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Justin Cas…Err…Trudeau has completed his wussification of the Canadian Nation. They boo more strongly than they play their national sport. 3-1 USA!!!! Thanks for the extra motivation Habs fans, I thought you wanted to separate from Canada?
 
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What do you think about the current performance of the teams? Do you see an interesting evolution on the Canadian side or is it just a fluke for the United States ?

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avensis said:
What do you think about the current performance of the teams? Do you see an interesting evolution on the Canadian side or is it just a fluke for the United States?
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Canada has the best player in the world...again...and that player sniped the USA in overtime. That has been the difference in Golden Goal situations.

Not much of an evolution from a decade ago.

United States played most of that game without Matt Tkachuk and without Charlie McAvoy.

The last time McDavid saw McAvoy, McAvoy put him into the third row after he scored and McDavid wasn't heard from again. Chucky likes ******* with him when they play. McDavid probably doesn't score in OT like that if those two are playing.
 
Drury was the USA GM through 2021 and served as the AGM for this tourney - he filled the bottom 6 with his crap-*** Rangers guys like Kreider and Trocheck while more talented players stayed home (such as Tage Thompson). The US has far better goaltending than Canada, so if they can fix the roster construction, they have a legit shot at olympic gold
 
We'retheBoss said:
Drury was the USA GM through 2021 and served as the AGM for this tourney - he filled the bottom 6 with his crap-*** Rangers guys like Kreider and Trocheck while more talented players stayed home (such as Tage Thompson). The US has far better goaltending than Canada, so if they can fix the roster construction, they have a legit shot at olympic gold
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Trochek leads the NHL in face off % and he has a chemistry with JT Miller from when they played together when they were younger. I get having him.

Kreider is the one that I don't understand. And he literally got hurt in the last game.
Tage hasn't played big games in the NHL but he can score and is a big body out there.
 
Manfred_Cane said:
Trochek leads the NHL in face off % and he has a chemistry with JT Miller from when they played together when they were younger. I get having him.

Kreider is the one that I don't understand. And he literally got hurt in the last game.
Tage hasn't played big games in the NHL but he can score and is a big body out there.
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Some of these GMs overthink things in these national tournaments - they get into the mindset that they have to get the "best 3rd/4th liners" to play on the 3rd/4th lines, so you get these less-talented "grit" players instead of rolling out wave after wave of 1st/2nd line quality guys. Same thing happened to Canada in the World Juniors this year, they left a handful of super talented kids at home in order to bring the best "grinders" for the "grinder" lines and they got smoked.
 
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BoxingRobes said:
Canada has the best player in the world...again...and that player sniped the USA in overtime. That has been the difference in Golden Goal situations.

Not much of an evolution from a decade ago.

United States played most of that game without Matt Tkachuk and without Charlie McAvoy.

The last time McDavid saw McAvoy, McAvoy put him into the third row after he scored and McDavid wasn't heard from again. Chucky likes ******* with him when they play. McDavid probably doesn't score in OT like that if those two are playing.
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Quinn Hughes also didn't play this tourney and he's arguably the best defensemen in the NHL
 
We'retheBoss said:
Some of these GMs overthink things in these national tournaments - they get into the mindset that they have to get the "best 3rd/4th liners" to play on the 3rd/4th lines, so you get these less-talented "grit" players instead of rolling out wave after wave of 1st/2nd line quality guys. Same thing happened to Canada in the World Juniors this year, they left a handful of super talented kids at home in order to bring the best "grinders" for the "grinder" lines and they got smoked.
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i think by the Olympics, our team will be pretty clear. It kind of is now, just take out Kreider, Miller, Trochek and maybe Larkin.

Tage, Jason Robertson, Caulfield are the next ones that should get a shot.
 
Had a feeling Canada would pull it out in the championship, Connor McDavid is just so good. Similar to Crosby getting the goal in the gold medal game (year slips my mind)
 
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