Beauty period by the Czechs... Francouz (who I am very critical of starting) had a beauty period and kept us in it especially after we got first goal. If States scored there we were in a lot of trouble. We got some goals which is awesome. Need to focus more on defence and stopping 88 and 89 lines... States have unbelievable offence and that should be our top priority. Counter attack and more counter attack IMO.
We have yet to be called for a penalty. I realize the US fans think this is crazy... I've seen non calls going both way personally. However, eventually this very skilled US team will suck us into a penalty and they have a phenom powerplay (ridiculous actually!). We need to be very careful.
I called a 1 goal game, stack our 3 Centres and Necas on wing and Rittich in net. Most of that is happening. Shorten the bench for third... double shift the David's (Jaskin doesn't look very good... I'd even toss Necas on that line for a shift or two).
2-2 tie is awesome for the Czechs. They've played 5 very close games in this tourney so far and are good at this sort of thing. They're obviously pissing the States off which is to their advantage as well. Murphy's stupid penalty was a good example. State's can't fall for that shit. If you want to hit Sulak.. dump it in his side and run him over.