GDT: Four Nations

[Gm0ney]

He is supposed to score goals though, he has to be the slowest skater of all 4 teams as well.

Oh, Laine looks terrible. Like Logan Stanley on RW...

 

[Jets 31]

Slightly less godawful than Connor in this tournament...

	5v5 TOI	CF-CA	CF%	GF-GA	GF%	xGF-xGA	xGF%
Laine	37:56	18-23	44%	2-3	40%	0.54-0.97	36%
Connor	34:57	22-42	34%	1-2	33%	0.79-1.94	30%

Not good but i will take Connor on my team over Laine all day and twice on Sunday's .

 

[Jets 31]

Still prematurely balding.

And trying to grow a mustache.

 

[The Blue Baron]

Funny to hear talk about the Canada goalie crisis when 3 of the top 5 save percentages this year are Cdn goalies... and 8 options better than the trio we chose...

Even Binnington's backup has better stats than him - bizarre

At the very least Adin Hill should have been the starter

It is less bizarre when you know Doug “Doogie” Armstrong is TC GM. It is bloody political BS Sin Binner is the goalie. He clearly does not deserve this, not even close. If Canada loses, Not great but I won’t feel disappointed much.

 

[ps241]

Cooper's post game interview yesterday was a bit telling to me. When asked about Sam Reinhart he was very deliberate in praising how Sam puts up big points but he "does not cheat the game to do it". He said its rare to see a player who got 57 goals last season (with 10 more in the playoffs) and has 31 goals this season but is a very good defensive forward still. I think one of the points of emphasis on constructing this forward group was elite superstars + skilled two way forwards, as well as a few role players. They didn't take one dimensional scoring forwards.

I have also been impressed with how hard McDavid and MacKinnon have come back to support defense.

 

[BobTheSolarsystem]

He's so deep in his net that the fresh fishmongers said they'd pay extra for him.

Friggin fishmongers.

 

[CorgisPer60]

Bill Guerin does the impossible and makes it possible for me to hate the Minnesota Wild even more. Wonder what the "stick to sports" crowd thinks of this.

 

[Whileee]

Per an ESPN article on best ever American goalies, the book on scoring on Hellebuyck is essentially "if he sees it, he will save it." I think it was Quick who said that's what they said in the pre-game video meetings about him.

I'm guessing that JoMo doesn't have a whole lot more to add.

Meanwhile, the current scouting report on Binnington is "if you shoot it at him and he sees it he'll probably save it, so try to shoot the puck where he isn't. That's his big weakness."

 

[voyageur]

This reminds me of beer league hockey where people bring in the ringers for the finals lol

How did they do it though? They still have 6 d-men, is he replacing the potential loss of 2 forwards? Are the U.S just trying to hide Adam Fox for the final game?

 

[Skidooboy]

Bill Guerin does the impossible and makes it possible for me to hate the Minnesota Wild even more. Wonder what the "stick to sports" crowd thinks of this.

HF Boards "No Politics in Hockey"


The USA think threatening another country is inspiring.

f*** THAT SHITHOLE f***ING RY

 

[BobTheSolarsystem]

It is less bizarre when you know Doug “Doogie” Armstrong is TC GM. It is bloody political BS Sin Binner is the goalie. He clearly does not deserve this, not even close. If Canada loses, Not great but I won’t feel disappointed much.

Yeah him, Sweeney, Cooper and DeBoer seem to have combined for a perfect storm...

Parayko/Binnington here because they are Armstrong's legacy picks
Thompson not here because of deBoer and Cassidy
Vegas, Florida and Tampa overplayed due to familiarity

Bill Guerin does the impossible and makes it possible for me to hate the Minnesota Wild even more. Wonder what the "stick to sports" crowd thinks of this.

Too late to call up Tom Wilson?

 

[Buffdog]

Meanwhile, the current scouting report on Binnington is "if you shoot it at him and he sees it he'll probably save it, so try to shoot the puck where he isn't. That's his big weakness."

Based on the goals I've seen that he's let in, Bennington is just as likely to let one in if you shoot it at him as not. They're going under his arms, under his stick, etc. Basically going through him