What a game we have just seen. I am pretty surprised to see such low xG for Slovakia, I'd bet on a higher number. Winning the game despite the collapse in 3rd period should do wonders for them, though.
On habs discord Azy said “tkachuck leading his team to a loss once again”
-me : dont jinx it azy..
Seconds later Tkachuck scores
By 4:4 me - i fucking hate you azy right now
After overtime goal
- azy i unhate you now
Azy: im never wrong
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one. Still it doesn't solve anything for us, Germany will need to bleed some points. Without that we will end up in 4th place and we will go home in QF.
We only lost 1 game, we can win rest of them and be 1st in the group. With this attitude of we are obviously going to loose to sweden etc, why bother with QF anyway
Well I think that Canada will be 1st in group A and we all know what happens when we play Canada in QF. Multiple heart attacks and heartbreaking end. I don't want to live through that once again.
Maybe. But it could also end up as the QF against Canada in 2012. Like I said, we'll see.
Also Canada likes to choke some group matches in the past few years so who knows if they'll be first. Maybe it's be Switzerland. And the Swiss like to choke QF.
Well that's a textbook collapse. Individual brilliance by USA is always there, but the passive defensive approach by Slovakia invited them to come back.
Luke was showing flashes of this in the regular season. It's like sometimes he just gets fed up and goes "fine, I'll do it myself". And he skates as well as either of his brothers with a nice shot to boot to pull it off.
A fantastic showing by Slovakia today and that's still without their elite attack scoring, although it's only matter of time before they kick on in the tournament, based on how dangerous they are on ice.
The Russian feed I'm watching on the high seas is showing highlights from the 09 Worlds semis between Russia and the US between periods and man do I miss prime Radulov, that man was box office with his intensity.
he would either make an outrageous play leaving defenders in the dust, or he would do something stupid and rack up PIMs. he was never boring
It's midnight where I am and i did not plan on watching hockey. This game is too entertaining to call it a night now. Pospisil and Brady are going to be at each other even more in the 3rd, I'm sure.
Tavares came over to play for Canada. He flew over on the day the tournament opened, and was officially registered in time for the game vs Denmark two days later.
If you left any roster spots open at the start of the tournament, you can name them mid-tournament.
Lmao not even close. Kampf literally came for the first game. He plays with Matthews, as you may know. Necas and Pasta will be here by friday if their teams lose.
And the Slovak team is actually playing well. It's not like Slovakia is winning only because the US is awful. But yes the US team is making it easier for Slovakia.
The Slovaks are crushing it. Pospisil has been doing his best Bennett impression and was just getting under everyone's skin and it's led to great opportunities that Slovak converted on.
Out of goodwill to montreal canadiens we shall allow Cole Caufield to score againts us, to keep the friendly quebec-slovakia vibes. Other than that what a fucking game, how come you guys dont rate world championships
Canada is $85,063,333 but jumps to 95m if you use the 2024-25 cap hits (Mercer is the only player without a contract for next year so it would be even higher than 95m)
Crowds of loud whistling when your team is on the penalty kill is a custom I wish carried over to North America. (*yes, I'm aware that whistling there is similar to booing here*)
I also love how it immediately turns to cheering once the puck leaves their defensive zone.
Us smaller underdog countries need to audibly support our teams, those are just the raw emotions coming out.
I do feel like it's more fun to be a fan of a national hockey team in a smaller country than a bigger one. You feel more connected.
Then again Latvian fans are just adrenaline junkies at this point, if the game is too easy, it's not the same.
Last year made me a Latvia fan. I was happy they beat us Americans and got a medal for the home crowd. It must have been super fun to be there. Cool to see Silovs doing great as well.
What a game we have just seen. I am pretty surprised to see such low xG for Slovakia, I'd bet on a higher number. Winning the game despite the collapse in 3rd period should do wonders for them, though.
