WC: BRONZE: USA vs Czechs

[Gold Standard]

Good job, guys! Hopefully a gold medal game next year. Canada Česko GMG next year sounds about right. That way the '24 tournament in Prague is jumpin.

 

[JabbaJabba]

Congratulations Czechia! Amazing fireworks in the final period.

 

[Czechboy]

Heh you got your wish. Congrats to the Czechs ending a 10 year drought!

Felt for swayman... My most coveted NHL goalie for my oilers!

 

[mattihp]

So happy that Finland won't need to face Pasta..

 

[FinPanda]

Love to see it.

 

[Czechboy]

So where do Krejci and blumel end up? NHL? AHL? Extraliga?

Hoping AHL for jiricek and NHL for dostal

Curious if kempny gets another NHL contract? .PTO?

 

[SanDogBrewin]

Much more on GM than Quinn. You can't expect coach to win games with 4 Ds.

Vanbiesbrouck will not catch any heat for a truly head scratching way of contructng a team. Deserves the criticism. Business as usual with team USA Hockey.

So where do Krejci and blumel end up? NHL? AHL? Extraliga?

Hoping AHL for jiricek and NHL for dostal

Curious if kempny gets another NHL contract? .PTO?

Hopefully back to Boston for Krejci.

 

[Czechboy]

Vanbiesbrouck will not catch any heat for a truly head scratching way of contructng a team. Deserves the criticism. Business as usual with team USA Hockey.


Hopefully back to Boston for Krejci.

He's clearly still got game.

 

[karhukissa]

Congrats Czech! Must be great moment for Kari Jalonen aswell, winning medal in home with Czech and getting big support from crowd. Great team and great players, showed a big heart in this bronze game.

 

[EK47]

Well deserved, Congrats Czechia!

 

[Czechboy]

I think bronze is great for us... Any good player we were missing was not a Dman. I don't think we could win a gold with that D. They all worked hard and all but they aren't a modern group of defenders at all.

So even if Voracek showed up and gave us more offence... Same D.

I'm skeptical gudas would make us a gold medalist.

Time to go streaking

 

[Czechboy]

Looking at replays... Hertl had a hell of a third period. Looked like Hertl lok

 

[BigBadBoar]

This bronze definitely must be considered a success. Czech hockey desperately needed any medal. The frustration of players, coaches, experts, fans was too big after all the disappointments from previous years. Let's hope this will provide everybody a bit of space for breathing.

 

[EK47]

I think bronze is great for us... Any good player we were missing was not a Dman. I don't think we could win a gold with that D. They all worked hard and all but they aren't a modern group of defenders at all.

So even if Voracek showed up and gave us more offence... Same D.

I'm skeptical gudas would make us a gold medalist.

Time to go streaking

Agreed. Its unlikely even with Gudas against Canada or Finland, but in a one game elimination setting its certainly not impossible. Don’t think it was impossible here either but jiricek would’ve had to play like I assume he will in a couple of years.

 

[Mainiac]

Felt for swayman... My most coveted NHL goalie for my oilers!

Tough loss but Swayman has a great career ahead of him. (U Maine product I might add)

 

[karhukissa]

Also i don't think there was any doubts about which team was crowd's 2nd favourite team in this tournament. Whole crowd was chanting "Tšekki" when they received medals, also next year in Tampere it's quite expected that you'll get big support from home crowd aswell.

 

[Czechboy]

Also i don't think there was any doubts about which team was crowd's 2nd favourite team in this tournament. Whole crowd was chanting "Tšekki" when they received medals, also next year in Tampere it's quite expected that you'll get big support from home crowd aswell.

I keep saying... Finns and Swedes are doing more for Czech hockey then Czech hockey is.lol Vrana, Pastrnak, langhammer, Dostal, Smejkal, Scotka etc.

 

[Czechboy]

Agreed. Its unlikely even with Gudas against Canada or Finland, but in a one game elimination setting its certainly not impossible. Don’t think it was impossible here either but jiricek would’ve had to play like I assume he will in a couple of years.

He played great and is clearly our next best D. Hronek is the hurdle he has to jump and if he can somehow push Hronek to second pair in a few years then we've got something!

We REALLY need some luck with prospects though as Gudas is aging out.

Kral, Galvas, Svozil, Jiricek, Hamara, Has, Zabransky - some of these guys have to make an NHL career for themselves.

Zboril needs to become a fulltimer and stay healthy.
Hajek is hanging on by a thread at best.

We need some full timers from these guys... luck is needed here!

 

[Pandaman11]

Are Pasta & Swayman roommates on Bruins road games?

 

[EK47]

He played great and is clearly our next best D. Hronek is the hurdle he has to jump and if he can somehow push Hronek to second pair in a few years then we've got something!

We REALLY need some luck with prospects though as Gudas is aging out.

Kral, Galvas, Svozil, Jiricek, Hamara, Has, Zabransky - some of these guys have to make an NHL career for themselves.

Zboril needs to become a fulltimer and stay healthy.
Hajek is hanging on by a thread at best.

We need some full timers from these guys... luck is needed here!

Hamara and Jiricek are the two most promising. The big bruising Gudas type defenders tend to become a bit marginal.

 

[Mick Riddleton]

Again, Pasta comes up bitching at the officials. Focus that on playing the game.

This aged well, lmao. The Bruin is the best scorer in the tourney

 

[Chainshot]

This aged well, lmao. The Bruin is the best scorer in the tourney

When he stopped bitching at the refs, he certainly did start playing well. Amazing that.

 

[paulhiggins]

USA gets Trumped. Congrats to the Czechs!

 

[BL92]

Congratulations Czechia!

 

[NyQuil]

Nice to end a tournament with a win.

Congrats to @Czechboy and the Czech team.