GDT: Quarterfinal - May 17 - Finland vs Switzerland

[snipes]

I'm not surprised really, i knew the swiss were capable of beating Finland.

And lest we forget.......................they are capable of beating us too, especially with the work we are getting between the pipes right now.

Yeah we'll need our best game to get to the gold with the goaltending we have

 

[Ippenator]

Truth.

Granlund is trash. He’s simply lost it. Minnesota will never win anything if Granlund can help it.

Marjamäki the worst head coach we’ve had in ages. He has great young players at his disposal but somehow manages to get the team completely out of sync. And then he stands behind the bench like a statue. Useless emotionless piece of turd.

I don’t agree with you about Granlund, but your description on Marjamäki was definitely spot on. What a ducking loser that statue of a mumbling moomin is really!!! Late Lammas!!! Hiuksista vittuun!!!

 

[iq0]

Marjamäkis record as a finnish head coach is something unbelievable I think that any other national team would of fired him many years ago

 

[ViD]

You destroy Canada and USA for this?

WTH.

 

[SCBdude]

Yesssss what a game, what a win. I'll gladly retract all the (honestly mostly pretty awful) things I've said about Fischer!!

 

[FiLe]

Switzerland has played the whole game.

This. The Swiss played like a "big country" here, not like a "lesser country" - turtling up and hoping to cash in on turnovers. And they kept on playing like a big one even after they gained the lead.

Certainly takes off some of the sting.

 

[canswetoxic]

so, Sweden vs Swiss, re-match 2013 then?

 

[17thRoundPick]

Well this was a weird, bipolar team. At times pure dominance ... and then completely idiotic, sloppy decisions one after another.

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

Its very fitting that Marjamäki leaves to a team who has a history of starting their summer holidays before the Liiga playoffs start

Mediocre would be an overstatement of his tenure

 

[Jugitsu]

we won ... yessss.

i hate when they play defensive like they did in the 3rd to protect the score.
very bad strategy for my heart.

But we are in semi final.
cool

Very well deserved victory! Hope you guys can go all the way!

 

[BullLund]

I think lot of our leading young players (including Aho) showed lack of leadership and character in situations where everything was not going as was written in books.

I don't think anyone can honestly criticize Aho's performance. It's not his fault that others cannot finish from the plays that he constantly made.

 

[crowi]

I don’t agree with you about Granlund, but your description on Marjamäki was definitely spot on. What a ducking loser that statue of a mumbling moomin is really!!! Late Lammas!!! Hiuksista vittuun!!!

Granlund now is a shadow of his former self. This guy couldn't buy a heart with his f***ing paycheck.

 

[ChicagoBullsFan]

Definitely didn't see this one coming. Crazy.

We ( Finns) saw this in Olympics already.
Marjamäki is lousiest '' head coach'' in entire history of Finnish hockey.
Thank god Jukka Jalonen comes back to coach Finland's men's national team.

 

[Sinkkunaattori]

Wow Pokka is even worse than Martin Marincin on his worst day. Appalling.

And whatever happened to Teuvo? He had such promise...

 

[Lempo]

Nice to see SUI emerging though.

 

[Merya]

Congratulations to all Swiss hockeyfans and to their team ofcource! Hope you go all the way and win gold!

 

[crowi]

Congrats to Swiss, well played, well deserved.

 

[Canuckistani]

Unbelievable. Finland crushes Canada and USA but loses to Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

Has a sort of Sweden-2002 feel to it.

 

[ChicagoBullsFan]

There clearly is a reason why Ville Pokka has 0 games in NHL.
What a useless and soft bust.

 

[BullLund]

Granlund now is a shadow of his former self. This guy couldn't buy a heart with his ****ing paycheck.

He is very good. The problem is that Marjamäki played him as a center.

Granlund is a mediocre center, and a very good winger.

 

[DoubleGold]

The following players should be barred from the national team for life: Pokka, Honka and Manninen. Abysmal.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Didn't see the game as I was watching Swe-Lat, but I'm sorry about the result. You didn't deserve to loose this game.

However, I had a feeling you wouldn't turn it around when down two goals. Marjamaki is completely useless. Has to be the worst coach in the history of hockey. He just stands there looking like a fool. No action taken whatsoever, despite having such a good team.

 

[Canuckistani]

so, Sweden vs Swiss, re-match 2013 then?

Nope. Swiss get Canada in SF.

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

I'm actually more satisfied with this since I can enjoy the rage of senseless Marjamäki hating.
The guy that can't do anything right anywhere just lucked into 2 championships and a bronze in his 3 first years as a head coach. Sure.

All this stint proves is that he's not a tournament coach. That's fine. Outrage about this stint is somewhat fine. His resume as a coach is way better than 75% of coaches in Finland ever but sure, he's a shit coach.
The Jokerit stint will prove if he's trending up or down as a team coach as well. There's nothing to rage about, really. Other than the obvious loss here.
What I saw this from this tournament was that Granlund isn't going to be the C going forwards.
Enter Jalonen, let's see how he's going to be hyped and the savior and once that doesn't work, like it hasn't really worked, then criticised.

The 1 championship Jalonen has won't mean that he will win another. That's a long time coming.

 

[Loffer]

Don't even think I enjoy this even if this loss as if goes to confirm my notions and arguments here. Pretty deflated feelings. -But sure, the bright side the Berry Hill Era is gone, baby, gone.