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GDT: Gold Medal Game - May 26 - Canada vs Finland

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the_fan said:
If I'm Canada I'm not too upset with silver medal not having the following players..

Crosby
McDavid
MacKinnon
Bergeron
Tavares
Marchand
Doughty
Burns

I'm probably missing few others but that's best of the best Canadians who didnt play
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Barkov, Rantanen, Aho, Laine, Teravainen, Granlund, Heiskanen, Ristolainen, Vatanen, Rask, Rinne, Lindell didn't play for Finland.

Dn't use roster as an excuse.
 
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Gormo said:
Im not sure why Finland are considered underdogs, they beat us twice, Sweden, USSR, and even Great Britain.
You guys simply have a really good team and hockey program as far as I can tell and you should be proud of that.
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They do a great job of doing what they need to do in order to have a chance to win. Anything can happen in single game elimination, and they do a great job playing to that format. They have produced more skill in recent years and given their population it is quite impressive, but they have always been a team that could perform above their individual skill level on their roster.
 
Finland is always my second choice after Canada to win any international tourney.

Congrats. This world championship doesn't feature the best on best we all are waiting for, but truth be told the Finns would be just as dangerous if everyone had their full roster.
 
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ChrisK97 said:
How different is this compared to Finland's 2011 title?
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Pretty similar, but this time they were even more like underdogs. Nobody believed them 2011, but nobody including their dogs believed them now, that's for sure.

At 2011 they at least had some pretty good forwards even if they had to run Salmela to the ground at defensive end. Now those D-men were huge in comparison, even if forwards were more than dull.
 
Congrats to Finland, a well deserved gold medal. And Canada exceeded our expectations as well. A very good tournament, feel bad for the Czechs who outplayed the Russians but couldn't beat Vas.
 
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BTW kids, the Police will have extra officers tonight at the tori downtown Helsinki.

On my way...See you there !
 
McFlyingV said:
Yes because Finland went from their A squad to B squad, while Canada went from their A squad to C squad. Most of these players wouldn't make Canada's 2nd Olympic team, and only maybe one or two of them would have been on Canada's olympic team (Stone and Murray likely as a backup/3rd string).

Anyways I was more just responding to that poster and not taking anything away from the Finns so I'd rather not comment on it anymore. Finns played a great game and deserved the gold after knocking off Russia and Canada. Congrats to them on a well deserved gold medal.
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This is pretty much the finnish D squad, probably the worst in a very long time. This team didnt even have the best Liiga players, not to mention the NHL or KHL players.
 
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McFlyingV said:
Yes because Finland went from their A squad to B squad, while Canada went from their A squad to C squad. Most of these players wouldn't make Canada's 2nd Olympic team, and only maybe one or two of them would have been on Canada's olympic team (Stone and Murray likely as a backup/3rd string).

Anyways I was more just responding to that poster and not taking anything away from the Finns so I'd rather not comment on it anymore. Finns played a great game and deserved the gold after knocking off Russia and Canada. Congrats to them on a well deserved gold medal.
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B Squad? How the f*** is this a Finnish B-Squad. Literally none of these players except Kakko in a few years would make an olympic roster. Neither brought their best but who's fault is that, with the way things are going you aren't seeing any Olympics with NHL'ers anyway.
 
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Guys don't need to argue which country has the best players, its once a year tournament and single game so there's no need to show off who has the best players.

I cheered for Sweden but seeing how happy the Finns is, happy for them too, just enjoy the show and the celebration.
 
Star Ocean said:
This is bigger than miracle on ice.

Soviets didnt had any NHL players when they lost to USA.

Finland won over Canada with 0 NHLers. 0 vs 23.
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Lol what? No it isnt, credit to Finland for whipping our ass when it counted, and it really is impressive what they accomplished with the team they had on paper, but this does not even come close to the Miracle on Ice.
 
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Star Ocean said:
Oh plz, soviets didnt had a single NHL player.

This is a bigger miracle. Deal with it.
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And? That Soviet team was able to beat a team of NHL all stars. What's your point?

I'm all for you guys enjoying your win but it's revisionist history to pretend like that Soviet team wasn't the most dominant international squad in hockey history. This Canada team wasn't even the best collective squad of Canadians actively playing today. And Matt Murray is certainly not even in the same atmosphere as Tretiak was.
 
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