WJC: Greatest Collapse or Greatest Comeback

[Vladiator16*]

No. You was arguing that Canada didn't use their best team. I told that Team Russia could have been also better in paper.



Oh?

Kuznetsov going to shoulder surgery and coach told Tarasenko to go locker room because his ribs...

Not nitpicking, just a correction , he will need surgeries on both shoulders.

 

[Harrison]

Collapse because of tactical errors.

 

[Fortheloveofthegame]

Comeback. I watched all 3 games that they came from behind in the 3rd. Not sure why, but they seem to have an "extra gear" in 3rd period. If they played an entire game with that desperation, they would be INCREDIBLE!

 

[SirKillalot]

Collapse is easy, Comeback is hard. Therefore Comeback it is.

 

[Bert Marshall days]

Is this the biggest collapse in canadian hockey history?

Not just WJC but all of international play.

If not, name another that is worse.

 

[Frank Drebin]

I'm as big of goalie critic as anyone, but Visentin wasn't that bad. 2nd goal was weak, and the 5th as well but the 5th was a non issue.

Canada's 2nd goal wasnt the best either (great shot, but shouldn't have scored from that angle) and the Russian goalie was pulled so this cannot be blamed on a goaltending collapse.

Great comeback.

 

[tp71]

Comeback. Give credit where credit is due. The Russians simply played their guts out in that third.

 

[Danish Pastry]

three teams collapsing yeah...

comeback baby... incredible...

 

[PTmbp13]

i voted " both"

Thank you

/Darren

 

[MsMeow]

Since there is no option for "both", I didn't vote. If that had been an option, that would have been the one for me. The Canadians started to run around like chickens with their heads cut off and the Russians just kept on them.

 

[Paxton Fettel]

easy answer : the Russians had 2 amazing comebacks in the previous 2 games, and it's obvious that in the final they did the same thing = come back. there was no collapse whatsoever, the Canadian boys were just completely overrun by a team that wanted GOLD more than anything.

 

[DDIHH]

Both. Russian kids came out very strong in the 3rd, but the canadian kids looked totally lost after the 2nd goal.

 

[bullocks]

Collapse. You don't give up a 3-0 lead in a gold medal game. quite embarrasing to be honest.

 

[jimmycarter]

Bit of both.

 

[zorz]

Russia tried hard in the third, but I think it was more of collapse. If you are down by 3 against one of the best teams you can play against, you just cannot win in 20 minutes even if you do everything right. You need your opponent to do a lot things wrong to make something like that happen. Canada played really bad.

 

[SMoneyMonkey]

Let me as you think. Is the Canadian flag red and white or not blue and not black.

 

[maroon 6]

both but more of a collapse

 

[Daryl]

Unfortunately both.

 

[Plato]

Sorry to hijack the thread but can somebody shoot me a link of the boxscore of the game?
Can't find one.

 

[Second Breakfast]

Depends on what person from what country you ask haha

It was both but imo that was so bad a 3rd period by Canada I think the USA and Sweden could have potentially done the same as Russia.

 

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaa]

I say both.

You have to be able to hold a three goal lead at an elite level, but I don't want to take anything away from the comeback the Russians launched.

 

[Pyke*]

Collapse. By far. Russia is good, but Canada could have and should have won this game.

 

[End of Line]

Both

 

[BlackAces*]

Complete collapse, total implosion.

 

[Pangu]

Its obviously both. Hockey is inherently a zero-sum game: one team's success is another team's failure. The two are intractably linked.