GDT: Bronze, Cesko vs Finland, 9am est

[FinPanda]

You guys had a great tourney! Got better and better!

USA and Sweden games were the only good games from this team.

 

[Poro24]

Congrats Czechia! Nice to see you doing good after many tough years.

Finlands ice hockey federation does not care about this tournament or player development. They only care about making money with the mens team in Euro Hockey Tour (Karjala tournament). And it's important for the federation that all their friends are having a good time. So if you are a friend of the federation or a former NHL player with zero coaching experience, then you deserve to be one of the coaches for the U20 National team.

Czechia will take Finlands place in the "big four". It will be Canada, Sweden, USA and Czechia. That is nice.

 

[DeltaSwede]

Call Hamara up to the Sens right now.

Really enjoyed his play in the games I watched. There's something there.

 

[Pieck]

One of the best games I’ve ever watched. Even though I had to watch the 3rd period in class lol. Happy for the Czechs. I kind of had a feeling they’d score the 6th goal in regulation after they tied it, but when I saw the light turn on after Hamara shot the puck I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Crazy game

 

[Bone Density]

Great comeback by Czechia. I felt so bad for Hrabal skating by himself over to celebrate. You could tell he was really down on himself.

 

[Czechboy]

Great comeback by Czechia. I felt so bad for Hrabal skating by himself over to celebrate. You could tell he was really down on himself.

He will be back! He's only 18.

 

[Jussi]

As expected, anti-Midas is infallible:

 

[Lambo]

That was probably the most "un-Finnish" team I've ever seen.

 

[karhukissa]

As expected, anti-Midas is infallible:

Hahah too bad i didn't see that tweet, i would've put all my earthly belongings for Czechs to win. It's a kiss of death.

Congrats Czechia, my second favorite team. Just please change your logo back to that old one, it was legendary.

 

[joey16]

Not saying its causation (maybe a bit) but has any team benefitted from Russia's exclusion more than the Czechs? 17 consecutive tournaments (18 years) without a medal and now Silver and Bronze back to back. Semi final appearances (4th in 2022) in all 3 tournaments without Russia.

Not saying it's also not somewhat helping circumstance but not like we had sucked pre-Russia ban and then we continued to suck but just that one left space got us weaker opponents so we could get the medals. That would be just too far from true. It's rather a coincidence that the Russia ban was issued just when our U20 team was trending upwards. You can just compare the results against non-Russia teams pre a after 2022. I mean..
The thing we eliminated the US in the quarters (2022) is not thing Russia absence can affect.
The thing we eliminated Swedes in the semis (2023), which we otherwise havent beaten in 10+ years, is not thing Russia absence can affect.
The thing we beated Canada twice (2023 and 2024 - once in an elimination game), plus one time in the final lost ONLY in the OT is not really thing Russia absence can effect. Especially when our pre 2022 Canada games were always lopsided. I mean they hadnt been even tiny tiny close.
The thing we today beated Finland in the bronze medal game is also not something Russia absence could effect.
So as far as you ask me, the credit goes mostly to the improved Czech performance.
(Not to mention, Russia was a team we were stil able to beat and quite often we did beat even when we sucked.)

 

[RBbandit]

Hahah too bad i didn't see that tweet, i would've put all my earthly belongings for Czechs to win. It's a kiss of death.

Congrats Czechia, my second favorite team. Just please change your logo back to that old one, it was legendary.

Next jerseys will be with the old logo which is the National coat of arms. This "scania logo" is BS anyways

 

[karhukissa]

Next jerseys will be with the old logo which is the National coat of arms. This "scania logo" is BS anyways

Love it! Brings back memories of Jagr, Elias and Kaberle wearing that jersey.

 

[Ajaton Azer]

I think that our young Finnish lions can be very proud of this tourney. We are a small nation with big ambitions, and it's not too bad to lose to a bigger hockey nation sometimes. Next year our coach will have more experience, and maybe we have a better class of players, so only the sky is the limit going forwards!

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Hahah too bad i didn't see that tweet, i would've put all my earthly belongings for Czechs to win. It's a kiss of death.

Congrats Czechia, my second favorite team. Just please change your logo back to that old one, it was legendary.

Senior NT will be back to the national emblem.

