GDT: May 24 • Semifinal • Russia 3, Sweden 1

[Finnpin]

So will the coaches check who will kill who in the lockers

 

[Riddarn]

Russian gets shoved into the chest - dives like a olympian
Yakovlev completely over reacts - and almost beats up a linesman in the process
Refs crap their pants - Backlund gets a game misconduct as a result
Grönborg shouts a few words - Znarok responds by death threats.

Nice..

Fun game though. Russians won because they were better.

 

[batsui]

Somebody gif that coaches' exchange. Throat-slash plus death threats!

 

[Chimpradamus]

There wqas a Swede in the crease. It should have been waived off immediately.

Not when he's being used as a ram. That the net was off actually made it harder to score and he still did it. This is where hockey doesn't shine when it comes to the definition of the rules.

 

[John Price]

What no English feed available for this game

Goodness me

This is so frustrating...you're going to air the English feed starting in 30 minutes, show the damn game live and in English RIGHT NOW NBC

 

[Juusho]

Yeah, that's the reason you lost....

Did he ever say that it was the reason?

 

[Den]

Russia is such losers even if they are winning. Sochi...

Relevant...

 

[Quebec Knows How*]

Somebody's going to get Lucic'd in the handshake line.

At lwast that would make it worth watching.

 

[Kharkov]

Over the last years it seems that diving has took important place in Russian NT.

 

[Juzmo]

Yeah, that's the reason you lost....

No, it wasn't. Russia just sucked less today.

 

[Lugaid]

Terrible behaviour from Znaroks. Yeah, both coaches were hot-tempered, but the head coach making death-threat signs? Terrible behaviour.

Either way, it was quite clear the better team won. Russia has a close to Olympic-level squad that I think will have no problems in the final. Sweden did quite well considering the "thin" squad and lack of star players. Still pretty happy about a top 4 placement.

 

[SurMartin]

Russians were quite disgraceful there. Sad, they are the best team but now it'll be hard to root for them in the final.

 

[Bluesgirl]

lol so russians are clasless......because Backlud was so classy.....Go russia

 

[Den]

Atleast we dont invade Finland and acting like piggs when we won WC over you last time

Did not take long...

 

[Paxton Fettel]

How is the use of the F word on camera is any better than a death threat?

 

[DaveH]

It wasn't a dive. He just wasn't hurt on that play. He was hurt blocking a shot unless he fell awkwardly and did further damage.

 

[BobDobolina]

Yeah, the other guy was obviously shouting "Congrats!"

That was the Swedish coach from the WJC who showed diving signals when a player was down on the ice injured. The guy is an idiot and I can only imagine what he was screaming over there.

 

[Plural]

Atleast we dont invade Finland and acted like piggs when we won WC over you last time

Huh? I don't get it.

 

[Fossy21]

Relevant...

Seeing as Russia won, it's highly relevant.

 

[New User Name]

What no English feed available for this game

Goodness me

This is so frustrating...you're going to air the English feed starting in 30 minutes, show the damn game live and in English RIGHT NOW NBC

Can't you get a TSN stream from somewhere?

 

[DaveH]

How is the use of the F word on camera is any better than a death threat?

Are you really this dumb?

 

[Hemsky001]

Czech or Finland. Please win over these diving ******* in the final.

We'll be more than happy to fulfill your request.

 

[McCullogh]

It wasn't a dive. He just wasn't hurt on that play. He was hurt blocking a shot unless he fell awkwardly and did further damage.

Imagine if all players fell like that after a shove to chest.

Russki good team. No cheat.

 

[JacobBeans]

Yeah, that's the reason you lost....

It has not been claimed that this was the reason we lost. We lost because Russia played better.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Excellent ending