GDT: Germany Vs Canada | 12/26 @ 6PM ET | TSN/NHLN

[Boonk]

Lol obviously Canada's hockey dominance has generated some serious sodium.

Not salty, just sarcastic lol. The same incident happened at the Hlinka tournament a couple years ago with the same players in the same building.

Lol obviously Canada's hockey dominance has generated some serious sodium.

 

[HugoSimon]

This is sports. The best team wins. You play the entire game. Medals are given to the top 3 teams.

If you're counting blow up dolls as scoring, I'm sorry bro you ain't winning.

 

[lawrence]

4-2 Canada

 

[Angry Hockey Dad]

If you're counting blow up dolls as scoring, I'm sorry bro you ain't winning.

Haha yep my blowup dolls will definitely vouch for me. I won.

 

[Tomas W]

Ouch! That score

 

[Advanced stats]

If I was a German player I'd be more embarrassed if the Canadians stopped playing hard than having them run up the score.

I know from personal experience that it's absolutely humiliating when your opponent has to lower themselves down to your standards to make you feel half decent.

When I play anything at all, I want my opponent at 100% even if I lose 100-2.

 

[Nut Upstrom]

Maybe we know why Seider didn’t want to play on this German team?

If Seider had played, Germany wins this game 2-1

 

[HugoSimon]

If I was a German player I'd be more embarrassed if the Canadians stopped playing hard than having them run up the score.

I know from personal experience that it's absolutely humiliating when your opponent has to lower themselves down to your standards to make you feel half decent.

When I play anything at all, I want my opponent at 100% even if I lose 100-2.

I don't think anyone is recommending rolling over and playing dead.

How about simply playing 14 players in the 3rd well after the goal differential was set.

They lost 3-5 to finland last night. People are high on goof balls if they think we're 11 goals better than finland.

This is exactly the kind of arrogance that'll knock us out of the tournament.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

As a life long Canadian hockey fan I'm left both embarrassed and humiliated tonight. Not a good look at all. On the team and as hosts.

Disguting.

The scored 5 goals on 5 shots at one point. What did you want them to do, dump it into the corner all period and just stand in the neutral zone? Canada wasn't even trying that hard and every single shot was going in.

Every single time Canada wins big at these tournaments, you have posts like the above about being embarrassed. It's ridiculous. As long as they're not showboating or taunting the other team, why would you be "embarrassed" by them scoring a lot of goals? Especially when they weren't even trying that hard. They just happened to score on pretty much every shot they took.

People being "embarrassed" is what makes me embarrassed to be a Canadian.

 

[garbageteam]

If Seider had played, Germany wins this game 2-1

And Reichel, Ancicka and basically a quarter of the rest of their squad. But then if Dach and Lafreniere were on it'd be back to a similar scoreline... maybe 8-2, given how Germany just looked completely gassed and just gave up goals for free halfway through the game.

I didn't mind that 14-0 beatdown Canada gave Denmark a couple of years back, hell even watched the entire game at a bar, but something about playing a much weaker squad already, that then is missing far more of their roster than you are doesn't sit right with me.

Sure the game should still be played and both sides should give it their all, but doesn't mean I have to watch it. I tuned out by the end of period 1 when it looked obvious Germany had nothing left in the tank.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

I can absolutely guarantee you that none of the German players are pissed off about Canada running up the score.

They will be pissed that they gave up 16.

However, They would be even more pissed if Canada had let up or toyed with them they way I might with my 7 year old. Now that would be disrespectful, although that seems to be what some wanted them to do.

There were 14 German players dressed. The rest are quarantined.

IIHF allowed them the option to play this game at a later date in which they'd be playing a back to back with a more winnable opponent like Slovakia.

Germany declined, because they figured Canada would beat them anyways, and they could use the rest against Slovakia.

So the 14 German players went and played like they were gonna lose anyways.

 

[llwyd]

Not classy at all. And some of those celebrations...

