Removing them from the last Olympics and the current playoff format are two of the stupidest things any league has done.

Which one would you go with?

Binnington is at his best down a goal.

Which is...not ideal.

He absolutely gave up that patented Binner 1st period bullshit softie though. Damn he does that a lot.

The guy that's not on their roster, IMO.

Logan Thompson.

Bingo, but Hill has gotta be in there against Finland Monday. Binnington was awful against Sweden earlier this week too.

It's so weird to find myself rooting against Drew Doughty and for the Tkachuk's. Such is international hockey.

Glad it's back and can't wait for the Olympics. Anyone know if Russia will be allowed to compete?

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Doesn’t matter if you control play if you don’t have a goalie, that’s the difference between these teams

No doubt in my mind that Putin and the IOC will come to some kind of agreement to let them play, IOC is corrupt and easily bought off

But even on paper that was the difference.

If USA won this it was always going to be because their goalies were just better. It's the one area (and maybe D) where they could match/exceed Canada.

It's like saying "yeah well we'd beat you if you didn't have Mahomes..."

Sure, but we do.

USA just has better goaltending than Canada.

This is just some outstanding hockey. That start was nuts

Hard to believe he was left off. Not sure on the logic in that

Especially when you purposely don’t bring your best goalie

Yeah - lots of Canada fans pissed they didn't start Hill but he's not great either. I don't think he's better or worse than Binner. He's about the same.

Thompson is, IMO, the only guy who could go in there and stare down Hellebuyck on any given night.

Eat shit Canada. Serves them right for booing the anthem.

My suggestion to stop that would be for the president to stop talking about subsuming other countries and starting trade wars

Binnington almost cost them the Sweden game and arguably cost them this one.

If he’s in there against Finland Monday, they may miss out on the rematch Thursday

what was that?

https://nationalpost.com/feature/bre...tending-crisis

It’s a national crisis

Who won the preliminary round Canada/USA game in the 2010 Olympics again

I will enjoy the great annexation of kannita

If we wanted to do it with force, it would take 2 minutes and 33 seconds.

The way Trump is going these days, nothing is out of the realm of possibility

Good win USA.

Again - it's no different for any goalie Canada brought with them.

Any of them could blow that game for them.

You’re not wrong but I’d still try the guy who hasn’t blown a game for them yet instead of the one that has

who gives a shit?

About winning preliminary round games of international tournaments? I agree

Yeah I’m not Joe Patriot but it’s a hockey tournament that has **** all to do with Trump. If Canadians want to boo the national anthem and pretend like their shit doesn’t stink then **** em!

I didn't watch with slow motion replay or anything but those fights looked pretty pedestrian although unexpected.

I'll I have to say: SCORBOARD BITCHES!!!

Boston should be quite the atmosphere on Thursday, especially if we rematch Canada. I really don't like the place, but I'm glad they'll be hosting it.

Yeah, I’m sure Americans would just love it if another country’s leader was talking about annexing it, definitely wouldn’t show any distaste at all towards that person

No American citizen wants to annex Canada. Trump doesn’t have the power to make that happen. You guys are being a bunch of bitch ass drama queens and taken it out on people who have nothing to do with Trump.

Canada is just one giant Hilton Coliseum

It’s as exceedingly obvious who the boos are directed at as it is that Americans would do exactly the same thing if the shoe was on the other foot

Don’t like the boos? Maybe stop having the idiot-in-chief say every other day they’re gonna turn an independent country on the border into a 51st state. Feels like that should be an easy fix but we all know who we’re dealing with

If it meant their gorgeous Ticas would infiltrate the United States, have sex with us and take us to their beaches, I'd have no problem with the president of Costa Rica if he started talking about annexing us.

Purely speculative as most Americans could care less what your prime minister has to say. You only make yourselves look like whiney bitches when you boo our national anthem.

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And it's not speculative at all. Booing an anthem is the least Americans would do if some other world leader was talking regularly about annexing their country.

How can a hockey thread get moved to DC lol

I’m not the one who came into this thread to whine about booing anthems. I’m the guy who was posting about the game.

He was talking about how classless it is to boo someone's national anthem, which is 100% true.

You're the only one who brought politics into it.

The booing of the anthem is quite literally a political protest directed at one person so that isn’t correct whatsoever.

Was that one person in the arena last night?

Not sure how that changes anything about what I said. The act of booing was very clearly an act of political protest towards him (and anthems themselves are also inherently political).