Not saying it's also not somewhat helping circumstance but not like we had sucked pre-Russia ban and then we continued to suck but just that one left space got us weaker opponents so we could get the medals. That would be just too far from true. It's rather a coincidence that the Russia ban was issued just when our U20 team was trending upwards. You can just compare the results against non-Russia teams pre a after 2022. I mean..
The thing we eliminated the US in the quarters (2022) is not thing Russia absence can affect.
The thing we eliminated Swedes in the semis (2023), which we otherwise havent beaten in 10+ years, is not thing Russia absence can affect.
The thing we beated Canada twice (2023 and 2024 - once in an elimination game), plus one time in the final lost ONLY in the OT is not really thing Russia absence can effect. Especially when our pre 2022 Canada games were always lopsided. I mean they hadnt been even tiny tiny close.
The thing we today beated Finland in the bronze medal game is also not something Russia absence could effect.
So as far as you ask me, the credit goes mostly to the improved Czech performance.
(Not to mention, Russia was a team we were stil able to beat and quite often we did beat even when we sucked.)

People who don’t turn into a gear they didn’t know they had against shouldn’t play for Czech NT. (Half-sarcasm)

 

[czech]

This winter, all 4 (!) Czech junior teams (u20, u18, u17, u16) beat the Finns.

 

[WayTooCold]

Congrats Czechia!
When Finland loses semifinal. Our tournament is over. Gold or bust.

 

[SantosHalper]

Congrats Czechia! You took our boys to school and showed what 60 minute hockey game means.

Hissy fit from the finnish players at end was embarrassing and very un-finnish like.

 

[Czechboy]

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Congrats Czechia! You took our boys to school and showed what 60 minute hockey game means.

Hissy fit from the finnish players at end was embarrassing and very un-finnish like.

I think he was still pissed about the headshot tbh. Sapo is a world class pain in the ass too.lol. No idea what his personality is like but his playing style is frustrating as hell. I love him.lol.

Congrats on a nice tournament and turnaround after Germany loss.

 

[Czechboy]

Not saying it's also not somewhat helping circumstance but not like we had sucked pre-Russia ban and then we continued to suck but just that one left space got us weaker opponents so we could get the medals. That would be just too far from true. It's rather a coincidence that the Russia ban was issued just when our U20 team was trending upwards. You can just compare the results against non-Russia teams pre a after 2022. I mean..
The thing we eliminated the US in the quarters (2022) is not thing Russia absence can affect.
The thing we eliminated Swedes in the semis (2023), which we otherwise havent beaten in 10+ years, is not thing Russia absence can affect.
The thing we beated Canada twice (2023 and 2024 - once in an elimination game), plus one time in the final lost ONLY in the OT is not really thing Russia absence can effect. Especially when our pre 2022 Canada games were always lopsided. I mean they hadnt been even tiny tiny close.
The thing we today beated Finland in the bronze medal game is also not something Russia absence could effect.
So as far as you ask me, the credit goes mostly to the improved Czech performance.
(Not to mention, Russia was a team we were stil able to beat and quite often we did beat even when we sucked.)

All of this. Perfect post!

We went from routinely losing 6-1 to Canada to beating them and losing in OT games and no Russia is not getting credit for that.lol.

The medals may be a result of that but not the results.

 

[Czechboy]

Congrats Czechia! Nice to see you doing good after many tough years.

Finlands ice hockey federation does not care about this tournament or player development. They only care about making money with the mens team in Euro Hockey Tour (Karjala tournament). And it's important for the federation that all their friends are having a good time. So if you are a friend of the federation or a former NHL player with zero coaching experience, then you deserve to be one of the coaches for the U20 National team.

Czechia will take Finlands place in the "big four". It will be Canada, Sweden, USA and Czechia. That is nice.

We don't want your place. We want a seat at the table with you!

Finn's are riding beautifully on a golden generation and need a best on best to show that.

We are many years away from being in big 5 again but are definitely trending correctly for a Big 5 again.

Just need 4 or 5 NHL Dman to join the NHL. Till then, we are not in the conversation IMO.

Hoping some combo of jiricek 2.0, svozil, Dvorak, hamara, cibilka, Alscher, svozil 2.0, Spacek and galvas can become NHL players.

We are probably years away from having 8 full time NHL d. Maybe never.

 

[Nowotny]

Love it! Brings back memories of Jagr, Elias and Kaberle wearing that jersey.

...and don't let me start with "Czechia"....sounds like Canadia

 

[Old Man Jags]

...and don't let me start with "Czechia"....sounds like Canadia

Worse, sounds like Chechnya.