Four drawn penalties and several key takeaways, yeah, he can be how pissed he wants, he's so damn smooth. When commentators even rave over his puck reception, you know he's damn smooth.
Austria has a breakaway and in the next sequence the Gustafsson has a breakaway as a Swedish D-man.
And now Austria scores. Nice assist and backhand, they deserve it against a half speed Sweden.
Yeah, having a guy like Landeskog is such a difference, because he's so damn good at winning puck battles, establishing physical pressure and still be skilled. He's a possession monster and all three of them are very solid defensively.
I thought it was 3 drawn. The last two wee on other players no? Sometimes I cant tell on my TV.
Tortorella plays his north-south grinding hockey. William Karlsson was a scrub playing for Torts, he's a legit 1st liner in a more puck moving, skating team.
It's 3 or 4, I can't say I'm sure of the count either. Let's just call it a bunch.
No kidding, they were chanting and singing non stop the last 12 minutes of the game. You could barely hear the ending buzzer.
William Karlsson was a scrub, Wennberg is a scrub and Panarin wants out ASAP. Even Bobrovsky seems unhappy. Zuccarello doubted if he was a NHL player. I can see a pattern here. Torts doesn't like creativity, mobility and puck movement, he wants the grind.
You can still judge players on their attributes. Wennberg is showcasing lower body strength, vision, patience, and good hands. If you don't play him in a role that takes advantage of those things, he can be a nice NHL player. If you don't, he's not good at all.
Tortorella isn't a bad coach, he's just anti-Swedish hockey. He plays a very solid defensive game, drives hustling and hard, hard work. Creative players just die within playing his system.
