Entertainment Report Special Edition: 2013 World Junior Championship

1/5/13
Gold Medal Game

USA 3-Sweden 1

Lead by Tournament MVP John Gibson Team USA beat the defending champion Team Sweden 3-1! Filip Sandberg scored a power play goal early in the second to give the Swedes a 1-0 lead. But Rocco Grimaldi scored two goals to close out the period to give the Americans a lead they would never lose. Vince Trochek would seal the game and the gold medal up with an empty netter.

Bronze Medal Game

Russia 6-Canada 5 (OT)

For the first time since 1998, Team Canada didn't medal at the World Juniors. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins lead the Canadians with a goal and three assists and Ryan Murphy tallying a goal and two assists, but it wasn't enough. Valeri Nichushkin scored 1:36 into overtime to ensure the home country at least medaled. Nail Yakapov lead the Russians with two goals.

1/3/13
Semifinals

USA 5-Canada 1

This game amount to a NFL team losing to a team in the regular season and then getting their revenge in the playoff game. After losing a heartbreaker in the prelims 2-1 to Team Canada, Team USA came back and dominated 5-1 to advance to the gold medal game! Jake McCabe and John Gaudreau led the way with two goal and an assist each and Jim Vesey scored the other goal and also got a helper. John Gibson though was the star again for his team as he made 33 saves to lead the Americans to victory.

Sweden 3-Russia 2 (SO)

1/2/13
Quarterfinals

USA 7-Czech Republic 0

So much for a slumping Team USA who can't score. Led by a John Gaudreau hat trick and a 31 save shutout performance by John Gibson, Team USA destroyed Team Czech Republic 7-0. Riley Barber scored two goals and Jacob Trouba and Seth Jones tallied four assists each. The domination propelled them to a rematch with Team Canada tomorrow.

Russia 4-Switzerland 3 (SO)

12/31/12

Czech Republic 4-Switzerland 3 (OT)
USA 9-Slovakia 3

After a dominating full out effort Team USA routed Team Slovakia 9-3 to advance to the Quarterfinals. John Gaudreau and Vince Trochek lead the way with two goals and an assist each. Alex Galchenyuk and Jake McCabe also added a goal and an assist and Jim Vesey assisted on three. On Wednesday Team USA will face off against Team Czech Republic.

Sweden 7-Finland 4
Canada 4-Russia 1

It was hyped all week as the matchup of the tournament and it lived up to it! Jonathan Huberdau scored a goal and an assist and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins assisted on three, as Team Canada beat Team Russia. Malcolm Subban made 21 saves in the win. Team Canada finished first in Group B and received a bye to the semifinals.

12/30/12

Finland 5-Switzerland 4 (SO)
Canada 2-USA 1

After watching this game, I'm not sure if the Canadians won or the Americans beat themselves. After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan Strome gave Team Canada a 2-0 lead it became a defensive game. Malcolm Subban (36 saves) and John Gibson (30 saves) put on amazing effort for their teams throughout. The real story of the game came late in the third. After Jacob Trouba made it a 2-1 game, Team USA got sloppy and started taking stupid penalties. Despite Team Canada not scoring on two 5-3s, and despite an amazing last ditch effort l, Team Canada held on to win. Now 3-0 they are heading into a blockbuster matchup against Russia tomorrow and Team USA will play Slovakia to try to stay alive in the tournament.

Czech Republic 4-Latvia 2
Slovakia 2-Germany 1 (OT)

12/29/12
Sweden 5-Latvia 1
Russia 7-Germany 0

12/28/12

Czech Republic 3-Finland 1
Canada 5-Slovakia 3

Team Canada keeps rolling but not till after a bit of a fight. After two goals by Marko Dano, Team Slovakia took a 3-1 lead halfway through the 2nd period. That led to Team Canada scoring five unanswered to a 6-3 win, to go to 2-0 in the tournament. Ryan Strome led the way with two goals and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins got a goal and an assist. Goalie Malcolm Subban made 25 saves in the victory. Next up is Team USA on Sunday.

