GDT: Latvia Vs Canada | 7:30PM | Group A - Canadian Tire Centre

[TheBeastCoast]

Canada looked fast and connected most of the night against Finland last night....look the complete opposite tonight. Completely disjointed.

 

[Sheppy]

Canada being too cute

 

[Wondercarrot]

Seems a very non-descript team outside of Shaeffer and Mckenna (Catton has some flair as well).
Also outside Shaeffer and Molendyk the D kinda sucks. I mean it doesn’t suck but meh…

 

[JackSlater]

Well, this is nearly a nightmare scenario.

 

[Pieck]

This might not age well but does Latvia lowkey look better than Finland right now

 

[PanniniClaus]

We don't like those guys no more, only skllied players!

TSN been blacking out for you guys?

yes

 

[Tralfamadore]

Seems a very non-descript team outside of Shaeffer and Mckenna (Catton has some flair as well).
Also outside Shaeffer and Molendyk the D kinda sucks. I mean it doesn’t suck but meh…

Bonk is especially meh

 

[GhostfaceWu]

I feel like this is one of those decisions we can all just look at hockey dB and get it right.

I don't know how you keep the guy who has like 20 plus more points off the pp for bonk.

 

[CpatainCanuck]

We don't like those guys no more, only skllied players!

TSN been blacking out for you guys?

Yes, for about 5-10 seconds a couple of times. Also the stream is kind of subpar: the puck somehow looks choppy and blurry simultaneously.

 

[hockey20000]

llol iihf refs thats laughable

 

[TheBeastCoast]

lmao what a brutal call.

 

[Svedu]

I think Canada are feeling comfortable and perhaps a bit gassed and semi lazy from the game yesterday. Let's not forget they crushed Finland and if it wouldn't have been for Rimpinen the numbers could have been the double.
Also the way the Canadians played yesterday was with very high intensity and the whole team did that. So this isn't that surprising. In the end Canada will easily win and unfortunately The US will crush Latvia tomorrow and then... Latvia will upset and beat Finland.
Remember where you heard it the first.

 

[Wondercarrot]

Bonk is especially meh

After I saw Yak in camp and preseason games I assumed when he didn’t get the invite the RS guys were going to be amazing lol

 

[jj cale]

Kill it off and just get to the dressing room and get our heads on straight.

 

[PanniniClaus]

The Latvians have run a couple of beautiful PP sets. Ivankovic has had to be sharp.

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

If Schaefer is gone long-term, rip to a gold for this team. Just another year where Hockey Canada tries to galaxy-brain their way at selection camp and leave better talent behind for a bottom 6 full of plugs. I feel like almost every year I watch us play, we can't finish and aren't able to stomp the easy teams that we should anymore.


Mark my words, this is going to bite us in the ass at the four nations, too.

 

[McMozesmadness]

Absolute disaster of a period for Canada

 

[Svedu]

Canada looked fast and connected most of the night against Finland last night....look the complete opposite tonight. Completely disjointed.

A lot of energy spent on dominating Finland yesterday. They performed a textbook performance and overpowered Finland with high intensity. I feel like this was to be somewhat expected. They could have some heavier legs today.

 

[TonsofPuppies]

If Schaefer is gone long-term, rip to a gold for this team. Just another year where Hockey Canada tries to galaxy-brain their way at selection camp and leave better talent behind for a bottom 6 full of plugs. I feel like almost every year I watch us play, we can't finish and aren't able to stomp the easy teams that we should anymore.


Mark my words, this is going to bite us in the ass at the four nations, too.

Having this zombie behind the bench ever second year isn't helping.

 

[MTU34]

That’s a really young Latvia team that just made Canada look very pedestrian through 1. They’ll be a player in a year or two

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Yakemchuk would have got the offense going there.

 

[belair]

Too many guys overhandling pucks. Nobody on this roster is McDavid. Use your teammates.

 

[Namejs]

8 shots in 15 minutes against Latvia is actually shameful.

You don't know anything about Latvian hockey though. So one could argue it is shameful to make statements like that.

 

[Pieck]

I don’t even mind Bonk as a player but there are literally 3, maybe 4 better options for PP1 on this team and then 2 more that were left at home wtf

 

[CpatainCanuck]

Latvia looks genuinely solid this year. There weren’t really any stretches in that period where they looked like they didn’t belong in the top division.