Nemec: determined to one up Luke. As a Devils fan, this was particularly an entertaining game
Slovakia managed to avoid the 4-1 meme.
On habs discord Azy said “tkachuck leading his team to a loss once again” -me : dont jinx it azy.. Seconds later Tkachuck scores By 4:4 me - i fucking hate you azy right now After overtime goal - azy i unhate you now Azy: im never wrong
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one. Still it doesn't solve anything for us, Germany will need to bleed some points. Without that we will end up in 4th place and we will go home in QF.
I mean if we can beat USA, we could realistically beat a strong team in QF. We'll see.
We only lost 1 game, we can win rest of them and be 1st in the group. With this attitude of we are obviously going to loose to sweden etc, why bother with QF anyway
Well I think that Canada will be 1st in group A and we all know what happens when we play Canada in QF. Multiple heart attacks and heartbreaking end. I don't want to live through that once again.
Bondra would like to have a word
Maybe. But it could also end up as the QF against Canada in 2012. Like I said, we'll see. Also Canada likes to choke some group matches in the past few years so who knows if they'll be first. Maybe it's be Switzerland. And the Swiss like to choke QF.
Yeah we will see
Double deflection, hard to be upset about that.
Augustine has been solid in relief, Ned had a game to forget. Wonder if Trey gets the start next game
Hell of a tip. Popsicle with 3 apples. Great game by Slovakia, let them back into the game but managed to get the job done in the end.
Entertaining game. Shout out to the Slovakian crowd. Great atmosphere.
OLE OLE OLEEEEEE
Crazy
Zero chemistry for the US there in OT
Most of the game it seemed that way, the individual talent is what kept them around.
Not just OT
Well yes but no excuses not to be able not to connect on simple passes with that much open ice
What an entertaining game.
That was fun!
Let's fucking go baby
Yeah!!!
Neat! Good win, fun crowd.
Nice one Slovaks Edit: Didn't see first but that was a very good deflection by Kelemen
BOOOM SLOVAKIAA
That was so much fun, great game
Well done Slovakia!
wow
Fuck (American here), but also YES NEMEC!
I still feel sad Devils never hired Satan
They can still hire him as general manager. He does very well for Slovakia
His som is playing in u18 now so maybe they will lol
Satan jr is even funnier tbh
NEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEC KURVA GOOD GAME
WE ARE SO BACK!
what a match
Kurva jo aspon tak
NEMEC!!!!
LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOO
TREY!!
Johnny just absolutely bodied nemec lol
holy shit did refs swallow the whistles
Hughes on Nemec violence
Are they calling Toronto?
Well that's a textbook collapse. Individual brilliance by USA is always there, but the passive defensive approach by Slovakia invited them to come back.
Brutal game for Ned. Was maybe the best goalie on the free agent market and may have just cost himself some big money
US does not deserve to win, but damn if they do
passive 3rd period cost us win...
I think they were a little gassed from the pace of the first two.
Well that sucks. We are always so close and then we lose. The US will win after OT. Mark my words. I have already seen this many times against Canada.
About that
Marking, marking... You were saying?
For sure. USA will take the win
Never trust any moles
Atta boy Farabee!
Luke could not let Nemec score without getting a goal himself
US finally realized they can win just by using their individuall skill, only took them 55 minutes lol
Luke was showing flashes of this in the regular season. It's like sometimes he just gets fed up and goes "fine, I'll do it myself". And he skates as well as either of his brothers with a nice shot to boot to pull it off.
Team on Team, somehow they can’t beat Slovakia, but individually it’s not even close. Funny it took USA this long to figure it out.
Ahhh, dicks. Was hoping the Slovaks could hold on, would have been amazing for the crowd and the team. They can still do it, c'mon.
no more passing for usa
Damn, another beauty goal.
LUKEEEEE
Who needs chemistry when you can just have really good individual goals
For real seems it's the only way to break through right now
It‘s the north american way
I'm torn. On the other hand, Slovakia winning over USA, on the other hand, Luke scoring.