Sweden 3-Switzerland 2 (SO)
Russia 2-USA 1

In what turned out to be a fantastic game, Team Russia beat Team USA on a third period goal by Vladimir Tkachyov. The Russians took an early lead on an Albert Yarullin goal in the first but the Americans tied it up in the second with a power play goal by Jacob Trouba. It was a fantastic game as Team Russia improved to 2-0 (1 regulation win, 1 overtime win) and Team USA drop to 1-1. The US must now regroup as they will face the Canadians on Sunday.

12/27/12

Switzerland 7-Latvia 2
USA-8-Germany 0

Team Germany must looked at the beginning of their tournament schedule and prayed for mercy. They didn't get any. After a 9-3 beating by Team Canada yesterday, Team USA shutout them out 8-0. Goalies John Gibson (19 saves) and Jon Gillies (7 saves) shared the shoutout. Eight different players scored goals, lead by Riley Barber and Alex Galchenyuk with one goal and two assists each.

12/26/12

Finland 5-Latvia 1
Canada 9-Germany 3

Now that's how you start a run in the tournament. Team Canada hit a gold mine in an impressive 9-3 win over Team Germany. Leading Team Canada Mark Schiefele scored two goals and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tallied a goal and four assists. Ryan Strome and Jonathan Huberdeau also tallied a goal and two assists each as well. Leonhard Pfoderi led Team Germany with a goal and an assist. Canadian goalie Malcolm Subban made 25 saves in the win.

Sweden 4-Czech Republic 1
Russia 3-Slovakia 2 (OT)

12/22/12
Pre-Competition Games

Finland 5-USA 1

Team Finland came to play in this game. After holding a 1-0 lead on a goal by Robert Leino, they broke the game wide open in the third with four goals. Markus Granlund was credited with the game winner. Aleksander Barkov tallied a goal and two assists and Artturi Lehkonen & Teuvo Teravainen also got a goal and an assist each. Blake Pietil got the only goal for Team USA.

Canada 2-Sweden 1 (SO)

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins won the game for Team Canada in a shootout. This game got deadlocked after a 1st period goal by Team Sweden's Alexander Wennberg and a 2nd period goal by Team Canada's Jonathan Drauin.

12/20/12
Pre-Competition Games

Finland 3-Canada 2

In the first pre-competition matchup on the tournament, Finland pulled off a victory over Canada. Finland took a lead in the first period with a Markus Granlund goal. Team Canada fired by with two goals by Griffin Reinhart and Mark Schiefele in 34 seconds early in the first but couldn't hold the lead as Ville Jarvelanien tied the game up just about half way through the period. Miro Aaltonen gave Team Finland the lead 7:18 into the third and they hung on for the win.

USA 3-Sweden 2 (OT)

If this is what the preliminary games are going to be like, I can't wait for this tournament to get underway. Early in the first Team Sweden and Team USA traded goals, Emil Molin and Connor Murphy respectively. Ryan Hartman gave Team USA a 2-1 lead less than four minutes into the 2nd but with 36 seconds left in the period Rickard Rakell scored to tie the game up. After a goalie duel in the 3rd, the game went to overtime. Shayne Gostisbehere scored 1:36 into the overtime from the point off a faceoff win by Sean Kuraly to win the game for Team 3-2!

Entertainment Report Issue #13 (Glee, WWE TLC, ROH Final Battle and more!)

With Christmas right around the corner, we are feeling the spirit here on this week's edition of the Entertainment Report.

The Entertainment Report would like to welcome our first sponsor, Puzzled and Polished. Puzzled and Polished is a charitable organization that sells homemade jewelry for Autism Speaks. It will start up officially in 2013, but jump over like the page and stay tuned for more information.

Before I get started, I can't ignore the tragedy of last Friday. As a human being my heart sank when the news broke on the shooting in Newton, CT. But as a parent of a four year old, I was left in a state of shock and anger. My prayers and thoughts have been with those families, the teachers, the police officers and everyone affected by this horrific incident.

Alright, now let's get into the announcements and feedback.

First off, this will be the final weekly issue of 2012. There will be no issue on Christmas week, and the way the holidays line up the next issue won't be up till 2013.

That being said the blog itself will not be dark. Starting tomorrow afternoon, I will be covering the entire World Juniors Championship tournament, starting with the prelim games. So between tomorrow and January 5th there will be a page bring constantly updated with a scoreboard and write ups of every Team USA and Team Canada games.

