You are correct! USA won all games so far and Canada's only loss is to you know what team.
Playing ugly style seemed to give Team Canada a scare. Perhaps Team USA should try that eh??? Again, from the entertainment standpoint, playing north and south, up and down like the Americans and Canadians did in the initial meeting were a lot more exciting to watch.
3 elimination games in 4 nights.... They didn't play like there was a lot left in the tank. Glad the next game is Sunday....One would think the Canadian fans would like to see Team Canada pounded the Slovaks into submission just like they did to the Russians.
Positives: The play of our young defensemen and most of our forwards but Crosby and Thornton have to up their game. Canada's best forward in the last two games is Ryan Getzlaf (a Saskatchewan native).
The Bronze medal game will be played Saturday and the gold medal game is to be played Sunday. It looks like Canada is a more tired team playing Slovakia when USA was 'practising' with Finland for the better part of the last two periods today. So the advantage of playing on Sunday is to Team Canada as Team USA is quite well rested.
There is broze medal game? They should just give the bronze to the Slovaks after that performance by the Fins.
Put some traffic in front of Miller and deflect some pucks and we'll be fine. Last game vs the US we played well and had 43 shots but Miller saw most of them clean. If we do what we did to the Slovaks early, different game.
Using number like save percentages to evaluate goal-tending is well.... not good, especially in a short tournament
Same point I was going to make. The other factor that makes things difficult for Canada, is that I thought, in spite of Canada's 45 shots (they did score 2 goals), the Yanks also blocked a ton of shots and clogged up the shooting lanes. Canada needs to score some ugly goals, garbage goals, crash the net. We need Phil Esposito type goals.
Too many lost brain cells.
Problem is that they are so good offensively that it looks like they don't need to. They look like they are toying with the opposition with their puck movement and ability to stay in the offensive zone. They get 40-50 shots a game, many quality. But with a goalie like Miller, they need to put that mindset aside a bit.
Are you kidding? He won't give that info away, It would cost him the NHL season.
Very well, winning the Stanley Cup is a North American affair. Winning Olympic gold is an international affair. Different flavor for sure.
LOL!!! Last time when the Team USA beat Team Canada 5 to 3, someone asked Ruff whether he had told Team Canada how to solve Miller. To which Ruff replied to the effect that whatever he said obviously did not work and Ruff just laughed. So you figure that out yourself.
