Who deserves blame for Canada’s lack of discipline?

[@lorysproxton8506]

As Canadians we are not happy with Dave Cameron. Poor choice for coach.

[@5valencia]

maybe its time to stop picking players based on their Daddy's connections and start picking the best players. Yeah, I said it, everyone in minor hockey knows about the politics, and if Canada wants to be able to compete, they need to stop it with the Connected Daddies and Agents influencing player picks.

[@Mick-zz]

Politics even permeated house league hockey which is so sad .... and I'm talking lower levels. What I saw first hand shows Canadians need to take a step back and let the kids play and be kids ... just try their best.

[@5valencia]

@@Mick-zz the other sad reality in Canadian Hockey is that it has become a sport for the very rich if you want to play at the highest levels. Some parents are spending $50 to $100 k a year on camps/agents/ training.

[@Mick-zz]

@@5valencia Great point ..... and the parents are the worst if they think their kid has a real shot. Which 99.9% don't.

[@5valencia]

@@Mick-zz you're right about real shot, but reality is without the crazy money for the extra training etc, you have no shot, a lot of good players never make because their parents can't keep up with the arms race hockey has become.

[@DJohnson899]

​@@Mick-zz it's not just hockey, most of our team sports have the exact same problem. Top prospects often get excluded from the team because someone has a connection despite getting bodied in the tryouts.

[@jfkst1]

Team Canada picked a bunch of depth grit players over top line offensive players and then are surprised about lots of penalties and few goals?

[@cliffbowls]

Same stupidity with the 4 nations team, probably will get the same result too

[@Make-CanadaGreat-Again]

@@jfkst1 Canada's best jr players are in the NHL. A real best on best U20 tourney wouldn't even be close

[@js70371]

I don’t blame the kids, I blame the coaching and management of the team.

[@wolfhall-f7f]

The people of New Orleans, Germany, and Montenegro have no idea what real sadness is . Seriously, time for people to grow up and stop getting so emotional about a frigging hockey game.

[@js70371]

@@wolfhall-f7fwho would have ever thought it was possible to have emotions over more than one thing?

[@lAmCanad1an]

Hockey Canada. We picked some players who have close to or more PIM than points so.

[@jerryrick4685]

Should of selected Misa, Senneke, Cristall, Hage, Yakemchuk and Zayne Perek

[@mikeythemonkeygaming]

Im dumb deaf and blind and I'm the HC of Canada that's the whole organization this year for team Canada

[@daytonshuflita2201]

Parek and misa should be there for sure

[@Mitch-ui8ps]

And Matt wood

[@TheJosephoenix]

Crap team, crap coaching, those at the top need to go.

[@evanferris5035]

Not inviting Yakemchuk to camp is a joke.

[@murffromcanadamurf6414]

Dave Cameron is brutal

[@dmullz100]

worst Canadian coach ever.

[@Mick-zz]

Easton Cowan was a disgrace .... one of the players Coach was counting on for leadership.

[@Bull_Headed_Bagger]

Looks like he is in another world

[@mircomirco-zm6ji]

Typical garbage person blaming someone else instead to do his job

[@dfelt4870]

​@@Mick-zzFact.Cple.other players have to wear crown of selfish stupidity as well.

[@JesusFriedChrist]

Where’s Parekh? Where’s Misa? Hockey Canada built Team Canada based on chemistry rather than putting our best players together and letting the chemistry of good players with raw talent naturally manifest. This is what happens as a result. Look how weak we are. Look how low our scoring is. We should have over 25 GF and we should’ve gone 4-0-0-0 in the prelims. We’ll be LUCKY to fight for a bronze at this rate. LUCKY. Hopefully after this disaster some people will be fired and won’t come back. Build Team Canada 2026 with THE BEST CANADA HAS TO OFFER. That is the key to success.

[@Make-CanadaGreat-Again]

Relax whiner. Canada will prevail.

[@kevindawe7495]

​@@Make-CanadaGreat-AgainHmmmmmmmmmm, we'll see, lets hope so eh

[@JesusFriedChrist]

⁠@@Make-CanadaGreat-Again I am relaxed, I’m not a whiner I’m literally just being realistic. Their performance has been lacking in comparison to what I and many other Canadians expect of any Team Canada. And of course I hope we win Gold, but based on how poorly we’ve played so far, I would NOT put money on it.

[@jesse1381]

What chemistry? These lines are some of the worst ever and they've made no significant shuffles at all to try to see if different guys might click. They can't pass, they play selfishly as individuals, mostly get low quality shots from the outside that the goalie sees all night every night, no give and go, no rush chances, no screening--nothing. They can't skate either, they lose puck battles and get beat then take stupid penalties. This team is terrible. Cameron throwing his players under the bus and benching Rehkopf is not the solution either. There's at least a half dozen other guys who are worse than Rehkopf at the moment.