Now as has been talked about in the past few weeks, there will be a special year end edition being posted on the 31st. This will include articles, predictions  countdowns and the results of the year end awards. Come over and vote on our Facebook page. New categories went up this week and the polls will close on 12/29 at midnight.

Finally, while the email bag (entertainreport@gmail.com) and Twitter (@Reilly21106) have been quiet this week, we did get a huge plug and shout out this week. @TravLord mentioned the blog on this past week's @EastCoastCast. It definitely surprised me and was much appreciated.

That's it for announcements and plugs, so let's get into this week's issue...

This week's Glee was their third annual Christmas special I have to say, while I've never seen Love Actually, I really enjoyed the format of the show. It had four separate stories that got tied in together at the end.

First we started with Artie wishing he was never in the wheelchair and went into a fantasy. This turned into It's A Wonderful Life, with Rory as Artie's angel. It revealed that since Artie can walk, he never joined the Glee club, since he didn't join the club, it doesn't exist. The highlight for me was that Will and Terri were still together and the fact that Terri has convinced Will that a toy baby was real. The Quinn twist was shocking but also made sense since Artie did encourage her to keep going after her accident. I also really enjoyed Artie's performance of Feliz Navidad, it was so much fun.

We then jumped to New York to find that Burt came and surprised Kurt with a tree and wanting to spend Christmas together as a family. He also surprised Kurt with Blaine which led to a romantic on ice rendition of White Christmas. I really hope this leads to a Klaine reunion. One note, Glee why must Burt always have to have a health problem? First a heart attack and now cancer, seriously he's TV's perfect dad, don't kill him off!!

Now we get to the Puckerman family reunion. While I didn't quite understand how you can get from Lima to Los Angeles and back on a bike with a side car at the blink of an eye, I really enjoyed Noah & Jake performing Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah, just because it was so random. I did really like bringing their moms together over the hatred of their dad. I am also excited that Puck is coming back to Ohio for the rest of the year.

Moving onto the Sam/Brittany storyline. First a rant, I am so sick of the Mayan Apocalypse crap in general. While I'm glad they pretty much made fun of it here, I'm still so done. Just get over it, the works isn't going to end on the 21st. I do like Sam & Brittany in a cute way, and I thought Jingle Bell Rock was goofy and fun.

Finally we get to Marley, her mom and Sue. I really love Marley's voice and her rendition of The First Noel was so beautiful. Now as much as I've complained about the eating disorder story, I like how they pretty much wrapped it up here. Plus I love how Christmas always brings the best out of Sue. I didn't expect her and Becky to do so much but it was so sweet.

Last but not least we get the big group finale, a fantastic rendition of Have Yourself A Merry Christmas. A great way to go out.

This capped off an awesome first half of season four. Next new episode isn't until the middle of January but I can't wait!

Results

• Pre Show Match: Naomi won the Santa's Helper Battle Royal which included Tamina, Alicia Fox, Aksana, Cameron, Natalya, Kaitlyn and Layla to become #1 Contender of the WWE Divas Championship
• Team Rhodes Scolars (Cody Rhodes & Damien Sandow) defeated Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara in a tables match when Rhodes pushed Sin Cara through two tables
• Antonio Cesaro pinned R-Truth to retain the WWE United States Championship
• Kofi Kingston pinned Wade Barrett to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship
• The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) defeated Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) and Ryback in a TLC match after Reigns pinned Bryan
• Eve pinned Naomi to retain the WWE Divas Championship
• Big Show pinned Sheamus to retain the World Heavyweight Championship in a chairs match
• Alberto Del Rio, The Miz and The Brooklyn Brawler defeated 3MB (Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal) after Brawler summited Mahal
• Dolph Ziggler defeated John Cena in a ladder match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank briefcase after AJ shoves Cena off the ladder

Thoughts:

First of all, I really want to see the TLC match, it looks like it was a war. I'm happy The Shield won because the WWE should really be concentrating on the future in 2013.

That couldn't be more evident when Ziggler beat Cena in the ladder match after AJ helped him. This is huge. Ziggler deserves to be champion so I'm glad they didn't take the case off him.

