GDT: Czech Republic/Czechia/El Chechiorono vs U.S.A. @7:30pm PT/ 10:30pm ET/ 4:30am CEST

[Summer Rose]

Congratulations, Czech Republic. You earned it and deserved it. That was a great performance. I'm sad now... I'm just really sad.

 

[Hemsky001]

Now that loss against Latvia looks even worse tbh.

 

[Hullois]

US insisted on playing Hughes at about 20% of his capacity??

And Coronato wow you can't miss open nets like that

 

[Go19]

Great game from Czechia - sticks were incredible, great d formation, more physicality

thankfully it's an empty arena instead of the usual anti-USA crowd

 

[Silky Johnson]

With Canada's defense nothing is guaranteed. Czechs might win it all.

We have a prior on how that will go...

 

[Czechboy]

Finland?

 

[Rygu]

Dear Czechia.

Thank you very much for handing us the gold medal. We sincerely hope you get a medal as well.

Yours Truly,

Canada

I would say we're definitely the favorites now but the Swiss giving us as a tough a game as they did tells me Canada can still be beaten by Finland and possibly even Sweden.

 

[Halakitlikethat]

Absolutely brutal turnover by Hughes . You just can’t do that. He’ll learn from this .

 

[Uncle]

usa poverty franchise!

 

[The Red Line]

Canadians are sighing in relief big time. They literally went this whole tourney without having to face a real team.

 

[Czechboy]

We have a prior on how that will go...

Finland?

 

[metalan2]

Cooley unimpressive. Hughes unimpressive. Team USA got beat by a team showing even a slight but of elevated effort. Not good for those guys.

 

[McRpro]

...

Du hast this result I bet.

 

[pigpen65]

Nice game by Czechia. Outmuscled the US pretty easily and kept them to the perimeter the entire game.

 

[Xirik]

Well, it will a good game for Hughes to learn from. Hope he channels that frustration on becoming better and learn from his mistakes.

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

Canadians are sighing in relief big time. They literally went this whole tourney without having to face a real team.

usa lost to a team that lost to Latvia.

they aint in the same league as canada.

 

[Dominance]

Canadians are sighing in relief big time. They literally went this whole tourney without having to face a real team.

Are you supposed to pose that challenge? You just got manhandled by a team we breezed by.

 

[Rygu]

Canadians are sighing in relief big time. They literally went this whole tourney without having to face a real team.

Finland is a top-tier team, they've won the gold 3 of the last 10 years.

 

[The Red Line]

US insisted on playing Hughes at about 20% of his capacity??

And Coronato wow you can't miss open nets like that

Again, that giveaway wasn't the result of any injury. It was just an awful forced pass that didn't need to happen.

 

[Czechboy]

Semis in U18, world's, hlinka and world Juniors in 2022... Probably been 15 years since this has happened

 

[Go19]

Sure but that wasn't a play that happened because of any injury. That was just a flat-out awful giveaway.

It was a bad play on the surface and end result no doubt - but he was late getting to pucks and slow off that faceoff. Got caught and then made the desperation play. His injury played a part in setting it up.

 

[jj cale]

well you could see it in the Sweden game, we knew the goaltending wasn't supposed to be good but that game it could be seen it was worse then feared. But the other thing was how much offense they created, which honestly wasn't very much , today the defense wasn't good enough to make up for what turned out to be serious problems for this u.s team.

Offense was over rated after the first couple of games and...........enough has been said about the goalie.

Full credit to the czechs, they were the better team today.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Man, this is one of the most shocking results I've seen in a while.

I thought the US was a top 2 team.

The best team doesn't always win. That's why they play.

Czechia fully deserved the victory.

 

[The Red Line]

Are you supposed to pose that challenge? You just got manhandled by a team we breezed by.

You guys are literally saying "thank you Czechs". I know US blew it. Canadians have had by far the easiest schedule thus far, you denying that? The road just got a lot easier, you denying that? Relax big guy.

 

[Fenway]

well deserved Czechia