{"id":1107,"date":"2016-09-14T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2016-09-23T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:39:54","slug":"otpp-world-cup-of-hockey-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/09\/14\/otpp-world-cup-of-hockey-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"OTPP: World Cup of Hockey Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last Word on Sports is proud to present their hockey podcast, On the Power Play with Ben and Dave.\u00a0Join Ben Kerr and Dave Gove each week as they take a look around the Hockey World focusing on the big issues of the NHL and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ben and Dave are back, and they are looking ahead to the <strong>World Cup of Hockey<\/strong>. \u00a0What have we learned from the early exhibition games?<\/p>\n<h3>World Cup of Hockey Preview<\/h3>\n<p>How good is <strong>Team North America Under 23<\/strong>? Can other team&#8217;s handle their speed? Can they succeed against their more experienced opponents?<\/p>\n<p>Does team <strong>Europe<\/strong> stand any chance? Is <strong>Zdeno Chara<\/strong> finally showing his age? Should they have an anthem?<\/p>\n<p>Do the<strong> Russians<\/strong> have the best forward group in the tournament? Can their defence hold up? Will it be <strong>Semyon Varlamov<\/strong> or <strong>Sergei Bobrovsky<\/strong> in net?<\/p>\n<p>Can <strong>Finland<\/strong>\u00a0surprise again? Does <strong>Pekka Rinne<\/strong> give them good enough goaltending to compete in this tournament? How does their offense and defense look? How good is <strong>Patrik Laine<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Is <strong>Sweden <\/strong>being undersold? Do they have the best defence in the tournament? Can <strong>Henrik Lundqvist<\/strong> carry them to the title?\u00a0Do they have enough offence?<\/p>\n<p>How do all the defections hurt the <strong>Czech Republic<\/strong>? Can they possibly create problems for any of the other team&#8217;s in this tournament? Can <strong>Petr Mrazek<\/strong> be their saviour?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team USA\u00a0<\/strong>won their first game against <strong>Canada<\/strong> in a very chippy affair. Is this the team&#8217;s M.O? Should <strong>Ryan Kesler\u00a0<\/strong>have been suspended? Who is their starting goalie?<\/p>\n<p>Can Canada be stopped? Will <strong>Carey Price<\/strong> be ready? How does the <strong>Duncan Keith<\/strong> injury effect them?<\/p>\n<p>Who qualified for the <strong>Olympics<\/strong>? A look at our three qualifiers and ahead to the 2018 Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>All this and more, as we go on the On The Power Play.<\/p>\n<h2>OTPP: World Cup of Hockey Preview<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/faqjw-62a3e4?from=yiiadmin&#038;skin=1&#038;download=0&#038;share=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=1\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chill Puck is proud to bring you On The Power Play.\u00a0 Ensure your drinks are always cold with the Chill Puck.\u00a0 Type in the code \u201clastword\u201d at <a href=\"http:\/\/chillpuck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chillpuck.com<\/a> to get free shipping. Sign\u00a0up on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/OnThePowerPlay\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our facebook page<\/a>. To be entered to win a free two pack of Chill Pucks, just follow the instructions in the podcast.<\/p>\n<div><a id=\"ld-6425-7766\" href=\"http:\/\/lockerdome.com\/6169841350483521\/8460880958608152\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Which iconic sports venue is highest on your bucket list?<\/a><span id=\"ld-6425-7766-equiv\"> in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lockerdome.com\/6169841350483521\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LastWordOnSports\u2019s Hangs<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lockerdome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LockerDome<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/600649976\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/600649976?et=nY4qPH6zR3tMtBSIFdNKiw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=eqHSZimjVZent5v6_uin8-KlL6cNe6ocsVOyym1v6lY=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Sports is proud to present their hockey podcast, On the Power Play with Ben and Dave.\u00a0Join Ben Kerr and Dave Gove each week as they take a look around the Hockey World focusing on the big issues of the NHL and elsewhere. Ben and Dave are back, and they are looking ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,49],"tags":[209,403,37,38,387,591,5726,5748,1102,617,46],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-otpp","category-podcasts","tag-czech-republic","tag-europe","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-north-america","tag-team-canada","tag-team-finland","tag-team-russia","tag-team-sweden","tag-team-usa","tag-world-cup-of-hockey"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}