GDT: Quarter Finals: Canada vs Czechia; Jan. 2, 2025; 19:30 EST

[jj cale]

Dave Cameron, the king of pain.

 

[thefutures]

Thats a ridiculous statement. Czechs were a bit lucky towards the end with Canada gearing up - but its a deserved win after all. They were bloody efficient and made the best out of their opportunities.

Canada was not good until the 3rd. Didn't really deserve much, but that doesn't mean the Czechs weren't diving. Clear plan to embellish tonight

 

[JKG33]

Lmao at the incessant whining about the refs. It's the IIHF. The rules are always soft, that's never changed. Instead maybe place the blame on your own team's undisciplined players

 

[eviohh26]

Plenty of Canadian whining around here right now.

A lot of Canadians have the attitude of we are the best and as long as we show up we should win.

World of Hockey is changing. Winning wont be easy.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

That’s a penalty every single time based on IIHF rules

A penalty for what? There was no infraction, So was the elbow to the head of Mckenna and no penalty.

 

[TonsofPuppies]

Feel bad for George. Phenomenal goalie, but his shitty entitled team and management let him down big time

George sucked these last two games, imo. That game winning goal was a joke. Yeah, he was the best player on this dog water team, but he completely faded as the tournament progressed. No big saves today whatsoever. Deserved to lose, just like the rest of them.

 

[JimmyApples]

Plenty of Canadian whining around here right now.

Only difference between the countries is winning a Gold medal in the past 20 years

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Feel bad for George. Phenomenal goalie, but his shitty entitled team and management let him down big time

That kid is going to have a good NHL career. Pretty much the only kid on the roster that raised his stock over the course of this tournament.

 

[DropIt]

congratz cze the only reason u won this game is thanks to the refs.. hope your proud

Also by scoring more goals.

Canada built a loser. Don't be mad at Cze, take it up with Peter Anholt, Dave Cameron and co

 

[Canadienna]

Last year I said it was unacceptable, looks like I was wrong.

Hockey Canada needs to ask itself some tough questions or we will continue to underperform expectations.

 

[Vipers31]

Players jumping out of the way to avoid being hit and leaving their knee out further instead of getting hit shoulder on shoulder or shoulder to chest need to stop being bailed out by these penalties. It's why they keep doing it and it's why players will turn their backs along the boards when they see someone coming to hit them. It's a problem in the NHL and every league.

It actually isn’t a problem. Players are allowed to try to not get hit. Penalties happen when the guys going for a hit put their legs far apart so even if they don’t connect with the body, they don’t let the guy just walk by. When that happens and you only/mainly connect with the leg, you’re rightfully getting called, whether it’s a trip or a a knee. Keep your legs tight on your hit and you’re fine.

 

[hockey20000]

Nothing better in sports than Canada losing in Canada It’s like Christmas Day with all you can eat porterhouse steaks and cheesecake

go troll elsewhere clown

 

[Cloned]

Can I just point out the irony in HC selecting a whole bunch of checkers and penalty killers instead of offensive players, and they bomb out of the tournament on a PK?

Scrap the entire federation and start from scratch.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Lmao at the incessant whining about the refs. It's the IIHF. The rules are always soft, that's never changed. Instead maybe place the blame on your own team's undisciplined players

They werent soft when McKenna's head got driven into the boards by a forearm shiver.

 

[Matty Sundin]

Worst team since 1998

 

[Three On Zero]

A penalty for what? There was no infraction, So was the elbow to the head of Mckenna and no penalty.

Penalty for kneeing, and the elbow wasn’t a penalty. McKenna was already falling

 

[KCC]

To easy, Czechs will get smoked can't dive to a title

Not really. They were playing solid until the third when they sat back too much trying to defend the lead.

 

[novisor]

I dont think a round robin can count as a bigger embarrassment than the QF.

However this team deserved this loss and all the others. They waited until the 3rd period of the QF to wake up and it was too late. and this team never gave us any "moments" The results wont be forgotten but the players will.

However, im not worried about hockey in canada as a whole. this team left 3 100 point scores at home and bedard and celebrini were still eligiable for this tournament. Circumstances are what are they though and this team massively under performed and its all on the management and coaching staff.

100% on every point.

Both can be true: they deserved to lose, and they left the best players at home (+ in NHL) and if they had them this wouldn’t be the result.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Lol. A country known for diving and whining that never really wins anything

hey Jimmy, how do you like ____ ______?

 

[NyQuil]

Everyone involved in this from top to bottom should be fired.

 

[dino200022]

You're just looking for excuses.
Gibson went knee first into his opponent...with the puck long gone. That hit was both late and dirty.

I guess the forearm shiver from behind pushing McKennas face into the glass was a nice clean hit though eh. It has been 5 and a game all tournament except when Americans officiate Canadians games

 

[_habsfan9]

One of the most unlikable coaching staffs/ roster builds in years. Hopefully this is a learning lesson to Hockey Canada to not galaxy brain the roster selection. Pick your most talented players ...

 

[Three On Zero]

Lmao at the incessant whining about the refs. It's the IIHF. The rules are always soft, that's never changed. Instead maybe place the blame on your own team's undisciplined players

People thinking this is North American NHL reffing and not understanding what IIHF reffing is

 

[Bruce Granville]

Canadian Tom Selleck or Zach Werenski or whatever ruined it for Canada.

 

[Ciao]

The other teams were just better.

Congratulations to Czechia. They deserved to win.

Maybe next year.