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Everyones overall thoughts about team Canada?

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Patmac40 said:
I've never seen a team buy so much into the system put into place. Add in the skill that they had and it was men against boys when they figured it out.
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That in a nutshell. Status and egos put aside. Believe in the system and execute.

Honestly, for Bergeron, only thing different was his jersey. They played D straight out of Juliens system.

To assimilate it and execute it in such short time deserves big, big, props.
 
TOML
And Rick Nash? Defensive stud? Who knew.
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Well me, and tons of other folks, including TC's brain-trust, for starters

Pretty sure, for MANY this was no kind of revelation. Not after the way Nash played, on the shutdown line, with Toews and Richards in Vancouver.

I actually wanted Nash ( instead of Carter ) with Marleau and Toews this year ( he started out tourney with Toews and Sharp ) But Babcock et al had other ideas...

Nash is a Big Bodied guy, who is rarely outmuscled, works hard in all three zones, is just as good on either wing, has always looked good on big ice, can skate + snipe...protects the puck well, few turnovers, high hockey IQ What's not to like for an OG team? He's a Babcock kinda guy!
 
TOML said:
On the negative side, this tournament may have told the entire NHL as well that we should expect more and more tight, defensive hockey. Not great, as a lot of teams just don't have the skill to make the games still entertaining.
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To be fair, it's not like Canada played a particularly defensive style of play: it was more a matter of everyone performing a gameplan flawlessly. They were completely in sync, and they never let go of the gas pedal. Honestly, if this team finished more of their chances there wouldn't even be a debate as to whether or not it was the greatest team ever assembled.
 
Most dominating defence that I've ever seen play. The defence single-handedly won the Gold medal.
 
SCOREacek said:
He was defending his franchise player. Give it a rest
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Way better ways to defend your players. Telling Yzerman he knows nothing about Hockey is a little ridiculous and this win just underlines that.
 
This team was absolutely dominant defensively. This team is up there with one of the greatest teams canada has ever sent to an international event. The shear dominance of this team is comparable to the 1976 Canada cup team and the 1987 Canada cup team.
 
BLASPHEMOUS said:
To be fair, it's not like Canada played a particularly defensive style of play: it was more a matter of everyone performing a gameplan flawlessly. They were completely in sync, and they never let go of the gas pedal. Honestly, if this team finished more of their chances there wouldn't even be a debate as to whether or not it was the greatest team ever assembled.
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For us OLD GUYS...greatest team ever assembled is STILL our 1976 Canada Cup Team...although they did lose a game to Czechoslovakia 1-0, I think...beat them twice in a row, if memory serves, in final...Sittler scored CC winning goal Never Seen a lineup comparable to that...Probably No one ever Will See its like Again either
 
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They had a plan and executed it well. The reason the scoring went down was because they stuck to their plan. There were no individuality, just solid team play. It might seem boring but it's what made them go undefeated.

Props to Finland for taking this team to OT. I thought they were the 2nd best team in this tourny.
 
DatsyukianDeke said:
Way better ways to defend your players. Telling Yzerman he knows nothing about Hockey is a little ridiculous and this win just underlines that.
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They did a good job, a real good job of selecting this team, but ( reading btwn lines, without bothering to read thru thread ) I thought the MSL pick was a political one too...We had better options for BIg Ice IMO
 
I didn't agree with all the picks but I managed to keep my mouth shut. I figured Steve Yzerman and his brain trust likely know just a bit more about hockey personal than I do. Boy, I am glad that I didn't given my opinion. Great team. I think the "greatest d ever" bit over blown. Don't care what anyone says, they did not pick too many of these players with defence in mind save Bergeron. I do think we seen great athletes play a system that stressed team D. Anyway you slice it, great team, great result, great coach.
 
Flamer12 said:
I didn't agree with all the picks but I managed to keep my mouth shut. I figured Steve Yzerman and his brain trust likely know just a bit more about hockey personal than I do. Boy, I am glad that I didn't given my opinion. Great team. I think the "greatest d ever" bit over blown. Don't care what anyone says, they did not pick too many of these players with defence in mind save Bergeron. I do think we seen great athletes play a system that stressed team D. Anyway you slice it, great team, great result, great coach.
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Yeah maybe not greatest d assembled, but I'd contend it might be of one of the greatest defensive performances...
 
The men's team was like a machine, knowing exactly when to switch to a higher gear. They stuck to their game plan like clockwork. The women's team displayed heart and that never give up attitude.
 
i'm glad it seems that most canadians are satisfied with your the end result of this tournament! i think thats all that matters, winning the way the did and the way they played just shows you the roster was picked for a good reason. the defensive display canada put it....it was truly something amazing! i havent been watching hockey long enough due to my age so it'd be wrong for me to call it the best defensive team ever!

on a side note, did anybody notice the swedish defence used his stick to poke his other player to try catch up to sid? go to :25 seconds. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpzjPmup_s8
 
Scotty B said:
For us OLD GUYS...greatest team every assembled is STILL our 1976 Canada Cup Team...although they did lose a game to Czechoslovakia 1-0, I think...beat them twice in a row, if memory serves, in final...Sittler scored CC winning goal Never Seen a lineup comparable to that...Probably No one ever Will See its like Again either
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True. When you have a team that has the two greatest defensman of all time amongst the 20 greatest defenseman of all time, it's special.

