GDT: AUT vs. GBR May 21, 2024

[Summer Rose]

Who: Austria vs. Great Britain

What: IIHF World Championship Group A

Where: O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic

When: 12:20 CEDT (06:20 EDT)

Why: Austria hopes to keep its quarterfinal hopes alive with a win over the already relegated Brits.

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[MrRuin]

First time Austria is the clear favorite in an A-Pool game. It will be interesting to see how the team handles this situation. There is still a goal to reach and playing for a potential quater final berth should give them extra motivation - after all this is a different team than the one having the same chance back at the Olympics in 2014. The whole tournament has been a huge boost to Austrian hockey in any case and hopefully a win against GBR will solidify this impression at home.

 

[24 others]

Absolutely rooting for the Austrians here. If they win in regular time, then the Finns have a serious problem on their hands... and Austria will make history

 

[Sanf]

Hope that Austria wins. Not that I hope that Finland would be relegated. Just that Finland needs to "earn it". Would feel weird that people could think that the crisis is averted in Finnish hockey because GB got points from Austria.

And in all honesty Austria deserves advancing more.

 

[JimXVX]

Austria with the opportunity of a historical QF place, whereas we're already down, so I expect we'll get stuffed.

 

[Summer Rose]

Absolutely rooting for the Austrians here. If they win in regular time, then the Finns have a serious problem on their hands... and Austria will make history

Also rooting for Austria in this one.

 

[FinPanda]

GB doesn't even have Kirk in this game, seems very unlikely they get even a point from this.

 

[FinPanda]

0-0 after 1st

I don't think Finns would mind if they don't score goals at all.

 

[kabidjan18]

Our first powerplay unit is 1/16. Nothing wrong guys, nothing to see here, look away, everything is fine.

 

[FinPanda]

I can see how nervous Austrians are. Now they have to win instead of just playing and having fun. They never thought they would even have a chance.

And as i said that Austria scored haha

 

[FriarChill]

1-0 PP Goal Unterweger

 

[kabidjan18]

I can see how nervous Austrians are. Now they have to win instead of just playing and having fun. They never thought they would even have a chance.

And as i said that Austria scored haha

They are not nervous, that is our embarrassment of an excuse for a PP1.

The real PP1, nicknamed PP2, gets it done.

 

[Goose The Cat]

What a save!!!

Welp, never mind.

 

[FinPanda]

1-1!

 

[FinPanda]

GB has been better after they tied the game. Austria has barely seen trhe offensive zone.

 

[FinPanda]

Austria still in trouble in their defensive zone. They are strong team offensively but still some work to do defensively.

 

[kabidjan18]

The issue with the late line swap is that yes, Wolf/Unterweger is your best defensive pair but the Rossi line is your best offensive line. So you don’t actually get ideal maximization. Which is sort of the issue the entire tournament is that we have been playing with this false premise that Heinrich is the #1D and Raffl is the captain center so let’s overload them with ice time. The issue isn’t the pair it’s that line 2 and pair 2 should be getting all the ice time. Line 3 and pair 3 should also be getting more ice time. Maybe swap Huber for Ganahl. Or just give Nickl a real D partner. And if they trot out 91 for one more power play when the first unit is 1-17. Like I don’t know what to say, it’s just completely ignoring all facts based evidence.

 

[ijuka]

Would be kinda funny if Austria didn't win in regulation vs GB and due to that failed to get ahead of Finland, after all the good performances against strong countries.

Still, for the long-term benefit of Finnish hockey, I hope that Finland doesnt' qualify for the quarters because that should bring about some changes and perhaps finally rid us of the "meidän peli"-pollution.

 

[FriarChill]

Would be kinda funny if Austria didn't win in regulation vs GB and due to that failed to get ahead of Finland, after all the good performances against strong countries.

Still, for the long-term benefit of Finnish hockey, I hope that Finland doesnt' qualify for the quarters because that should bring about some changes and perhaps finally rid us of the "meidän peli"-pollution.

That would be Austria in a nutshell. Rofl

I really dont like Raffl at all.

 

[Summer Rose]

Austria's quarterfinal dream is in big trouble now...

 

[FriarChill]

2:1 GB on the PP after a Raffl penalty

 

[MrRuin]

Can't take those penalties, the 5-3 completely broke their gameplan. Now this completely unnecessary penalty 10 seconds into the third period and we are feeling the weight of expectations. Still some time to play and turn this around maybe a little bit of urgency is what the team needs to get back on track.

 

[FriarChill]

They probably should stop taking penalties with their 56% penaltykill.

3-1 GB

 

[Summer Rose]

Looks like the Brits came to play today!

 

[swissdude]

but isn't that the usual issue with "growing" teams? it's far easier to compete well against allegedly superior teams than to win against the teams you're expected to. plus the possibility to qualify for QF and thus also the fact that there is something to lose didn't help either I think