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World Junior Hockey Championships (WJHC 2013)

They need to give Reilly more of an offensive green light and more ice time.

Biggs has been not bad, screened the goalie on the third and would have been more effective had his line-mate Rocco "Puck hogging no look pass maestro" Grimaldi not tried to do everything himself.

 
drummond said:
Well, the game is very much over 4-0 US...
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Wow!  I certainly didn't expect Team Canada to have gotten this much of a drubbing by the U.S. so far.  Well, if that's the case, then the U.S. should be favoured to win the gold against whomever they play against in the final.  Their offence is that good.
 
I wouldn't count Canada out yet, but taking penalties in the offensive zone doesn't help. Every player have to avoid making stupid mistakes now, while putting up the pressure, not an easy balance. If Canada gets a goal before the end of the 2nd anything can happen. Sports is a lot about having a positive flow.
 
Stebro said:
I wouldn't count Canada out yet, but taking penalties in the offensive zone doesn't help. Every player have to avoid making stupid mistakes now, while putting up the pressure, not an easy balance. If Canada gets a goal before the end of the 2nd anything can happen. Sports is a lot about having a positive flow.
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Let's hope so.
 
As a coach I would be furious about the two last penalty calls, you can not afford playing on the edge when being down 4-0. And if you do play on the edge you must be 100% certain that you play on the right side of it.

But one should remember that the Americans are doing a lot of things right too, one thing that impresses me is how much speed they use in both the offensive and defensive zone. One reason why I think that the Americans are getting a lot of chances too is because the Canadians are having too big gaps in their own zone, and that means that the Americans can use their skating and create chances.
 
The last few years have all been like this. Teams completely devoid of character and on-ice leadership, strutting around like their farts don't stink and forgetting what they are playing for. The ineffective and uninspiring coaching staffs are only a minor part of the problem, because really how much motivation do you need to play for your flag? More than this team can muster, apparently. Hockey Canada needs to wake up because this problem isn't going away.

I'd like to give credit to the US but I can't. All they did was try. I can't credit a team with doing what they are supposed to.
 
If this is a goal then the game is on again. It should be a goal, it was something weird about the signal.
 
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Ref blows whistle in error, USA stop playing, Canadians put it in the net and the goal stands.

Hilarious.
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Yeah it was kind of funny, I heard a whistle too, but didn't know why. I wasn't sure where the whistle came from or why. But it looked like the first shot hit the bar, and maybe they thought it was a goal I dunno.
 
Ryan Murphy playing ahead of Reilly is a travesty.

This Canadian coach is awful, he has energy guys out there at inopportune moments.

Perhaps hiring a coach who has won nothing was not a good call.
 
I set the PVR up wrong and missed the game. Or so I thought. I wonder if my PVR is sentient and thought 'no way, she doesn't wanna see this, I'll mess it up'........
 
1-0 Sweden on the PP Elias Lindholm, Backstrom potential on him. Bryn?s continues to produce. 2-0 our captain Forsberg.
 
drummond said:
10 minutes in and the Russians has not registred a single shot on goal, WOW.
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It's nice to see that they barely check us at all :)
 
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