PGT: WJC Gold Medal Game | Finland Win Gold Over USA 3-2 | Part II

[hangman005]

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PGT: - WJC Gold Medal Game | Finland Win Gold Over USA 3-2

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[Dominance]

Poehling voted as tournament MVP (by the media). That’s a yikes. Nice goals to lead fruitless comeback and..? Definitely not spectacular in the medal round. I’d even take Chmelevski just among American forwards over him.

Edit: formal tournament all-star list.

G - Luukonen (meh, I guess)
D - Romanov (for sure, Montreal found a gem)
D - Brannstrom (outstanding both ways)
F - Denisenko (had to be one of the Russians, fair choice)
F - Kurashev (very well earned)
F - Poehling (I guess silver medalists have to have some representation)

 

[Legend123]

Poehling voted as tournament MVP (by the media). That’s a yikes. Nice goals to lead fruitless comeback and..? Completely unspectacular, even unimpressive in the medal round. I’d even take Chmelevski just among American forwards over him.

Poehling was great in the gold medal game. Lots of shots and superb scoring chances created by himself. Chelevski should have scored on that slick feed. An empty net miss cost them heavily.

 

[Machinehead]

 

[Saekk]

Kinda lost hope after the 2-2 goal, but thank god the boys came through!

Great game, USA was really good.

 

[Dominance]

Poehling was great in the gold medal game. Lots of shots and superb scoring chances created by himself. Chelevski should have scored on that slick feed. An empty net miss cost them heavily.

Take off the Habs glasses and he was fine but definitely not great.

Don’t blame you though. If he was a Leafs or Pens prospect I’d probably think similarly.

 

[End on a Hinote]

If your best junior players routinely lose to the best junior players of other nations, how do you expect that to translate into the future when the current wave of top Canadian players retire? USA and Finland are both on their way to being better hockey countries. That's just a fact.

Routinely? We won last year.

 

[Legend123]

Take off the Habs glasses and he was fine but definitely not great.

Don’t blame you though. If he was a Leafs or Pens prospect I’d probably think similarly.

I mean he was very good in the first two periods. Then had a bad third period. Overall, he was very strong throughout the tourney.

 

[Jussi]

Toni Utunen, gold at U-18 WJC last year, U-20 WJC now. World Championship gold in the future?

 

[Genu]

Poehling voted as tournament MVP (by the media). That’s a yikes. Nice goals to lead fruitless comeback and..? Definitely not spectacular in the medal round. I’d even take Chmelevski just among American forwards over him.

Edit: formal tournament all-star list.

G - Luukonen (meh, I guess)
D - Romanov (for sure, Montreal found a gem)
D - Brannstrom (outstanding both ways)
F - Denisenko (had to be one of the Russians, fair choice)
F - Kurashev (very well earned)
F - Poehling (I guess silver medalists have to have some representation)

I think Luukkonen was the true MVP of the tourney, best player on finnish team. Truly incredible tournament from him, especially after his shaky performance last year.

 

[Canadian Finn]

 

[Fonzieleaf]

Congrats to Team Finland. Think about it, these guys were 48 seconds away from being kicked out of the tournament against Canada. And now, they came through after that and ended up winning the whole tournament. What a spectacular performance from them, that’s what happens when you keep working hard and keep believing.

Good stuff guys, you deserve it.

 

[Stubu]

Might be a dumb question but what is suomi or what does it stand for?

Finnish and Estonian (and distant cousin Hungarian, and the real oddball Basque) are AFAIK the only non Indo-European languages in Europe, so it's something resembling "Finland" in pretty much every other lingo. Same way with other (original, non loan) words, hard to guess what Finns are saying

 

[Jussi]

I think Luukkonen was the true MVP of the tourney, best player on finnish team. Truly incredible tournament from him, especially after his shaky performance last year.

Luukkonen had a pretty sweet revenge for that first meeting.

 

[Saekk]

I think Luukkonen was the true MVP of the tourney, best player on finnish team. Truly incredible tournament from him, especially after his shaky performance last year.

He was very shaky against USA in group stage, but otherwise he was the best player of the team every other game.

 

[crowi]

I mean he was very good in the first two periods. Then had a bad third period. Overall, he was very strong throughout the tourney.

I'd say Poehling was not a player I noticed on the ice for the entire tournament. As he is mtl prospect you probably did - however he did nothing noteworthy.

 

[crowi]

He was very shaky against USA in group stage, but otherwise he was the best player of the team every other game.

Sabres need to get him to AHL quick

 

[BL92]

2014, 2016; 2019!!!!

There's no stopping us!!!

 

[Kotkaniemi15]

I'd say Poehling was not a player I noticed on the ice for the entire tournament. As he is mtl prospect you probably did - however he did nothing noteworthy.

You didn’t notice his hatty against Sweden to get the Americans in to OT?

 

[Merya]

Thank You Boys!

I'm crying from happiness.
Now finally sleep nini

 

[Machinehead]

2014, 2016; 2019!!!!

There's no stopping us!!!

You stole our meme, not cool

 

[mattcookefan]

Did they change the rule to remove the shootout in gold medal game? If not, id rather usa lost like this than in a shootout

 

[stonec]

Frankly who cares about gold in this tourney? A year from now most of these kids will be be playing far more important hockey and will have forgotten about this game.

Who cares about your post? In two minutes it will be forgotten in the forum archive. Who cares about "more important hockey"? In the end we will all be dead and our life is only a big cosmic joke in the grand scale of time and universe.

 

[Saekk]

Did they change the rule to remove the shootout in gold medal game? If not, id rather usa lost like this than in a shootout

Iirc it's 20 minutes 4vs and then a shootout, but i'm not totally sure.

 

[crowi]

You didn’t notice his hatty against Sweden to get the Americans in to OT?

No, he is very lowkey I guess then!