Under normal circumstances, this year we have much better depth and goaltending. Patenaude should be much better than all German goalies. If we ice our best players we're heavy favourites despite the idiot coach. Like this it's certainly a bit more open.
Fahrni improved a lot. Played very well at NL level. Allenspach got very limited ice time but was actually outstanding for Zug during their playoff run. Never took a shift off. Mighty impressive. A real impact player, even at NL level.
I mean why are you even talking about missing players when you know which roster germany could ice there. To me it is clearly a 50:50 game which can go either way. Not to forget that this team beat the czechs last winter.
I'll try one more time. If you know nothing about Swiss hockey and have nothing to add to our current discussion then please don't post. If you have a problem we me personally, send me a pm but see yourself out of this thread and don't post about it here. Thanks again.
Well, it's a well known fact Wichser had zero discipline as a player and was living off his talent. Probably played half of his career overweight and if you grew up where I did it without staying home all the time then at some point you were bound to meet friggen Adi Wichser at midnight in some kind of bar. Yes, also ahead of gamedays. I'd struggle to believe there was anybody who didn't know about it. I'm too young to tell if he always did this but in the backhalf of his career he definitely did and everybody knew it. Even before he wasn't exactly always in great shape or known for his relentless efforts on the ice. Great guy everybody would love to go for a beer with. Don't think he should get into coaching though.
Twice in the last minutes he failed to convert one of them a 1:0 on the goalie.
Interesting in fact wichser is some kind of skill coach for the youth of ehc Winterthur. I mean as a skills coach you don’t have the same type of role model function as a normal coach.
Do you live in Switzerland? if yes watch it on tv24 if you don’t have a TV download zattoo to watch it on( you have to make a free account). And if you have a mysports subscription you can watch it there.
They have own commentators lars Nay and andreas Hänni. They did an ok job IMO. Hänni has some good expertise. But can’t you watch mysports abroad if not that’s really weak from them IMO
Some private person just streamed the TSN feed. I don't think thats completely above board legally speaking (at least in most countries) so I won't go more into detail, especially with the rules of this forum on mind.
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I wanted to say that i really liked rodwin Dionico yesterday. I really don’t know why he didn’t get drafted. He was the best defender in my opinion and he’s still an underager. Liked his coolness and passing game.
I am surprised he wasn’t drafted this year hopefully somebody drafts him this year.
He was brutal as always but he wasn't the difference. The 2nd one and the last 2 were very stoppable and I think Patenaude has those. But of the other four, one was an unlucky pinball, two were great deflections by the Americans and one was clearly on Zanetti who was really bad all game. Pasche also made a few good stops in the first, particularly on a clean breakaway. And two of the three bad goals he gave up he let in late when it was over already. So you can't say it was his fault.I couldn't watch the game vs the US for obvious reasons but just looking at the stat sheet this sure seems like a reality check. Looks like the team didn't stand a chance whatsoever. I didn't expect them to hold this game close anyway but 7-1 looks pretty bad nonetheless.
Can't wait to hear Hinterlands take on Pasches goaltending by the way
