GDT: 9/17 - USA vs. Team Europe - 3:30 ET

[CorgisPer60]

How does being shutout feel, Tortorella? How's your team of grinders and mid-pairing D working for you? Suck it, you blowhard.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Well deserved win by Team Europe. Many wrote them off after their performance against North America, but they flipped a switch against Sweden and it carried over in this game.

 

[WesMcCauley]

lol mcdonagh with a little bear hug on Zuccarello right before the time ran out.

 

[Sempiternal]

Team USA sucks.

 

[Shockmaster]

Hack team with a hack coach.

 

[McDrai]

The US did get 35 shots though
It's not like they were outplayed or anything. It was just one of those games where nothing goes your way

 

[Latgale_fan]

To be honest though, even if nobody from my country is on the roster I feel kinda proud about this win of team Europe even if it's a creation for marketing purposes. I probably wouldn't root for it vs Swedes, Finns or Czechs, but vs North American teams- sure!

 

[rynryn]

not awesome.

 

[These Are The Days]

That Torts press conference is gonna be gold.

We played like ****! Next question!

A ya ja-*sputter* get the hell out of here with that crap! Next question

We didn't get any traffic in front. He played a hell of a game but that's still no excuse. You gotta create rebound chances and cash in.

Our special teams sucked!! Next question!!

 

[larmex99]

This American team is unwatchable.

Because he may need the goal spread later. Good move.

 

[voxel]

Is Draisaitl injured? Only saw him play one shift in the early third and that's it.

 

[flaneur]

team underdog with the win!

 

[Murky]

That might be true, but there's still a significant gap between where the team is performing right now and what it's capable of.

Exactly. There is easily enough talent in there to perform. Much more than Team Europe or Finland for example. Yet, they did not. A little more talent is not guaranteed to make the difference.

 

[Dr. Ogrodnick]

Well deserved win by Team Europe. Many wrote them off after their performance against North America, but they flipped a switch against Sweden and it carried over in this game.

It helped that the US rolled over an embarassed themselves.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

True enough. The sooner they get the current minds that are running the show away from USA Hockey the better. We have way too much skill coming up to let it go to waste at the hands of these abject morons. I'm just glad this isn't happening at the Olympics.

Yup.


It's like they still don't understand that the team makeup should be different than one you'd build for the grind of a Stanley Cup playoffs.

 

[HydroF]

Ya USA sucked in that one

 

[CorgisPer60]

The US did get 35 shots though
It's not like they were outplayed or anything. It was just one of those games where nothing goes your way

35 shots, sure, but how many were high quality scoring chances? I watched the last period and a half, and outside of a few high quality ones during a PP, they were mostly shooting through defenders or from the outside.

 

[BrokenFace]

The problem with team US is not their defense, it's because their forward group is overrated and not as talented as many poeple say so. As far as pure talent, it's pretty much just Kane, the rest are more like grinding kind of forwards. Pavelski, Oshi, Kesler etc..this guys are more suited for NHL playoff grinding games than skilful tournament like this.

Not sure these guys are the best examples of pure grinders, especially Pavelski.

 

[PennDanzig]

Halak dialed in. But shout out to Torts having Dubinsky/Abdelkader out there with less than 2mins on the clock. lmao.

 

[rynryn]

next time lets get a team of plucky amateurs.

 

[These Are The Days]

How does being shutout feel, Tortorella? How's your team of grinders and mid-pairing D working for you? Suck it, you blowhard.

If he could make a whole offense with JVR, Backes, Dubinsky and Kesler clones he would.

 

[Fenway]

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