GDT: Gold Medal Game - February 25 - Russia vs Germany

[FinRanger]

It's 7 actually.
Sore losing Canadian eh?

Not Canadian. But I hate that people made it out to be some kind of cinderella story and viewed Canada as big bad Canada. Other has 400 best players in NHL and other 5 0r 7

 

[GermanNuck]

Born and raised in Germany. Lived there for 27 years. So tell me again, what difference does it make where I'm from? If you are a neutral observer you KNOW this tournament was crap hockey. Sure, nobody really denies it was exciting, but then again throwing toddlers in the ring seeing them duking it out can be exciting too.. doesn't mean it's great boxing though.

Don't let your patriotism cloud your judgement. Team Germany wouldn't have gotten out of the group stages if the NHL participated.

Well they didn't, what's the point? Russia, Canada, USA, they all have way more professional players with or without NHLers. Russia had 4 weeks to prepare, Germany 1 including traveling to Korea. It was a great run, it's silver in the end. If Canada had won they'd be boasting about their incredible depth and how they can ice 100000 teams that could beat any other team. Now little hockey Germany won silver, fought Russia until OT. It's a great day for German hockey, don't know why you're trying to taint it.

 

[Just Win]

This one is gonna hurt while.

But if you told me before the tournement we are gonna win Silver before the tournement i would have called you a crazy fool. I am really proud on what the team accomplished. Danke Jungs!

 

[Peiskos]

The play-by-play guy on NBCSN has just a said that Russia has matched Canada in the number of Olympic gold medals

LOL, except Canada wins its Olympic golds against the world best players.

 

[ovikovy817]

I was waiting for that gold for 20 years. I'm happy. Hasek and Svoboda won't haunt me anymore

 

[Del Preston]

I don't mean to blame one player for the collapse in the third but that Seidenberg guy screwed up real bad on the PP. He tried to blast a slapper through the two Russian forwards when he had a teammate open on his left and right. When the puck went out to centre he rushed it back to the Russian blue line and dumped it in. It's like he thought Germany was losing and in desperate need of a goal.

 

[Revelation]

you know **** about ****.

Lmao you're defending literally the biggest diver, choker and coward in NHL history.

 

[Fantomas]

In spite of my intense hate for Znarok and this team's preparation, this was a very exciting and satisfying way to win. I will be replaying this one a bunch of times in the future.

 

[BlitzSnipe]

It's official. I will hate and be very misangonist to every Russian I m'm gonna meet. Sad times

Not a good approach, you might find yourself in trouble.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Don't expect too much.

It's the best pro league outside of the NHL imo. Either them or the Swiss National League. At least from the games I have watched in the past.

 

[Zamboni Parade]

So for the next 30 years every national team game shown on German tv will have footage of Kaprizov scoring in OT instead of Draisait's puck not crossing the line in '92. Oh well I guess it's a step up

 

[heynowbababooey]

I was waiting for that gold for 20 years. I'm happy. Hasek and Svoboda won't haunt me anymore

You waited 20 years for a meaningless gold medal? How sad.

 

[PenDuhNotPittsburgh]

Born and raised in Germany. Lived there for 27 years. So tell me again, what difference does it make where I'm from? If you are a neutral observer you KNOW this tournament was crap hockey. Sure, nobody really denies it was exciting, but then again throwing toddlers in the ring seeing them duking it out can be exciting too.. doesn't mean it's great boxing though.

Don't let your patriotism cloud your judgement. Team Germany wouldn't have gotten out of the group stages if the NHL participated.

Actually not. Norway still sucks worse so.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Lmao you're defending literally the biggest diver, choker and coward in NHL history.

No one in this thread cares.

 

[c9gunner]

Fazel and Tretiak are presenting the medals.

 

[IamNotADancer]

That was only a headline in the most notorious and stupid tabloid. Nobody celebrated that.

Let's not kid ourselves. German's are huge bandwagon fans. I was born there, lived there for 3/4 of my life. If a German would suddenly dominate the World Wheelbarrow Racing Circuit they would stay up and watch it at 3 AM regardless of how silly it is.

Why is it so hard to admit that this tournament wasn't exactly a tournament that displayed the best hockey athletes in the world?

 

[Summer Rose]

"Hey, Germany. Would you like to play an overtime period with the chance to win the gold medal?"

Pre-tournament: "Are you f***ing high?"

Pre-gold-medal-game: "Sure!"

Pre-third-period: "I guess."

Pre-last-minute-of-the-game: "Nooooooooooooooooooooo!"

 

[Privet]

Where the hell are the medal ceremonies?

Agreed.. they didn’t show Russia celebrate or any of the medal stuff.. what gives?

 

[Bizz]

Lmao you're defending literally the biggest diver, choker and coward in NHL history.

show the rest of that game numbnuts where Datsyuk and Zetterberg flopping around the ice all damn game long and getting away with it.

 

[MOGlLNY]

North American's views and European views on international play are very different. So while Canadians and Americans make discount this Russian win, I'm sure it's very relevant to Russian fans. Congrats to them as well as they were clearly the best team in the tournament.

But Germany was the story of this tournament and I hope hockey can start to thrive there. It stings now, but what a story.

 

[kihei]

Exciting game. Happy that Pavel gets his triple. Gusev was awesome.

 

[EvilDead]

Thank Bettman for it . Each Team is each country's responsibility, you could've brought everyone you wanted, but something else seemed more important.

I wonder if NBC will try to "incentivize" Bettman to bring NHL players back for the Beijing Winter Games.

 

[ottawarenegader613]

That's was a great game. Congrats to Russia winning gold and Datsuyk on becoming the newest addition to the Triple Gold Club. Congratulations to Germany on getting a silver medal and making it all the way nearly pulling one of the greatest upsets in Olympic hockey history.

 

[PG Canuck]

Why did TSN go to highlights about the f***ing NHL after this game

f*** you

 

[Sevendust]

Nice to see Germany lose. Celebrated win over Canada like Gold medal (400 Canadians in NHL and only 5 Germans lol) and choked on pp 2 minutes left on the final. LOL. Deserved to lose.

Man, give it up. You are pathetic