World Junior Hockey - Team Canada

[matchuk]

Anyone else watching these boys play? some great hockey on tv...unfortunately the live games are starting at 4am...playing russia at 830am tomorrow, should be a good one!

[Will]

2-1 Canada early in the 2nd. It figures the channel it is being shown on in the USA is one that my grandparents don't subscribe to.

[1argoholic]

The best hockey year in and year out. Thankfully the Russia game started at 6am here and it was Canada all over them at there own game. Canada skated so well and looked great.
Most games have started at 1:30 am and I did an all nighter to watch one. I was so burnt out the next day but I prefer watching it live.

[1argoholic]

10:20 pm on Wednesday night and I'm planning to watch the Canada and US semi game live. I'm struggling to stay awake already. Go Canada Go!!!

[294life]

Oh well they choked, but so did the ruskies.

[1argoholic]

Glad I stayed up until 3:30 am watching Canada crap it. They didn't play their best but a very hot goalie burned them but good. Nice when a foreign CHL goalie comes back to bite them in the butt in this tournament. To top it off he's coached in Jr by teams Canada's coach. I wonder if they can beat Russia twice in this tournament in order to at least come home with a bronze?

[argonaut11xx]

Team USA was faster, better coached, and had far superior goaltending..should be an exciting final.

Team Canada had a medicore goalie, and in tournaments like this you need a star goaltender, which the USA, and Russia do. (the Russians are lucky to have made it as far as they did, but they were carried by the goalie)

Subban stunk, i wouldnt want him on my team, he is far from a pro cailibre player.

The 3rd place game...wow...Russia should be pumped, i hope Canada play with some passion...usualy we tend to let down for these types of games

[ArgoRavi]

A Royal Commission needs to be called immediately! There is no way that Canada should finish any lower than 2nd in this tournament.

[argonaut11xx]

A Royal Commission needs to be called immediately! There is no way that Canada should finish any lower than 2nd in this tournament.

Ravi...we didnt need a royal comission....all we needed was a semi-compitent goaltender...

I actually enjoy a strong US team at these tournaments,..they are our natural rival in most sports anyways

[294life]

A Royal Commission needs to be called immediately! There is no way that Canada should finish any lower than 2nd in this tournament.

anything lower than first is an embarrassment for sports networks here. most americans don't even care.

[1argoholic]

That US team was fun to watch and skated like the wind. I love this brand of hockey and get down when we don't do well. Hopefully it'll be easy to get up against the host Russians. Subban looks like he's scrambling around most of the time. He wouldn't have been my starter. Although other than that last goal he let in he had little help. Nice screens provided by Canada on the other three goals.

[Deerkeeper]

Lossing hockey games to Americans is a disgrace, especially that badly. Hopefully the Swedes will hand them their star spangled butts.

[argolio]

I had no problem with Subban overall, and he was hardly the weakest link today. He saved Canada's bacon versus the Russians and the first American game.

[AngeloV]

Canada was definitely out coached. It was refreshing to see Phil Housely use his best, most talented players a lot. Canadian coaches seem to think that the pluggers deserve to get more ice time than they should. It's the Don Cherry dinosaur mentality. To have a guy like Nathan MacKinnon playing as a 4th liner while stiffs like Boone Jenner get plenty of ice time is just so wrong. MacKinnon and Seth Jones from the U.S. are projected to be the top 2 picks in the draft. Funny, Housely had no problem playing Jones in every possible situation.

[1argoholic]

Jenner isn't exactly a stiff. I was lucky enough to see Oshawa playing in Peterborough the Tuesday night after Grey Cup. Jenner and his US linemate Tyler Biggs were great players to watch and controled the game when on the ice. To me I don't think this was Mackinnons tournament to shine. I think he'll be be more effective next year. I was more impressed with his Halifax linemate who's name eludes me right now. The guy has been the better of the two 17 year olds. Lets face it these are all very talented kids on every team. The US wasn't going to just roll over and let us win.

[294life]

Jenner isn't exactly a stiff. I was lucky enough to see Oshawa playing in Peterborough the Tuesday night after Grey Cup. Jenner and his US linemate Tyler Biggs were great players to watch and controled the game when on the ice. To me I don't think this was Mackinnons tournament to shine. I think he'll be be more effective next year. I was more impressed with his Halifax linemate who's name eludes me right now. The guy has been the better of the two 17 year olds. Lets face it these are all very talented kids on every team. The US wasn't going to just roll over and let us win.

You must mean Jonathan Drouin.

[Will]

Remember when Team Canada was winning five tournaments in a row? Everybody was complaining that it was killing the tournament. I say a bit of diversity is a good thing, although four years without a gold is probably going to push some people's patience. I'm not really losing any sleep over the tournament, I think the fact that it starts on Boxing Day when I am in Florida in addition to the fact that the games were at 4:30 or 6:30 in the morning makes it difficult to appreciate the tournament. Plus, to be honest, the NHL lockout affects my enjoyment of the rest of hockey.

[argonaut11xx]

Canada hasnt had a word class goalie in this tournament since Carey Price...and thats the #1 ingredient for a GOLD medal team

Subban just isnt/wasnt very good

[Mulder]

Canada hasnt had a word class goalie in this tournament since Carey Price...and thats the #1 ingredient for a GOLD medal team

Subban just isnt/wasnt very good

Wasn't very good?
It's not like he only allowed 2 goals total vs Russia and USA in the round robin. Oh he did

It's also not like he's ranked 2nd in the OHL for goalies. Oh wait. He's virtually carrying the Belleville Bulls.

The team didn't show up. You can't expect to win 1 goal games.

Starting the other goalie in net for the bronze medal game is a total dick move, and I hope this coach doesn't coach a IIHF World games again.

Dont take the starting job away from a guy because the loss wasn't his fault.

[AngeloV]

Wasn't very good?
It's not like he only allowed 2 goals total vs Russia and USA in the round robin. Oh he did

It's also not like he's ranked 2nd in the OHL for goalies. Oh wait. He's virtually carrying the Belleville Bulls.

The team didn't show up. You can't expect to win 1 goal games.

Starting the other goalie in net for the bronze medal game is a total dick move, and I hope this coach doesn't coach a IIHF World games again.

Dont take the starting job away from a guy because the loss wasn't his fault.

I agree with you 100% Mulder. Spott was a useless player and he's a useless coach that tends to favour players that play the way he did. That's why he played less than 50 pro games as a player (between AHL and ECHL). I really hate coaches that have no clue how to utilize true talent.