WC: May 21 Bronze Medal GDT - Canada vs. Finland

[Know Your Enemy]

Damnit Nummelin, come to the NHL allready!!!

 

[Macman]

Congratulations Finland. Well deserved.

I gotta say how proud I am of Canada. They didn't have it today but they're a young team and they gave the champs all they could handle yesterday. It just reinforces how good that 2005 world junior team really was.

 

[RayLeeCharles]

Beregon in an interview said, Finland was diving all over the ice and thats a reason why Canada lost. I havent seen the game yet but are those comments true or just Beregon being a poor loser?

 

[Canuck21t]

Beregon in an interview said, Finland was diving all over the ice and thats a reason why Canada lost. I havent seen the game yet but are those comments true or just Beregon being a poor loser?

Like always, we make excuses. I'm pretty sure the Finns dove but so do we, it's not the exclusivity of the Czechs anymore . I'm surprise it's coming from Bergeron.

 

[Pepper]

Beregon in an interview said, Finland was diving all over the ice and thats a reason why Canada lost. I havent seen the game yet but are those comments true or just Beregon being a poor loser?

Jarkko Ruutu dived 2 times from what I saw, other than that Bergeron is just being a poor loser.

Then again, show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. You know how it works...

 

[Le Golie]

Beregon in an interview said, Finland was diving all over the ice and thats a reason why Canada lost. I havent seen the game yet but are those comments true or just Beregon being a poor loser?

I heard him say that it was hard to play and get into a game when players are diving and the refs are buying it. I didn't hear him directly blame the loss on it. There were some questionable calls, but the reffing was not a deciding factor in the outcome. The Finns were better by a lot. The penalties definitely affected the ice time and productivity of the top line though, which is what he was reffering to I am sure.

 

[ThinMcWhistle]

Beregon in an interview said, Finland was diving all over the ice and thats a reason why Canada lost. I havent seen the game yet but are those comments true or just Beregon being a poor loser?

Poor loser.

Kukkonen may have taken a slight dive, but that was about it.

 

[svea]

I saw many dives from both sides. It's kinda hard to come up with excuses when you've outshot your opponent 37-33 and lost 0-5 anyway, especially when you have the two top scorers on your team.

 

[Macman]

Beregon in an interview said, Finland was diving all over the ice and thats a reason why Canada lost.

You're half right. He did accuse the Finns of diving but he also said "but that's not why we lost."

 

[Shack]

NHL.com was also crying about ref.
http://www.nhl.com/news/2006/05/273010.html

"A lot of the flow was taken from the scorers with all the penalties," said Shanahan."

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Jonak called a pair of questionable penalties on Sidney Crosby and Micki Dupont to give the Finns a 5-on-3 advantage and Olli Jokinen gave his team a 2-0 lead by tipping a shot by Auld at 5:20."

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The game started getting away from Canada midway through the game as Jonak kept making marginal calls. Moments after Dan Hamhuis stepped out of the penalty box, Brad Stuart took his place."

I think this was the backbraker:

"Hahl ended up scoring it for Finland after Canadian defencemen Brent Seabrook coughed the puck up to him right in front of Auld to make it 3-0 late in the second period."

 

[svea]

In that game Finland took more penalties than Canada, although Tuomo had a 2+10. During the whole tournament Canada amassed 134 minutes in the box, while Finland had 226 minutes.