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Team Russia WC19 vs Boston Bruins SC19 and Blues? Which team better?

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Team Russia WC19 vs Boston Bruins SC19 and Blues?

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habsrule4eva3089 said:
On international surface it's not even a contest, Russia would win Easily vs either team. Both nhl teams have no offensive depth just a bunch of plugs. A player like jaden schwarz is leading the blues, he's uselejss on big ice as seen last year. Imagine a player like Patrick maroon skating on the larger surface, there's superior skaters in beer leagues for goodness sake. Even Chara would be skated around by every player. The over rating of NHL players is laughable, a Finnish team full of non NHL players just Beat Sweden. Being in the nhl doesn't signify godly status.

Let's be honest here, this is not like any other sport, in the NHL there are a bunch of good teams and average and bad, there is no exceptional Hockey team in existence right now, the only time we can witness Hockey's true potential is at these tournaments and Olympics and it's refreshing to see what beautiful Hockey can look like instead of watching grown men physically hitting each other in a corner for half a game followed by loud Americans waving white towels like demonstrated in the joke that is the nhl playoffs.

And my goodness is it refreshing to always see culture present. The nhl fans are some of most uncultured people following any sport worldwide, and to see the Russian songs, Swiss Chants, Finnish passion is so refreshing. Showing once again where the true of home of Hockey lies, and that's the ice of international play.
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Schwarz is useless on big ice based on one tournament? I agree some people tend to overrate NHL players, simply playing there doesn't make you a star, but I think vast majority of people share this view. And while I agree that the atmosphere in Europe is often much better than in the NHL, I find it a bit funny when you talk about "culture" being present, when I look at what happened after Canada - Slovakia match.
 
I think the Bruins would beat(probably wipe) the Russians on small ice, I can't see the Russians winning that.

On big ice I think the Russian team most likely wins.
 
Atas2000 said:
You act like a hysterical kid. Close your ears and continue to cry out loud what you want to believe. Doesn't make it true.

Team Russia would blow away a combined team of Bruins and Blues easily. The NHL is a parity show nowadays.
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on nhl rinks? I would love to see a combined Bruins-Blues team against Russia series, I don't think the Russian team would take that to seven games even. Big ice ......................edge to Russia but not by much IMO.
 
Marchand Bergeron Pastrnak
Schwartz O’Reilly Tarasenko
Debrusk Krejci Schenn
Johansson Coyle Perron

Chara Pietrangelo
Krug Parayko
Jaybo MacAvoy

Rask
Binnington

In an NHL rink I'll for sure take the two combined Stanley Cup teams playing at their competitive peaks in a 7 game series because they are probably better coached at this stage of the season and definitely more structured.

International rink, its Russia. Speed, skill, and strategic familiarity gives them a large advantage.
 
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jj cale said:
on nhl rinks? I would love to see a combined Bruins-Blues team against Russia series, I don't think the Russian team would take that to seven games even. Big ice ......................edge to Russia but not by much IMO.
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The rink size is a myth mostly. For those teams the rink size would't mean a thing. But I understand the holy Overrating of the own league.
 
Atas2000 said:
The rink size is a myth mostly. For those teams the rink size would't mean a thing. But I understand the holy Overrating of the own league.
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The superpower Russian team stuff is a myth, that definitely has been proven, talk about overrating!!

There is absolutely nothing about this team that suggests as you have that it would kill a combined Blues-Bruins team.
 
jj cale said:
I think the Bruins would beat(probably wipe) the Russians on small ice, I can't see the Russians winning that.

On big ice I think the Russian team most likely wins.
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First 2 lines of Capitals used to trash that Bruins team, and you think upgraded version of "Capitals" will be wiped? That does not compute.
 
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shtorm2005 said:
First 2 lines of Capitals used to trash that Bruins team, and you think upgraded version of "Capitals" will be wiped? That doesn't not compute.
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The caps didn't trash anyone this year, they lost in the first round.

But whatever, I just have an opinion on how that series would end between both teams in the type of game that is played in the best out of seven small ice grind in the Stanley Cup playoffs and I think they match up well against this Russian team in that scenario.I can't prove it of course anymore then anyone claiming the Russian team would wipe the Bruins out.....................it's all speculation, an opinion.

Anyone just writing the other team off as if it is a certainty is something that does not compute.
 
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jj cale said:
The caps didn't trash anyone this year, they lost in the first round.

But whatever, I just have an opinion on how that series would end between both teams in the type of game that is played in the best out of seven small ice grind in the Stanley Cup playoffs and I think they match up well against this Russian team in that scenario.I can't prove it of course anymore then anyone claiming the Russian team would wipe the Bruins out.....................it's all speculation, an opinion.

Anyone just writing the other team off as if it is a certainty is something that does not compute.
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Of course it's all speculation, but even if Capitals lost in the first round, they would match pretty well against Bruins because they have some crazy record against. That's why Boston fans rooted hard against them and wished injuries. It's hard to predict of course, but it's also hard to believe that a team with Ovy and Kuzy on the 3rd line won't manage to score a bunch against their most preferred opponent.
 
shtorm2005 said:
Of course it's all speculation, but even if Capitals lost in the first round, they would match pretty well against Bruins because they have some crazy record against. That's why Boston fans rooted hard against them and wished injuries. It's hard to predict of course, but it's also hard to believe that a team with Ovy and Kuzy on the 3rd line won't manage to score a bunch against their most preferred opponent.
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Maybe, I don't know. I like the chances of the Bruins grinding this Russian team down in a knock out down and dirty Stanley Cup best of seven. It's a different game and mentality then the WHC.

And a Bruins-Blues best of combined team against them, now I really like that teams chances. I mean, it's not the 70's and 80's anymore, the Russians aren't supermen or anything, all the best on bests for 20 years have shown that. I highly doubt they do any wiping out in the scenario I described.

But that's just me.
 
jj cale said:
And a Bruins-Blues best of combined team against them, now I really like that teams chances.
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Can't really argue this. Two top6 SC finalists at their best and 2 top D-pairs can beat even canadian olympic lineup because of chemistry they have this post season. (On NHL ice rink)
 
JohnnyT91 said:
For sure Russia but even 2 NHL teams joining rosters flips it say Bos+Tor would kick the poop out of Russia
Marchand-Bergeron-Pasta
DeBrusk-Matthews-Nylander
Kadri-Tavares-Marner
Johansson-Krejci-Kapanen

Rielly-McAvoy
Krug-Dermott
Muzzin-Carlo

Rask
Andersson
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All these top whc teams are allstar teams with great depth.
I bet even team swiss wins the stanley cup. Allstar team against a club team not even debatable.
 
I think there's such a big gap at D, and Marchand - Bergeron - Pastrnak beats any line (that's 2/3rds of Canada's best line), so I'm still going with the Stanley Cup finalists team.

I see some Russian players that are going to get underrated. Gavrikov is a solid middle pair shutdown D in the NHL. Gusev is a legit game changer at forward. I wanted to vote for them but the D overall would get sliced and diced.
 
It s very tight! But a best available canadian team would beat Boston or Blues easily.
 
yeah, as I suspected, anyone saying this Russian team would blow away or even beat the Bruins garunteed in a seven game Stanley Cup playoff series was off base, and a combined Bruins-blues team? I just don't see it.
 
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