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GDT: Quarterfinals - May 19 - Czech Republic (1) vs USA (2) (SO)

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2016 IIHF World Championship
Quarterfinals

May 19
9:15 AM ET • 3:15 PM CET

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Czech Republic
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​
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Center​
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Right Wing​
10 Roman Červenka "A"​
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14 Tomáš Plekanec "C"​
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88 David Pastrňák​
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16 Michal Birner​
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43 Jan Kovář​
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62 Michal Řepík​
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22 Lukáš Kaspar​
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79 Tomáš Zohorna​
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90 Robert Kousal​
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12 Radek Faksa​
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26 Martin Zaťovič​
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41 Tomáš Filippi​
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42 Petr Koukal​
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-​
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-​
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Left Defense​
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Right Defense​
5 Jakub Jeřábek​
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47 Michal Jordán​
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29 Jan Kolář​
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45 Radim Šimek​
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6 Michal Kempný "A"​
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84 Tomáš Kundrátek​
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52 Milan Doudera​
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-​
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Starter​
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Backup​
38 Dominik Furch​
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33 Pavel Francouz​
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Scratched​
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Details​
F 96 Richard Jarůšek​
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Healthy​
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USA
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​
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Center​
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Right Wing​
21 Dylan Larkin​
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34 Auston Matthews​
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71 Nick Foligno "A"​
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11 Brock Nelson​
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48 Vincent Hinostroza​
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71 Frank Vatrano​
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7 J.T. Compher​
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10 Jordan Schroeder​
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14 Tyler Motte​
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19 Patrick Maroon​
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23 Matt Hendricks "C"​
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24 Hudson Fasching​
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28 Miles Wood​
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-​
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-​
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Left Defense​
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Right Defense​
15 Noah Hanifin​
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6 Chris Wideman​
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29 Jake McCabe​
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5 Connor Murphy "A"​
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76 Brady Skjei​
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55 David Warsofsky​
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-​
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16 Steven Santini​
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Starter​
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Backup​
1 Keith Kinkaid​
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30 Mike Condon​
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Scratched​
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Details​
G 31 Thatcher Demko​
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Healthy​
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F 18 Kyle Connor​
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Healthy​
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Game Officials​
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Referee​
| Linus Ohlund | -
Referee​
| Tobias Wehrli | -
Linesman​
| Alexander Otmakhov | -
Linesman​
| Henrik Pihlblad | -
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This quaterfinal is the most difficult to predict. Let's say the Czechs 4-3 in overtime
 
This should be a good one. US lucked out to have the Czechs finish 1st. The Russians are by far the scariest team in that group.

Honestly, I can't recall the last time a team finished 1st with so many close games against average / below average teams.

Lost to Denmark 2-1
Beat Latvia 4-3
Beat Swiss 5-4
Beat Kazakhstan 3-1

Besides their rout of Norway, their 2 most lopsided wins were against Russia (3-0 before reinforcements arrived) and Sweden (4-2).

As an American fan, all these close games scare me. Czechs may not be the best team, but they've shown the ability to win close games, where the US has shown just the opposite. Their 3 wins were 6-3, 5-1 and 4-0. Of their 4 losses, 3 were by 1 goal.

So in games with <2 goal differential, the Czechs were 4-1, where the US was 0-3.

If I was a betting man, my money would be on the Czechs.
 
The Czechs have a good thing going. However, it's not that impressive of a team. I still expect them to win over the US who has looked anything but impressive.
 
I see the USA pulling off the upset here. Which wouldn't be that great of an upset seeing how mediocre the Czechs have been. Beating a weak Russia, a weak Sweden, losing to Denmark, needing a SO for Latvia...
 
Slimmy said:
The Czechs have a good thing going. However, it's not that impressive of a team.
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That good thing is that the Czechs are usually good when the roster is not impressive, i.e. doesn't have many NHLers. For some reason they historically often play better with unknown players from European leagues.

For example, in 2010 they won gold with players like Vampola, Kvapil, Koukal, Hubacek, Nemec, Mojzis etc. Does anyone remember them?
 
Canuckistani said:
I see the USA pulling off the upset here. Which wouldn't be that great of an upset seeing how mediocre the Czechs have been. Beating a weak Russia, a weak Sweden, losing to Denmark, needing a SO for Latvia...
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Even before their reinforcements arrived, RUS was a much better team than Czechs, ON PAPER...
 
Irriducibile said:
That good thing is that the Czechs are usually good when the roster is not impressive, i.e. doesn't have many NHLers. For some reason they historically often play better with unknown players from European leagues.

For example, in 2010 they won gold with players like Vampola, Kvapil, Koukal, Hubacek, Nemec, Mojzis etc. Does anyone remember them?
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I remember them :) And common Koukal is in a team together with Kaspar and Cervenka

This year we have even stronger core - Jarusek, Jerabek, Simek, Doudera, Kousal, Zohorna, Furch, Francouz....so be ready we are comming! :popcorn:

And we are doing good, we won the group. USA is just not our favourite opponent no matter what team they put together. But guys look they know what to do so we will see. I like performance of this team so far...
 
