Oh comon, NHL reffing can be awful as well. Why do NA posters like to bag on IIHF so much.
GDT: USA vs. Finland, Jan. 4th, Semi-Final; 1:30 pm EST, 7:30 pm local
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NyQuil
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As I said elsewhere, because IIHF refs aren’t shy about calling anything that they see, it can lead to more outrageous outcomes.
It’s a low floor high ceiling situation.
NHL reffing tends to be a more mediocre middle ground.
NyQuil
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Loss in overtime by the 14th seeded against the overwhelming tournament favourites with that one point guaranteeing avoiding relegation? And yeah, an amazing effort with basically no tanks, no modern fighters and not much heavy artillery against the Red Army itself. But we do digress...
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WayTooCold
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Finland was fighting bare handed against half of the planet Earth's fighter jets and tanks at some point. Not to talk about the smallish difference 3 millions vs 200 millions population.
Well, we lost our 2nd city, 10% of our land area and 13% of the population had to flee with 25 000 young men dead in a nation of slightly over 3m people. Still an amazing miracle in times when small nations collapsed routinely like houses of cards, often for several times even. Had we been occupied it would have been basically a national liquidation. But hardly a draw in military terms. But now we really do digress!
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I actually read the post you're quoting as a positive. I think of it as a positive anyways.
Thanks for the history lesson. That prompted me to do some reading on the Winter War. At least one American is slightly more educated.
NyQuil
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You don’t typically see make-up calls at IIHF events IMO.
I’m not going to say whether that’s good or bad, just different.
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In the end I'm super proud that we fought like lions! And we will continue to fight like lions!
SantosHalper
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Fuuuuuuuk! Nyman was close tying the game.
Anyways, great team effort once again. Our boys left everything on ice and we can be proud of that. I see the finnish press is already blaming the refs, thats embarrassing. There were like 4 high sticks that didn't get called and considering how leathal USA's powerplay was, i'd say we dodged many bullets today. And Nyman was so damn close.
Second what was embarrassing was McGroarty scratching his face trying to bleed, so embarrassing. Grow some balls and leave showcasing to soccer pitch.
Otherwise congrats to USA, you were better team this time. People have often said how tight Finland-USA games are, so the finnish announcer said in U20 Worlds the record was 18-18-1. Now it's 19 wins for USA and 18 wins for Finland, and 1 tie. It is a tight series between us. We try winning the next one, enjoy the gold medal game.
Who was the greatest battalion commander in Winter War AND WHY IT IS "The Terror of Morocco" Aarne Juutilainen?
Anyways, great team effort once again. Our boys left everything on ice and we can be proud of that. I see the finnish press is already blaming the refs, thats embarrassing. There were like 4 high sticks that didn't get called and considering how leathal USA's powerplay was, i'd say we dodged many bullets today. And Nyman was so damn close.
Second what was embarrassing was McGroarty scratching his face trying to bleed, so embarrassing. Grow some balls and leave showcasing to soccer pitch.
Otherwise congrats to USA, you were better team this time. People have often said how tight Finland-USA games are, so the finnish announcer said in U20 Worlds the record was 18-18-1. Now it's 19 wins for USA and 18 wins for Finland, and 1 tie. It is a tight series between us. We try winning the next one, enjoy the gold medal game.
Way ahead of you of buddy.
Who was the greatest battalion commander in Winter War AND WHY IT IS "The Terror of Morocco" Aarne Juutilainen?
Open up the history book, son and read the soviet objective and then what they actually achieve. Lot of dead reds in their rotten graves, thanks to my grandfathers and their brothers in arms. And all thanks to them, im alive, your alive, without the veterans finnish people would have faced genocide.
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It was kind of a disaster military result for Russia because it also prompted Hitler to invade Russia.
I thought this was a good game, but obviously you get saulty if you get a penalty call that wasn't a penalty with 3 minutes remaining.
Maybe he was trying to turn into a Titan
SanDogBrewin
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They clogged up the front of the net and the Finns goalie made some great saves as well.
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Correct. I'd rather lose to US. We're used to losing in the finals. Better to pick the one that doesn't rub it in as much.
Juxtaposer
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Vegas fans still blaming the refs for the fact that Vegas gave up four goals in five minutes is hilarious. All they had to do to win that game was “not give up four goals on a five minute PP”. Even bad teams do that regularly. Vegas shot themselves in the foot four times and are blaming the refs for handing them the gun.
You can blame the refs as much as you want, but at the end of the day when you go 0% on the PK, it’s your own damn fault.
You have not been paying attention. Lots of canadian refs in this tournament.
Canadian Finn
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which arguably was the failure that kept Hitler from taking over the world (he couldn't handle two fronts).
so....in a round about way Finland's showing in the winter war changed the course of WW2
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