Olympics: Final qualification - 26 to 29 August 2021

[Eye of Ra]

if belarus wins over slovakia and poland wins over austria, its poland in olympics?

 

[JoernAZ]

4-2 Zuccarello. Penalty shot. He makes it look way too easy.

 

[JoernAZ]

6-2 Norway. 2nd period over. Olimb brothers making it happen.

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Maybe Slovenia used to much Energi yesterday.

Don’t look near as strong as they did against Denmark.

Plus, think the refs have been kind to Norway.

Afraid they win Sunday.

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Norway doing Norway, stay defenisve, and wait for the opposition to make mistakes.

 

[JoernAZ]

Norway the better team all in all. More aggressive, good forecheck and net pressure. Sidenote, Kopitar has won all his face offs so far...

 

[JoernAZ]

Norway doing Norway, stay defenisve, and wait for the opposition to make mistakes.

Kind of yes. Difference being that their defensive line is way higher than before.

 

[Namejs]

Yeah, I'm holding on to what I said about our chances earlier.

15-0 GD after 2 games

 

[JoernAZ]

Will surely be interesting to follow D Kåsastul on his venture stateside. Ontario Reign.

 

[JoernAZ]

6-4 already. Slovenia has not given up.

 

[NJ Fan 12]

Will surely be interesting to follow D Kåsastul on his venture stateside. Ontario Reign.

Where did you see that? Eliteprospects has him playing in ECHL with Greenville.

 

[Glennsoe]

Why did Norway get a penalty when theire goalie was beside his goal yet Slovenias goal does this often..

 

[Pasha71]

Interesting. Poland can't qualify now, but they can still make life more difficult for Belarus if they beat Austria in regulation. If they do so, Belarus will have to beat Slovakia by three or more goals, which is pretty much impossible. Otherwise, a mere regulation-time win will do, which is still very difficult but more possible...

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Kind of yes. Difference being that their defensive line is way higher than before.

Hey nothing against it, Norway does it well, and it often works.

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Yeah, I'm holding on to what I said about our chances earlier.

15-0 GD after 2 games

Weakest group by far.

Denmark beat France 8-2 last week.

And Italy and Hungary are weak as hell.

Latvia will for sure qualify, but wouldn’t put too much into that 15-0
gd.

 

[JoernAZ]

Where did you see that? Eliteprospects has him playing in ECHL with Greenville.

That is true. But he will be joining the Reign for training camp etc. As I understood it, he expected to get icetime in AHL the coming season.

 

[JoernAZ]

That is true. But he will be joining the Reign for training camp etc. As I understood it, he expected to get icetime in AHL the coming season.

And as I write, he scores...

 

[JoernAZ]

Hey nothing against it, Norway do it well, and it often works.

Indeed. Its not often I have seen Norway being able to stay in the offensive zone as long as they have in this game. Not when the opponent is as "good" as they are.

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Indeed. Its not often I have seen Norway being able to stay in the offensive zone as long as they have in this game. Not when the opponent is as "good" as they are.

I don’t know if Slovenia are good, their stars are getting up there.

And against Denmark, it was more Denmark being lazy, not good, than Slovenia being good.

 

[Name Nameless]

Just home from Norway-Slovenia. Trying to find out what happened with Zuccarello, if they saved him in the third, or if something bad happened...

 

[JoernAZ]

Just home from Norway-Slovenia. Trying to find out what happened with Zuccarello, if they saved him in the third, or if something bad happened...

Head coach said that they made a decision to let him rest out the 3rd. It is an injury, but precautions were made. 95% certainty he will play sunday.

 

[JoernAZ]

I don’t know if Slovenia are good, their stars are getting up there.

And against Denmark, it was more Denmark being lazy, not good, than Slovenia being good.

Difficult to say really. Hard to say if Norway was simply better or Slovenia very bad. I guess we will know more in two days...

 

[JoernAZ]

Head coach said that they made a decision to let him rest out the 3rd. It is an injury, but precautions were made. 95% certainty he will play sunday.

 

[AstrophysicalJet]

Dofficult to say really. Hard to say if Norway was simply better or Slovenia very bad. I guess er will know more in two days...

Denmark are better player by player, and individually, Norway works better as a unit.

Think Norway takes it.

 

[JoernAZ]

Denmark are better player by player, and individually, Norway works better as a unit.

Think Norway takes it.

Hope so. Nothing I want more is to see norwegian players taking further steps, and hopefully take the step in to the best league in the world... We do have some talent these days. Lots of work need to be done, but we are closer. Beating Denmark on sunday will definitely help.