WJC: GDT: Canada – Slovakia (6:30 p.m. ET)

[57special]

Congrats to an excellent SVK team. Goalie played his heart out, as did many other of the players. Insane save by Milic on Petrovsky to save the game for CAN.

 

[JackSlater]

I think I'll hear Clarke tapping his stick in my sleep tonight. Bedard ignoring it the final time will always be funny though.

 

[Jauffre]

SO walks in the door.

Me: "Check out this OT, WJ is more exciting than NHL. This kid Bedard is insane, breaking records, gonna go 1st overall"

Scores that goal literally seconds later.

Her: "I can see why he's going 1st"

She was legit impressed lol

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

And you could have passed over my comment and you chose not to.

Funny how that works.

If your going to post garbage expect to be corrected.

 

[NyQuil]

If your going to post garbage expect to be corrected.

And tell us again why Vancouver shouldn’t get Bedard?

 

[SOLR]

16 guys from the Slovak team can return next year. Canada should be ready for revenge.

yeah but their core is gone and Canada has a 2nd core coming. Yager, Benson, Cristall, Beck, Savoie, Geekie etc.

Pretty sure Slovakia is less competitive next year, even if Dvorsky and Strbak do well.

 

[BigBadBoar]

It’s good to see the Czechs and Slovaks playing at the top level again.

Goes to show how playing in men’s leagues can help develop young players.

Majority of Czech and Slovak players in this tournament are playing junior leagues in the North America. Both Czechia and Slovakia have crappy junior leagues, and elite men's leagues are dominated by veteran players. There is a little room for youngsters to play decent minutes and show up. So, many of them are leaving for the North America, some also for Finland or Sweden. Which is not always bad, but I wouldn't say the system in either country is working well. There are good development programs for, say, U16 players, but players between 16-20 years of age kind of have to make in on their own.

 

[NyQuil]

Bedard giving the Slovakian goalie props.

He went for the deke because he was stopping all the shots.

 

[trilobyte]

Majority of Czech and Slovak players in this tournament are playing junior leagues in the North America. Both Czechia and Slovakia have crappy junior leagues, and elite men's leagues are dominated by veteran players. There is a little room for youngsters to play decent minutes and show up. So, many of them are leaving for the North America, some also for Finland or Sweden. Which is not always bad, but I wouldn't say the system in either country is working well. There are good development programs for, say, U16 players, but players between 16-20 years of age kind of have to make in on their own.

Chechia (obviously under the name 'Czech Republic' formerly) seems to have been doing something very good over the last decade in developing and getting some good players to their WJC teams. It's up and down of course, but am I wrong in thinking they have shown steady improvement?

 

[Nevins]

Canada played well but couldn't finish against a hot goalie. I doubt we beat the Americans with our defensive play, though. This team is basically the Oilers without a Draisaitl.

Tonight true

 

[kudla]

yeah but their core is gone and Canada has a 2nd core coming. Yager, Benson, Cristall, Beck, Savoie, Geekie etc.

Pretty sure Slovakia is less competitive next year, even if Dvorsky and Strbak do well.

Core is gone? What? The only one who will probably be gone is Nemec

 

[Silky Johnson]

What the idiot Bumblebrain did has nothing to do with the current management. They have had to rebuild the staff from next to nothing. They now have an actual staff that can train the prospects.

Yup. Name checks out.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Core is gone? What? The only one who will probably be gone is Nemec

Mesar has one more year I guess?

 

[SOLR]

Core is gone? What? The only one who will probably be gone is Nemec

Mesar, Nemec x 2, Funtek, Gayan

 

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaa]

"Hey, who's got Bedard?"

Every coach on every team he plays against.


Sorry, that sounded funnier in my head. I'm also pretty drunk. Good night, everyone.

 

[kudla]

Mesar, Nemec x 2, Funtek, Gayan

Mesar has a good chance to be there next year and Gajan is 2004 born too

 

[GreenLine]

That was a hell of a game. Can't ask for better entertainment than that.

Still concerned that team Canada can't do much at even strength without Bedard on the ice, but at least they're past the quarters.

 

[trilobyte]

Slovakia outplayed Canada 40 minutes of the game.

Bedard looked absolutely unstoppable.

They absolutely did not, good grief

 

[SOLR]

Mesar has a good chance to be there next year and Gajan is 2004 born too

Mesar won't be there, pretty sure. Habs are about to sell 5 players, he'll be in the NHL.

 

[NyQuil]

"Hey, who's got Bedard?"

Every coach on every team he plays against.


Sorry, that sounded funnier in my head. I'm also pretty drunk. Good night, everyone.

Reminds me of this:

 

[Foppberg]

Somewhere in multiple cities with their NHL clubs having shitty years, you have GMs telling the coach to bench all good players for the greater good.

 

[ORRFForever]

That was a hell of a game. Can't ask for better entertainment than that.

Still concerned that team Canada can't do much at even strength without Bedard on the ice, but at least they're past the quarters.

Agree. The rest of the team needs to do something. It can't just be Bedard and Stankoven busting their humps while everyone else is standing around watching.

 

[chaser17]

That was an all timer, still can't believe IIHF replace the shootouts with 3 on 3. Whats the difference? Brandt Clarke has looked terrible, can see why he wasn't even invited in the summer.

 

[hackeyman]

Wow what an incredible goal .. had to be Bedard too win it.

Goal of the year on January 2nd?

One of the best big game goals I've ever seen.

 

[KKWG11]

What a hockey game.