MAYBE....in the future all the players playing last week are hockey HO superstars, but right now, they are not the same level as those guys.
 
the team was ridiculously deep. stamkos would have made it that much more incredible. I liked the mix of size, speed, youth and vet presence. I was surprised to see the team have trouble scoring but given the D corp, the system and Price playing so well... seemed like a walk in the park.
 
Ultimately, I still wish Giroux and Seguin were on the team instead of Nash and Kunitz, and I wish PK played more, but here is the reality:

Give Yzerman and co credit for picking the RIGHT role players: Benn, Marleau, Carter and Duchene. All of these guys stepped up and contributed in their own way. Also credit Babcock for playing them.

Patrick Sharp was a bit of a letdown for me, for me he was our worst forward (although thats hardly saying too much). But I along with most had him on the team, and he scored a goal against Latvia, and he didnt need to play that well cause other guys stepped up.

I didnt agree with the whole team, but Yzerman and crew didnt make any bad errors. And they picked enough winners that it ddidnt really matter. Kudos
 
Scotty B said:
For us OLD GUYS...greatest team ever assembled is STILL our 1976 Canada Cup Team...although they did lose a game to Czechoslovakia 1-0, I think...beat them twice in a row, if memory serves, in final...Sittler scored CC winning goal Never Seen a lineup comparable to that...Probably No one ever Will See its like Again either
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No doubt filled with quite a few all-time greats, but there are some weaknesses. Like Orr being past-prime at the time. This 2014's defense may be better because of that. And there are some '76 forwards that may be physically dominated by the 2014 team. Still, that '76 team looks STACKED.

What would be very interesting to me is to see a Bowman/Babcock duel. The all-time master vs this generations' best.
 
vippe said:
A bit of a slow start... But when it mattered they hit another gear and blew everyone away. Fantastic team effort, extremely talented, great defense, coaching off the chart. They werent scoring as advertised but other than that.. absolutely flawless.

Honestly, I believe they would have won gold if you changed the entire forward group with any of the other top 7 nations.. the coaching, defense and goaltending were that good. Even though they wouldnt have been as good as they were now obviously.

Best TEAM I have ever witnessed.
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I think the forwards did an excellent job of helping out the D with puck possesion and keeping the pressure on. They did everything right but finish.
 
What a team. Yes, they didn't score many goals. But, they had so many chances!

I'm a Canadian Bruins fan. I honestly think Julien had alot of influence on the system played by the team in certain aspects such as PK,defensive zone,and forechecking. I kept thinking this is the Bruins playing right now with an all star "Canadian" team!

I thought the coaching staff wanted a certain style played and all the players from Crosby to St Louis bought into the system 100%. I will be the first to admit I was not overconfident with our goaltending Luongo or Price. Again I will admit I'm a bit biased towards Price (Bruins Fan) but he was fantastic!! I have told every single Habs fan I was wrong he was awesome when needed!!

I did have issues with certain players picked over other players available. But, so did alot of Canadians. With the amount of skill available there will always be debate on the players selected. This team did something I have not seen in quite sometime. This team made it look releatively easy without much drama at all. They slowly got better and better early in the tournament and then really mastered the "Defense First" mentalitiy vs the Americans and the Swedes. In previous gold medal or World Cup or Canada Cup victories it has been close...extremley nail biting close. No golden goal required this tournament.

Players that really impressed me in this tournament: Benn,Entire Defense,Price,Carter,Nash,Perry,Getzlaf,etc

Maybe not fair but Crosby,Bergeron,Toews,etc didn't impress me as much because they did exactly what I expected from this leaders and superstars! Again, I'm Biased but I thought Bergeron was one of our best players and was absolutely fantastic on the line with Crosby and Kunitz!!


Could not be happier with the success of our hockey teams (Men & Womens) and all our olympic atheletes. I thought Canada was really competitive and showed great sportsmanship throughout the entire Olympics....
 
vippe said:
A bit of a slow start... But when it mattered they hit another gear and blew everyone away. Fantastic team effort, extremely talented, great defense, coaching off the chart. They werent scoring as advertised but other than that.. absolutely flawless.

Honestly, I believe they would have won gold if you changed the entire forward group with any of the other top 7 nations.. the coaching, defense and goaltending were that good. Even though they wouldnt have been as good as they were now obviously.

Best TEAM I have ever witnessed.
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I think the forwards did an excellent job of helping out the D with puck possession and keeping the pressure on. They did everything right but finish.
 
Arguably the best olympic team Canada has had. Great team defense, and they controlled every game. They only allowed 3 goals whole tourny and only 1 in elimination? That's ridiculous. They were so good at controlling the game they didn't have to score 4 goals to win, and hats off to the goalies facing team Canada, Canada created a lot of scoring opportunities they really should of had more goals, I can't say they had any flaws really.
 
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