[@philipamreus8862]

what chemistry

[@goldrecordsvideos]

I blame Trudeau

[@alelectric2767]

Nonsense it’s Putin’s fault.

[@chrisophernevitt3603]

The brass needs to take the blame leave the kids alone

[@Greatshamefamiry]

Not selecting Carter Yakemchuk was a HUGE MISTAKE

[@dhosquet]

It's hard to give up 5-on-5 goals when you're short-handed half the time. Tired of hearing that stat.

[@JordanStreib]

Misa,Barlow,Parekh,Yakemchuk,Lindstrom,Sennecke,Cristall,If iginla was healthy could definitely have helped this team

[@Greatshamefamiry]

Dave Cameron is to blame

[@Inuvunga]

And who ever chose him to be coach, I was puzzled when I heard his name picked

[@brentmclovin9332]

Bruce, there it is

[@7555mac]

Team Canada = Jamaican Bobsled Team.😂 GO LEAFS GO!💪

[@viralvexta]

The management, none of this would happen if the management just picked a decent team.

[@righton6935]

Vancouver fans really like Bruce cause he is a winner, good smarts in this man

[@socraticdialogue29.]

As a Canadian, I am disgusted with the coach Cameron and the lack of discipline of the players. Our reputation is in taters...

[@Skankhunt-bl1tl]

NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! 45 year old Canadian former JR hockey player here that was embarrassing!! That’s not Canadian hockey !! No more grit .. weak penalties,no heart ,pathetic !

[@steve8803]

@Skankhunt-bl1tl The CHL is full of Euros now, and instead of them adapting the Canadian style, Canadians have adopted their style. Boring hockey.

[@13e11even11]

Again as a USA fan hearing the head coach say I have no regrets that sits well with me as well……great choice.

[@purdypp3254]

Worst player chosen by team Canada ever they were bad very bad no heart no discipline unreal shameless they leff good player out Not been chosen at home could have played better than that , we all know they have better player than that In Canada be real it a choke

[@Greatshamefamiry]

Team Canada World Juniors U20 Management is to blame

[@Mick-zz]

With his lack of discipline and zero impact Easton Cowan needs to apologize to all Canadians for his performance. He also choked in Game 7 last year's Memorial Cup. Coach needed to bench him to send a message to the entire team. He was supposed to be a big impact player for Canada - Leafs Management must be regretting picking this guy. Way overhyped.

[@joshuajohnston4352]

He should’ve been benched at the start of the 2nd vs Czechia.He has the wrists and forearms of a sparrow

[@Mick-zz]

@@joshuajohnston4352 I thought after his undisciplined play vs. USA he needed to be benched - perfect way to send a message to the rest of the team. But I am sure Coach was afraid of backlash from Leaf Management and others.

[@js70371]

Or you could say that in some melancholic way, he is a perfect fit for the Leafs…

[@Mick-zz]

@@js70371 🤣🤣🤣🤣True dat!

[@jesse1381]

Absolutely yeah they really needed to bench Cowan or at least get him off the top line and reduce his ice time. Benching Martone against the Americans was awful and benching Rehkopf against the Czechs was not wise either. There were at least 6 other guys who were worse than them. Although at that stage of the tournament benching one guy over another was more or less putting a band-aid over top of a gaping wound that needed major surgery. The team had serious problems and was unlikely to win either way without turfing Cameron and making phone calls to bring in a bunch of other players. As bad as Cowan was, benching him and doing nothing else was unlikely to win us a gold medal because the problems on this team were far deeper than one guy.

[@wainber1]

Darko Rajaković, after a Raptors’ New Year’s Eve Eastern Time blowout (125-71) loss to the Celtics, claimed to have hoped that loss would motivate his team to come out, in the then-upcoming game (at home to the Brooklyn Nets), with more fight than in that blowout loss. Those Raptors would go onto convincingly (130-113) beat those Nets. As much as I don’t have much hope Canada WJC team will beat its Czech counterpart, that game hasn’t yet gotten underway and thus the outcome of that quarterfinal is still a long way from being determined.

[@Pavlovshouse-ud5ek]

Hockey Canada is a good ol boys club for rich families, it’s about who you know and who your agent Is.

[@steve8803]

@Pavlovshouse-ud5ek LOL so why is it that Canada has been so successful at the tournament? Nobody wins them all, but Canada has won significantly more than any other country.

[@Pavlovshouse-ud5ek]

@ the answer to all your questions is….money. Now that the US is upping the ante you will see the results.

[@terminator6950]

It's up to the coach to install discipline into his players. You cannot take that many penalties every game, and think that it won't come back to bite you.

