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Zero composure in the shootout by the USA shooters.

Still, it's a showcase tournament, and it was a good display by the team. Sans shootout.
 
Good job Team Russia! Congratulations! :) They showed a much better and complete game today than in the 1st match and Askarov was rock solid in net.
 
US played the whole game like they expected to win. They let Russia hang around, and you knew it wasn't going to end well if it got to a shootout.
 
Askarov, wow! Russia are continuing to shit out diamond goaltenders every second year. Vasilievskyi, Samsonov, Sorokin, Shestyorkin, Madness! Congrats!
 
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Stunning defeat. I always viewed this tournament with a bit of a jaundice eye in terms of American ability because we had certain built in advantages but I honestly believed this was the strongest group we ever had. Safe to say we have to question a few of our previous assumptions. Hope Canada wins today, would like to see at least one North American team play for gold.
 
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Should've put Brink in over Zegras, but anyway no use quibbling over it. Hope we get a Russis vs Canada final.
 
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Meh, Russian team was decidedly mediocre so waiting for Askarov to win it for them in shootout was right. For all the hype team USA couldn't do much in 5-on-5 play at all, the only one who did anything was Hughes and his 1 vs 5 heroics made him pretty predictable. I dunno why everyone here blames USA PP, it was the only time they looked good (but inefficient).
 
BlitzSnipe said:
They were trying to deke Askarov out but the guy is way too sharp for that.
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But they really made it easy on him too, there was no real movement from them and they were half fumbling the puck and................

Not to take anything away from the guy though, he was brilliant all game long basically.
 
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Ingvar said:
Meh, Russian team was decidedly mediocre so waiting for Askarov to win it for them in shootout was right. For all the hype team USA couldn't do much in 5-on-5 play at all, the only one who did anything was Hughes and his 1 vs 5 heroics made him pretty predictable. I dunno why everyone here blames USA PP, it was the only time they looked good (but inefficient).
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This wasn't the best ever Russian team but certainly not mediocre. They could've ended the game during the OT period as well.
 
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But they really made it easy on him too, there was no real movement from them and they were half fumbling the puck and................

Not to take anything away from the guy though, he was brilliant all game long basically.
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Probably the nerves. Amirov showed great composure on his goal though, the guy is quite good.
 
Corso said:
Stunning defeat. I always viewed this tournament with a bit of a jaundice eye in terms of American ability because we had certain built in advantages but I honestly believed this was the strongest group we ever had. Safe to say we have to question a few of our previous assumptions. Hope Canada wins today, would like to see at least one North American team play for gold.
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Agree your strongest over all U18 team personnel wise
 
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