GDT: WJC: Germany - Sweden

[The Blue Baron]

Germans looked very good, to bad they couldn’t find the back of the net. Sweden looks weak even know they won.

 

[Bustedprospect]

Sweden look pretty weak. Only thing positive were some stints of offensive play, boxplay and the goaltending.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

I thought Sweden looked great until 10 minutes left in that third period where they began the “Shell” to protect the lead.

You’d want more on their PP, obviously but that was one of the best preformances I’ve ever seen out of a German netminder at this tournament. Quapp almost stole that one for Germany.

Sometimes you have to tip your hat to the opposition.

 

[BamBam1031]

There should be a stat for actual saves where the goalie has to move and shots that just hit the goalie cause in my books that's not a save

90% of goaltending is done before the shot is actually taken. Only the last 10% of goaltending is the save itself. If the goalie is doing his job correctly, he is hardly moving to make the save. If he is doing something acrobatic to make the save, something went wrong. Positioning, positioning, positioning. Boring goaltending is good goaltending.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Germans looked very good, to bad they couldn’t find the back of the net. Sweden looks weak even know they won.

Sweden won the shots by a wide margin. Makes no sense that the team that won the shoots looked "very weak".

 

[The Blue Baron]

Sweden won the shots by a wide margin. Makes no sense that the team that won the shoots looked "very weak".

Did you watch the game? Only thing keeping Swedes in it was the goalie.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Sweden won the shots by a wide margin. Makes no sense that the team that won the shoots looked "very weak".

I think Sweden is good in a key area and that is transition/reaction to defense.. When they lose the puck or the other team gets a hint of a breakout on the go... they have numbers everywhere. We will see how they do against the Czech's and Canada.

Lindbom showed up when he had to, today as well.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Did you watch the game? Only thing keeping Swedes in it was the goalie.

Yes i watched the game. Sweden had 40+ shots on goal, much more than Germany had. Why do you ignore that? Sweden created more scoring chances than the germans. More like the only thing keeping the germans in the game was their goalie, how often does a goalie save 40+ shots?

 

[McCullogh]

A win is a win I guess. But that was not pretty at all. Decent 2nd period but the 3nd was abysmal and only Lindbom standing on his head saved us from a, deserved, German goal. Their GK was also amazing.

I must say I do worry about the swedish defensemen when they are put on the pressure all of them looked a bit lost out there. Will be interesting to see how they handle tougher opposition further down the tournament.

Two wins and two clean sheets is a good start ofc, but some worries I have.

 

[Elias40]

Did you watch the game? Only thing keeping Swedes in it was the goalie.

In the graphics before the start of the third period, they showed the ratio of shots of both teams. And guess what there was..the first period ended 13-16 on shots, but of those thirteen German shots, a full ten were on power plays. Sweden had the exact opposite, only five shots on power plays and almost thirty shots at 5v5. In the third period, given the result, it is logical that Germany pushes into the shooting in an attempt to equalize the situation. Therefore, the Germans won the third period 13-10. But in the total the Swedish superiority was obvious and it was only thanks to the great Quapp that Sweden did not decide their win earlier. Nevertheless, Germany had several chances in the last third and could have equalized, but Lindbom was excellent yesterday and will keep a clean sheet. Sweden's victory is thus fully deserved, even if the result does not match it.

 

[GettingYourMoms]

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