Czechs first gold since 2010!

[Eye of Ra]

Big congrats! Czechs have suffer many years. Well deserved gold.

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[Czechboy]

It's a one off but we'll f***en take it!

 

[ES]

Czechia has an amazing final record.

Seventh title since the split and only one final loss (2006).

 

[Eye of Ra]

only one final loss (2006).

Against who?

 

[Czechboy]

Against who?

Sweden for their 7th gold. Got 3 more since then for 11! Today was our 13th Gold.

 

[Leonardo87]

His name is Lukas Dostal!

Congrats!

 

[Eye of Ra]

Today was our 13th Gold.

You counting the golds with czechslovakia?

 

[kudymen]

Man 2006 was really painful. Such strong and likeable team

 

[Eye of Ra]

His name is Lukas Dostal!

Not just him. Many good players on the Czech team.

 

[De Montreal]

Pastrnak showed up big time. I think that kind of play with less physicality and pressure fits him better. Good on him not to end the season the way he left the Bruins.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Congrats ! Even better as it was at home.

 

[MeHateHe]

Good work Czechs!

 

[D Wakaluk]

Well deserved. The most entertaining team out there from the games I watched. Great crowd.

+ home teams rarely win the whole thing

 

[Eye of Ra]

+ home teams rarely win the whole thing

i think last time was Sweden in 2013? Sedins saved us

 

[FinPanda]

i think last time was Sweden in 2013? Sedins saved us

Finland 2022

 

[Joe Zanussi]

Fantastic, congrats!!

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Congratulations!!!

 

[Boonk]

The Czech NT has really turned their program around recently. Its a good thing for international stage of hockey to have more competitive nations able to keep up with and win against the big teams and the Czechs were missing at the junior and senior levels for a while.

 

[SI90]

Congrats. Cool you guys did it at home as well.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Nice of them to win on home soil

Nice to see Pasta tuck the gwg in classic Pastrnak style

 

[wintersej]

Nice to see Pasta without the 4C from Seattle as his pivot.

 

[Fatass]

Pasta was (by far) the best player there. Not surprised he wins it for his club. Swiss just don’t have that level of player. They played their best though. Just no true star like Pasta.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Didn’t pay much attention this year, but congrats to our Czech friends

@Czechboy @Goodman68 @Voodoozz @martygod12 @BigBadBoar @Swipes

 

[illone84]

Huge congrats to Czechia! .... Props to .. you didn't win this time but hope dies last. Eventually you will get that gold!!!

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Definitely a different experience compared to Berlin.

In Berlin there were only few players from the olympic squad it was Jágr, Vokoun and bunch of grinders (bit of a hyperbole) and it was in the era where not getting medal with a good roster was considered a failure. And we lost 3 QFs in a row.
Somehow won it all despite losing to Norway who didn’t even make QF, lost to emerging Swiss, but beat Sweden twice (who were our boogeyman those days), won two elimination games in SO… and beat Russia’s roster that was going for hattrick and was Olympic level. It was in days when people were used to medals, but no one expected a medal that year, but it came.

…

This time, we stopped being used to medals, but as NHLers kept coming hope kept rising.

Whereas in 2010 it was “lol we beat Russians with this?!”

2024 is “WE DON’T SUCK! WE DON’T SUCK!”