Mhm. And if a cow had wheels, it would be a milk wagon.
Whole f***ing coaching staff should be fired.
Dunno. Next year's team has the potential to be the best since the 2019 gold medal team.
that's what they are saying in Hockey Association's Sauna right now. Unless all skaters find a extra gear in skating and that incredible crappy defense improve their whole game within a year, there is another failure in works.For the record I'm speaking strictly talent wise. Coaching might still suck lol.
But thanks for the laugh, i needed that.
Finland was quite close to final and winning gold.. With decent coaching gold was very realistic team showed its potential at times very good playing. player material was definitely good enough to win gold no question biggest problem was coaching. If for example JJalonen would have coached this team Gold would have been propable outcome they would have played mostly at same level as 1st periods againts Swe and Usa.. But this team had no backbone because of lousy coaching.
Something like this perhaps?
Not really. In the semifinal USA put in another gear in 2nd period and Finland was left far behind. Kokko playeda good game kept the numbers close. And Finland also got help from the refs, there were 4 clear high sticks that didn't call. Finland's PK was abysmall, if those would have been called USA could have scored 2-3 goals more at least.
Nah Finland was close beating Usa and ofc should have beaten Czech without epic meltdown Finland would win that 95 to 99 times out of 100 games if replayd from that 5-2 situation no technical skills were meaningful factor in that ourcome. Usa game was very close to 50-50 change's who would win when that decicive penalty happened with better structure there was good changes to win gold its clear coaching was biggest issue of this team always when they played regular finnish play style they were better than opponents mostly only when they started to play too hastely and had no regular structure propblems began. Finland must play its own brand of hockey not Swedish/North Americn typic upright tempo hockey. Finnish player's have been developed to play smart hockey and they have good skillset to play that kind of game. there's not really any big difference in this team's skill level compared to 2014 or 2021 2022 wjc team's for example. 2016 ofc is special, but otherwize about same level with good coaching they would be strong gold candidate and they were medal contender even with bad coaching.
We were never close to beating USA, 40 minutes out of 60 were entirely controlled by USA and that’s with the refs bailing us out of multiple clear penalties and US only starting to play in the second period.
Finland were very close beating Usa overtime is almost coinflip first period was Finlands clearly and Second Usa's third was quite even Usa had slight edge, but Finland also had good opportunities to score. Tight close game that either could have won. Finland wasnt far from level of play to win championship in this tournament with competent coaching its propable they would have made it to final.
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Because our coach is brain-dead idiot, that's why.
In defense there is and in goal.
Vali got sick before the semifinal so he wasn't available.
Miten tämä on mahdollista Jukka Jalosen vahtivuorolla? Petteri Sihvonen iloitsee ruman totuuden paljastumista
MTV Urheilun asiantuntijan Petteri Sihvosen loppuanalyysi Nuorten Leijonien suorituksesta ja Suomen Jääkiekkoliiton joukkueelle ja sen pelaajille aiheuttamasta turbulenssista Ruotsin nuorten MM-kisoissa ei ole kaunista luettavaa.www.mtvuutiset.fi
There is nothing wrong with speaking one's mind. In Sihvonen's case it's not always all that difficult to agree with him on the general level - such as with the fact that Mikkola wasn't a successful hire. In fact, people who do know something about hockey and agree with that sentiment likely aren't few and far between. The only thing that makes finding them difficult is that many of them won't be as straightforward in expressing it as someone like Sihvonen is.
Commentators who can use colorful enough language without getting too colorful (as in, say some dumb shit while on live) are quite rare - on all fields, I might add. Trying to find the next Ogden Nash amongst a group that has spent last 20 years chasing a puck instead of writing columns and whatnot is particularly tricky. I'm not saying they don't exist, but rather than take the risk that their commentator might say something a little too interesting at the wrong moment, the networks tend to err on the safe side.
