Joey24
Registered User
Robert Hagg gets beaten on a play that NHL'er Hampus Lindholm probably doesn't get beaten on, and that is the difference of this game.
The 2 best teams played for gold, so you could chop it down to that one play.
Canada with our plumber picks ie. Frederik Gauthier, Kerby Rychel, Adam Pelech ect...deserved not to medal, I hope this and the memory of Nagano will be a lesson for Hockey Canada to bring our best players each and everytime.
At the beginning of the tournament I was willing to give Sutter the benefit of the doubt unless we had trouble scoring and ultimately lost. Team Canada did not bring enough scorers, they didn't bring our best players, Cherry is right. How Domi was left off of this team is a mystery.
This tournament I will always remember this team as one of our weakest that we sent oversees to represent our country.
This is one thing that has pissed me off about the Canadian selection boards both pro and JR. They have an abundance of talent yet choose on numerous occasions to not always take the best advantage of having such a deep pool of talent.
I have always though take the best and forget about the rest, there is no point imo on selecting specialty guys in a tourney like the WJC or the Olympics, you take the best of the best if that means you have a guy who's top 3 playing bottom 6 roll then so be it. You don't need a shutdown line if you are rolling 4 lines consisting of 1st line players imo. Because for the most part our top end talents are responsible enough defensively to not really have to worry about it. And it's the other teams who should be worrying about shutting us down, not the other way around.