GDT: Dec. 30 • Group A • Canada 5, Slovakia 3

[LeafsMonster]

omg poor guy fell.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

Has McDavid been MacKinnoned?

Apparently.

 

[King Woodballs]

Oh more ice cleaning debacles

 

[Machinehead]

C) win yet another game and gain more confidence heading into the semi's.

We can do that against any team.

 

[Tralfamadore]

Can someone help me out with this VLC stream:

http://smb.cdnak.neulion.com/fs/nhl/mobile/iphone/video/nhlnetwork/ipad_1840.m3u8

I open it in VLC and it plays for a short time then stops. When I try to open it again it plays the exact same part as before and cuts out at the same spot.

 

[Gigantor The Goalie]

The McDavid-Horvat-Reinhart line's is invisible today...
The Laughton's line is not producing much offence once again
Why the hell is Rychel and Leier on Team CANADA???? Where's Domi when you need it?

Dumba and Bigras are just........Pelech is ok.

The Horvat line has been invisible because McDavid has been taken off of it. Pretty sure the line has been split up. If Domi wanted to be here he shouldn't have started scoring after the team was named.

 

[StuckOutHere]

Seriously not sure whey Gauthier getting hate?

Hes done his job, does a good job creating pressure. Would I play him a lot in the 3rd, not really, but hes certainly done more for this team than Petan and Rychel

And Im trying to be unbias as possible

Because he isn't a "sexy" player. He may never put up 40 pts in the bigs, but he has one of the highest chances of becoming a professional player down the road due to his ability to do the little things that coaches love.

 

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Has McDavid been MacKinnoned?

If you mean relegated to the role of bench-warmer so that we can play lesser talented players because they are older, then yes.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Antti Niemi doing a bad job.

 

[n00bxQb]

No penalty?

 

[King Woodballs]

That was a hard fall into the boards

 

[Konnan511]

Wow, rink is soaked still!!!

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

....and this is why you need the ice to be set

 

[Leafsdude7]

If u want gold you're gonna have to play them at some point anyway.

Uh, yeah, no.

Canada was supposed to have to play Sweden for a chance to play for Gold in 2002, but Sweden was upset by Belarus and Canada cakewalked their way to the finals.

And more to the point, I'd rather go through Switzerland-one of Slovakia/Czech, Russia, Finland or Canada/USA and then Sweden or Slovakia/Czech than having to play one of Finland or Russia, then probably Sweden or Canada/USA before playing Finland/Russia or Czech/Slovakia for the Gold. That semi-final game will result in 3 of the big 7 being gone while you get to roll over the clear 8th best team.

 

[JMcLeaf]

uh oh

 

[dnlfrncs]

Looks serious

 

[1Gold Standard]

Must be so stressful for these guys knowing that they are failing and the entire country is at their heels.

I don't think they are too worried about it... more important things on their mind such as NHL draft, Entry Level Contracts and Gary Roberts' summer bio-steel camp.

 

[LeafsMonster]

Oh man hudon. Hope he's okay

 

[ICanMotteBelieveIt]

McDavid was good in the first game that's it. For being the next legend in the making he sure has been underwhelming. I guess you put it down on he's only 16 and the whole team has been struggling.