GDT: Bronze Medal Game - May 20 - USA vs Canada

[2023FriendshipTour]

the guy who went undefeated 3 years ago at this tourny...

not sure what makes Peters a good coach....not good in Carolina and and was terrible at these WHC

Peter's won this cruddy tournament to, but for you to talk about "Mediocre" when you guys employee TM is pretty laughable.

Neither are good.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The bald guy desperately wants to give someone a medal and the other guy is hogging the moment (First guy in line)

 

[NyQuil]

A fitting fate for this incarnation of Team Canada.

Surprising because they looked decent on paper but were so lackluster on the ice throughout the entire tournament.

At some point you have to look at the coaching.

 

[Jussi]

Fassel lost the stache? When did this happen?!?!?!?! Inquiring minds want to know

Apparently it got stuck on Putin's ass while he was kissing it.

 

[Name Nameless]

So, commentators mentioning 43 Hughes is to be drafted next month. Of course I forgot to check him out. Was he fine?

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

A fitting fate for this incarnation of Team Canada.

Surprising because they looked decent on paper but were so lackluster on the ice.

The defense was full of immobile players with low IQ and awful transition ability. The coach was dumb as well. Plus Kuemper sucks

 

[agent082]

The effort was worse. I can accept that we are not stacked in a best of the rest tournament, but the lack of drive is what was most dissapointing.

They looked exhausted. Americans has a better pace.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Peter's won this cruddy tournament to, but for you to talk about "Mediocre" when you guys employee TM is pretty laughable.

Neither are good.

but he is mediocre...never made the 'Canes overachieve, never took them to the playoffs and coached Canada is a 4th place finish with some great players....brutal

McLellan has his faults but also has a winning record and took his teams to the playoffs many times

 

[NyQuil]

The defense was full of immobile players with low IQ and awful transition ability. The coach was dumb as well. Plus Kuemper sucks

Still expected more offensively.

 

[sandysan]

Apparently it got stuck to Putin's ass while he was kissing it.

He gave tom Selleck a run for his money.

 

[sandysan]

They looked exhausted. Americans has a better pace.

They looked exhausted yesterday for 57 minutes.

No desperation at all.

 

[syz]

Still expected more offensively.

Offense is hard when your defense can't make an outlet pass or make a play in the offensive zone. In the couple of games I watched every play that went back to the point ended up dead, unless it was Parayko out there.

 

[Breakers]

So, commentators mentioning 43 Hughes is to be drafted next month. Of course I forgot to check him out. Was he fine?

I dont think he got any ice time except for the odd PP.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Still expected more offensively.

Fair enough. It's hard to get much done offensively when it takes 5 tries to break the puck out though

 

[2023FriendshipTour]

but he is mediocre...never made the 'Canes overachieve, never took them to the playoffs and coached Canada is a 4th place finish with some great players....brutal

McLellan has his faults but also has a winning record and took his teams to the playoffs many times

Ya... Taking a stacked Sharks team to the playoffs was really tough, while Peter's has a team that is literally bottom 3 in payroll each year, while is why TM is the definition of overrated.

 

[McDrai]

Congrats Canada on 4th place.

Says the guy with the Jets avatar...yikes!

 

[NyQuil]

Fair enough. It's hard to get much done offensively when it takes 5 tries to break the puck out though

True enough.

Very few odd man rushes or even good shots from good scoring areas.

The transition game was definitely putrid but I expected better once we were in the zone

And not a lot of hitting.

 

[snipes]

Post game comments are about what I expected.

Congrats to Team USA and their fans.

 

[TeddyBare]

why would you put McDavid on the PK?
Like seriously???

It was a Tie Game, and you put a player out who doesnt kill penalties just so he can reach his ice time quota.
I'd understand if they were trailing but come on.

Just idiotic coaching.

 

[Jorge Garcia]

Was a bit early, but 3 minutes can go really fast, so not entirely moronic IMHO.

Well, they were getting chances 5 on 5. O'Reilly had just missed a wide-open net. With the goalie out, you have a slightly better chance of scoring, but a much higher risk of getting scored on. It's a fine line, but I prefer waiting until inside 2 minutes.

 

[Tomas W]

Sweden blows out USA, canada loses against swiss. Usa beats canada.

Sweden will obilirate the swiss today

Doesnt work that way.

 

[mjlee]

I know you can to some degree blame the D and the goalie, but if you end up scoring three goals in two games, especially the QF and the semi something is wrong with the offense as well. It just feels like Canada weren't prepared for when it really mattered and just expected to juggernaut their way through. Yes this might be Canadas whatever letter team but so are most teams apart from the lower seeds with mostly european based players.

OT: Noticed this before, but American fans (and Canadians) seem to never sing along to the national anthem which basically every other team's fans do.

 

[Dakota Sioux]

USA USA USA

 

[scotian1]

I can't blame the players that showed up to play for Canada, the ones who turned the team down on the other hand. The bottom line is they weren't quite good enough and the coaching was questionable as well.

 

[Razamanaz]

McDavid is a Scot and O'Reilly an Irishman... and they are good at sheep breeding.

But not that good on big ice, remember!

A couple of European square-meter more makes 'em ... eh, rather mediocre.

Everyone in U.S. of A and Canada are immigrants. By the way. From not so long ago.
Year 1900 Chicago(!?) was Sweden's next largest city!

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