The NHL owners refusing to greenlight games like this for almost a decade was so incredibly stupid and shortsighted

Are the Avs good? Tell me about them. I wish to buy an Avalanche hat and watch a few games a year. That and I like going to Denver.

Nah. You wouldn't like it.

Binnington better not be starting another game

That was a nice snipe by Larkin, but I can see why you're frustrated with Binnington.

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