GDT: 9/18/16 - North America Vs Finland - 8PM ET (II)

[authentic]

Absolute dominance. I can't wait for NA to play Canada.

 

[General Zodd]

Cue the Finnish comeback!!

 

[Nithoniniel]

Where's Laine?

He's an 18 year old kid on a completely dysfunctional and dominated team. Anything at all would be more than should be expected at this point from him.

 

[ForSpareParts*]

Matthews is impressive.

He makes everything happen for N.A.

 

[Sky04]

Larkins a little puke. Cross checking a guy into the net after a whistle? Really?

Agreed, stupid cross check on a guy doing his job.

 

[AvroArrow]

Umm... Shouldn't it be the other way around?

i screwed that up

 

[Daximus]

Careful, you are about to get attacked by Finns/Jets fans. No criticizing the golden boy.

Leave it up to leafs fan to call out both Jets players in this game... so typical.

 

[vendetta]

Finland gotta put the lines in a blender.. gotta split Aho and laine neither can make a play under this pressure.. nor can the d

 

[agent082]

Where's Laine?

Where is Barkov?

 

[stagger00]

I hope Finland has new line combinations in 3rd period.

 

[Leafs87]

Granlund should of shot that

 

[Aladyyn]

Lindell demoted to the 3rd pair? Thank god

 

[snipes]

Vancouver

2010 Vancouver Olympics 6-0....

Right, forgot about that one. It was like 6-0 after the 1st. I think it ended 6-1 didn't it?

 

[I am not exposed]

Finland is so, so, so unbelievably bad, I can't watch this anymore. Congratulations to all NA fans.

Mexico is partying hard.

 

[HanSolo]

Why do they keep focusing on Gaudreau's on the bench celebrations? I don't get it.

 

[HopsHunting]

Yes I admit that I am mad. The reason being I felt these gimmick teams had no place in an international competition from the moment I heard of them. I simply hoped they would've lost all their games so the real national teams could compete in peace, the gimmick teams being this good do not allow that and that leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

It is true though that the Finns have been bad today but a lot of it has to do with team NA being good also.

I'm still not convinced this team can match Canada though. We've got to see that.

I wonder though, did Europe beating USA bother you? I'm a USA fan and I just enjoyed seeing some quality hockey.

 

[Yemack]

some Finns probably wouldnt want to come back out after intermission

 

[Baby Ryan]

Psst I am a big Team NA fan. Age has nothing to do with it in this game, it's all about skill.

Experience on defense plays a part.

But whatever floats your boat if you just want to discard Finland's inexperience on D. Learning how to maintain gaps and less panicky turnovers help against speedy high skilled teams. It's not rocket science. It's not the key, but it certainly helps to lessen bleeding.

 

[BigT2002]

Last week this team was 10/1 favs in Vegas. I am loving the underdog

 

[JurassicTunga]

fun fun fun

 

[Kelly]

Im really liking that I put 100$ on NA when odds were +1400.

Think it's between them, Canada and USA tbh.

 

[albator71]

Its true that NA is an all-star team, even though they are young, they're all star players on their respective NHL club. So it shouldn't be surprising they are dominating.

 

[BB88]

If we are looking at positives(and negatives) which is pretty difficult right now the youngest line in tourney is +/- 0, and the "safe" defensive vets lines have been schooled pretty well today.
And probably we get to see Rask in next game.

This team wasn't build against U23, this is embarrassing.
Should have picked Rantanen and Pulju.

We had 0 scoring chances on that period

 

[TLeafsFan]

He's an 18 year old kid on a completely dysfunctional and dominated team. Anything at all would be more than should be expected at this point from him.

Sure do notice Matthews.

 

[Legend Leinonen]

Puljujärvi? Pihlström? At least we would not have been out hustled/speeded xD