Olympics: Final qualification - 26 to 29 August 2021

[filip85]

Belarus

 

[Urbanskog]

No matter how much better roster Belarus seemingly happens to have, they routinely find a way to massively underperform.

 

[krismunk]

0 goals on 46 shots.

That's almost as impressive as the Danish 3rd period faceoff statistic.

 

[Antiillafire]

Slafkovsky is gonna be jumping this game. Let’s hope coach includes him on PP. Austria’s defense is gonna have a real tough time handling the size and speed of Slovak forwards.

 

[ozo]

How is it possible to lose 19 out of 19 faceoffs in one period?

Is this true? I'm asking because I can't believe this can be true.

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Is this true? I'm asking because I can't believe this can be true.

It is.

 

[krismunk]

Is this true? I'm asking because I can't believe this can be true.

Apparently not after all.

That's what the live ticker I was following said when the game ended. Now they've updated it from 0-19 to 6-16.

Very strange.

It did indeed seem to absurd to be true.

 

[Eye of Ra]

OK there is a way to watch it. Go to iihf.com, click on "Live Stream", it will complain but give you a link to olympics.com, click on it and watch the game you want. Doesn't work on an iPad, but does work on a laptop.

it works, but its commercial every 4th minute or so, it gets on my nerves

 

[Eye of Ra]

Belarus

Why is it funny? Poland is stronger than ever.

 

[kabidjan18]

Slafkovsky is gonna be jumping this game. Let’s hope coach includes him on PP. Austria’s defense is gonna have a real tough time handling the size and speed of Slovak forwards.

I have never seen a roster that Austria's defense didn't have a rough time handling so this is probably true by default.

 

[Namejs]

A pretty laid back 4-0 lead so far. Not really seeing a lot of continuous effort from our guys, coasting.

 

[Antiillafire]

Slafkovsky is so dynamic. Gonna be fun to see him this season

 

[JJTT]

Streams here: TV Online - Watch Sports Events Live

 

[tmlmatus]

typical slovaks.

 

[elMatador]

Marincin in his best useless impression from 2019 WCH.

 

[kudla]

Terrible game.

 

[ozo]

Terrible game.

If this victory is terrible, please find words that describe Belarus loss to Poland.

 

[kabidjan18]

Dont know how to describe what I feel. This is the disappointment that I expected to feel.

 

[ozo]

Dont know how to describe what I feel. This is the disappointment that I expected to feel.

Hello darkness my old friend?

 

[kudla]

If this victory is terrible, please find words that describe Belarus loss to Poland.

No words for that really

Dont know how to describe what I feel. This is the disappointment that I expected to feel.

Austria was pretty good, our bad powerplays could have easily cost us the game

 

[SoundAndFury]

Why is it funny? Poland is stronger than ever.

They are still a low-end D1A team at best and this "ethnic" roster could be much improved, in theory.

Poland is slightly underrated (which they have caused themselves by constantly underachieving in WC) but Belarus should still just absolutely crush them.

 

[Antiillafire]

Ramsay continues with questionable lines…

 

[tobu]

Lines did not click well, then again, many have played their first game in months.

I liked 4th line tbh. Defensivelly we looked alright.

 

[Fjorden]

Korea will not take any points in this group.
Just 4-1 but 49-9 in shots (Norway-Korea) is brutal.
We miss a good sniper to utilize all those shots, and all the puck possesion we had.

It's harder to open a up team that just wants to defend on the NHL rink(60x26 m) than on the international rink were you get more space for good skaters. But our physical players like Martinsen, Lilleberg and Lesund will be useful in this tournament on small ice.

Slovenia tomorrow will be a real test, they know how to play this game.

 

[NJ Fan 12]

Qualifier question. According to the IIHF website Great Britain and Kazakhstan won qualifiers in February but I don't see either country in the final groups or playing this weekend.

Are they done or is there more pre-Olympic play?