GDT: 4N Hub - 2025 4 Nations Face-Off

[DaBolts]

Thursday is going to be LIT.

 

[FinnLightning26]

Fans shitting on Cirelli and Cooper. I have a feeling I've seen this song and dance before.

Although to be fair, Cirelli doesn't belong on team Canada when you have a best on best tourney.

 

[bov]

I can understand the argument on Cirelli not being on Team Canada but he and Hagel also rendered the Tkachuk line useless the other day. Not much real heat coming his way until the end of today's game. The "Cooper is a moron, Cooper is too stupid" stuff...just wow. Can't wait to quote those if Canada wins. I'm not his biggest fan, but the guy is one of the better coaches in the league at this point and has 2 (or 3?) head coaches alongside him on the bench. Blaming the coaches for these tourneys is so dumb.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

These Canadian fans love their scapegoats apparently.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

These Canadian fans love their scapegoats apparently.

One of the many reasons though why Coop is a good guy to steer the ship. He can take those questions, those potential controversies and swat them away

 

[Felonious Python]

Chris Pronger posted a whole thread yesterday.

 

[Felonious Python]

Cooper has brought his mistakes from the Bolts to team Canada. Needs to free Hagel from Cirelli.

That's what we call 'failing up'.

 

[creg]

Loving Guentzel's game for USA, he looks like a man possessed. Cannot wait to see this guy in playoff mode for the bolts.

 

[JoVel]

This tournament and especially the USA-Canada game has exposed me to too many opinions from people who have never watched hockey before, specifically on Twitter, and I would like to take back everything I've ever said about wanting hockey to market itself better.

 

[Hint1k]

Coop is a good guy

Well, about that:

 

[Felonious Python]

This tournament and especially the USA-Canada game has exposed me to too many opinions from people who have never watched hockey before, specifically on Twitter, and I would like to take back everything I've ever said about wanting hockey to market itself better.

It's probably a benefit that the NHL has this time of the year to push hockey. Between the Super Bowl and March Madness. There's Daytona, but I don't think NASCAR has the cultural cache it did maybe 20 years ago.

Next year it'll be the Olympics, where hockey is competing with everything else the entire time.

 

[DaBolts]

I don't care who you are or who you root for. If you're not a Hagel fan after this interview, you don't love hockey. Freaking gamer.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Well, about that: View attachment 978851

Not sure what snipping my reply out of context (Coop navigating the Canadian media) has to do with this.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Point gonna score a big goal tonight, I can feel it

 

[Felonious Python]

I don't understand the Coop-Ted Lasso comparison. Coop was a coach in the AHL, USHL, NAHL, Tier III, 18U AAA, and USHS. That's the most hockey way of proving himself as a coach. He wasn't able to skip any lines because he was a good player.