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WJC: Division I-III

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Beauty deflection of a shot that was going wide gives Belarus the lead.

And then out of nowhere Austria gets a 2 on 0 breakaway and buries it, you know what they say about quality > quantity.

Poor Belarus goalie, gives up 1 goal and has a .500 sv%.

He's coming out to play the puck all the time just to be a part of the game, he's literally had possession of the puck in his zone longer than Austria has yet it's tied at 1.

At least Austria has a shot from their side of center now :)
 
Austria gets credited with another shot, I call BS, the horn went before the goalie saved it imo :P

so 3 shots, 1 from 160 feet away that was an attempted pass, 1 on a 2 on 0 breakaway that they scored on, and 1 after the 2nd period horn that shouldn't have counted. Yep just another day at the office

This is just awful, I'm not sure I've ever seen a team have just 3 shots after 2 period, and they're actually tied while doing so, it's hilarious. I hope they get 1 shot in the 3rd and win 2-1 just for the laughs
 
Estonia much better in attacking third than in their own.Set a good PP but a great breakaway from Lithuanian player.There where good circulation and puck distribution in offense but in defence they make many amateur errors.

from 2-0 to 2-3 but it colud have easily been worse score for them
 
Kickert had a pretty good game yesterday for Austria.Any huge rescues in todays game or he saves what sholud have been saved?
 
Does anyone know the record for fewest shots and worst shot difference in Div 1 game?
 
loser said:
Kickert had a pretty good game yesterday for Austria.Any huge rescues in todays game or he saves what sholud have been saved?
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I haven't seen the entire game but most of the saves have been pretty routine there haven't been that many awesome chances for Belarus despite the possession time(which I don't have the stat for but I'm sure it'd be massively in their favour) and the shot clock.

Austria certainly aren't doing much of anything right offensively but I'll give them credit that they've kept the Belarus scoring chances to a minimum and their goalie has made the saves they've needed.

The goal Belarus scored was a beauty deflection, the Austria goalie was in position, shot was going wide and a Belarus player got their stick on it and caused it to be roofed short side, not a save I'd expect my goalie to make. It's one he could make but it would be more luck or really good positioning than anything else, don't think many goalies would save that goal as a reactionary save, just not enough time to react
 
Canada4Gold said:
Austria gets credited with another shot, I call BS, the horn went before the goalie saved it imo :P

so 3 shots, 1 from 160 feet away that was an attempted pass, 1 on a 2 on 0 breakaway that they scored on, and 1 after the 2nd period horn that shouldn't have counted. Yep just another day at the office

This is just awful, I'm not sure I've ever seen a team have just 3 shots after 2 period, and they're actually tied while doing so, it's hilarious. I hope they get 1 shot in the 3rd and win 2-1 just for the laughs
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three shots on goal- are they playing against Canada or what?

You would expect that after the first period they would alter their playing style a bit and get a good average of 8-9 shots..
 
Arthur said:
three shots on goal- are they playing against Canada or what?

You would expect that after the first period they would alter their playing style a bit and get a good average or 8-9 shots..
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the weird thing is they've played fairly well defensively, minimizing the Belarus scoring chances, and they had 25 shots yesterday against Denmark who I would consider to be better than Belarus. They've made a stupid decision almost everytime they get the puck, completing very few passes, and lot of neutral zone turnovers.

I compared them to the Leafs earlier, but it's a pretty good comparison, I feel like I'm watching the Leafs, they do they same things wrong and right as Austria has today, the Leafs get slgihtly more offense.

if I had to guess I'd say the coach is playing this style intentionally, they've gottena couple chances off the rush that if they played smarter with they could have gottena couple more chances or goals. I think they're just playing to stop Belarus from scoring and hoping to get a couple goals off the rush. Usually a style you see when the talent on the 2 teams in very different, I don't think Belarus and Austria are that far apart that Austria should be playing that style though, but their tied so who am I to judge
 
loser said:
Kickert had a pretty good game yesterday for Austria.Any huge rescues in todays game or he saves what sholud have been saved?
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It depends. He's not the flashiest of goalies and since Austrians are playing tidy defense most of his saves are on weak shots in close. However, he made a save going post-to-post on one-timer from the right circle - that's one hell of the save to make at the age of 19. Even though, as I've mentioned, it may not look all that flashy.

