Skate Canada 2009 *spoilers*

[sk8ergalgal]

Here are the results for the Pairs Short Program:

1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY 74.16
2 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV 65.80
3 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON 57.90
4 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY 55.52
5 Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT 55.46
6 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN 52.42
7 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH 51.14
8 Ksenia OZEROVA / Alexander ENBERT 40.28

Ladies Short Program:

1 Joannie ROCHETTE 70.00
2 Alissa CZISNY 63.52
3 Mirai NAGASU 56.34
4 Laura LEPISTÖ 55.74
5 Cynthia PHANEUF 55.58
6 Amelie LACOSTE 55.10
7 Caroline ZHANG 54.58
8 Akiko SUZUKI 53.10
9 Jenna MCCORKELL 47.48
10 Sarah HECKEN 45.50
11 Joshi HELGESSON 40.48

If you want to know how anyone did I was able to watch all skaters and pairs in both events. :)

[MQSeries]

The ladies have a pretty weak field of women overall. I hope Mirai can medal.

How did Denney and Barrett skate? They're still rough around the edges, but I like them much better than Rockne&Brubaker.

[Artemis]

The ladies have a pretty weak field of women overall.

Ok, good thing you put the word "overall" at the end of the sentence or I would have given you *&#! for saying that the world silver medalist is a weak field! ;)

I'm just happy Joannie has a strong SP behind her, since that's her achiles heel. Very strong in fact judging by the score!

And I'm holding my breath for Patick. I don't know why he's only doing the one GP event this year. I hope it pays off for him.

[sk8ergalgal]

And I'm holding my breath for Patick. I don't know why he's only doing the one GP event this year. I hope it pays off for him.
Patrick Chan had an injury to his calf which required him to pull out of this first Grand Prix event the Cup of Russia. He did not plan to only do one grand prix this season.

How did Denney and Barrett skate? They're still rough around the edges, but I like them much better than Rockne&Brubaker.
Denney and Barrett skated almost cleanly. Barrett stepped out of their side by side triple toes. That was the only major error I could tell.

[sk8ergalgal]

Results from the Compulsory Dance:

1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 40.69
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 35.55
3 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE 32.18
4 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES 31.47
5 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV 30.09
6 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL 27.14
7 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN 25.29
8 Andrea CHONG / Guillaume GFELLER 24.27

[sk8ergalgal]

The Results of the Mens Short Program:

1 Jeremy ABBOTT 79.00
2 Daisuke TAKAHASHI 76.30
3 Denis TEN 75.45
4 Alban PREAUBERT 72.30
5 Michal BREZINA 71.92
6 Patrick CHAN 68.64
7 Samuel CONTESTI 67.30
8 Armin MAHBANOOZADEH 65.30
9 Joey RUSSELL 61.82
10 Stephen CARRIERE 59.40
11 Kevin VAN DER PERREN 58.86
12 Jeremy TEN 45.14

Again if you want to know how any of the skaters skated I watched them all. Unfortunately wont be able to watch the original dance and the pairs freeskate live tomorrow.

[MQSeries]

Dennis Ten: very entertaining performance from such a young kid. I love the footwork.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtAM0n77cU

Surpised result for Chan. Did he falter somewhere?

I was rooting for Brezina since he was a breath of fresh air and did so well at his last GP assignment. He can still pull up in the LP.

Which Abbott will show up for the LP? Hmm.

Mahbanoozadeh placed above veterans VDP and Carriere. Go Armin!!!

[yfbg722]

Surpised result for Chan. Did he falter somewhere?



Chan fell on his triple axle and many of his jumps looked a bit shaky to me. He also had trouble with his spins. I'm wondering if he's 100% yet since the surgery. I felt bad for him. I'm sure it's not the skate he wanted to have.

[sk8ergalgal]

Original Dance Results:

1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 101.26
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 91.60
3 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE 83.36
4 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES 82.96
5 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV 76.01
6 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL 71.63
7 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN 68.07
8 Andrea CHONG / Guillaume GFELLER 64.66

Again I saw all the skaters compete.

[Justine_R]

Comparing the women and then men, I must say that the ladies seem VERY weak. They seem to be trailing very far behing the men with technical elements and presentation.

Not saying all of them, just watching Skate Canada didn't do much for me. The men seem much more exciting these days. Lots of women falling on triple toes and underrotating salchows and loops? Not only are these entry level senior jumps, many of them can't fully complete them - some of them don't even incorporate the triple lutz and flip needed.

Except for Joannie of course, great SP. The differences between 1, 2, 3rd place is crazy. Not even close at all, 70.00, 63?, 56?

As for the OD, what happened with Virtue and Moir? 2 slip ups in a row. Did she catch her blade?

Looking forward to the Pairs Long.

