I think you are up in arms every year in the group stage because you don't understand the attitude NHL players, especially Canadian ones, come to WC. You have lost to Latvia and France before in the championships you won the gold in the end.
a pretty narrow-minded point of view concerning international hockey, but yes I get your point. Canada's track record in this tournament against the swiss over the last decade is what exactly?
Point was that it's exactly the attitude held by the NHL players and most NHL fans, I don't think there is any doubt about that. If you think they care about "the previous record in the tournament" - they don't.
I'm well aware of what we have done in the past, you're missing the point. You need to progressively get better at what you are not doing well at the start of the tournament in order to give yourself a chance to win gold at the end stages of the tournament.
It's like saying teams have to play game #82 of the NHL regular season better than they play the game #42. That's simply not true. In both cases, you fight through different circumstances, adversity, fatigue, etc. Austria, for example, is looking completely dead today. That's not them getting "progressively worse", that's them fighting the circumstances they are put against the best they can. The same applies to Canada albeit they face a very different set of problems. And it's not up to the coach (mostly) to magically make those problems go away.
I agree but it's also part of the truth that you guys have been extremely lucky to even get to the QF last year and if KAZ did not lose against NOR there wouldn't have been a gold medal and Hockey Canada would have probably name another coach that year...
there are reasons why ottawa has the smartest fans
I'm well aware of what we have done in the past, you're missing the point. You need to progressively get better at what you are not doing well at the start of the tournament in order to give yourself a chance to win gold at the end stages of the tournament.
Who cares how we got to the QF last year? It only matters what we did with getting in, you know that.
It's not about getting worked up, it's about wanting to see the team clean up weaknesses in their overall play that can/will prevent them from winning when the games count.
Coachings not important, these are millionaire NHL players, can't expect a coach to get guys like that going against the Swiss of all teams, Julien isn't Jesus after all.
Coaching is extremely important. Look at the Swiss who are paying a strong team game with good system play. They are a team that has bought into what the coaches are selling.
My tongue was firmly in cheek when I made that post based on previous discussion in this thread, sorry if you misunderstood.
My tongue was firmly in cheek when I made that post based on previous discussion in this thread, sorry if you misunderstood.
Yeah I really should have except since they made this recent format change here The emojis are nowhere to be found when i post, can't find them.Put an emoji in there goofball!
