GDT: 9/22 - Finland vs. Russia - 3 PM ET

[Sorey*]

Sweden lost to Europe in the exhibition game. Possibly the worst I have ever seen Sweden featuring the best possible players, ever.

Russia lost to czech in exhibition. I expect sweden to be better now.

 

[Plural]

Russia can beat Canada, 3 things have to happen:

1. Russia must withstand the first 10 minutes pressure from Canada

2. PP must start to work

3. Bob must play the game of his life.

Yup. Or Price needs to have a poor game.

 

[crowi]

They may have been the best team at the tournament. Murray injures his hand decides to keep playing, lets in 4 goals on 4 shots. Team NA goes from undefeated to out of tournament.

Then they should have played better to secure their own way. Stop talking about NA team in Russia-Finland GDT.

 

[Confucius]

Then they should have played better to secure their own way. Stop talking about NA team in Russia-Finland GDT.

Sorry

 

[BlitzSnipe]

Haha, the Canadian commentators have already beaten Russia .

 

[c9777666]

Because then there's no advantage to winning the group. It's like having the first seed play the second seed in the first round of the NHL playoffs.

Basically what happened this past spring with Blues/Stars and Pens/Caps.

 

[Sam Spade]

Russia can beat Canada, 3 things have to happen:

1. Russia must withstand the first 10 minutes pressure from Canada

2. PP must start to work

3. Bob must play the game of his life.

Russia has no chance but if:

4. They score first at least it will be a game for a few minutes.

 

[Pi]

Russia can beat Canada, 3 things have to happen:

1. Russia must withstand the first 10 minutes pressure from Canada

2. PP must start to work

3. Bob must play the game of his life.

Canada atleast in this tournament is a slow starter. The first 10-15 minutes are even before they start taking over. Russia needs a couple quick ones to win. Also, Russian coach needs to play their stars a lot more. This tactic might work against a bad Finnish team but not Canada.

 

[ViD]

Laine has been terrible

 

[KimmoV]

Finland is collapsing....

Actually...this tournament as a whole has been pretty underwhelming. I have not seen Canada play but the only teams in the entire tournament that showed anything exciting to me have been the "gimmick"-teams...

 

[Plural]

Russia has no chance but if:

4. They score first at least it will be a game for a few minutes.

Of course they have a chance.

 

[Sorey*]

Laine has been terrible

We agree.

 

[DoubleGold]

Going to be fun to hear Marjamäki out.

 

[Daz28]

Laine has been terrible

I just started watching, but you gotta cycle when your pressed like that. Peg will teach him the ropes, but it may be rough at the start. Wheeler should be a good mentor.

 

[scotian1]

I give praise to Koivu, still working his tail off defending.

 

[Dris]

The last two periods have been *****

 

[IceHockeyDude]

Good to see the Russians are capable of smiling

 

[ViD]

Russia has no chance but if:

4. They score first at least it will be a game for a few minutes.

Russia went to OT with Canada in the exhibition game. What are you talking about?

 

[Zamuz]

Laine has been terrible

Considering Laine is the youngest player in the tournament, he has been playing well. He can take the puck to the Offensive zone, hold it, make great passes. Some decisions are a bit bad though.

I don't blame Laine, he will shine in Winnipeg when he gets a bit more adjusted.

 

[scotian1]

My goodness, that looked like a sure Finnish goal.

 

[FinnLightning26]

The Finnish team doesn't know what Puljujärvi knows.

Fast and up.

 

[Chimpradamus]

The Russian coach has to actually coach if they are to win. If Russia rolls 4 lines evenly and don't even try matchups, they'll never win.

The Russian coach is even worse than Torts. Was he politically selected or what?

 

[BlitzSnipe]

Hahah, if anyone beats Canada, it's an upset. Those commentators , they might get upset on Saturday.

 

[snipes]

The Finnish team doesn't know what Puljujärvi knows.

Fast and up.

He's so much better than Korpi and some others.

 

[Make]

Yeah, Laine has been hanging on to the puck too much at times. Easily fixed though, and I feel the general lack of success for the Finnish team is making him try too hard to do it all by himself. He can play a more well rounded offensive game when he is on. It might take some time for him to learn the NA playing style but the talent is there.