WC Final: May 13th GDT - Finland vs Canada

[Joe MacMillan]

This game is already over.

Congrats Canada.

 

[mattihp]

Söderholm sitting on the bench, not because he's injured, but because of his performance.

Then why is Lame-anen and Berg still playing? Söderholm has been lightyears above them.

 

[RorschachWJK]

I don't speak about Russia now or about yesterday's game. I speak about this game and this final. I've wanted to watch some cool game from both teams... and what crap I see in WC final ? Only Canada plays at final level...

This is my yesterday message:

Your team is watching from the stands, little fellow.

 

[Ciccarelli]

"There's a few Canadian fan amongs the thousands of Finnish fans flagging for their country"

More probably they're just those ****tard finns who are rooting for Canada. I mean how badly can you be a gloryhunter?

 

[Jude]

I don't speak about Russia now or about yesterday's game. I speak about this game and this final. I've wanted to watch some cool game from both teams... and what crap I see in WC final ? Only Canada plays at final level...

This is my yesterday message:

I agree that the Russia - Canada match most likely would have been much better entertainment & closer match, but its still not our Finns fault we won the semi final

 

[johnny golightly]

Staal-Toews-Armstrong line has been huge this game. 1 goal and four penalties drawn.

 

[Crazyhorse]

Andy Murray will bring another international gold to Canada. If this guy isn't coaching in 2010, it would be absolutely ridiculous. How many coaches in Canada are better?

Domination by Canada. They made the swedes look bad, but in retrospective, we can say that we lost to a clearly better team.

Gratz to the gold Canada(If the finns don't pull a miracle!)

Silvret ska hem till Finland igen!(Fixed Frölunda chant )

 

[espo*]

After all this is just hockey. I love to see when any team has this kind of talent like you do at the moment. We usually make a good squad but we suck when it matters the most. This is when the indivitual skill takes places and this is something we don't have enough yet.

For example if you watch NHL scoreboard / statics how many finnish players do you see among the 20 or say 30 best scorers. I think max of 3. When there's about 3-6 swedish, 3-6 slovaks, 3-6 checzh. This is something we really need to work on.

Well said.

 

[mattihp]

This could be the smartest Team Canada in quite a while. Excellent in every department of the game.

And where it counts. There playing with lots of discipline. If you don't take penalties, you don't lose to Finland.

 

[RorschachWJK]

This game is already over.

Congrats Canada.

What are you talking about? This ain't over yet. If Canada scores next, then I agree but not yet.

 

[mattihp]

I am now putting on my Selänne jersey so someone will finally score ^^ I wore it for every goal but the final in the olympics (forgot it at home >_<

 

[Muscle Bob]

I agree that the Russia - Canada match most likely would have been much better entertainment & closer match, but its still not our Finns fault we won the semi final

Yes, your fault that you are losing 3-0 in final and already say that game is over. This is not what I've expected from final.

 

[Faktisti*]

why did finland win canada in a friendly match just before the wc and now lose?

 

[Joe MacMillan]

What are you talking about? This ain't over yet. If Canada scores next, then I agree but not yet.

I just don't see Finland winning this game.

 

[Jude]

why did finland win canada in a friendly match just before the wc and now lose?

Please disconnect from the internet before starting to drink

 

[John Agar]

Because...

why did finland win canada in a friendly match just before the wc and now lose?

we only had 15 jet lagged guys....and....

our coach and guys learned from that game how your guys would approach the game.

 

[Shack]

Andy Murray will bring another international gold to Canada. If this guy isn't coaching in 2010, it would be absolutely ridiculous. How many coaches in Canada are better?

Silvret ska hem till Finland igen!(Fixed Frölunda chant )

This is the second thing were Canada is ahead. Their coaching is just brilliant. Murray uses "hot" players when needed and plays line against line really perfectly.
Canada has won alot of faceoffs, I think because they've also scouted our faceoffs so they are playing always right center vs. center. Brilliant I say.

Sorry to be so Canadian fan at the moment, but I really can't find any good things in our game at the moment. This is totally different team I saw last night. Altought Canada is alot more different and harder team than Russia was. Canada doesn't just surf around, they drive to the net and score from the close range. This is where we are in serious trouble.

 

[Like Wall]

Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS!
Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS!
Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS!
Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS!
Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS!
Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS! Go FINNS!

 

[Muscle Bob]

And btw. mr. Muscle. That's Kovalchuk on my shirt. Showing finger to Crospy.

That's cool

 

[John Agar]

Thanks Shack...good to see a real hockey man...

This is the second thing were Canada is ahead. Their coaching is just brilliant. Murray uses "hot" players when needed and plays line against line really perfectly.
Canada has won alot of faceoffs, I think because they've also scouted our faceoffs so they are playing always right center vs. center. Brilliant I say.

Sorry to be so Canadian fan at the moment, but I really can't find any good things in our game at the moment. This is totally different team I saw last night. Altought Canada is alot more different and harder team than Russia was. Canada doesn't just surf around, they drive to the net and score from the close range. This is where we are in serious trouble.

who can put his home-town passion behind him in order to see what's needed.

Thanks for the complement to Canada's young team and your insight into the needs of Finlands needs in the future. Good observations.

 

[dagaka]

PP for team Finland!

 

[Jude]

I hope this game ends like 1-3 and if we have some good luck, 3-2. So it doesnt look so bad :G

 

[chaosrevolver]

Where was the penalty?

 

[chaosrevolver]

I predicted 3-1

 

[Chimpradamus]

Oh my God. In the NHL that isn't even a penalty. Hockey is a contact sport.

Hockey is a contact sport, but there are still illegal hits, even in NHL. As far as I know, elbowing is one of those hits that are illegal world wide. In international hockey, headhunting is also illegal, which is just as logical as it's illegal to take out someone's knees.

But I've started to understand that some Canadians consider the elbow as the same body part as the shoulder. I don't know what kind of weird camera angle you watched it from or which homer commentators that quickly said it was a clean hit, but from the camera angle most of us watched, it was a clear elbowing to the head.

All this added together could easily have made a 2+2 penalty on Staal for that hit, as the risk for a concussion would have been there if it would have hit the Finnish defenseman worse.