The Americans are the underdogs, BUT if they get better goaltending than we've seen thus far, and if they avoid foolish/needless penalties, no reason they can't beat this decidedly mediocre Czech squad

Canada, with decent goaltending, and again sans needless penalties, should have few problems with Sweden...

The two other games are clearly huge mismatches...RUS and Suomi will certainly meet in the semis
 
it is a toss up as this US team has sputtered recently.

The US could easily win this game if they have solid goaltending and stay out of the damn box...but not holding my breath.

hoping we pull it out, should be close either way.
 
Could come to special teams. I see a low scoring affair, a grinder game. US has to get some points from the blueline along with Nelson, Compher and Connor. The offense can't be all Matthews, Foligno and Larkin.
 
Unless Czech players underestimate USA for whatever reason, they should advance. I really don't think Germany would have been an easier opponent...
 
With this roster of "no name" players and 14 of them as a rookies at WCH I didn't expect we advance so easy to the QF. Hope we win tomorrow. I think the chance is something like 65 - 35 (%) for Czechs.
 
Best way for the US to have a chance is mixing up lines and defensive pairings. Warsofsky has been statistically the US' best defenseman in the tournament and he's been in the third pairing. He needs to start seeing top pairing minutes with Wideman. Hanifin really hasn't been great at suppressing shots compared to most of his teammates, so he should be dropped down to third pairing and be given better matchups.


Lines I'd do tomorrow:

Nelson-Larkin-Foligno
Connor-Matthews-Vatrano
Maroon-Schroeder-Hinostroza
Wood-Hendricks-Motte

D pairings:
Warsofsky-Wideman
McCabe-Murphy
Hanifin-Santini
Skjei

I'd scratch Compher cause his numbers are ugly. Every time he's been on the ice his line has just gotten hammered. He can't generate offense and never has the puck. Time for him to be scratched. Connor needs to be in a top 6 role. He has looked good with Matthews and his talent in this tournament won't be maximized playing with guys like Motte, Compher or Schroeder and Hendricks. Need to get him with Matthews to get himself going again.

With the right adjustments, the US will have a shot tomorrow. Aside from the Slovakia game, they've been a good possession team who doesn't allow a lot of shots. They'll need to play that way tomorrow to have a chance. I think it will be close though. They really only need Kinkaid to be okay to have a chance to win.
 
Its a toos-up.
I know that the US rooster is nothing to write home about, but on paper ours should be worse. We only have 4 NHL players this year, which is more comparable to the second-tier teams (+this years sweden), than we have like 8-10 KHLers (two of which are goalies) and the rest is from other europian leagues, mostly czech league of course. For 14 players this is their first WHC!
On the other hand our team showed great team effort and we have a great coach (as far as i know this is the first time in 10+ years when ppl actually like our coach), overall things seem to be working well. The team showed they can dominate even in the close games, problem was they didn't (or couldn't?) keep it up for 60 minutes, like that ridiculous last five minutes with the Swiss where it was 5:2 and we ended up barely winning 5:4, even though we had PP for much of the time.
So US team has better rooster and ours has a bit better team play/chemistry... that about sums it up.

Regardless how this match will end up i think we did a great job this year, we won't end up worse than 5th, which is pretty good for this team no matter how the playoffs go. Ppl tend to have high expectations now that we have won the group, that can only hurt us.
 
kary said:
Its a toos-up.
I know that the US rooster is nothing to write home about, but on paper ours should be worse. We only have 4 NHL players this year, which is more comparable to the second-tier teams (+this years sweden), than we have like 8-10 KHLers (two of which are goalies) and the rest is from other europian leagues, mostly czech league of course. For 14 players this is their first WHC!
On the other hand our team showed great team effort and we have a great coach (as far as i know this is the first time in 10+ years when ppl actually like our coach), overall things seem to be working well. The team showed they can dominate even in the close games, problem was they didn't (or couldn't?) keep it up for 60 minutes, like that ridiculous last five minutes with the Swiss where it was 5:2 and we ended up barely winning 5:4, even though we had PP for much of the time.
So US team has better rooster and ours has a bit better team play/chemistry... that about sums it up.

Regardless how this match will end up i think we did a great job this year, we won't end up worse than 5th, which is pretty good for this team no matter how the playoffs go. Ppl tend to have high expectations now that we have won the group, that can only hurt us.
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Canuckistani said:
I see the USA pulling off the upset here. Which wouldn't be that great of an upset seeing how mediocre the Czechs have been. Beating a weak Russia, a weak Sweden, losing to Denmark, needing a SO for Latvia...
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you're funny mate :laugh:
 
This is probably the first time that we're in a QF and I think we're gonna win.

I really hope I'm not wrong about this! Haha.
 
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