia then, but still Russia would have made a good Villian

Lacrosse was actually invented in both the US and Canada by the Iroquois. They lived throughout the New York State area and obviously into Canada, I don't remember the exact borders. So if you want to be very specific Lacrosse wasn't actually invented in either the US or Canada. Not that any of this has a thing to do with D2 but I thought since there are all kinds of Geo-Political whatnot on here and the last guy mentioned Lacrosse, why not?