GDT: Group A • Dec. 29 • Switzerland vs. Canada • Part 2

[HamiltonNHL]

Strome is gonna be a hell of a player. Coyotes fans should be stoked.

Yes !

Canada pretty much a lock for the third place now

Ouch.

Canada needs an injection of something.
Is there no Tim Horton's coffee in Helsinki ? They look lead footed.

 

[McNasty]

Lowry needs to get Sanheim away from Dermott.

Or just you know, on the ice at all.

 

[Kamiccolo]

Im stuck at work reading this thread..

All I know is everyone sucks, especially virtanen and Marner..

Sanheim needs more minutes, strome is jesus reincarnated, Barzal should have went 1st OA.

Lowrey sucks.

Did I miss anything?

 

[thepuckmonster]

Knock it off with the personal vendettas and digs at fan bases. It's off topic and trolling. If you can't discuss the players in a civil manner you won't be allowed to discuss them at all.

You will be infracted and removed from the thread. Enough.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Good to know Virtanen will continue to get top 6 minutes even though he has 0 points in 3 games.

Lowry likes players with the stone hands that he had when he played hockey.

 

[Appleyard]

Blame the coach. Giving him a ton of minutes this game after Canada played yesterday was just a terrible decision.

Bad coaching.

Oh yeh. Lowry has been the biggest problem with this team no doubt.

 

[Classicnamesup]

Really good game by Swiss, collapsed well and clogged up everything. Goalie was really good.

Hope they do well this year.

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

They needed a shootout to beat Switzerland?

Maybe we'll start winning a bit in the Olympics in about 10 years.

 

[The Drop]

Barzal played well today.

Lots of jelly going around because a guy slid and prob should have been taken much higher.

Full season and he prob gets picked after Strome

 

[The Winter Soldier]

I swear were watching a different game, he was outstanding, the amount he made stuff happen when he was on the ice.

He was terrific for his usage. Lowry has to answer that one. I must have been watching a different game too.

 

[Giuseppe Sallo]

Stay positive!

 

[dubey]

Im stuck at work reading this thread..

All I know is everyone sucks, especially virtanen and Marner..

Sanheim needs more minutes, strome is jesus reincarnated, Barzal should have went 1st OA.

Lowrey sucks.

Did I miss anything?

LOL I said the same thing a few pages back

That's pretty much the HF summary of the game

 

[Classicnamesup]

Bob Mackenzie, who bailed this team out? Hicketts and Strome

 

[OilerPensfan97]

He wasn't bad or anything, but far from great. Crouse and Sanheim were really the only ones who were great imo.

You forgot Strome. He was the best player this game, IMO. Probably the best player in every game.

Also, Chabot was great for most of the game.

 

[PWJunior]

It's really puzzling how Lowry handles this team. Rolls 3 lines essentially and really goes to the well with his horses. He gives them free rein too to stay out as long as they please. His big horses are an underwhelming bunch compared to past teams.

 

[PatrickEaves]

Quite frankly, the coaching is the thing most holding Canada back in this tournament.

The forwards shouldn't be taking shifts over a minute, and even though I'm a Sens fan, and Chabot has been good, he shouldn't be on the ice every other shift (though it's probably only because he's paired with Hicketts).

 

[Raiderman74]

It's hilarious! I didn't get to watch the game as I was at work but followed the game through this forum. First two periods, everyone wAs gushing about chabot, even leaf fans, then complete reversal after the game. A couple of bad shifts doesn't make him the worst.
Yes, his shot may not be the best but he has the most poise of all the dman. He can slow down the game and create great breakouts. On the power play he controls where the puck goes and creates a structure not chaos like the first PP unit.

 

[OilerPensfan97]

Im stuck at work reading this thread..

All I know is everyone sucks, especially virtanen and Marner..

Sanheim needs more minutes, strome is jesus reincarnated, Barzal should have went 1st OA.

Lowrey sucks.

Did I miss anything?