[sk8ergalgal]

As for the OD, what happened with Virtue and Moir? 2 slip ups in a row. Did she catch her blade?
Looked like the first slip she just missed her edge. The commentators claim it was the heaviness of the skirt on Tessa's outfit. The second slip it looked to be the same problem.

[sk8ergalgal]

Tessa and Scott claimed in their interview that it was just one of those performances where they just felt like they were "off" the whole time.

[sk8ergalgal]

FINAL Results for Pairs:

1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY 206.71
2 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV 185.71
3 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON 166.93
4 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY 159.95
5 Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT 157.09
6 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH 146.91
7 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN 143.61
8 Ksenia OZEROVA / Alexander ENBERT 113.36

Quite an interesting long program. Aliona and Robin debuted their new long program. Maria and Maxim were stopped by the referee part way though because Maxim's strap on his pants came undone and was dangling awfully close to his skate blade.

[sk8ergalgal]

FINAL Results for the Men:

1 Jeremy ABBOTT 232.99
2 Daisuke TAKAHASHI 231.31
3 Alban PREAUBERT 212.28
4 Michal BREZINA 202.32
5 Samuel CONTESTI 202.25
6 Patrick CHAN 198.77
7 Denis TEN 193.33
8 Stephen CARRIERE 188.31
9 Armin MAHBANOOZADEH 186.48
10 Joey RUSSELL 168.71
11 Kevin VAN DER PERREN 168.54
12 Jeremy TEN 148.96

[MQSeries]

Except for Joannie of course, great SP. The differences between 1, 2, 3rd place is crazy. Not even close at all, 70.00, 63?, 56?



I thought Mirai had a great SP. I have to look at the judge's sheets to see where the deductions, if any, came from. All her jumps looked fully rotated. Maybe a slight flutz.

[sk8ergalgal]

FINAL Results for the Ladies:

1 Joannie ROCHETTE 182.90
2 Alissa CZISNY 163.53
3 Laura LEPISTÖ 158.52
4 Mirai NAGASU 156.83
5 Akiko SUZUKI 147.72
6 Amelie LACOSTE 141.13
7 Cynthia PHANEUF 132.48
8 Caroline ZHANG 132.46
9 Sarah HECKEN 124.40
10 Jenna MCCORKELL 123.50
11 Joshi HELGESSON 108.41

Alissa now has a gold, silver and bronze from Skate Canada. No amazing clean skates from any ladies tonight.

[MQSeries]

Too bad Mirai didn't medal despite finishing third in both the SP and LP.

Cizney finished 4th in the LP. Enough said.

Poor Zhang is buried in 8th place. What the heck happened? Ususally she has a crappy SP and then pull up significantly after the LP. Not this year.

Flatt is the front-runner for the Olympic team. I hope Mirai get the second spot.

[sk8ergalgal]

Caroline fell on both her triple flip attempts. When I looked at her detailed test sheet it also said that her triple loop, double toe, double loop was deemed an invalid element and received zero points. She also got deducted on her 3lutz for a severe wrong edge take off.

[Schmeck]

Zhang has to fix her flip and lutz entries - she gets creamed on them all the time. I was thinking it looked like she got a lutz called as a flip, and that's why she got the invalid combo called as well, they thought it was an extra one?

[Justine_R]

Sometimes I wonder how Zhang is able to even rotate....

[sk8ergalgal]

FINAL Results Ice Dance:

1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 204.38
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 185.07
3 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE 165.64
4 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV 161.68
5 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES 160.76
6 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL 141.63
7 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN 141.61
8 Andrea CHONG / Guillaume GFELLER 128.70

Tessa/Scott scored 103 on their freedance making it the highest thus far of any ice dance team.

[Schmeck]

Predictions? The competition was last weekend?

[Isk8NYC]

Predictions? The competition was last weekend?
I saw that - how'd s/he do? lol

Maybe the poster went spoiler free until s/he had a chance to watch the event?

[MQSeries]

It's so frustrating to watch Czisney. After Joannie's poor performance, Alisa had such a good opportunity to claim the title but alas, she went splat, splat as expected. I just don't see any way the U.S. judges will put her on the Olympic team.

[Artemis]

I just don't see any way the U.S. judges will put her on the Olympic team.

So who are the other options? Czisney may not be particularly consistent, but neither is almost anyone else in the women's field. Other than Ashley Wagner, Flatt has the most technical consistency, but that's not saying much -- plus she's such a snore to watch IMO (sorry Rachel, I calls em as I sees em), it would be nice to have someone else with a bit more pizzazz. And if you're basing it on GP results only, Flatt is only one place ahead of Czisney.

And even if Sasha does show up and do well at Nationals (big if! x2), that would be a pretty big gamble for the Olympic selection committee too.