If someone is coming in here solely to bitch about that rather than anything about the game, they’re the one making things political. I’d personally rather discuss how weak Canada is in net and whether Binnington is going to be starting tomorrow myself.

You said "maybe D", but I believe our D-line pairings are superior to anything Canada can throw out there. USA is catching up in terms of overall skill and ability.

Hope they win so we can play them again.

Without Makar and Pietrangelo, you're probably right.

But with those two guys, the Canadian D is extremely formidable. And I do think they should've brought Bouchard with them but I guess they decided that the games are probably going to be tight enough that a defensive lapse could be enough to lose them a game so they went with more defensively oriented blue-liners.

I mean Makar, Pietro, Morrissey and Bouchard is a pretty incredible top 2 pairs.

But to your larger point -- yeah, the gap is closing. And will probably continue to close. But I do think it's pretty likely that Canada continues to be better at the very top end of their rosters going forward. Where they McDavid and MacKinnon as their top forwards, we have Matthews and Hughes. Ours top end is very good but theirs is simply better.

Thank God for the Hughes and Tkachuk families, man. I mean its easy to joke about, but take Jack, Quinn, Brady and Matthew off this team and man that's a ton of talent lost. Quinn Hughes being better than Jack (IMO) was NOT on my bingo card. But both of those guys are outstanding.

Yeah, not having Makar makes a huge difference and I was speaking specifically to the rosters as currently constructed (injuries included). But even moving forward, the level that Faber plays at already considering his age, is incredible. And at a minimum, I think we match up pretty well, Defensively, against Canada even if they were at full-strength.

I think I'm just mainly excited that we can even talk about being on even-footing with them in some areas.

Anyone have a good stream for Canada/Finland?

Nevermind. Found one.

https://www.streameast.gd/game/4-nat...e-off/88018029

USA’s defense certainly wasn’t making those mistakes that Finland just did on Saturday

I'd like to curl up in the sack naked with Jackie Redmond and and listen to her analyze an entire season of NHL hockey.

Canada’s collective speed is proving too much for Finland to deal with

So gonna be quite the title game on Thursday...

It’s gonna do massive TV numbers by hockey standards

Pulling the soft Marner off of the top 2 lines is working for them, Point and Stone are a much better fit with McDavid

I think people sleep on Hughes more than they should even though he won the Norris.

He can score with Makar but seems to be a steadier defensive presence than Makar is.

He's incredible and more and more people seem to finally be noticing. Like I said, I didn't see that one coming at all. I thought he'd be a good player but I didn't have him becoming the best defenseman in the NHL and he's very much on his way there if he isn't already.

****ing Binnington...

Crosby saves Canada (again)

No faith in this team beating USA with this goalie though

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That intro was ****ing fantastic.

Hopefully the good guys will prevail.

I follow hockey, specifically Capitals, just not as much as NFL or MLB. This tournament is an amazing marketing success by the NHL to take an all-star game that nobody gives a shit about like NFL or NBA and turn an exhibition into some crazy event that people are actually watching. Crazy. Kudos.

Three skaters from Arizona is kind of wild.

They should have just starting fighting Wayne Gretzky after the hand-shakes.

leave wayne out of it fight eric lindros instead lol.

Let’s go!

Canada is a prison.

With a 1-0 lead

And the Arizona State Sun Devils are one of the top teams in D1 hockey.

MacKinnon!


I mean.... **** that guy!

And their tickets are ****ing outrageous... wanted to go to the tourney around the end of the year, but wasn't going to throw down hundreds for it.

Lol, I'm having the same problem with Binnie and P-rek

USA USA USA!

An All-Star game where the players actually play. gotta love it.

BOOM!!! We weathered the storm. Can't believe we're outshooting them, seems like 15-5 in favor of the state of Canada.

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USA getting outplayed and getting lucky once again; what’s new

Don't get your flapjacks in a wad Jean-Marie, you haven't lost...yet.

Canada's roster is more likeable, IMO, and makes these games all win.

US wins...
'Murica, **** yeah.
Underdog story
Marchand is a dick
lol Binnington

Canada wins...
Like a quarter of the Avalanche roster is playing
The Tkachuks are kind of dicks, Matthews falls somewhere between the Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen of hockey
Jake Guentzel played at UNO, so he's cool

Binnington can’t be trusted

Kind of? Like Marchand, I think they’re pretty universally despised unless they’re on your team

In the end, the leafs get the rake.