Arthur said:
three shots on goal- are they playing against Canada or what?

You would expect that after the first period they would alter their playing style a bit and get a good average or 8-9 shots..
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I think they are just playing like that by design.. Rely on Rickert to save their ***** and counter attack when opportunity presents itself. There was not that many opportunities today and they're not really pushing for them.
 
Canada4Gold said:
I think they're just playing to stop Belarus from scoring and hoping to get a couple goals off the rush. Usually a style you see when the talent on the 2 teams in very different, I don't think Belarus and Austria are that far apart that Austria should be playing that style though, but their tied so who am I to judge
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The coach might have took this tactic a bit too seriously.. They aren't THAT far behind Belarus in terms of talent in the team.

How many rushes have they had then? Am not really able to watch this game closely..
 
Arthur said:
The coach might have took this tactic a bit too seriously.. They aren't THAT far behind Belarus in terms of talent in the team.

How many rushes have they had then? Am not really able to watch this game closely..
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The only 1 that created any kind of chance was the 2 on 0 goal. But they fumbled the puck a couple of times on rushes that could have been 2 on 1's and once on a 3 on 2 that I recall.

Nothing great but if they had handled the puck a little better on those potential rushes they might even be leading
 
Ambrozheichik scores into an empty net after superb passing play by Belarus. Funny thing was he actually fanned on the original shot and the loud "Oy Blyaaaat" was heard across an empty arena :laugh: Although he obviously had time to recover and put it in.
 
SoundAndFury said:
Frankly, they are.
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Belarus is better- without a doubt. But come on- this shot difference and the game is not mirroring the situation. I would like to see these teams play again in a few days- surely Austrians might put up a tad bit better performance..

SoundAndFury said:
Ambrozheichik scores into an empty net after superb passing play by Belarus. Funny thing was he actually fanned on the original shot and the loud "Oy Blyaaaat" was heard across an empty arena :laugh: Although he obviously had time to recover and put it in.
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Russian swear words- can't get any better than that :laugh:
 
Arthur said:
Belarus is better- without a doubt. But come on- this shot difference and the game is not mirroring the situation. I would like to see these teams play again in a few days- surely Austrians might put up a tad bit better performance..
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I mean sure, from viewers perspective Austrians could do better. A lot better. But as far as coach and tactics are concerned it's better to play this way and get a point once in ten games than play like Slovenia did and lose every single time.

Meanwhile Lithuanians won against Estonia 5-2 after trailing 2-0 after the first period. Lithuania's coach tweaked a lines a bit to create a dominant one with all 3 of his best forwards on it and it payed off as it produced 4 goals.
 
SoundAndFury said:
Meanwhile Lithuanians won against Estonia 5-2 after trailing 2-0 after the first period. Lithuania's coach tweaked a lines a bit to create a dominant one with all 3 of his best forwards on it and it payed off as it produced 4 goals.
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Lithuanians must feel good to have Cipruss as their head coach. Vast experience as a player and now hes coaching club from Vilnius with 8 players in this u-20 team.
 
I don't think you can put to much into the shots fired off.

Against Denmark, they did not get their shots before the 3rd period were Denmark had cooled off.

And the game yesterday could have tired them, becuase they were litterally chasing Denmark for the 1st 2 periods of the game.
 
Hmm, Slovenia looks more capable at playing hockey than Poles, yet they are loosing by a way wider margin after first already. Goalie change imminent.
 
ozo said:
Hmm, Slovenia looks more capable at playing hockey than Poles,
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True dat. I was kind of expecting them to be the weakest team but they are by far better than Poles.

Although if Zabolotny out-duels any of those Slovenian kids in goal.. Because they look baaad
 
Arthur said:
2010 was a horrible year for Croatians- 2:18 against Norway, 1:10 against Kazakhstan,4:16 against Belarus. have they improved? :D
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Yes, it was horrible, but we managed to stay in D1 that season and for following three :). Despite results looks awful, it is fair to say that all of our three goalies back then were so bad that they probably would suck in lower divisions as well.

Next year(s) when Tomljenović started to play in goal for U20, I think we only once (with him in the net) lost with more than 6-7 goals.
 
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