GDT: 2018 WJC • Game 25 • QF4: USA (4) - RUS (2) F

[Tasty Biscuits]

RUS didn't consider that pulling the goalie essentially gave them a powerplay

 

[Fantomas]

Goodbye Bragin. Forever.

 

[SanDogBrewin]

Bye bye Russia!

 

[KrejciMVP]

and thats it for Russia

 

[SabresSharks]

Not a great game, but good enough.

Get well, Brown.

 

[Thebesthockey]

sweden gonna eat them up

 

[Machinehead]

Love this program!

 

[Redder Winger]

Was rooting for Russia. Team USA is smarmy.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

andrei svechnikov doesn't look impressive

on the bench you mean?
He has been used very sparingly... its a Bragin thing

 

[Tobias Kahun]

on the bench you mean?
He has been used very sparingly... its a Bragin thing

Is it an age thing? or plays in NA? or both?

 

[Zine]

Still, you can take less skilled players and still put them in a system that uses them right. The power play looks awful and they can’t rush the puck properly and I think that has more to do with the coach than anything.

Yep. It's both. He have an old-school cement-headed conservative coach, coupled with an extremely sub-par generation (1998).

Poor mixture for success.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

sweden gonna eat them up

Just like Canada, right?

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Is it an age thing? or plays in NA? or both?

Age

 

[Bounces R Way]

Sweden - USA might be the best game of the tournament.

 

[Xokkeu]

This was such a bad Russia team

 

[Thebesthockey]

sweden 5 USA 2

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Looking forward to SWE vs USA ... should be a good game. Both teams have mobile D... and good forwards

 

[jj cale]

This was such a bad Russia team

worst team I've seen them have here in a long time, they blow.

 

[Yarborough]

Yep. It's both. He have an old-school cement-headed conservative coach, coupled with an extremely sub-par generation (1998).

Poor mixture for success.

Fair enough, if Russia had a better coach they probably would’ve won today with all the PP time

 

[Darkauron]

Russia had some talent. But the coaches and their system lost them the tournament I think.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Fair enough, if Russia had a better coach they probably would’ve won today with all the PP time

The PP cost them that's for sure... a good PP would have changed this game

 

[satbank]

Haven't been impress by US but they find ways to win.

 

[Chainshot]

Ferraro's point about what has happened to the Russian skill game in recent years? Is this just Bragin trying to be... something? A hardcase?

 

[MaxV]

Better team won. Congrats.

 

[Yarborough]

The PP cost them that's for sure... a good PP would have changed this game

Yep, it would of at least made the game more intresting