We still have 4 games left :
Kazakhstan, Germany , Latvia and ... Finland.
All are beatable ... let's not spin into delirious territory ! as per Finland ... well they are also in doubts !
We played ok minus vs a good Russia, we played ok plus vs the US but the gods of hockey and their priests (refs) didn't want us to get the points and we played poorly against Belorussian.
Now, we have the weakest teams ahead. (+ Finland ... but they also are runnning into some psycho-something so ... who will be most psycho ?? although they lost to Russia and Latvia so no need to become crazy again)
Of course we could loose everything ... the likelyhood is still that we win all the remaining games. We may even end up in the QF !!
QF is 4 teams !!We only lost 3 games so far. Assuming we win all others ... we could be in the QF ... .
All this to say that we didn't start well ... but ... it is always more difficult to start well when you play first Russia, then the US (with their reffs) than if you start with Kazakhstan and ... Kazakhstan ;-) .
All this to say that if, from now on, we have a good tournament, we can still medal again
PS : i saw some light in the tunnel, against Russia, against the US and against the Bielorussian therefore i am not totally without hope. And ... hey ... we scored 5 goals in the past 2 games !! (7 if we count the 2 vs the US)
This team is still able to put something together.
sad ... although we have opened the floodgates ... we are not in excess of fire power.I remember him saying he would come to Minsk !
now the Wilds are eliminated. So that was a simple logical inspired quote.
Yet if he is not comming ...
... Whatever ... maybe i put a wrong info. sorry for that !
We have our priorities
Personally, I could see Ramholt replace one of the trio Seger/Blum/Grossmann:
i (bad positionning on both goals yesterday).
That's one more shift than he had in his NHL-career.
But you are right, that's not an easy thing to handle.
I thought Ramholt would be good enough to be a 7th/8th defenseman in this team, really disappointing performance from him.
On the bright side, the team was able to cut down the individual mistakes yesterday and it resulted in a much better defensive performace. The only players I'm still worried about are Seger (what happend to him? His play with ZSC didn't suggest he wouldn't be able to do it at this level anymore) and
Hopefully we see the same level of concentration tonight, and the fourth place will still be possible.
i. If you look at the two goals again you can see that for the first one, i covered his opponent the whole way to the crease. It would have been the responsability of a winger to cover the point man.i went to the puck-carrier in the corner and Weber was in front of the net. Weber then was just a little bit too slow to prevent the guy from driving from the back to the net to the front, but it was a very unfortunate goal to begin with...i has been very good defensively in my opinion, he´s always the first forward back in the own end and he backchecks hard. Offensively, he´s just not clicking with his linemates for whatever reason. I think the others are just too slow to get in on his ideas and that he is trying too much to keep to the system. He needs a winger like Wick on the Lions or Bodenmann (in a good shape) on the national team. The best candidate would be Brunner, but why split him and Romy. Maybe Fiala or a try-out of him and Suri.I Agreed about Seger, but not
i should have read the situation better, realise that there was already three men down and stay higher instead of gliding all the way to the goal line. It all started with Schlumpf's mistake, but Ambühl and Schlumpf reacted well to it and the goal could still have been prevented.The second goal is mostly on Weber.
