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

[Revelation]

No one in this thread cares.

You do enough to respond lol

 

[Fantomas]

Russia in 2022 for back-to-back golds, byatchas.

Panarin - Malkin - Tarasenko
Gusev - Namestnikov - Kucherov
Kaprizov - Kuznetsov - Svechnikov
Volkov - Svetlakov - Buchnevich

Provorov - Voynov
Gavrikov - Sergachev
Rykov - Tryamkin
Zadorov - Zaitsev

Vasilevski - Bobrovsky

 

[Master Yoda]

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

I didn't know they gave a fake gold medal because NHL players didn't participate?

 

[Firsov99]

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

You've misconstrued my post. I am not trying to say that Russia is as good in hockey as Canada. A lot of posters have said that the gold medal for OAR won't count for Russia (and officially it probably won't), but NBCSN announcers keep saying that it does count. I just find it ironic and hilarious.

 

[SniperHF]

I'd rather not have to go through and delete a giant Joe Thornton derail so cut it off now please.

 

[Fantomas]

Watching the medal ceremony on an NBC feed now. CBC can eat itself.

 

[Kap-the-Head]

Go figure- Russia won one medal in 5 Olympics with NHL’ers and they basically win one with basically a bunch of no names.

First of all, two medals - 1998 and 2002... Second, Russia was in the same boat as all the other nations, with the best players in the NHL.
Third, Congrats Germany for outstanding game! I hope Germany will continue to propel on the hockey world stage based on this performance.
P.S. Was good to see all those ex-Sharks players

 

[Captain Bowie]

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

Who, CBC? There's another event still on with Canadians participating. They've shown very few medal ceremonies through these olympics.

 

[illpucks]

Russia in 2022 for back-to-back golds, byatchas.

Panarin - Malkin - Tarasenko
Gusev - Namestnikov - Kucherov
Kaprizov - Kuznetsov - Svechnikov
Volkov - Svetlakov - Buchnevich

Provorov - Voynov
Gavrikov - Sergachev
Rykov - Tryamkin
Zadorov - Zaitsev

Vasilevski - Bobrovsky

Are u trolling by leaving out Ovechkin?

 

[StreetHawk]

I kind of want to go to bed and skip the medal ceremony, but I'm curious to see what it's like when it's the Olympic flag that's raised and the Olympic anthem that's played instead of the Russian ones. That should be interesting.



It's an oar. Get it? OAR. Actually, I still don't get it.

I think a Russian won gold in figure skating.

 

[Bizz]

Russia in 2022 for back-to-back golds, byatchas.

Panarin - Malkin - Tarasenko
Gusev - Namestnikov - Kucherov
Kaprizov - Kuznetsov - Svechnikov
Volkov - Svetlakov - Buchnevich

Provorov - Voynov
Gavrikov - Sergachev
Rykov - Tryamkin
Zadorov - Zaitsev

Vasilevski - Bobrovsky

Ovechkin traded to Canada (e4)

 

[IamNotADancer]

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.

"Taint it"? You mean, "putting it into perspective".

 

[Eisen]

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?

Do I have any problem admitting that? I have never commented on that. For the record, I don't care about the quality of competition. It's the Olympics.
By the way, which country is not full of bandwagoners?
And when you lived in Germany, you knew we didn't celebrate the pope.

 

[ottawarenegader613]

Is CBC not showing the Russians celebrate or post game? What gives

Typical CBC and their BS, despite their good Olympic broadcast as always.

 

[Fantomas]

Are u trolling by leaving out Ovechkin?

Oversight, but I prefer a younger team.

 

[PG Canuck]

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.

You know us Canadians should be more humble about things like this. It was a massive upset. Just like if Canada beat Germany in football, which will never happen because Canada is garbage at football.

Hey this is easy!

 

[BMOK33]

So basically whenever the NHL does not go minus 1994 the Russians will win

 

[Hutz]

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

I am Canadian. I thoroughly enjoyed that game, it was amazing and more that I'd hoped for in a goal medal game. The wrong team won for me, but other than Canada being a part of that game, I couldn't ask for anything more from a gold medal game. Well done Germany!!! That was a heck of a lot of fun.

 

[NyQuil]

Congratulations Russia!

 

[Fantomas]

Medal ceremony happening now.

 

[PenDuhNotPittsburgh]

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.

Most people don't even follow the game if we're honest.
Most Russian "fans" follow the hockey tournaments as muchs as those German chicks who will get dressed up every four years for the football WC,cause they think it's "cute", so obviously they don't understand that NHLers are missing changes everything

 

[LastOne2100]

So basically whenever the NHL does not go minus 1994 the Russians will win

Pretty sure the entire world knew this was coming. Except Germany .

 

[Vipers31]

I'm feeling reminded me of that South Park episode, where the Red Wings end up playing a pee wee team for the Stanley Cup, and end up celebrating, falling into parents' arms, etc. Just minus the massacre before. Or at least a different kind of mental massacre.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Russia in 2022 for back-to-back golds, byatchas.

Panarin - Malkin - Tarasenko
Gusev - Namestnikov - Kucherov
Kaprizov - Kuznetsov - Svechnikov
Volkov - Svetlakov - Buchnevich

Provorov - Voynov
Gavrikov - Sergachev
Rykov - Tryamkin
Zadorov - Zaitsev

Vasilevski - Bobrovsky

If that's in a best on best NHL players, that blueline is pretty weak.

Not to mention it wouldn't be a repeat, OAR won in 2018, not Russia.

 

[Lempo]

Germans smiling a bit already whilst receiving the silver medals.