You missed that Hicketts apparently sucks and did not deserve player of the game.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

1	Connor McDavid (C)	 Canada	Edmonton Oilers	Erie Otters (OHL)
2	Jack Eichel (C)	 United States	Buffalo Sabres	Boston University Terriers (Hockey East)
3	Dylan Strome (C)	 Canada	Arizona Coyotes	Erie Otters (OHL)
4	Mitchell Marner (C/RW)	 Canada	Toronto Maple Leafs	London Knights (OHL)
5	Noah Hanifin (D)	 United States	Carolina Hurricanes	Boston College Eagles (Hockey East)
6	Pavel Zacha (C)	 Czech Republic	New Jersey Devils	Sarnia Sting (OHL)
7	Ivan Provorov (D)	 Russia	Philadelphia Flyers	Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL)
8	Zach Werenski (D)	 United States	Columbus Blue Jackets	Michigan Wolverines (Big Ten)
9	Timo Meier (RW)	  Switzerland	San Jose Sharks	Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL)
10	Mikko Rantanen (RW)	 Finland	Colorado Avalanche	TPS (Liiga)
11	Lawson Crouse (LW)	 Canada	Florida Panthers	Kingston Frontenacs (OHL)
12	Denis Guryanov (RW)	 Russia	Dallas Stars	Lada Togliatti (KHL)
13	Jakub Zboril (D)	 Czech Republic	Boston Bruins (from Los Angeles)1	Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL)
14	Jake DeBrusk (LW)	 Canada	Boston Bruins	Swift Current Broncos (WHL)
15	Zachary Senyshyn (RW)	 Canada	Boston Bruins (from Calgary)2	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)
16	Mathew Barzal (C)	 Canada	New York Islanders (from Pittsburgh via Edmonton)3	Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL)
17	Kyle Connor (LW)	 United States	Winnipeg Jets	Youngstown Phantoms (USHL)
18	Thomas Chabot (D)	 Canada	Ottawa Senators	Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL)
19	Evgeny Svechnikov (LW)	 Russia	Detroit Red Wings	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (QMJHL)
20	Joel Eriksson Ek (C)	 Sweden	Minnesota Wild	Farjestad BK (SHL)
21	Colin White (C)	 United States	Ottawa Senators (from NY Islanders via Buffalo)4	U.S. NTDP (USHL)
22	Ilya Samsonov (G)	 Russia	Washington Capitals	Metallurg Magnitogorsk (KHL)
23	Brock Boeser (RW)	 United States	Vancouver Canucks	Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL)
24	Travis Konecny (C)	 Canada	Philadelphia Flyers (from Nashville via Toronto)5	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
25	Jack Roslovic (C)	 United States	Winnipeg Jets (from St. Louis via Buffalo)6	U.S. NTDP (USHL)
26	Noah Juulsen (D)	 Canada	Montreal Canadiens	Everett Silvertips (WHL)
27	Jacob Larsson (D)	 Sweden	Anaheim Ducks	Frolunda HC (SHL)
28	Anthony Beauvillier (LW)	 Canada	New York Islanders (from NY Rangers via Tampa Bay)7	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)
29	Gabriel Carlsson (D)	 Sweden	Columbus Blue Jackets (from Tampa Bay via Philadelphia and Toronto)8	Linkopings HC (SHL)
30	Nick Merkley (RW)	 Canada	Arizona Coyotes (from Chicago)9	Kelowna Rockets (WHL)

Barzal at 16 looks like a steal.

 

[WilliamNylander]

Dave Lowry needs to bench himself.

 

[JackSlater]

Good job by Switzerland coming out hard and getting a point, well deserved. Embarrassing effort by Canada for the most part. Lowry needs to figure out his lines and he needs to do it for the Sweden game. This team has too many puckhandlers and not enough finishers.

 

[Divine]

They needed a shootout to beat Switzerland?

Maybe we'll start winning a bit in the Olympics in about 10 years.

Except Team Canada last year was stacked... so probably not. People expect Canada (with a population of 35M) to be the best in every single birth year, which is a testament to how far ahead they are.

 

[dubey]

Bob Mackenzie, who bailed this team out? Hicketts and Strome

Bob McKenzie doesn't know hockey like we do

 

[Striiker]

At least you guys are starting to see what I was saying in the first game, when Sanheim sees the ice he makes things happen. He was great in this game but for some insane reason Lowry refuses to use him. He'd rather just cycle the top two pairs over and over when it's clearly not working.

I also don't understand why Konecny is stuck on the 4th line and got like 1 shift in the 3rd... he's too skilled to be there.

 

[canwincup]

Strome is by far the best player on this team, I wasn't high on him before the draft but wow has he impressed. I thought Marner was the best player on this team coming in but he's been one of the worst alongside Virtanen.