GDT: 2020-21 IIHF WJC, Edmonton/Red Deer, Canada: 12/25/20 - 1/5/21

[TwzKing]

man seeing Bynam cover his face breaks my heart

 

[Sol]

man seeing Bynam cover his face breaks my heart

He can use this moment as fuel for his NHL career.

 

[bouncesonly]

man seeing Bynam cover his face breaks my heart

He looked pretty good out there. Avs fans should be stoked.

 

[cyclones22]

He won gold last year. Not feeling anything for him.

 

[bouncesonly]

Also f*k the main board mods. P*****s.

 

[Sol]

I really hope that Byfield becomes a very good player. I don't want to be negative about him. Just that second overall pick comes with a lot of expectation since our last second overall was Doughty.

Really really really want him to become the player everyone wants him to be. There's just something about his game that rubs me the wrong way. Good to see Turcotte getting love.

 

[TwzKing]

Also f*k the main board mods. P*****s.

anything in particular or just all of it lol

 

[bouncesonly]

anything in particular or just all of it lol

all of it, they let trolling happen for threads they like and when it turns out to be completely wrong, it gets locked down. can't stand their own shit i guess.

 

[crassbonanza]

I f***ing love the singing

 

[LAKings88]

Please draft Matty Beniers next year Blakey.

 

[Steve Zissou]

Team USA singing the national anthem is so bad it's good. What a group of young men!

 

[KopitarFAN]

He can use this moment as fuel for his NHL career.

You could say the same for Byfield, he could've had a bigger role, but apparently seniority was what gave a lot of the ice time to 2019 draftees. Hopefully this motivates him to get better and to be the guy for Canada next year, if he's not in the NHL.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[kingsholygrail]

I never expected the US to actually win let alone shut Canada out. What a performance!

 

[Sol]

You could say the same for Byfield, he could've had a bigger role, but apparently seniority was what gave a lot of the ice time to 2019 draftees. Hopefully this motivates him to get better and to be the guy for Canada next year, if he's not in the NHL.

For sure. We all want all our prospects to succeed at the end of the day and be the player they're supposed to. That's one thing that optimists and pessimists have in common when it comes to draftees.

 

[Telos]

 

[Steve Zissou]

 

[bland]

Still, the point is, he's a dumb scapegoat.

Where's Cozens been this game? Same draft pedigree, a year earlier, wearing the C...getting absolutely caved in despite getting monster minutes.

Pick a player that's not Byfield and there are only 2-3 other Canadian forwards that aren't just straight getting trucked for the game. Sure, he hasn't scored--he's also at the very least advanced the play. Do we want more? f*** yeah. But if you're going to treat him like your 13th forward and still get better results than 10 other Fs, you can't just lay into his draft pedigree 'we wanted more from 2nd OA'....

Honestly, I couldn't care less what anybody else did. Don't really care too terribly much about the US winning either, though I happy it happened. I watched this tourney specifically to see how our prospects took up the challenge. Came away incredibly impressed with Turcotte, very impressed with Faber and Bjornfot, pleased with Simontaival, Kaliyev and to a degree Chromiak. Couldn't see much of Spence or Parik.

But Byfield? Sorry, he laid an egg. Didn't want to see it, hurts to admit, but he just didn't show up. We know its just a short tournament, not the be all or end all of anything, but you can only ever really judge people on what they do - not what they are supposed to do. Byfield looked far too comfortable in letting the game go on around him. Turcotte took it by the throat, he showed a desire to make a big difference.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Awesome game and tournament! Zegras and turcotte now get to be opponents

 

[Lt Dan]

 

[BigKing]

Turcotte laid an egg last year and responded this year in an elevated role.

My big concern with Byfield is seeming content to be a passenger on stages like this and that's exactly what happened. He also dropped a six point game in the only game where he acted like he's supposed to try and score.

I'm not worried too much but I am very worried about his development this season. It's already been a lost one for the most part.

 

[tws38]

Kings player with the gold medal winning goal 2 years in a row

 

[killermiller]

Well I wouldn't want my home country to lose to anyone else, solid game played by the yanks. Starting to finally see what we're getting in Turcotte, shit we're gonna be stacked in the middle soon

 

[bouncesonly]

"To put it simply, Team Canada is rolling. Through six games, Canada has yet to allow an even-strength goal, which is pretty wild honestly."

oof, to get shutout on the gold medal game, with two even strength goals.

 

[ru4reals]

Suicide watch in the great white north. LOL.
USA! USA! USA!

They were suppose to run over team USA. Oooops!!! The excuses on the mainboard is sooo fun to read. LOL.