Given the roster, what kind of outcome did you expect?
The coach sucks. What outcome would we have expected even with better players?
Once again a very solid performance by the Czechs. They're having quite a tournament and right now it looks like they will repeat last year's championship.
Amazing what some people think!!!!
The US slightly outplayed the Czech's in the first and easily could have been tied at 1-1 heading into the second. The Czechs stepped up the 2nd & 3rd periods and played very well, but the US hung tough and made a superior team work ubtil the last 7-8 minutes. Give that 2 of their top 9 forwars were NCAA players and I believe Smith & Krieder were the two top goal scorers on Team USA they did as well as could be expected.
Anybody knows how did Jagr look in this game?
meh, congrats Czechs, this was like our D team
Jaromir Jagr needs to return to the NHL.
meh, congrats Czechs, this was like our D team
I wouldn't go that far. Komisarek & Johnson in the top 12 D in the US. JVR, Stepan & Wheeler are legit top 6 forwards on most any team. Kreider played well today against a very good team, Fowler & Smith played well. I'd say they were a USA
C team for sure in totality, with maybe 3-4 A Team players.
Honestly, I don't think this was a terrible group of players. Not enough offensive punch, and the d-play was erratic, but there was enough talent here to do better. Piss-poor coaching and execution did us in.