GDT: Semifinals - February 23 - Czech Republic (0) vs Russia (3)

[GermanPanther]

Kovalchuck should be out of the game

 

[shortshorts]

That is a rough knee on knee

 

[Alex K]

That was dirty, not a fan of that move

 

[Kshahdoo]

We are lucky. Probably, undeserved. Looked like 5+20. Kovy played stupid.

 

[GermanPanther]

That is a rough knee on knee

Not even all knee on knee and elbow to the Head. you could give both penalties. Normal that is at least a 5+10, about the following Injury.

 

[Fantomas]

The guy turned and he kneed him. Not Kovalchuk's fault.

 

[278 others]

Kovalchuk doing his best to get the Czechs back in the game. Their powerplay looking strong too

 

[dryz]

We can't score.

 

[GermanPanther]

The guy turned and he kneed him. Not Kovalchuk's fault.

Okay Kovalchuck let stand his knee out, so the outcome was willed taken. Nothing new from him.

 

[Fantomas]

Our turn on the PP.

 

[Alessandro Seren Rosso]

The Czechs need to change something in the third, they're not beating Koshechkin shooting only from outside.

 

[ViD]

The Czechs need to change something in the third, they're not beating Koshechkin shooting only from outside.

I hope they keep on doing that

 

[Cloned]

Czechs being out-Czeched right now, I’m more ways than one.

 

[Cloned]

Erat is literally useless right now.

 

[Kipper933]

The Czechs have barely had a scoring chance in this game, hard to see their path to victory with 10 mins left.

 

[The Greatest 101]

Love the pace of the game. Much better quality than I expected.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Znaroks hockey at its best. We lost to Canada at the last WHC the same way. It's just these Czechs aren't Canada.

 

[Cloned]

Czechs get a taste of their own medicine running into a hot goaltender.

 

[ViD]

Well, I’ll take a win without spectacular performance

 

[Ingvar]

Well, a win is a win.

 

[Jablkon]

Congrats to Russia. Piece of cake for them. Alibistic hockey so as our coach is. 0:7 score against Russia in playoffs. Znarok is kicking Jandac’s ass again.

Now we get bronze from that and everything will be fine...

 

[Gereth]

Czechs have problems with productivity as usual. I hope we at least get a bronze out of this. Too many 4th places recently.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Congrats to Russia. Piece of cake for them. Alibistic hockey so as our coach is. 0:7 score against Russia in playoffs. Znarok is kicking Jandac’s ass again.

Now we get bronze from that and everything will be fine...

You can't argue, that Znaroks has a way better players, than Jandac.

 

[Maluk11]

Congratulations to Russia. Our players fight hard today, but our scoring problem continue. 0 goals from 4 pp, that is bad. Also third semi-final in row without goals. We must work on that in the future.

Now at least for bronze, the waiting for medal is too much long.

 

[Jablkon]

You can't argue, that Znaroks has a way better players, than Jandac.

Not that better you wouldnt score the goal against them in two consecutive playoff games. Znarok completely eliminates that czech factor which russians are afraid of, or you can say our coach is alibist who never left his shadow. Russians were better in 2010 too. For this you have to bring oldschool things. We can loose but not like that. It would never happen under Riha or Vujtek.

Till he doesnt say this is also his fault I wont believe smth change. You can have concerns about Znaroks but what I like about him is that no matter what happens, he is there, he is the boss, he takes responsibility for everything. In our case - “we have to prepare guys for bronze game, bad shooting....” Jandac obviously already did everything, its just up to guys....

Znarok understands to psychological aspects of it. Jandac doesnt or he ignores it and thus he loosing like that. I am not saying he is bad coach, but this has been following him for years and he doesnt do anything with it. And he is loosing as always.