4 Nations Tournament

[MisterDobz]

We’ll call it a draw….

 

[Unhinged Finn]

Playing Canada with 6 mid defenseman is not a recipe for success, who knew?

Yeah, color me shocked. Matinpalo has bigger number on his jersey than he has games played in NHL. All things considered they have played ok in this tournament. We beat Sweden so I'm good.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Well at least Aho and MR gets some rest for balance of the week.

Disappointed in Aho’s Tournament play though

 

[Lempo]

Lol Haloo Helsinki

 

[hblueridgegal]

White Lotus promo best part of the game!

 

[Lempo]

Ok, comeback time.

Lol hard rock hallelujah

 

[baconandbread]

Finland making a game out of it...maybe they should have just played all forwards all along

 

[DaveG]

edit: well, it was fun while it lasted

 

[baconandbread]

Side note: Maybe Granlund want to come to Caroline?

 

[User13452]

Just glad Aho and Rantanen made it out with no injuries.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Thursday night is going to be great. How many times has Canada come in as the underdog in an international hockey tournament?

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Finns 3-0 with Saros in net

 

[Lempo]

Just glad Aho and Rantanen made it out with no injuries.

... where it shows.

Side note: Maybe Granlund want to come to Caroline?

He's an international games specialist, we won't be playing many of those so he'd turn back into a pumpkin.

 

[AD Skinner]

So the game Thursday is Canada and USA no matter what happens in the late game tonight- is that correct?

 

[tarheelhockey]

As fun as the international psychodrama spilling over into hockey is, can somebody explain why there is this big, lengthy international hockey tournament literally the year before this process is repeated in the Olympics? Is there some connection to it, like the seeding of teams? Or did everyone just decide there needed to be additional opportunities to injure star players shortly before the playoffs begin?

I don’t have a source for this, but a strong hunch that about a year ago the NHL began to come to terms to join the 2026 and 2030 Olympics, and also to be able to re-start the World Cup in 2028 and 2032. That gave them a year to get out in front of the Olympics by putting the NHL brand on the first international tournament in a generation. Of course the circumstances make it a little weird, but they were gonna get that money grab regardless of timeline and geopolitics.

So the game Thursday is Canada and USA no matter what happens in the late game tonight- is that correct?

Correct.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Thursday night is going to be great. How many times has Canada come in as the underdog in an international hockey tournament?

I don’t buy them as the underdog. They have Makar back, that’s not an insignificant addition to their lineup.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

I think the plan will be a 4 year rotation:

Winter olympics
Asg
World Cup (nhl sponsored tournament)
Asg

Maybe they go 4 nations in between instead, but i think this is their current plan. Every other year for best on best international seems frequent enough. Same with all star games.

I’d prefer less frequent best on best international play— maybe I’m in the minority. This is a blast but 1) I think that that will lessen with more frequency; 2) I don’t want players I root for hitting each other this hard in non-regular season/post season games; and 3) all ASG suck to most adults, so that doesn’t bother me.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I don’t buy them as the underdog. They have Makar back, that’s not an insignificant addition to their lineup.

I think they’ll be treated as the underdog simply because they lost the last game between the two and it makes a better story should they win.

 

[WreckingCrew]

I think they’ll be treated as the underdog simply because they lost the last game between the two and it makes a better story should they win.

Hard to consider them the underdog even if they lost when they're still supposed to be the powerhouse, playing with the home crowd, and get the standard officiating bias that comes with all that

 

[chaz4hockey]

TNT pre game: Tony Amato highly complementary about Slavin’s play. Knew he was good but didn’t realize how good.

 

[Tryamw]

So how'd the Swedish Anthem singer do I got no basis how to tell.

 

[Tryamw]

Kreider thinking he's playing us

 

[Tryamw]

Larkin post

 

[chaz4hockey]

TNT PQ not great tonight. But, for some reason that’s what happens for games broadcasted out of Boston.

 

[Tryamw]

TNT PQ not great tonight. But, for some reason that’s what happens for games broadcasted out of Boston.

Now that you mentioned it I can't unsee it