Not sure how to embed this one but it's kinda crazy how popular this tourney is in Europe.
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Not sure how to embed this one but it's kinda crazy how popular this tourney is in Europe.
Europe has always loved its world championships, same goes for soccer. It's honestly crazy to us that the feeling isn't shared across the pond.
anezthes
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All Mighty
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Dostal with a 31 save shutout for the gold medal.
Dostal goalie of the tournament. "No name goalie", as they call this in Toronto.
That’s so awesome for Dostal and Gudas!
Trophies won since 1968:
Toronto Maple Leafs: 0
Lukaś Doštal: 1
Toronto Maple Leafs: 0
Lukaś Doštal: 1
Congrats to Dostal and Gudas, but especially Dostal with the championship shutout. That's gonna be huge for his confidence.
We got a public day off after winning the bronze last year
that was a bit too excessive, but it's quite refreshing seeing the passion past couple of years after the Covid period. Prague was absolutely nuts last night. Even Slovak games were packed in Czechia throughout the tournament with a great atmosphere.
I was encouraged by the US roster, I think they had a much better lineup than other years but somehow that didn't result in much.
JabbaJabba
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Dostal tried to score on the empty in the finals too. Too bad he didn't score in either of the weekend games but I am sure he's happy regardless. BTW he is going to train in Finland this summer.
Yeah saw that. And it was not the first time in this tourney. He has ice in his veins.
Saw it on mainboards but apparently he got the shutout vs Swiss, Finland, US. Incredible performance throughout and especially in crunch time. Their team was great as well, but Dostal played incredible.
I was astonished by Dostal’s interviews in the Czech press after each of his games. He was almost unnaturally calm and unexcited, especially for a 23 year old, and mature for his age.
He just wanted to focus on his game and was uninterested in anything going on around him and the enthusiasm the team generated in the country.
And that enthusiasm was incredible: for example, Czech TV reported that 76% of TVs switched on in the country on Saturday (semifinals) were showing ice hockey. The numbers for Sunday (finals) I have not seen yet, but presumably higher. Shops (including huge supermarket chains) closed early at 7pm, so that their employees could go and watch the final starting at 8:20pm. All major city squares in all major Czech towns had giant screens on and were packed to the rafters.
EDIT: The number on Sunday was 82%!! That is in addition to many, many thousands filling the main squares of every Czech city which had huge viewing screens set up. Incredible. Really pretty much the entire country.
He just wanted to focus on his game and was uninterested in anything going on around him and the enthusiasm the team generated in the country.
And that enthusiasm was incredible: for example, Czech TV reported that 76% of TVs switched on in the country on Saturday (semifinals) were showing ice hockey. The numbers for Sunday (finals) I have not seen yet, but presumably higher. Shops (including huge supermarket chains) closed early at 7pm, so that their employees could go and watch the final starting at 8:20pm. All major city squares in all major Czech towns had giant screens on and were packed to the rafters.
EDIT: The number on Sunday was 82%!! That is in addition to many, many thousands filling the main squares of every Czech city which had huge viewing screens set up. Incredible. Really pretty much the entire country.
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JabbaJabba
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Goalies just are different sort of people.
That’s so true. So many of them are just very idiosyncratic, a different breed.
ducks8
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Dr Johnny Fever
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I’m sure they’d tell you he’s no Joseph Woll.
Arthuros
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Well, they're right.I’m sure they’d tell you he’s no Joseph Woll.
Because Dostal wouldn't be stupid enough to make a desperation save with 0.1 seconds left on a 2 goal lead and injure himself out of a critical game 7.
His eyes are so icy-blue because he has ice in his veins
On a related note, I was able to snag Zellweger's jersey from this tournament from Hockey Canada's online auction. Looking forward to receiving the jersey!
All Mighty
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Pastrnak was on Chiclets yesterday and he said he was incredibly impressed by Dostal. He also said he wanted to kill Dostal when he went for a goalie goal in the gold medal game.
Vipers31
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I get it, and not just because I couldn’t dream of scoring a goal from near my net. Had this gone just a little more wrong, Lukas could have turned himself from a national hero into a disgrace - it was an absolutely wild decision to attempt that in this situation. But it didn’t, and it does speak volumes about how he isn’t influenced by the gravity of the moment and just continues to play the way he feels comfortable.
Well, he did make it into the tournament’s all star team! But Kevin Fiala was tournament MVP, which I get. He was astonishingly good for Switzerland and crucial to their advance to the goal medal game.
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