Big Show retained after using a massive chair to lead to the pin. This works especially if the rumors of Show/Ryback are true.

As for the rest of the show, Cesaro retained to no surprise and Kingston retained and I'm glad I was wrong. I am looking forward to Hell No vs. Rhodes Scholars II coming soon.

Did Del Rio actually turn face against 3MB to tag with Miz and the Brooklyn Brawler? Yes that actually happened. Plus Naomi surprisingly won the battle royal and ended up losing to Eve. Totally random.

Now that this show is over, and the new year is upon us, we are approaching Wrestlemania season. Woot!!

Results

• Roderick Strong pinned Michael Elgin
• Jay Lethal pinned Rhino
• R.D. Evans pinned Prince Nana
• Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Hass) defeated Rhett Titus and BJ Whitmer in a New York City Street Fight after Hass pinned Whitmer
• Mike Bennett pinned Jerry Lynn
• The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defeated Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish after the ref stopped the match
• Matt Hardy pinned Adam Cole
• The Briscoes defeated Cedric Alexander and Caprice Coleman & S.C.U.M. (Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs) to win the ROH Tag Team Championship after Mark Briscoe pinned Corino
• Kevin Steen defeated El Generico in a Ladder War to retain the ROH World Heavyweight Championship

Tomorrow I will be watching the replay (courtesy of a code I won from ProWrestling.Net) so I will be writing a Wrestling Afteraction, so I will address my thoughts in there.

Superstar of the Year: John Cena
Diva of the Year: AJ
Match of the Year: Wrestlemania XXVIII: Undertaker vs. Triple H
Newcomer of the Year: Ryback
Tell Me I Did Not Just See That (Most Shocking): Kofi Kingston walked on his hands to avoid Royal Rumble elimination
LOL Moment of the Year: The Rock's promo in John Cena in Boston
Kiss of the Year: John Cena & AJ
Hashtag of the Year: #FeedMeMore

12/14/12-Rockford at Milwaukee

The Ads blew yet another lead but this time at least won the game. After quickly being down 1-0, Gabriel Bourque scored two goals and Michael Latta added on and it was 3-1 in the 2nd. They couldn't hold the lead, and the Icehogs' Martin St. Pierre tied the game early in the third. Kevin Henderson, though, scored 1:45 into the overtime period and the Admirals won.

12/15/12-Milwaukee at Peoria

After a goalie duel between Magnus Hellberg and Mike McKenna through the first two periods of the game, Michael Latta scored 4:04 into the 3rd. The Ads though couldn't score again or hold onto the lead. The Rivermen scored three goals in 3:36 and they won the game 3-1.

12/16/12-Hamilton at Milwaukee

In a wild game between the Bulldogs and the Ads, Mark Van Guilder and Taylor Beck both tallied a goal and two assists to lead Milwaukee to a 4-3 victory.

12/19/12-Rockford at Milwaukee

Magnus Hellberg did not have a good night. After letting up three goals in the first period, including a Jeremy Morin shot from center ice. The Ads couldn't come back and lost the game 3-1 to the Icehogs.

Tomorrow night the Rockford Icehogs stay in town for the Ads last game before Christmas. Next Thursday and Friday night, the Peoria Rivermen come to town to play back to back games at the BMO Bradley Center and then the Ads finish off 2012 in Rockford the following night.

Quick Hits

• As a ratings guy, I'm intrigued by the announcement that Nielsen will include Twitter TV numbers. It might actually improve the actual legitimacy of the ratings.

Well that's it for the final official Entertainment Report if 2012.

Like always, check out my NFL Week 16 picks, especially after my rough Week 15 picks. Tomorrow look for the start of the World Juniors coverage and a new Wrestling Afteraction covering Final Battle. Also don't forget to check out the Year End Special on the morning of December 31st.

In two weeks the Report will return to the normal weekly format covering the NFL Wild Card Weekend, how the Admirals & Wave finished 2012 and much more.

Now as always you shoot an email over to entertainreport@gmail.com, like us on facebook, follow me @Reilly21106 and Scott (who took the week off for Finals) @ScottFellows23 on Twitter. Please continue to vote in the year end polls. Thank you for reading and everyone have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year!