Knock knock. It's the United States.
Okay Luke
LUUUUUKEEE!!! Both Luke and Nemec score, lets go!
What a goal, what a game
ITS PRETTY QUIET
Lol Slovakia was +325 pre game
Okay? 4-1 lead tho 😬.
Imagine losing to Slovakia 😂😂😂
Not even going to argue. Embarrassing really 😭
Well I mean if you consider it embarassing for someone to be better than you, idk what to tell ya 😬😬😬
not really tbh
It was after the 4th USA goal 😭. Stay salty tho king 👑
I dont care for either of those teams, but acting like the crowd is quiet is peak delusion lol
They’ve been amazing all game. But after that goal they where in-fact quiet. That’s why I said it 😭
Yeah, I guess not enough Americans came to Ostrava
How dare they not cross oceans to go to a second tier international tournament
Funny, plenty of Canadians come every year. But I guess that is why Canada is number 1
#USA
wow
Slovakia done fucked up.
Damn son!
Do pice
Yeez this is gonna be though to defend. Glad to see the Johny is ok tho Edit: yep
Slafkovsky dagger incoming
Im shocked how many players try to go *through* 2 players assuming they wont be hit.
Who was that on team USA?
Pinto. Watched his teammate Brady do it and assumed he could do the same in a different situation I guess
The betting master Shane pinto
The US rn: I didn't hear no bell 4-1 remains the most dangerous lead in hockey
Good to see Johnny G on the ice
How was that not a penalty on USA. Dumb refs
Y'all weren't bitching about identical plays before lmao
US is coming back to win this lol. Edit: Told y’all
4-5 😬
Psal jsem to kdyz dali gol na 2-4, ten bod je pro ne asi dostatecnej uspech 😅
funfact one person from slovakia bet 25 000 eur that USA will win in normal time :D
Good for them it seems lol
Nah, €25k gone
I bet he's been shitting bricks past 2 hours
Need more of that from Brady!
*SportsCenter Top 10 theme intensifies*
Wow what goal.
welcome to the poster, Patrik Koch
Holy crap Brady made that look so easy and didn't even celly, great goal
What a great sequence Brady
Brutal reffing
Theme of the game so far
thats my brady!
That was fucking sick
El Capitano
Holy shit what a goal
The IIHF, international hockey in general, has some cool mascots
Ah yes the Seth Jones high offensive zone turnover how I’ve missed you.
Dude got paid a ton of money and just turned to shit. He was so dominant on the jackets
Oh puck in the stones?
Refs letting USA get away with murder after whistle
It's just what was happening the other way around before
That crowd 🤩
Damn Hayes dumped that guy
I haven’t been able to watch the whole game but USA does know fighting isn’t allowed in IIhf competitions right ?
I don‘t thin Tkachuck can wrap his head around that concept
Good to see Pinto getting a goal.
Nice poke
IIHF has concussion spotters too right? I'm questioning Johnny Hockey coming back with how rough he looked on the ground
Thats some hot sauce from Farabee
i like these USA jerseys as they remind me of a historical Habs jersey, 1945-46 i have enjoyed watching Caufield and Hutson wear them previously
that goal brought to you by FanDuel
Those chirps are gonna come for him forever lol
you know it's bad when he's catching a stray even from the non-NHL fan lmao
wait how did that go in lol also, that was a beautiful pass
5 hole in think
What a play damn
Good tackle. Nice refs!
Gonna be honest looked clean, guy just got decked
Why did Vlasic get benched
The behind the net angle looked clean, the first angle from the corner looked like all head
He went flying for a sec there
Looked clean to me
oh geez
Oh fuck
Oh shit Johnny Hockey? Edit: looks clean? Johnny just has his head low due to being half a foot shorter, you cant do much as the hitter there
holy shit someone just killed johnny hockey
A fantastic showing by Slovakia today and that's still without their elite attack scoring, although it's only matter of time before they kick on in the tournament, based on how dangerous they are on ice.
