And here is Poland's first Elite goal in God knows how many years... Haha, f*** [:
Edit: @Fight4yourRight never thought I'd be so stressed over game vs POLAND. WHAT IS HAPPENING
Very entertaining game. Macias stood out for me a lot. Even had a chance to win in OT! Good game. If they play like this against France and Kazakhstan they may be able to avoid relegation and hopefully start drawing more and more youths to play and people back to supporting hockey in Poland.
Agreed fully, but you had so many lucky bounces today, it might just run out. Not wishing that of course, just an observation!
The US brings their best roster ever & plays worse than ever before.
Latvia vs Kazakhstan today, we cannot afford to drop any points ANYMORE. I hate those who say win is a win and we have weaker roster this year, yeah fine, but losing points vs Poland AND France should not be acceptable either way. Saying, ''yeah but 2 wins'' is a true small county mentality.
Seems like the biggest issue for Latvia this year is PP and also depth players. Core players are doing nicely, but our depth is considerably weaker than that of last year's bronze team and it shows.
It's ridiculous we went to OT both games and both times were bailed out by Daugaviņš late heroics. There's even a joke floating around we should write in Latvian legislation it's forbidden for him to retire.
@Fight4yourRight big game for Poland today! Fingers crossed! Surely a win would mean FRA is out?
Yup. A win against France and that is probably it. I can’t see France getting another 3 points the rest of the way.
How is Latvia looking against KAZ? I saw they were outshot in the 1st period.
Yeah, we're 3-0, but looking extremely unconvincing; the amount of turnovers is horrendous and we always try to walk the puck into empty net and good things only happen when we finally start crashing the net.
Edit: historically we are hilariously bad when it comes to deciding games vs GER, so tomorrow is not giving me any confidence
But now.. Go Polska!
I've never been so proud of this team. Mainly for dropping a C bomb just before faceoff live on tv, but god damn. I just love these guys.GBs best result since the 1950s relative to the level of competition... though ofc the Belarus win was special.
Always makes me think where would we be were it not for the chaos in our national leagues (English+Scottish merger not working out and folding the league after a few years so had no hockey league for a few years!) etc in the early 1950s. They went from having pro ice hockey and being a top 5 team in the world in the late 40s and early 50s...
to withdrawing from Olympics, asking to drop down to what is now div 1... and then basically not participating in international ice hockey for 8 years, not having any leagues for a few years in the early 60s...
5 goals on 9 shots in the 3rd for Austria.Canada blew a 6-1 lead in the third to Austria?
5 goals on 9 shots in the 3rd for Austria.
That could have been the greatest comeback of all time of they pulled out the win.
Looking brutal so far. One of France’s goal was so bad. Backhand and from a terrible angle.
Relegation, here we come!
I meeaaaannn, you still have a game vs Kazakhs no?
LOL at Canada-Austria game. Pure complacency by CAN, did not even take timeout or anything at 6:5. Credit to Austria, nonetheless, of course.
LV-GER in a bit less than an hour. If it's Merzļikins in the net and we lose (hopefully not), I'll be first to jump ''I told you so'' train. He doesn't instill confidence one bit, regardless of the fact he cannot be blamed for any of the goals, really.
Edit: Gudļevskis in net. Good.