PGT: Gold Medal Game - May 21 - Canada (1) vs Sweden (2) (SO) Part II

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Make a World Cup out of it. That's the kind of tournaments North Americans like.

We're also pretty fond of the Olympics.

 

[PTmbp13]

Great game. Swedes got the better goalie. Karma, Travis karma is a ..
i thought no team played ugly except Travis thing.

Great game.

 

[aphyro]

We're also pretty fond of the Olympics.

To bad NHL going to screw us over when it comes to Olympics

 

[bDtKarlsson]

We're also pretty fond of the Olympics.

Sweden missed their 3 top centers + first and second captain in the final game

 

[aphyro]

Sweden missed their 3 top centers + first and second captain in the final game

Well Olympics is not going to be the same tbh without NHL players

 

[Eye of Ra]

Well Olympics is not going to be the same tbh without NHL players

but surely you will still watch it?

 

[Canuck21t]

Versus:

Crosby, McDavid, Tavares, Seguin, Benn, Weber, Letang, Giordano, Subban, Burns, Price, Getzlaf...

I mean, there's a pretty big gap between the players Sweden was missing and Canada was missing.

Make a team out of the players Canada is missing, versus the players Sweden is missing, and Canada probably wins by 10+.

Do you realize how pathetic this excuse is? And it's getting old since EVERY FREAKING YEAR this comes up.

When Canada wins, fans like you say: "This is only our D team and we still won."
When Canada loses, fans say: "This is our D team, we're missing our best players."

So which is it? Does Canada have depth or not? You people can't seem to decide.

 

[PTmbp13]

Stop comparing. Its useless. Canada has sooo much more players. It like compaing canada to china. (Not in hockey i might have to add for some) China is so much bigger it aint comparable. Swedes are best this year. It was close. King was mvp this final

 

[aphyro]

but surely you will still watch it?

Dunno i rarly follow hockey at all nowdays... Just when it is JVM or Olympics... and this years WC cuz we had a strong team.

And it feels NHL killed Olympics for me

 

[eramosat]

It doesn't really matter in the end. Canada could have won the game and the team that came is the team that came. I don't really see the point in under cutting the team that won just congratulate them and move on. Just my opinion.

Correct.

At least by now, all the best hockey nations pretty much have a random but offsetting number of NHL players who cannot attend. These championships are way more fair than they probably ever were, now that the NHL is an equal opportunity employer and no player is prevented from competing there if he wants.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Do you realize how pathetic this excuse is? And it's getting old since EVERY FREAKING YEAR this comes up.

When Canada wins, fans like you say: "This is only our D team and we still won."
When Canada loses, fans say: "This is our D team, we're missing our best players."

So which is it? Does Canada has depth or not? You people can't seem to decide.

Basically this. If we're good enough to win, and we were this year, the other team deserves credit for beating us. We had every chance to win gold but sweden got the win

 

[Divine]

Do you realize how pathetic this excuse is? And it's getting old since EVERY FREAKING YEAR this comes up.

When Canada wins, fans like you say: "This is only our D team and we still won."
When Canada loses, fans say: "This is our D team, we're missing our best players."

So which is it? Does Canada has depth or not? You people can't seem to decide.

This doesn't even make sense. Why are they mutually exclusive? Both can be true. Yes, Canada has depth. No, the depth is not good enough to consistently win tournaments against top tier countries best players like in the past.

 

[Canuck21t]

This doesn't even make sense. Why are they mutually exclusive? Yes, Canada has depth. No, the depth is not good enough to win tournaments against top tier countries like in the past.

Of course someone like you wouldn't see the sense out of this, somehow I'm not surprised.

 

[Jack Burton]

What a great tournament! I really enjoyed watching it this year and what a well matched gold metal game

Congratulations to Team Sweden and well deserved.

 

[Braunbaer]

Make a World Cup out of it. That's the kind of tournaments North Americans like.

Well played!

 

[NYRFAN218]

H. Lundqvist played injured. He told the reporters now that he thought that he wouldn't be able to play earlier today. Some issue with one of the knees.

Is there a link for this?

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

No idea who the better team was. And we'll never know.

After 80 minutes of more or less even hockey, would 1 goal in the 2nd OT period really make that team better ? Especially if it's a fluke bounce or something like that.

This game was already at a point that even it OT it was a coin flip.. Chances both ways, just a matter of time before someone cashed in and it could've been either team.

If you really want to know which team were better then you'd have to play a best of 7 series.

Congrats to Sweden for winning the gold. Always fun to see someone beating Canada even when they play their best.

 

[Canuck21t]

After 80 minutes of more or less even hockey, would 1 goal in the 2nd OT period really make that team better ? Especially if it's a fluke bounce or something like that.

This game was already at a point that even it OT it was a coin flip.. Chances both ways, just a matter of time before someone cashed in and it could've been either team.

If you really want to know which team were better then you'd have to play a best of 7 series.

Congrats to Sweden for winning the gold. Always fun to see someone beating Canada even when they play their best.

I don't understand the last part.

 

[eramosat]

Don't think anything from this year's tourney cracks the current IIHF Top 100 stories...originally compiled for the 100th anniversary, always fun to look back at to see where it's all come from.

http://www.iihf.com/100-years/100-years-of-ice-hockey/home/100-top-stories/

 

[aphyro]

I don't understand the last part.

I guess he ment Sweden had their best team to beat Canada

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

I don't understand the last part.

I guess he ment Sweden had their best team to beat Canada

I meant Canada gave it their all and still lost, not like they had bad effort or bad goaltending etc. like in some of their round robin losses from recent years.

 

[awesomo]

Great game. Shame it has to end in a shoot out

 

[Phil McKraken]

Do you realize how pathetic this excuse is? And it's getting old since EVERY FREAKING YEAR this comes up.

When Canada wins, fans like you say: "This is only our D team and we still won."
When Canada loses, fans say: "This is our D team, we're missing our best players."

So which is it? Does Canada have depth or not? You people can't seem to decide.

Yeah. Everyone knows Canada is by far the best hockey country in the world, but when those comments come it's "damned if you do, damned if you don't" for every other country. Are we just supposed to lay down and die?

You're right though, most Canadians don't bring it up.

 

[Pi]

Nylander puts a nice little bow on top of the incredible year that the Leafs rookies have had!

Marner won OHL MVP, CHL player of the year, Memorial Cup MVP this time last year and followed it up with a great rookie season. Nylander just won WHC MVP and Matthews about to win the Calder in a month.

 

[VictorLustig]

Can't believe nobody on the Swedish broadcast even mentioned the OEL story. His mother passed away not long ago after a long battle with cancer and he ended his season early, decided to play at the WC, didn't play well at first but was an absolute stud when it mattered the most and scored in the SO. Such a likeable personality.