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Olympics: game thread - China vs USA

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This team China is fun to watch. They are physical as hell. I am also surprised by how decent the few native Chinese players in the line-up actually are.
 
China looking alright here, leaving their zone for big chunks of the period, threatening on goal and daring the refs to call a bunch of penalties.

Only silver lining with the NHL not going. As fun as it might have been and as much as they shouldn't have gifted China a spot it would just be silly to watch a fully loaded US/Canada put 10 goals on this team.
 
China looks great wow. Maybe they’ll start developing NHL players? But I doubt they keep it up I’m against USA Today, a lot to ask for with young players in the enemy country so I’m sure nerves played into it
 
AIexisLafreniereNYR said:
China looks great wow. Maybe they’ll start developing NHL players? But I doubt they keep it up I’m against USA Today, a lot to ask for with young players in the enemy country so I’m sure nerves played into it
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A lot of their team aren't born in China. Chris Chelios's son is on the team....With that being the case, they did it right by organizing this team early, and then playing in the KHL so get some experience underneath them.

I was also impressed with China, but this is a young American team that hasn't been playing together in the KHL, so I still wouldn't be shocked if we won by 4-5 goals.
 
I knew using too many NCAA guys would cause problems. The talent discrepancy is obvious between them and China, but many of the college guys are having difficulty handeling the physicality of grown men.
This could be disasterous vs the upper tier teams.
 
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QMT said:
A lot of their team aren't born in China. Chris Chelios's son is on the team....With that being the case, they did it right by organizing this team early, and then playing in the KHL so get some experience underneath them.

I was also impressed with China, but this is a young American team that hasn't been playing together in the KHL, so I still wouldn't be shocked if we won by 4-5 goals.
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China has a few young players born in China, and they are looking surprisingly good.
The team US certainly lacks something in physicality (a lot of college players there), but I'd better watch those guys that just a bunch of 35 y.o. ex-NHLers. This tournament shouldn't be taken completely seriously (my opinion), it is just for fun of the game but doesn't say much about the state of hockey in the participating countries.
 
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BigBadBoar said:
China has a few young players born in China, and they are looking surprisingly good.
The team US certainly lacks something in physicality (a lot of college players there), but I'd better watch those guys that just a bunch of 35 y.o. ex-NHLers. This tournament shouldn't be taken completely seriously (my opinion), it is just for fun of the game but doesn't say much about the state of hockey in the participating countries.
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Hard for me to take international tournaments when you don't allow the best players in the world to compete.

Olympics with NHLers is amazing. This....this is nice to see the upcoming prospects.
 
QMT said:
A lot of their team aren't born in China. Chris Chelios's son is on the team....With that being the case, they did it right by organizing this team early, and then playing in the KHL so get some experience underneath them.

I was also impressed with China, but this is a young American team that hasn't been playing together in the KHL, so I still wouldn't be shocked if we won by 4-5 goals.
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Yeah seeing American/Canadian players play for USA is pretty wack. But whatever. I totally expect USA to keep dominating. Just didn’t expect this from Chinese hockey. They play pretty well regardless if it’s against our B/C level players.
 
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Hanji said:
I knew using too many NCAA guys would cause problems. The talent discrepancy is obvious between them and China, but many of the college guys are having difficulty handeling the physicality of grown men.
This could be disasterous vs the upper tier teams.
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The NCAA players are mostly grown men. This isn't the WJC team.
 
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