GDT: Gold Medal Game • Jan. 5 • 8:00 PM ET • 02:00 CET • III (Mod warning in OP)

[Bob Cole]

Can McDavid play defense???

 

[Loosie]

The goals are not Fucale's fault...look at most of the goals and where Team Canada players are...the crease is so full he can't move. I understand collapse, but there are literally 6 Canadian players in the crease on most of the Russian goals.

 

[Canadian Finn]

how dare you steal our great motivational word "believe"? USA sports has full ownership of believe and all things believe-related.

ya, I think Lance Armstrong also used that word....

really cool ya'll are.

 

[Swervin81]

If we blow this, I'll officially declare the ACC cursed and have a petition out to burn it to the ground.

 

[Saintpatrick*]

If Fucale had any rebound control this doesn't get out of control.

If he had a good defense in front of him it wouldn't have gotten out of control either. It's not all his fault.

 

[Breakers]

Goes for a hit where it's questionable if it was clean or not, Russia proceeds to score on penalty and then add 2 more...yeup, as much as Canucks fans hate to hear it, that penalty is a big part of Russia's comeback. It gave them life right as Canada was about to run away with it.

Penalty's were inevitable, what if it was domi's penalty earlier.


Gauthier scoring on his own net how about that??

Blaming one play sounds so uneducated and I am not even a canucks fan.

 

[Coach Parker]

Someone should tell Canada's defense to stop trying to get a goal and play...you know...defense. Pinching with no support over and over has opened this game back up.

That, and Fucale never handling a rebound before in his life. He just drops them like Christmas gifts right into the top of the crease. Terrible rebound control.

 

[hirawl]

Oh, this is tough. But this team is strong, believe!

I BELIEVE FOR A GREAT 3RD PERIOD FROM TEAM CANADA!! GO CANADA!

The whole rink is in disbelief. The pressure might be too much for the team.

Time for a big player to stand up. Reinhart?

 

[Pi]

McDavid wasn't on the ice because we took too many penalties not because the coach stopped putting him on the ice after the goal.

 

[Appleyard]

dident knew he had swedish heritage

The name should give it away! Though tbf not that atypical or common.

 

[OttawaRoughRiderFan*]

Defense is starstruck. Bowey if you wanted to be a forward so bad you should have told your father to register you as a forward not defense. So many pinches that have resulted into a goal.

He has been horrible. This game is insane. 20 minutes left. If we lose we have no one to blame but ourselves. And, why is Canada so scared to change our goalies? Always scared.

 

[KevinBXA]

This is going as expected

 

[WaltWhitman]

This is rich. The Americans play the same team and complain about officiating and get harassed. The Canadians do it and it's completely warranted. Great game.

And the reffing and embellishment was worse for USA.

They've let a lot more go tonight.

 

[Hisch13r]

Absolutely. Goonery MUST be punished. With PPs and PP goals.

I can't believe you people are blaming Fucale. Blame Domi and Reinhart!

Even if they've taken penalties you can't blame those 2

 

[Canucks LB]

Clean, not late, puck there, shoulder hit.

Perfect hit

 

[Rockettrudel]

Canada fans please be positive we have 1 period to play and it's 5-4 for us. Obviously there will be some adjustements and we'll win this game .

 

[habsterr]

Bowey is this year's Dumba/Murphy.

Bowey is worse then DUMBa, makes me cringe watching him play.

 

[ProspectsSTC]

This is a penalty.. even in the NHL.. so obviously it would be in the IIHF. Not seen in the gif is Virtanen reading the play from behind the net and building up speed to just run this guy. He could have made a smart play and just used the body a little bit and gotten the puck, but no, he had to run the guy.

Wait a minute...you mean someone skated, hard, to get to where the puck is, and hit the guy with the puck? Dear god, make the madness stop. That was a clean hit.

 

[Atomos2]

This is a penalty.. even in the NHL.. so obviously it would be in the IIHF. Not seen in the gif is Virtanen reading the play from behind the net and building up speed to just run this guy. He could have made a smart play and just used the body a little bit and gotten the puck, but no, he had to run the guy.

No. Thats not a penalty.

 

[theranfordflop]

Not tonight
The only game that matters now

I'm confused, has Nurse been on for any goals against tonight? Not even on the Russian PP.

On that pinch, where the hell is the other dman? Why is a forward the last guy back?

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

they were all legit penalties don't know why ppl are *****ing so much

The refs are missing one hell of a lot of infractions the Russians are making. Put the whistles away for one team, yet call the other team for everything? Got to be consistent for both sides.

 

[iCanada]

What gets me isn't that they called those penalties, is that those exact same plays happened five times each for both teams earlier in the game and went uncalled.

You can't set the precedant that the whistles will be swallowed and then randomly start calling a tight game. That's a joke. Pick one. I have no idea what's a penalty in this game... it's been a hooking, charging, and tripping affair for 40 minutes and 30 minutes in they started to call penalties.

What a joke.

 

[SladeWilson23]

653 posters in here will do that.

I won't be surprised that by the time I'm done making this post, we'll need another thread.

 

[Jackson14]

This is a penalty.. even in the NHL.. so obviously it would be in the IIHF. Not seen in the gif is Virtanen reading the play from behind the net and building up speed to just run this guy. He could have made a smart play and just used the body a little bit and gotten the puck, but no, he had to run the guy.

Not seeing it. This would NEVER get called in the NHL. It's a clean hit.

The rest of the penalties have definitely been deserved though.

 

[Incognito]

The thing that pisses me off isn't the calls that have gone aganist Canada, but rather the calls that haven't gone against Russia. It's a ****ing joke.