HF Habs: 4 Nations Face-Off: Canada beats Finland 5-3; advances to Finals vs USA

[ReimanSum1908]

Some Habs level defense in those final minutes.

Precisely why Monty should be in there: he's used to incompetent players making boneheaded turnovers and giving up the most possible high danger scoring chances.

 

[Rapala]

Holy Crap what a play by Crosby. I talked about unforced errors earlier I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about forced errors. That was just Awesome.

 

[Riddick412]

No doubt trash bin will start next game if it's finals. If they have to play Sweden first then they should start Hill or Monty.

 

[Redux91]

Lol I go outside to shovel and we almost BLEW IT?

 

[donghabs98]

Holy Crap what a play by Crosby. I talked about unforced errors earlier I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about forced errors. That was just Awesome.

I'm biased as I never watched the Great One but I truly think Crosby is the better all around player. He doesn't so many plays that aren't captured by the score sheet. He's IQ is so high and in terms of the international stage, will be known as Canada's greatest player.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Made myself a coffee thinking the game was over and they almost tied lol.

Thank god Makar seems fine for Thursday's game.

 

[salbutera]

Not really. They coasted. It happens. Bad player assignment and MacK almost cost it with a selfish play.

It was a two-team tourney. Like the women.

I miss the Russians in there.

Hence 4-Nations vs World Cup

 

[Gravity]

ABB strategy for the finals. Anybody but Binnington.

 

[Forum93]

No doubt trash bin will start next game if it's finals. If they have to play Sweden first then they should start Hill or Monty.

What am I missing? Aren't we playing USA Thursday?

 

[habdynasty]

Big win.

 

[Nedved]

I just don't understand why we have no scoring depth. It sucks. We have a bunch of players that benefit from playing with superstars on the team, rather than pick a team's superstar players.

Honestly, Thompson should be starting in net and not just on the team. I will cheer for Canada on Thursday but there's like 4-5 guys that I feel should have a spot on this team.

 

[sandviper]

What am I missing? Aren't we playing USA Thursday?

Yes, we clinched our spot since we won in regulation.

 

[donghabs98]

I just don't understand why we have no scoring depth. It sucks. We have a bunch of players that benefit from playing with superstars on the team, rather than pick team's superstar players.

Honestly, Thompson should be starting in net and not just on the team. I will cheer for Canada on Thursday but there's like 4-5 guys that I feel should have a spot on this team.

I think the depth guys should be the ones most motivated to go on Thursday as it's their spots on the Olympic team that are definitely not solidified, especially after this tournament.

 

[LaP]

Binnington sucks can't believe we'll ice him for the final.

 

[Forum93]

A little worrisome how we easily gave up goals at the end. Sure we had a comfortable lead and took the foot off the gas but solid teams won't let that happen, reminded me of some of our games during reg. season with Monty or Primeau in net.

 

[LaP]

It's crazy that 25% of the forwards group of this team is made of TB players while TB is just sitting 12th in the standing despite having Kucherov, Hedman and Vasi in the lineup.

 

[Guy Larose]

It's crazy that 25% of the forwards group of this team is made of TB players while TB is just sitting 12th in the standing despite having Kucherov, Hedman and Vasi in the lineup.

That's the difference from team USA vs Canada. Canada picked players from the Blues and Lightning by the boatload while the other team managed it by best players available without bias to team management.

 

[HuGo Sham]

Yeah I'd vote for Bernie for Canada's PM, if only.

me too!

 

[ahmedou]

Body check! And then a goal in a empty net!

Not human!

 

[LaP]

A little worrisome how we easily gave up goals at the end. Sure we had a comfortable lead and took the foot off the gas but solid teams won't let that happen, reminded me of some of our games during reg. season with Monty or Primeau in net.

3 goals in 5 minutes on 6 shots.

So far Binnington gave 8 goals on 74 shots.

 

[habdynasty]

Makar should play 30 min Thursday. Best dman on the planet

 

[Nedved]

It's crazy that 25% of the forwards group of this team is made of TB players while TB is just sitting 12th in the standing despite having Kucherov, Hedman and Vasi in the lineup.

Point is good enough to be on this team, but even that is debatable. The other two are brutal because they are an anchor for the bottom six, but then you have some old timers on the ice too with Marchand and Stone, and Crosby has lost some speed too, but it's a lot of slow and no energy team.

 

[Leto]

Makar should play 30 min Thursday. Best dman on the planet

30 min? Brother I'd play him 40 mins. Pump him full of juice and throw the kitchen sink of medicine.

 

[Forum93]

3 goals in 5 minutes on 6 shots.

Yea that sucked, would have been great for the team's psyche to finish strongly.

 

[dinodebino]

I just don't understand why we have no scoring depth. It sucks. We have a bunch of players that benefit from playing with superstars on the team, rather than pick a team's superstar players.

Honestly, Thompson should be starting in net and not just on the team. I will cheer for Canada on Thursday but there's like 4-5 guys that I feel should have a spot on this team.

Go back to 2010 and 2014: we didn’t score a ton of goals, even with a lot of scoring talent. It’s the way it is in international hockey at that level.

Game should have finished 4-0 or 4-1 (with a better goalie),which is pretty decent.