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

[Sky04]

While watching the game, the Canadian broadcast they showed Matthews crying. My buddy looks at me at just says "Why is Matthews crying? Shouldn't he be used to this by now?". I spit out my beer.

I mean I guess it's technically round 1 of eliminations right?

 

[FinnLightning26]

Coop just keeps piling on the championships whatever the level.

 

[Stammertime91]

Coop just keeps piling on the championships whatever the level.

@Soul Assumption thoughts?

 

[Rschmitz]

Being real this was entertaining but the emotional stakes just weren’t there for me with so many awkward situations. Just felt weird cheering for or against some guys, especially with the geopolitical backdrop, happy for our guys from Canada but I am ready to get back to the real hockey.

 

[EmptyNetAssassin]

Comrade and future world leader Trudeau must be very proud of his Canadians needing ot to take down the best us players in the 4th/5th most popular sport. To put this in perspective this would be like the best Canadian American football players beating the best American football players and then losing to them in OT. Never going to happen, but Canada's dominance and skill is closing on their main sport hockey. Hockey is still my favorite sport and enjoy real American football too. Great game .

 

[OffBy1]

Being real this was entertaining but the emotional stakes just weren’t there for me with so many awkward situations. Just felt weird cheering for or against some guys, especially with the geopolitical backdrop, happy for our guys from Canada but I am ready to get back to the real hockey.

For the first time in a tournament like this I found myself rooting for players rather than teams. Finland was the one country I rooted for the most because they were such an underdog. I hoped Lightning players would score anytime they were on the ice, and for players around the league I like - which does not include the Tkachuk brothers as I find them both (their personalities, not their games) hard to pull for.

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

@Soul Assumption thoughts?

Mine are short and sweet. Canada won through and through and Adam Fox is dog shit. I want him nowhere near the Olympic team next year. Let's see if Luke Hughes is a little more ready by then.

 

[Felonious Python]

Comrade and future world leader Trudeau must be very proud of his Canadians needing ot to take down the best us players in the 4th/5th most popular sport. To put this in perspective this would be like the best Canadian American football players beating the best American football players and then losing to them in OT. Never going to happen, but Canada's dominance and skill is closing on their main sport hockey. Hockey is still my favorite sport and enjoy real American football too. Great game .

The complaint with grassroots Canadian hockey is that they're slow to modernize, and losing pace with the competition.

This piece is about the fall off for Canadian goalies, but applies across the board. Canada has been able to get by on just sheer tonnage of players.

Canada’s ‘mind-boggling’ goalie crisis has been a decades-long descent

A return to the dominance Canada once enjoyed seems unlikely, but the search is on for the right path to train Canada's future goalies.

www.nytimes.com

 

[EmptyNetAssassin]

The complaint with grassroots Canadian hockey is that they're slow to modernize, and losing pace with the competition.

This piece is about the fall off for Canadian goalies, but applies across the board. Canada has been able to get by on just sheer tonnage of players.

Canada’s ‘mind-boggling’ goalie crisis has been a decades-long descent

A return to the dominance Canada once enjoyed seems unlikely, but the search is on for the right path to train Canada's future goalies.

www.nytimes.com

I coaCh against lots of former lighting players who coach their kids. They all prefer the us to Canada. I play hockey with alot of over 35 Canadians that moved down here and have to get their acl surgeries here because have to wait too long in Canada. Most of them will never move back to Canada full time and enjoy the perks of living in a free state. Always fun rivalry but Canada isn't dominant at hockey like they used to be. Still produce tons of great players though. Glad to see point , coop , jbb, and Hagel win. Hate to see USA lose but Canada will never be able to compete in our top sport against us football. I'd pay money to watch that blood bath.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[Felonious Python]

How are there two Hagels?

 

[Sky04]

I coaCh against lots of former lighting players who coach their kids. They all prefer the us to Canada. I play hockey with alot of over 35 Canadians that moved down here and have to get their acl surgeries here because have to wait too long in Canada. Most of them will never move back to Canada full time and enjoy the perks of living in a free state. Always fun rivalry but Canada isn't dominant at hockey like they used to be. Still produce tons of great players though. Glad to see point , coop , jbb, and Hagel win. Hate to see USA lose but Canada will never be able to compete in our top sport against us football. I'd pay money to watch that blood bath.