 

[Startseva]

Canadians thinking they are cool by winning like that lol.

 

[JoVel]

Canadians thinking they are cool by winning like that lol.

Yeah that's why they scored. They wanted to be with the cool kids.

 

[um]

I’ll never understand these back to backs the IIHF schedules... Germany never had a chance.

Is it so hard to add ONE extra day so there are no back to backs in the round robin?

 

[kk87]

As a life long Canadian hockey fan I'm left both embarrassed and humiliated tonight. Not a good look at all. On the team and as hosts.

Disguting.

Man, with all due respect, this is just a garbage take. This blowout was facilitated by three factors - a stark skill discrepancy between the teams, an exhausted and short staffed German team, and some truly awful goaltending. Those were the unfortunate circumstances, which were the fault of no one in particular. What’s the alternative to taking shots that just keep going in? Either a) continually give the puck away and lose board battles intentionally, or b) cycle in the o zone continuously as a way of not getting shots on net, to ensure you don’t run up the score. Either way, you’d look like ***holes. To add to that, it’s Canada’s first game of the tournament and they’re trying to figure out their systems, develop chemistry, and avoid bad habits - only way to do that is to work hard and play the game they know. If they were hot dogging after the 15th goal in front of the German bench it’d be a different story, but anyone who claims running up the score is inherently “classless” should really reconsider that stance.

 

[Dack]

The US Austria game was far more lopsided than this one. The Austrian goalies played fantastic while the German goalies had what was probably the worst night of their careers.

 

[llwyd]

but anyone who claims running up the score is inherently “classless” should really reconsider that stance.

It is if Europeans do it.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Canadians thinking they are cool by winning like that lol.

Well, aren't we?

 

[ORRFForever]

I can't believe 2 painfully lopsided games are creating so much debate/discussion.

 

[Canada4Gold]

I’ll never understand these back to backs the IIHF schedules... Germany never had a chance.

Is it so hard to add ONE extra day so there are no back to backs in the round robin?

1. They already added a day, maybe you noticed the tournament started on Christmas this year
2. Because there's 5 teams in each pool you would still have some back to backs if you added another day and had 8 days of round robin as well, because any day you had 2 games from 1 pool you'd have to take the next day off entirely because there's only 1 team that didn't play the day before. So you'd be limiting yourself to essentially 1 game per pool per day(you could either do 1 and then do 1 then next day or do 2 and take the next day off, either way 2 games every 2 days plus the double game days on the ends). 9 is possible with 2 arenas and no games at all on odd numbered days but for entertainment reasons I doubt that would ever fly. With teams A-E a schedule for each pool might look like this

24th: AB CD
25th: -
26th: AE BC
27th: -
28th: DE AC
29th: -
30th: AD BE
31st: -
1st: BD EC

Adding 3 days onto the regular tournament schedule(we usually don't play on Christmas), just to have no play at all every other day seems like a bad plan that would never happen. You could add a 4th extra day and then have 10 days and the off days for 1 pool are the game days for another but now we're getting close to doubling the length of the round robin so we can avoid a couple back to backs, seems like overkill and never going to happen

TL;DR: With an odd number of teams in each pool, back to backs are inevitable.

 

[snowkiddin]

Surprised Finland had so much trouble with Germany. Canada will sleepwalk to first place in this division

 

[snowkiddin]

I’m embarrassed for a lot of people in this thread. This is best-on-best hockey. You played to the final buzzer. This game would’ve been a lot closer with even semi-competent goaltending from the Germans. Canada scored about ten goals on absolute nothing shots.

 

[DamonDRW]

That was a historic performance by Canada! Watched it closely till the last second. On days like these we all clearly see how dominant you are and envy you with passion.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Didn't Canadians once blame Russians in trying to score as many goals as possible in a meaningless situation? Like it was unethical or so?

I don't remember exactly when and where it happened, just vague memories and nothing more. I can be wrong about the whole thing.