Olympics: Game Thread - Switzerland vs. ROC 02/09/2022

[Shawn Heins 44]

And the stick right to Weber's face and no penalty...

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

Nice saves by Berra

 

[SoundAndFury]

This might be the most Switzerland game I have seen Switzerland play. Not gonna lie, it is frustrating as hell, I can only imagine how it is to the Swiss people.

Mother of God...

 

[Namejs]

How the f*** did he not score there

 

[Jon Riley]

How. Why?

 

[swissdude]

Herzog is better in ending careers than score in empty nets...

 

[Shawn Heins 44]

This might be the most Switzerland game I have seen Switzerland play. Not gonna lie, it is frustrating as hell, I can only imagine how it is to the Swiss people.

You summed it up pretty much, frustrating as hell, but we are also kind of used to it.

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

Damn, a sure goal

 

[Oberyn Martell]

Switzerland should have pulled the goalie there

 

[Jon Riley]

...f*** Me.

 

[nickp91]

This has been a good game

 

[SoundAndFury]

Ok watching the replay it was not that easy but good lord...

On the other hand, Russia has looked exactly how I expected them to look. Some good players, some bad players. All their opponents will have chances, this team isn't dominating anyone.

 

[Pandaman11]

Swiss throwback to Sochi 2014, where like every game they played finished 1-0 or 0-1

 

[Shawn Heins 44]

Yeah we should have gotten a point at least but overall an encouraging start to the tournament. Sure Berra kept us in the game but it is good to know he is on that level. We had enough chances for a goal and still everything is possible for us.

 

[Luolis]

Tough loss for Switzerland. Great game to watch however and i can only hope we have more in store!

 

[Pandaman11]

I'd expect a team wearing Florida Panthers jerseys to score more goals, like 6 or 7

 

[Pandaman11]

still everything is possible for us.

Yeah, that's the good thing about this format: you can lose all three group games 0-10 and still win Gold

 

[swissdude]

the expected lack of scoring at least they created opportunities, hope malgin gets released from covid protocol we need anybody who can score, but all in all it wasn't that bad of an opening game

 

[Speyer]

Fischer should have taken more risk and pulled Berra earlier. Lack of finishing skills outside of Hofmann and Andrighetto are obvious. At least Berra looked good; he should be the number one goaltender for the rest of the tournament.

 

[Jon Riley]

Not a bad match all in all, lazy first period, very good second period and ok third even though they looked gassed at times.
Berra very solid, he's always been doing the big saves, but this time he was also very calm and focused, that's a good sign.
Big match by Bertschy, as usual. I expect more from Hofmann, he has to be the star of this team. Defense pretty solid, a couple of shaky moment from Loeffel/Weber (if I remember correct) but all in all pretty ok.
We need the goals.

 

[vorky]

 

[FlyguyOX]

How did Voronkov, Gritstyuk, and Nikishin look

 

[lawrence]

It's just me, I like the penalty review with video. They want to get it right.

 

[Nico13]

Not a bad game but we can't score.

 

[ViD]

Expected for Russia to have an underwhelming game. I think they should start clicking by game 3 or so

 

[Pasha71]

Russia got lucky on the fluke goal and Herzog's miss, but overall, it's a better start than four years ago when they lost the first game.