Previous games mean nothing because Team Canada is scientifically designed to beat USA
Well ****, I'm gonna miss this match. I'll try and find a way to without having seen the result, but dear god is it gonna be tough.
Book mark this link. http://www.tsn.ca/videohub/Default.aspx?collection=181&show=211605§ion=Sports
Its TSN WJC Games on Demand. It'll appear post-game I believe.
No teams are unbeatable when you've got a tough group of Canadian kids who aren't afraid to drop the gloves and defend their team. Should be a scrappy affair, but Canada will prevail. Too many Canadians on the team for them to lose.
Dumba is garbage hope he gets sat for Reinhart when he comes back
Canada better be prepared to skate and they better not give up the first goal early like they have every single game. This is on Sutter to have these guys pumped up, but not jittery. I'm really hoping that Griffin provides a stable influence on the back end, but not playing so far worries me. The team has played from behind enough in this tournament that hopefully that helps them stay calm and keep playing hard if they get down. Gilles is a fantastic goalie, so they better be prepared to jam the net, get screens, rebounds, tips and ugly goals. This is such a young team, but the potential is there for greatness. They just have to come together a bit more, play a team game, and go full throttle. Win this game and the path to the semis is much easier. I want unbridled, but controlled aggression. Just stay out of the penalty box. It's killing us.
Lets have a great hard, but clean game and steal a win.
Other than the fact that the US does not, in fact, have plenty of returnees, this post is bang-on. Canada hasn't been nearly as bad as people think and we are still very much a major contender in this tournament. However, we can't get to worried about the result either way. We have won the NYE game several times to take the group, only to have a let down in the medal round rematch.Lots of talk of saying we aren't that good.
We are that good, we're very young though, and lots of first timers.
I'm likely one of the few Canadians who didn't expect this to be a breeze.
When do we take 2 17 year old and a 16 year old overseas ?
When do we ever even take 2 17 year olds ?
This was never going to be a a cake walk, they were going to hit a few bumps.
Is USA the favourite of course, plenty of returnees.
Our guys have big game experience, they're going to step it up.
They dominated the game against the Slovaks, but got into penalty trouble, and got caught being fancy to often.
Same thing with being too fancy against the Czechs, but they answered every goal.
Too many of us Canadians are looking only at the negatives, this team is a little over confident. However they don't quit.
I think they'll win today.
Canada is going to get broomhandled in this game.
Unfortunately.
A true test? How do you figure this is "a true test"? Canada lost a game and played about even with SVK - a team US man-handled. US should run away with this one by a wide margin.
Compared to us that is.
Really need to read what I'm posting, before posting it.
Lol @ Canadians trying to play their team down and play the "underdog" rule, you guys could have lost to Germany and still would/will play us close....don't see this one being any different honestly, unless your goalie has a mental breakdown it won't be a blowout by any stretch.