GDT: Group B - May 12 - Canada vs Finland

[Herbert Lewis]

WOW, the Canadians got spanked!!!!!!

 

[theslatcher]

ROR must be like "why can't you just be like me and not get penalties"

 

[jj cale]

lol......................getting frisky at the end!!

 

[Peiskos]

Our boys proved me wrong. Great game, this team can go the distance.

Congrats on the win, but lets keep in mind this is the worst goaltending duo Canada has brought to this tournament in many many years.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Not that it matters but McDavid was quite easily player of the game for Canada

 

[Pataatti]

I just lost a lot of respect towards Barzal and Ekblad. How childish can grown ass men be?

 

[Lempo]

Barzal is no friend of Clay Woman.

They'll be in same division when Canes sign Savinainen.

 

[RipsADrive]

Good game Finland. That was a disaster.

Hope Canada gets a crack at redemption.

 

[Ranksu]

What is Canada's powerplay % in this tournament?

 

[Antonglk]

Good game Finland!

 

[New User Name]

Woof. What a beat down. Not looking forward to Finland..

US can skate with Finland. Canada can't.

 

[Bruce Granville]

Tolvanen 1+1 straight from the plane against Connor mcDavid etc. Dunno what Smashville friends will think about that?

They don't even know he played today.
Just imagine you have a real goal scorer on your roster but you score only one goal in game 7.

 

[agent082]

Finland wasn't that great. Canada just was horrible. No talent, no heart. I guess this is what you get when Finland's b-team and Canada's d-team plays against.

 

[Saekk]

Canada was really bad, only time they controlled the game was the end of the 2nd period when Finn defense tried to pass the puck to them constantly.

 

[TheGoldenGod]

No way Canada can be this bad. Obviously goaltending has been poor but the coaching stafff has completely misused this group of players. Bunch of talent not that’s not on the same page. Finland looks like an actual team.

 

[MMANumminen]

The Kaptain Koivu senior!

 

[paragon]

They don't even know he played today.
Just imagine you have a real goal scorer on your roster but you score only one goal in game 7.

Yeah, Tolvanen was really lighting it up when was playing for them in the regular season.

 

[Merya]

Finland either ****s up completely or wins by four goals or more.

No. Danmark was objectively much better than Kanada was tonight. If the Danes would play at that level every night, they would be in the semis. But they had extra huff from 5 playewrs having played in Jokerit and having a nice rivalry bythemselves.

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

So only starting goalies are NHL level? That’s ridiculous.
If a player has an NHL contract and spends the entire year on the team, he’s an NHL level professional.
Keumper’s last non NHL game was 4 years ago. McElhinney’s was 5.

Well. An NHL level goalie is one that constantly matches NHL level as his job and doesn't get easy passes. They play as much as they can in the NHL while showing true #1 abilities. They are the better goalie compared to their counterpart. They play 50-60 games in a season because they can, and because they can sustain that level of play.

If you think most backups are NHL level, that's not a slight to you, I just disagree. There's a reason why they're the backup and that's because they haven't shown that they can keep being NHL level during a long season, (or just haven't been given the chance to prove that) winning or losing while doing the needed saves, the overall body of play.
Just having a contract doesn't warrant being up to your task.

 

[Instant]

I just lost a lot of respect towards Barzal and Ekblad. How childish can grown ass men be?

What happened? I didn't see the final few minutes, there was a bad strech in our eurovision drinking game.

 

[Future GOAT]

Well, good game to Finland. Well deserved win.

 

[sepHF]

McElhinney was awful. Gotta score more than 1 goal though.

But my god 4 / 5 of those goals against were just terrible to let in as a goalie

 

[googleIsMyFriend]

we see next time in the finals...

 

[FinPanda]

Canada looked sloppy and disinterested. And also that goaltending. I can't believe they can't get anyone better. Good game Canada, great classy fans in this thread too.

 

[admire]

Who's Mac David?

The McDonalds Moons captain when we reach the point where we replace the players with robots and finally just go all in on the commercial part of the game.