GDT: Gold medal game: Finland vs USA; Jan 5., 2025; 19:30 EST

[awegrzyn]

Cole HUTSON leading the stats. In first year of 14U here in New Jersey he was below average on the Avalanche team. Insane jump in development.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Buium, Leonard, Nelson, Perreault, Augustine, Moore & Carle. What a legacy.

Finns were great. No scrappy underdogs, just a machine of a team with a lot of talent.

Respect to Ottawa for showing up and bringing passion despite a disappointing tournament from TC.

Best hockey of the year. Delivers every year. See you next year in St. Paul, hope my hometown brings the same energy and excitement that Ottawa provided. Canada is going to have a wagon of a team and be out for blood

My advice ... you and every hockey fan you know (and I *KNOW* MN is full of them) needs to buy tickets on Day 1.

Otherwise every Canadian Prairie hockey fan will gobble them up.

 

[OilersFanatics505]

That's what I mean. Knowing there was no shootout due to the gold medal game rules, they didn't try and force the issue more than necessary and were content to circle around to hold the puck. Forcing the issue because you want to settle it before a shootout often leads to mistakes that create 2 on 1s, breakaways or even 2 on 0s.

Ah ok it was worded weird. I wasn’t picking that up.

 

[Mighty Makar]

Congrats to the Americans. They have a solid team.

 

[TonsofPuppies]

80% of the crowd was Canadian fans there to cheer against the US, it's pathetic honestly.

I mean, are we going to pretend that if the US was hosting a final with Canada against any other team except maybe Russia, that they wouldn't be cheering against Canada? This is such a stupid thing to be bothered by.

They didn't buy tickets to cheer against USA either. You have to buy your tickets in advance before you even know who is in the finals. They were already paid for, before even Canada was knocked out.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

I mean, are we going to pretend that if the US was hosting a final with Canada against any other team except maybe Russia, that they wouldn't be cheering against Canada? This is such a stupid thing to be bothered by.

They didn't buy tickets to cheer against USA either. You have to buy your tickets in advance before you even know who is in the finals. They were already paid for, before even Canada was knocked out.

Canadian still mad that the U.S. tried unsuccessfully to invade them twice.
I believe that fact that you burned down our White House would make it even though?
Let it go already.
According to Nostradamus two nations joined at the pole will unite one day. What’s another 7 stars on a flag, or maybe maple leafs?
Welcome neighbor!

 

[Steve Kournianos]

Pour one out for the booing Canadians wearing Hockey Canada jerseys who bought advanced tickets for the last two days yet had no choice but to either eat a few hundred bucks and go home, or spend a few hundred more to stay overnight in Ottawa and watch the Americans win their tournament in their building.

Rough weekend.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

Godmornig, Congrats USA!

 

[troyerlaw]

We’ve also got Mateiko. And Sikora. Y’all gonna love us for years to come.

And Hutson. He and Leonard will land super quick in Most Punchable Faces threads

 

[Ryder71]

USA All the way, what else do I have to say?

All respect to you as an actual Finland fan. Other guy is just a Canadian trying to diminish the USA victory, I've had enough of that.

TEAM USA winning in Canada tastes delicious!

 

[Ryder71]

Military Superpower
Economic Superpower
Hockey Superpower

100% my man!

 

[End on a Hinote]

Never realized how much Canadians hate USA Hockey until watching the semifinal & gold medal games. Good grief. Where did Team USA touch you?

Obviously they were overwhelmed with all the class and respect you guys are known to show us whenever we win, that they couldn't handle the stress of it all and had to let it out.

 

[Ryder71]

The TSN announcers couldn’t sound less enthusiastic if they tried lol

Sour grapes and all.

I gotta commend the fins though, one hell of a game by them!

Obviously they were overwhelmed with all the class and respect you guys are known to show us whenever we win.

Which is why it's so surprising that they acted so petulant, ill mannered and obtuse.

 

[PaulD]

This gimmick

Couldn't agree more

No one is playing after
They are flooding the ice and doing a full intermission
Just play to sudden death at 5 on 5 then

ya mean 3 on 3

 

[End on a Hinote]

Which is why it's so surprising that they acted so petulant, ill mannered and obtuse.

Yeah, kinda reminds me of another fanbase...

 

[PaulD]

This gimmick

Couldn't agree more

No one is playing after
They are flooding the ice and doing a full intermission
Just play to sudden death at 5 on 5 then

Fans filled the arena and we're rocking the place. Then at times during 3 on 3 were booing.
OT gold medal on the line an 3 on 3 drew booing from the crowd.
That's says it all about ending at tourney with 3 on 3 gimmick play.
The crowd was actually booing at times.

 

[Ryder71]

Hockey is Americas game

Great game, tremendous result!

lol Beautiful!

 

[PaulD]

OMG Seriously, Americans have no right to call anyone else arrogant. LOL

no kidding

 

[End on a Hinote]

What would it take to make Canada competitive in this tournament again? Finland, Sweden, US, and Czechia gonna have to start sending their B and C rosters instead?

I love how Canada went back-to-back just two years ago, and people are talking shit as if we just got relegated or something.

Setting the bar higher for us and lower for yourselves as usual.

 

[PaulD]

Sour grapes and all.

I gotta commend the fins though, one hell of a game by them!


Which is why it's so surprising that they acted so petulant, ill mannered and obtuse.

pretending to be surprised...... that's a good one

 

[heynowbababooey]

I love how Canada went back-to-back just two years ago, and people are talking shit as if we just got relegated or something.

Well....not even getting a medal 2 years in a row.....

 

[PaulD]

Man, Rimpinen was robbed of some individual hardware. He willed Finland to its win in the semis and made so many stellar saves in the finals despite his team’s loss.

also the best player on the ice 3 on 3.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Well....not even getting a medal 2 years in a row.....

That's happened to literally ever other country but nobody talks about how they "suck" at hockey when it happens like they do with Canada.

 

[Ryder71]

Congrats to the Americans. They have a solid team.

We do indeed!