GDT: Game 4: Canada Vs USA | 1PM EST 7PM CET | Can 6 - 4 USA

[bsu]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

 

[S E P H]

USA dominated maybe the first four minutes of the first. If you’re watching that game and not seeing slanted ice for 55 minutes, I don’t know what to tell you. The only support you’ll find in this thread is Atticus.

What? Canada didn't have a shot in the first 7 minutes of action. Actually their first wave of shots had to come on the PP because they were getting creamed 5v5.

If you thought they were the better team, that's totally fair. However, to say dominated is hilarious, but I know who you are. You're just the Canadian version of Atticus, so it doesn't surprise me.

 

[Mighty Makar]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

Don’t be salty. Take the loss and move on.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

They looked absolutely terrible 5 on 5

 

[Auston Marlander]

that's not the rule though. it's determined by where the puck crossed out of the field of play. That's at the boards, not the glass behind the bench. It was above where the glass would be when it went out of play. It was a blown call. simple as that.

When any player or goalkeeper, while in his defending zone, shoots the puck directly (non-deflected) out of the playing surface, except where there is no glass, a penalty shall be assessed for delaying the game. When the puck is shot into the players' bench, the penalty will not apply. When the puck is shot over the glass "behind" the players' bench, the penalty shall be assessed.

I have seen several instances of the puck over the glass and onto the bench called as no penalty. I have yet to see it called delay of game. The refs in the game also seemed to feel this way.

If it should be a penalty is a different conversation, I personally feel it should be. But as of now that hasnt been the case.

 

[bsu]

Don’t be salty. Take the loss and move on.

How am I being salty, I'm stating a fact.

Jack Drury played more minutes than Zegras and Turcotte combined

 

[koyvoo]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

After the first period it really didn’t look close at all

 

[Asymmetric Solution]

Didn’t get a chance to watch as I had work out west today. How’d Cozens look?

 

[mazmin]

Canada overcomes the bad start and finds their identity against an always tough opponent. There’s no better time for that to happen then the first period of the first game.

Canada is primed and ready to take Gold.

IMO Sweden is the threat no one outside of Sweden is hyping up.

 

[nucks88]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

Maybe they should play their best players against Germany then.....sort of a weird strategy though...

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

There were good people on both sides.

sure Don

 

[canuck2010]

Canada looked very fast overall. I thought they were the better team, but the USA were opportunistic. A guy like Kaliyev needs so little time to get a shot on net. Neither goalie was bad, nor excellent.
Hayton obviously enjoying playing with #11. I thought Veleno and Cozens looked good, and fast. Brink caught my eye a few times.

Dumb penalty by Dellandrea at a critical time. Surprised that Hunter had him out at the end...he's a better man than I.

Pretty much agree with all of what you have said with the one exception. Dellandrea is a top notch two way player. He can play D.

I wouldn't end my life over this one either. The first game between these two never counts for as much as the second.

 

[canuck2010]

Lol, what? They were both some of the best forwards for Canada today.

Not sure I agree; USA dominated first, Canada dominated second, and third was very even which ultimately came off a bad turnover by the Americans.

They started the first taking it to Canada but overall I have to give the first to Canada as far as carrying the play. Odd in a 2-0 game but there you are.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

Just throwing this out there but maybe , those best players don't know how to defend and they would get eaten up... You can say they'd have the puck and dominate but .. probably not from where I sit anyway. I think there is a reason we are seeing the lines the way they are. Do those guys Zegras, Turcotte, Caufield, Kaliyev have offensive talent no question. Maybe there has been some evaluation by those responsible for putting together a lineup on their play outside the offensive zone. ..

 

[canuck2010]

What? Canada didn't have a shot in the first 7 minutes of action. Actually their first wave of shots had to come on the PP because they were getting creamed 5v5.

If you thought they were the better team, that's totally fair. However, to say dominated is hilarious, but I know who you are. You're just the Canadian version of Atticus, so it doesn't surprise me.

Gawd Canada must have missed the net with so many shots in the first.

 

[canuck2010]

Just throwing this out there but maybe , those best players don't know how to defend and they would get eaten up... You can say they'd have the puck and dominate but .. probably not from where I sit anyway. I think there is a reason we are seeing the lines the way they are. Do those guys Zegras, Turcotte, Caufield, Kaliyev have offensive talent no question. Maybe there has been some evaluation by those responsible for putting together a lineup on their play outside the offensive zone. ..

Not sure that they have the overall 4 line depth either. Perhaps by loading up the first two lines they might be short the second two.

 

[aphyro]

Bahh Wahlström and Samuelsson should wear the yellow and the blue dress... are they 100% swedes or is their mothers americans and therfore chose to play with team US?

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Not sure that they have the overall 4 line depth either. Perhaps by loading up the first two lines they might be short the second two.

I would probably find a way to get at least Zegras and Caufield on PP1

 

[canuck2010]

Lafreniere is amazing. For a player of his age, size, and skill to play such a hard-working, physical game is unheard of.

Love Laf but also Byfield. At the moment in terms of the physical game Byfield is still a big puppy dog. He probably will add another 20 pounds in the next couple of years.

 

[SotasicA]

Fun game. High drama with the finish.

I love it. Greatest international tournament in hockey.

 

[Joe Zanussi]

Hopefully we play you again

 

[canuck2010]

I would probably find a way to get at least Zegras and Caufield on PP1

Agree.

 

[bobbythebrain]

Amazed USA didn't play their best players and the game was this close.

That US program is starting to look overrated. If Canada had Dach to boot it would be embarrassing

 

[Dominance]

What? Canada didn't have a shot in the first 7 minutes of action. Actually their first wave of shots had to come on the PP because they were getting creamed 5v5.

If you thought they were the better team, that's totally fair. However, to say dominated is hilarious, but I know who you are. You're just the Canadian version of Atticus, so it doesn't surprise me.

That’s the worst insult ever leveled against me. Completely untrue as the briefest of searches through my post history would illustrate.

Disagreement is one thing but making it personal just makes you look like a fool. Especially considering that you’re misquoting me, as I only said that the Americans “dominated” the first part of the first period, and then the ice was generally “slanted” 5 v 5 in Canada’s favour the rest of the way, as any review of this thread and the comments of quality USA fans within it demonstrates as accurate.

There’s the door.

 

[Dominance]

That US program is starting to look overrated. If Canada had Dach to boot it would be embarrassing

It was a one goal game. Canada didn’t have Dach or Dobson, USA didn’t have Hughes or Farabee. USA misused some of their best players. Let’s not make this into something it isn’t.

#CanadianAtticus