GDT: Canada vs. Finland | 2/17/2025 1:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. CET, 8:00 p.m. EET | Tämä on ulkotalo!

[Whitesnake]

How can you be in a superior league than the NHL....lol McDavid....

People...getting the 1st overall pick is not the same year after year....

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

If McDavid can skate like this against the USA, the Americans are in trouble.

 

[Regal]

As good as Canada looks, the goaltending advantage the Americans have more than equals the Canadians edge at forward.

The Americans will be the rightful favorites come Thursday,

Yea, I like Lankinen but he has a habit of getting small in net. The first two goals don’t necessarily go in against Helly.

 

[FinPanda]

But you did the most important thing...beating Sweden

Before the tournament I thought we have a chance to do that and we did.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

If Makar is less than 100% I'd consider limiting his minutes in the 2nd half of the game if the margin remains 3 or more.

 

[Summer Rose]

Finland's zone entries are not... very good...

 

[NyQuil]

Marner ran into his own player.

 

[JoVel]

I legit forgot Point existed, dude has just fallen off a cliff since 20 or 21

This is a pretty weird take considering Point has had his two highest goal scoring seasons since then.

 

[le_sean]

Cirelli f***ing stinks

 

[William H Bonney]

Marner ran into his own player.

Doughty's best body contact all tournament

 

[PhiladelphiaKessel]

Cirelli just doesn’t belong on this team

 

[snipes]

Stone’s best quality is fitting in with his high hockey IQ and middling physical tools.

He’ll get out of McDavid’s way and end up at the right place at the right time.

Meanwhile Point has the speed and the motor.

Exactly. High hockey IQ, big body, and ability to create turnovers with Stone while staying out of the way is a great match for how McDavid. Guys like Pat Maroon thrived with McDavid.

Point has a dog on the bone motor and great speed which also meshes well (think Hyman but with more speed).

I love the way that line has looked, they’ve been utterly dominant this game so far.

 

[NyQuil]

Doughty's best body contact all tournament

He had a few IIRC.

 

[sadpanda]

Expectations were not high

We knew we would beat Sweden (as usual). We had 40 good minutes against USA, 0 against Canada it seems like.

GG

 

[ElysiumAB]

Can we all unite under the consensus that the goal highlights on the NHL app are done in such an inexplicably poor manner that it's beyond incompetence?

More or less no buffer before or after the highlight, then a giant button over the video that goes to who knows where, with a f***ing ad in between.

Just add 5 seconds before and after the highlight and show it more than once.

 

[William H Bonney]

Finland doesn't generate enough offense to whiff on the shot or miss the net when they get their chances

 

[DeeQ]

Well, at least we won the most important game. It's okay.
Plus there is still at least one very salty swede in this thread which is nice

 

[TimeZone]

McDavid almost scores 1 on 3



On paper, they were favourites before the tournament started.

Says who?

 

[Leafidelity]

Cirelli f***ing stinks

Rob Zamuner pick

 

[CycloneSweep]

We don't have a good goalie and half of our defence got injured before the tournament.. we don't have the depth of US and Canada.

You have better goalies than Canada.

 

[The Blue Baron]

JoMo keeping the D core in line.

 

[le_sean]

Cirelli just doesn’t belong on this team

Oh the 45 point a year player doesn’t belong with the 90+ point players? Anyone could have seen that coming.

 

[CanadaIsIrrelevant]

Finland was only invited so Canada and USA could boost their goal stats.
And Finland's only goal was to beat Sweden.

Can we please have Czechia next time.

 

[Czechboy]

Just going to call that Canada's period.lol

 

[NyQuil]

Says who?

Well, me for one.