If Finland would have won, i wouldn't be here, i would be out celebrating the world championship. Why are you still here chirping to me? Don't you have a party to attend to? I don't mean to downgrade your far superior hockey mind but usually we celebrate championships. But i lost, Finland lost and Rimpinen lost but still remains the best goalie in this tournament.
Finn posters are the worst. I am not sure if any American fan went into their team thread bragging about any of our players lol. If any did point them out and I will shame them. This is why there are GDTs...they can take this nonsense there, we don't give a f*** about any player from Finland in our damn thread.
Overall the weakest but I think people really underrated going into the tournament how incredible the top of this US lineup is. Obviously it was helped by Canada making some baffling roster decisions but you could make a strong argument that for a starting 6, ASP is the only player that's getting anywhere close to breaking into
Yeah you can see him processing the game a lot better than the dude who just goes "the players need to figure it out"
The only time I go into another countries "roster talk" is after that nation has eliminated the US. And it's to say congrats or ask a question about a player in said tournament.
No. In all fairness towards SantosHelper, I can't find anything remarkably controversial with his statements regarding the goalies. And if you are going to generalize all fans by someone praising one individual (which shouldn't be considered that destructive of a comment or post)? I mean, it doesn't hurt anyone? Or does it hurt you? Then you could question yourself while at it, perhaps a bit sensitive or entitled?
Can't like this post enough.
The most noticeable change for me was the American d-men playing a much tighter gap on Finns entering the zone. That alone made a huge difference. They gave them nothing to work with offensively.
I think a large part of it was he switched up the pairings. He started putting Buium with Hutson, and those two absolutely smothered the Finns. When they were on the ice (and they were almost being double-shifted), USA must’ve had the puck 70% of the time. He also found something with Minnetian. Minnetian got a lot better as the tournament went on. He was expected to be a main defenseman for the team coming into the tournament and started very slow and fell down the lineup. He found it at just the right time, and it gave the team another reliable pairing, given Fortescue was always a reliable 3 and we just needed a 4 to have enough on the backend to make it work.
Buium + Hutson was strictly to juice the offense though. Carle surely wasn't thinking of them as a shutdown pairing, even if he expected that as a useful byproduct.
Yeah, I agree. I just think what it turned into was basically a PP because it seemed like he’d often try to match them with the Hagens line, and then you have 5 players who can truly hold onto the puck for ages, pass to each other, stick handle out of obvious trouble, and it tired the Finns out. They couldn’t seem to get the puck with those players on the ice, and the next shift would basically start with the US having puck possession after the Finns clear the puck out of the zone and looking to get a change as opposed to forecheck. The best defense can sometimes be a good offense. Don’t have to defend if you always have the puck.
Lame. My question deserved a more serious and better answer. Especially after your first takes. Says it all reallyTldr
Kakko >>>>>> J Hughes, that is the American Dream
