POLL: Are you excited about 4 Nations Cup?

[Anthrax442]

Ya for sure, gear stolen is brutal. Luckily I have had no b.s in Toronto or surrounding areas.

WHats your band?

 

[Metroid]

WHats your band?

One I'm in now? No name yet , newish project. Nothing online yet, but enough tracks to start tracking an album...lots of hurdles, slow and steady kinda thing. Before would just be covers show stuff.(Buddy's have a Tony hawks pro skater soundtrack cover band that plays here or there haha)
Montreal incident was with an older now defunct band!

 

[Anthrax442]

One I'm in now? No name yet , newish project. Nothing online yet, but enough tracks to start tracking an album...lots of hurdles, slow and steady kinda thing. Before would just be covers show stuff.(Buddy's have a Tony hawks pro skater soundtrack cover band that plays here or there haha)
Montreal incident was with an older now defunct band!

nice

 

[hoglund]

I'll watch it, I think that it's better than an All-star game, but nothing great. It's kind of like when they had the All-staar game North America vs the World.

 

[ACC1224]

When was the last time the Leafs had three players playing on the top lines on 3 of the world’s best national teams?
Seems like something fans of this team should be excited for.

 

[Mess]

Many Leaf fans are forced to live vicariously through Maple Leaf players playing in International tournaments if they want to watch hockey success, because they certainly are not going to find it watching their own Leafs playing in the NHL as that hasn't happened since 1967.

Both Darryl Sittler (1976) and Paul Henderson (1972) are examples of Maple Leaf players making Leaf fans proud by scoring tournament winning goals. Then they at least made Canada proud if not Toronto.

 

[SprDaVE]

I kinda wish it involved more teams but it'll be a nice little tournament to see a lot of top talent play together. I'll watch but I won't be invested to care who wins really. I just want to see good hockey.

 

[ZEBROA]

I cheer for Canada 1a and US 1b. Even with Matthews as captain and Hughes sitting out I still think the US will win. There’s a lot of positive energy in the country right now and that momentum will continue

Dont know where you are from, but i would call USA , "United states of Ambivalencia" right now.
Best players in the world on both teams.
Sweden and Finland are underdogs and thats being nice.
Dont know if i will cheer for Finland if they beat us. They can be extremly obnoxious , winning or loosing. Will probably root for them anyway, underdogs and all.

May one of the worst teams win

 

[ZEBROA]

I kinda wish it involved more teams but it'll be a nice little tournament to see a lot of top talent play together. I'll watch but I won't be invested to care who wins really. I just want to see good hockey.

Not being to invested can be a good thing. I dont function at all when i watch Sweden vs Finland. Almost so bad i dont want them to play against each other.

 

[Mess]

When was the last time the Leafs had three players playing on the top lines on 3 of the world’s best national teams?
Seems like something fans of this team should be excited for.

Answer : Almost 50 years ago now, back in 1976.

In the 1976 Canada Cup, Lanny MacDonald set up Leaf teammate Darryl Sittler in OT to beat the Czechs

For many players, winning the Canada Cup was the highlight of their careers. Bobby Orr and Lanny McDonald both rated winning this tournament ahead of winning the Stanley Cup.

The great Börje Salming lead team Sweden in scoring and was named Sweden's MVP and made the tournaments All-Star team on Defense beside Bobby Orr, along with Leafs then captain Sittler joining him for that award for Canada.

Maple Leafs had 2 members Sittler and Salming being named to the Tournament All-Star team.

Lets see if Auston, Willy and Mitch can find that level of success.

PS.. Maple Leafs Swedish teammate Inge Hammarstrom also played in the tournament making it 4 Leafs.

 

[DragoGrizzly]

Our goaltending better hold up because many are saying our 3 best goalies (Thompson, Talbot, Blackwood) are not on the team.

Scheifele not on the team is a mistake. He deserves to be there ahead of Bennett, Marchand, Crosby, Jarvis, Koneckny, Hagel and Cerelli IMO.

Blackwood: .922
Thompson: .921
Kuemper: .918
Allen: .910
Fleury: .910
Talbot: .905
Hoefer: .903
Pickard: .901
Skinner: .900
Hill: .900
Binnington: .898
Montembeault: .897
Canada literally chose the three statistically worst Canadian goaltenders in the nhl for the 4 Nations tournament. (Not including Jarry (waivers) and Ingram(backup).

Regardless, just hope one of them steps up and lets our skaters do their thing without being a huge detriment. I’m looking forward to the tournament, I love best on best national stuff of any kind.