Imagine being from a country that has 10X the population as another one and still losing to them at any sport. Kinda sad Canada dominates the US at anything really.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

I coaCh against lots of former lighting players who coach their kids. They all prefer the us to Canada. I play hockey with alot of over 35 Canadians that moved down here and have to get their acl surgeries here because have to wait too long in Canada. Most of them will never move back to Canada full time and enjoy the perks of living in a free state. Always fun rivalry but Canada isn't dominant at hockey like they used to be. Still produce tons of great players though. Glad to see point , coop , jbb, and Hagel win. Hate to see USA lose but Canada will never be able to compete in our top sport against us football. I'd pay money to watch that blood bath.

This is true if you got money and are a rich Canadian. All the rich ass Canadians I worked with and know, they all are dual citizens now and the majority spend more time in the States. The US is the land of tax evasion and tax breaks, where having money will get you ahead of the line in almost all facets. Canada, while that kind of still holds true, its not to the extent of the States. If I was rich, or even close to upper-middle class (by Vancouver standards), no f***ing way I am staying in Vancouver or Canada. I am f***ing off to Texas or Florida.

 

[Rschmitz]

Imagine being from a country that has 10X the population as another one and still losing to them at any sport. Kinda sad Canada dominates the US at anything really.

True, that's why India dominates at the winter Olympics

 

[JoVel]

I look at it this way. 50 states against 1 and you still lost.

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

This is true if you got money and are a rich Canadian. All the rich ass Canadians I worked with and know, they all are dual citizens now and the majority spend more time in the States. The US is the land of tax evasion and tax breaks, where having money will get you ahead of the line in almost all facets. Canada, while that kind of still holds true, its not to the extent of the States. If I was rich, or even close to upper-middle class (by Vancouver standards), no f***ing way I am staying in Vancouver or Canada. I am f***ing off to Texas or Florida.

Texas is great dude. Go there. Florida is turning into California East. It's got nothing to do with liberal or conservative politics as much as both states are a case study of what happens with decades of uninterrupted one party rule and no balance

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Texas is great dude. Go there. Florida is turning into California East. It's got nothing to do with liberal or conservative politics as much as both states are a case study of what happens with decades of uninterrupted one party rule and no balance

I work 100% remote anyway, so I can go anywhere really. Wife is a Project Manager and has her PMP. So moving and work isn't too much of an issue honestly. Ideally, I want to move to Nice or Sevilla and die on a beach somewhere.

 

[Stormbreaker]

Texas ****ing sucks

 

[Stammertime91]

Texas ****ing sucks

Having lived here for several years, it's overrated. It's a toss up between here and back home in Tampa for me.

 

[Stammertime91]

So.... when is the next GDT?

 

[Rschmitz]

I look at it this way. 50 states against 1 and you still lost.

Would Canadians be down with the annex and take over your country thing if we put a big ass maple leaf on the flag?

or

 

[DMXATF23]

Imagine being from a country that has 10X the population as another one and still losing to them at any sport. Kinda sad Canada dominates the US at anything really.

compare the amount of players and then reassess. Population size doesn't matter if you've got more participants.

 

[JoVel]

Would Canadians be down with the annex and take over your country thing if we put a big ass maple leaf on the flag?

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You will need to ask the regular Canadians, I was only a Canadian for this game.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

12. Jake Guentzel, United States

Flying under the radar amid the chatter about the Tkachuk brothers, the blue-line injury chaos and Hellebuyck’s heroics, Guentzel continued his run as one of the game’s most underrated offensive difference-makers, quietly chipping in with some key contributions that helped the Americans find their way to the final. After bagging a goal and an assist during the opening rout of the Finns, Guentzel’s finest performance came in the Americans’ statement win against Canada, the 30-year-old coming up with two goals in the 3-1 win. He finished as the Americans’ most-used forward, and used those minutes to tie for the second-most goals and fourth-most points in the tourney.

 

[StammerHammer]

Jake was everywhere. He was making it happen for the USA. He’s going to be fun to watch in the playoffs.