Poll

Who is your most valuable player?
Brent Burns (CAN)
Sergei Fedorov (RUS)
Mike Green (CAN)
Dany Heatley (CAN)
Tomas Kaberle (CZE)
Evgeni Nabokov (RUS)
Rick Nash (CAN)
Alexander Ovechkin (RUS)
Alexander Semin (RUS)

Power Rankings (as of May 11)

1.

CANADA
Don’t wanna boast, but we’re the hosts with the most: all of our foes are toast on the coast

2.

RUSSIA
Capital punishment is back

3.

FINLAND
Al MacInnis, you’ve got nothing on Ville Koistinen

4.

CZECH REPUBLIC
You can’t stop Marcus Nilson, you can only try to contain him

5.

SWEDEN
It’s about doing the little things right, like not allowing a goal with six seconds left

6.

UNITED STATES
Torts, you have a right to be mad

7.

SWITZERLAND
DiPietro is di man

8.

NORWAY
OK, we lost, but Latvia originally imported beavers from us in 1927

9.

BELARUS
Belarusian shootout researchers work furiously to clone Dmitry Meleshko

10.

LATVIA
After our win over Norway, all the beavers in Latvia are smiling

11.

DENMARK
Against Switzerland, we played like the Little Mermaid

12.

GERMANY
The turning point was when Eric Staal got up and had breakfast

13.

SLOVAKIA
Now we’re in the “Big Thirteen”

14.

FRANCE
Baguettes and cheese for everyone!

15.

SLOVENIA
There must be a better way to celebrate the IIHF’s 100th anniversary

16.

ITALY
The Gauls have sacked Rome again

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