Thanks for the laugh.
And the problems with Canada this year are obvious: defense can't move the puck, goalies can't stop a puck. This was evident both on paper from the beginning and in practice, at least as far as I could tell from the couple of games I watched. No amount of effort is gonna get this defensive group to make a decent outlet pass, and that handicaps the forwards.
This team was a clone of the 17-18 Oilers.
Whatever our problems were that does not take a thing away from how well the Swiss played today.
Sure, we put the pressure on them in the 3rd and had them on the ropes at times but they never stopped fighting like rabid dogs out there even in the face of that. They were still blocking shots like all get go, battling like crazy when there were puck scrambles in front of their net under pressure, still engaging our guys who had the puck with physical play.
In short....................they wanted it more and it showed for 60 minutes even when they did get the screws put to them.
It's called good f***in hockey.......................and they played it all game long. I respect that.
we didn't, if we had....................maybe we would be moving on, but we didn't and they did and they deserve to be playing sweden for gold tomorrow.
i don't sugarcoat things when it comes to games involving Team Canada just to put salve on my ego, I can't afford to, only the truth matters because when you can't confront the truth you can't correct anything and you can't improve......................and then you keep coming up short, that's the bottom line.