PGT: USA vs Europe - Europe 3 United States 0 F

[Unholy]

Team grit!

 

[Whileee]

Torts benches Buff.

There will be fun and games in Winnipeg during his next visit....

 

[flaneur]

Funny thing is, i can see Kruger being the BJ's next coach.

Isn't Krueger still working for a football team in Europe?

 

[llwyd]

Hmm, very surprising and disappointing performance by the Americans: no intensity, no heart, undisicplined play and amateurish mistakes... All honour to the Europeans who played a totally disciplined and effective game but this lazy tempo and disorganized play by the USA was like heaven made for them.

 

[Little Psycho]

I know Kopitar hasn't really been on the score board, but he's been great defensively

 

[Chimpradamus]

His grandparents made sure he learned it at a young age. His handle of the language is better than lots of folks born and raised in the U.S.

Kopitar also got to practice it playing in Sweden for a couple of years. I think he even went to school in Sweden as a junior player.

 

[Merya]

I have never been this apathetic about USA hockey. I was even cheering when Disco was coaching.

I'd guess that is bcs almost all US sports spectating is about winning. When you lose, there is defensive mechanism of apathy perhaps. Try thinking it from some small countries point of view, where one olympic medal or one win in hockey is a huge thing.

 

[Phil McKraken]

I wonder why, clownman

Has anyone asked why he didn't pull the goalie with three minutes left, on a PP while down by three goals? Great message to send to your team.

 

[KPower]

This USA team is garbage ...terrible decisions by management.

 

[Chimpradamus]

Has anyone asked why he didn't pull the goalie with three minutes left, on a PP while down by three goals? Great message to send to your team.

Because the goal differential is an important tiebreaker in this tournament.

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

Isn't Krueger still working for a football team in Europe?

Yeah, Southhampton I think. The Euros played it like a soccer game too. Structured, opportunistic and methodical. It makes for a heck of a boring game but it was the right game to play against the USA because they don't have the speed or creativity to break down that kind of gameplan. Torts solution to everything is crashing the net, traffic in front and pouncing on rebounds. Kind of hard to do with 2 players in the crease at every turn.

 

[flaneur]

Has anyone asked why he didn't pull the goalie with three minutes left, on a PP while down by three goals? Great message to send to your team.

CBC said it was probably because he was worried about goal differentials

 

[WayneSid9987]

From twitter:

"It's not a marathon, it's a sprint. We just get into a dangerous position"- John Tortorella

Tortorella " we just couldn't create scoring chances"

Tortorella thought the disallowed JVR goal should have counted. Didn't think he re-directed it

Team USA coach John Tortorella: "You have to give the opposing team credit here... It just didn't happen."

Tortorella says the part of the game that bothered him most was the way they struggled to produce chances.

We're chasing the tournament now, John Tortorella says.

Tortorella: "We're chasing the tournament. It's a spot we didn't want to be in. It's a very dangerous spot."

Tortorella: "We just got to stay together & not blow ourselves up here"

John Tortorella believes it was a good goal because it went off Stepan's helmet.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=tortorella&src=typd

 

[MessierII]

USA picked a garbage team and a garbage coach. Serves them right.

 

[ijuka]

Anyone tell me how Nino looked? At a wedding. only got to check in every once in a while.

Only saw him 1 time all game.

 

[Auston Marlander]

His grandparents made sure he learned it at a young age. His handle of the language is better than lots of folks born and raised in the U.S.

That's not saying much...



But seriously, very impressive

 

[jonlin]

Not much to say, I'm pretty much speechless. Glad I did not bet on this game and team Europe totally deseved the win. Usa lacked fighting spirit.

Glad I bet on this game and sad that I bet only 100€. Still, getting 545€ for free is ok. Veikkaus had Europe at 6,45. After Europe crushed Sweden in exhibition, this was in no way that big of a surprise media makes it...

 

[Merya]

Oh dear. Still no 3 points for regular time win? >

 

[Conflicted Habs fan]

Well done Kazakstahn, Slovakia, Uzbekastahn, Germany, Armenia, Turkey, France, Scotland, Byelorussia and Holland!

 

[ijuka]

I bet USA is out if they don't beat Canada.

Then we all can laugh at Tortorella.

 

[kp61c]

usa team is ****, lel

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

****ing amazing outcome. i'm sure a Ryan - Johnson - Kessel line wouldn't have helped. great job idiots.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

That was a game played according to Kruger's rules.

The other coaches play chess. He plays Go.

Well said. Wish he would've gotten more time in Edmonton..

 

[Merya]

I really really don't understand why NHL doesn't adopt the 3,2/1 point distribution that's logical. Is it just because of recordbooks? 2,2/1 just doesnt make any sense. It doesnt penalize at all for guarding a deuce, which was the original reason to go on short OT and penalties in the first place.

in the current nhl system you can win two games and lose one, but be behind a team that won one and lost two. It's really screwed up. >_<

 

[jonlin]

I bet USA is out if they don't beat Canada.

Then we all can laugh at Tortorella.

We all anyway laugh at Tortorella...