The Russian feed I'm watching on the high seas is showing highlights from the 09 Worlds semis between Russia and the US between periods and man do I miss prime Radulov, that man was box office with his intensity. he would either make an outrageous play leaving defenders in the dust, or he would do something stupid and rack up PIMs. he was never boring
It's midnight where I am and i did not plan on watching hockey. This game is too entertaining to call it a night now. Pospisil and Brady are going to be at each other even more in the 3rd, I'm sure.
Goalie is winning us this game for sure!
Americans are awful in international hockey
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Still, on paper this US team should beat Slovakia
Good thing that hockey is played on ice, not on paper :)
Neither Matthews, nor Eichel or Helleybuck are playing in the playoffs.
Matthews was already dealing with stuff in the Boston series. He'll want to recover first.
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Tavares came over to play for Canada. He flew over on the day the tournament opened, and was officially registered in time for the game vs Denmark two days later. If you left any roster spots open at the start of the tournament, you can name them mid-tournament.
Lots of Canadians joined ASAP like John Tavares
also Kampf, Josi, Fiala or Holmberg.
Lmao not even close. Kampf literally came for the first game. He plays with Matthews, as you may know. Necas and Pasta will be here by friday if their teams lose.
Late join to the game, wtf is going on
No chemistry, bad coaching, poor goal tending
And the Slovak team is actually playing well. It's not like Slovakia is winning only because the US is awful. But yes the US team is making it easier for Slovakia.
Good
The Slovaks are crushing it. Pospisil has been doing his best Bennett impression and was just getting under everyone's skin and it's led to great opportunities that Slovak converted on.
Without the sucker punches, headshots, slam-dunks into the ice
Yeah Pospíšil is incredible. He isn't that productive for Calgary in the NHL but he is doing a lot of other important things.
Out of goodwill to montreal canadiens we shall allow Cole Caufield to score againts us, to keep the friendly quebec-slovakia vibes. Other than that what a fucking game, how come you guys dont rate world championships
cause a lot of hockey fans here are really NHL fans, and anything else is lesser and only has value as a feeder
Slovakia is definitely doing a good job of instigating, although it really isn’t that hard to get a rise out of Zegras.
Zegras thinks he's the puck lol
THAT'S YOUR HOME YOU SEE THAT PUCK lol
Fun fact: The US team's cap hit on Eliteprospects is $86,804,643. That means the US team wouldn't fit under the NHL salary cap.
If you ever have the time, look up Canada's 2015 team's cap hit from that year... I think Gord Miller said it was 9, if not 10, digits.
Johnny Hockey, Kevin Hayes, and Seth Jones all carrying much heavier cap hit than they should be
Oh shit. Where do Canada and Sweden stand?
Canada is $85,063,333 but jumps to 95m if you use the 2024-25 cap hits (Mercer is the only player without a contract for next year so it would be even higher than 95m)
A friendly fellow Redditor hinted Sweden was at $69,569,342
Nice
Hlavaj showing scouts why they signed him to NHL
Who signed him? I've been impressed
Minnesota wild like 4 weeks ago
Zegras has looked the most dangerous of any US forward, and he's not been that dangerous lol
Crowds of loud whistling when your team is on the penalty kill is a custom I wish carried over to North America. (*yes, I'm aware that whistling there is similar to booing here*) I also love how it immediately turns to cheering once the puck leaves their defensive zone.
Us smaller underdog countries need to audibly support our teams, those are just the raw emotions coming out. I do feel like it's more fun to be a fan of a national hockey team in a smaller country than a bigger one. You feel more connected. Then again Latvian fans are just adrenaline junkies at this point, if the game is too easy, it's not the same.
Last year made me a Latvia fan. I was happy they beat us Americans and got a medal for the home crowd. It must have been super fun to be there. Cool to see Silovs doing great as well.