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Team Norway Men’s Roster & Preview for Winter Olympics

Alessandro Seren Rosso | January 28, 2018

Norway has recently published its list of 25 players for the PyeongChang Winter Games, only eight of them representing the Norwegian Elite League. This is both good and bad for the…

2012 IIHF World Championship Quarterfinal Predictions: No More Fooling!

Chris Wassel | May 17, 2012

The seven game round robin seemed to take forever but it is at long last over. Early in the morning, the 2012 World Championships will take place for those of…

The Legend Of Thor Grows: 2010 Olympic Teams Set

Chris Shafer | February 11, 2009

It’s a rare thing to see a young undrafted player with only 106 (130 counting playoffs) NHL games under his belt over the course of two seasons become a legend. In fact those looking at his stat line or his brief NHL stint would hardly call a kid like PatrickThoresen a legend. After all he only accounted for 3 goals. That’s not exactly important in the eyes of millions of fans watching some players score 40 a season without breaking a sweat. Still there are two areas of the world that believe in the Legend of Thor. One is the great city of Philadelphia and as of February 8th, 2009 the other is the entire country of Norway, the country Thoresen calls home.

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