[@jacklaw3962]

This 'coach' made no tactical adjustments that worked since his first loss to...LATVIA and scare with Germany. His team was woefully undisciplined. His team repeatedly made bad decisions and showed little interest in hunting down and fighting for pucks. I've seen repeated, repeated, repeated stupid passes, poor puck support, terrible clearing attempts, a lack of energy to get to and fight for pucks, and more...all tournament long.

[@harmagician1]

Bruce, there it is!

[@js70371]

We obviously need a top to bottom rebuild in the management of Hockey Canada. Thats two years in a row now of unprecedented failure on their part. I’ll blame the adults before the kids, particularly when blame is due. On the other side, we saw a very undisciplined group of players lacking maturity along with a complete absence of offensive prowess. On the bright side, I believe Carter George is going to be a future star in the NHL. I was thoroughly impressed by his performance and I believe it came down to him alone which prevented us from being further embarrassed in the games which we lost. One question and potential point of scrutiny I would like to highlight is the makeup of the team by league. Is the OHL just that more talent rich than the other two leagues or are there political factors coming into play? I would expect that on any given year, perhaps up to half of the team may come from one league, with the other half being made up of a split of players from the other two. However for the WHL and QMJHL to only be represented by a small token group of players seems like a glaring aberration to me. There was literally only ONE player on the team from the Q. As I stated at the beginning however. I would start the process of reconstruction by firing the entire coaching staff and general management team and go from there. No one can tell me it’s a lack of talent in our player pool and which is dictating our lack of success as of recent.

[@ianhowes8141]

Canada's problem is arrogant over-confidence - they think themselves unbeatable when in fact every team wants to beat them and plays accordingly.

[@alelectric2767]

Coach needs to send a message to keep their sh.t together.

[@dopeboygangsta]

TSN panel was coping trying to blame the refs 😂😂😂

[@chrismarquis8833]

Mike Johnson I think his name is the journeyman NHL player that's the analysts reminds me of the fake news in the USA regardless of how ridiculously bad Canada plays he'll find some kind of ridiculous angle to take to make it sound like they're the best team no matter how terrible they are

[@abouttime5000]

He has to play the moderate card. If he blasts team Canada he could lose his ride.

[@PrestonLindbeck]

Not just say this because I’m American and happy we won on NYE, but Team Canada looked like shit this tournament.

[@evanjamieson]

It's because of Hockey Canada being run by corrupt and incompetent fools. Rich parents paying scouts off to have their kids play for Team Canada to boost their egos. Look at the defense lines we could have had: Line # 1 Sam Dickinson - 1.76 P + 0.57 G = 2.33, shoots left, D Carter Yakemchuk - 1.33 P + 0.46 G = 1.79, shoots right, RD Line # 2 Zayne Parekh - 1.34 P + 0.37 G = 1.71, shoots right, RD Matthew Schaefer - 1.29 P + 0.41 G = 1.70, shoots left, D Line # 3 Henry Mews - 1.36 P + 0.30 G = 1.66, shoots right, D Luca Marrelli - 1.26 P + 0.39 G = 1.65, shoots right, D Rover - play 12 minutes a game with each defense line Bryce Pickford - 1.09 P + 0.48 G = 1.57, shoots right, RD Spare - play if a player is injured & against Latvia & Germany Brandon DuPont - 1.20 P + 0.29 G = 1.49, shoots right, D Call up - if a player is injured to take the role as a spare player Lukas Dragicevic - 1.27 P + 0.21 G = 1.48, shoots right, RD Brandon DuPont is only 15 years old and is the next Bobby Orr. Starting goalie should have been Ben Hrebik and backup goalie William Lacelle and third goalie Jesse Sanche. The forwards could have been a lot better too. They left three NCAA stars off the team, not to mention another 5 other goal scoring forwards. The USA deserved to win because they selected the best roster. Congratulations

[@tylerjeffrey9139]

Problem is, their best player is on the 2nd line and not getting nearly enough ice time. The guys taking stupid penalties dont need to be on the ice if they're a constant liability. How is having someone on the ice that has a high chance of creating a PK situation, better than having a perfectly capable player on the ice, that wont make stupid decisions? Being selected for the team, Hockey Canada is saying "youre the best of the best". If you cant trust moving one of the guys up a spot on the lineup due to someone else playing terribely, they shouldn't of been picked and someone else should have. To make it specific, YES Cowan should be losing playing time. He was the direct cost of at LEAST 2 goals against the USA

[@berryscott3590]

Both McKenna and Catton have been our best forwards and should be on the first pp unit... But the injury to Schaeffer is what's hurt us the most... Schaeffer (shades of Makar) was irreplaceable, especially when quarterbacking the pp

[@tylerjeffrey9139]

@@berryscott3590 If only Canada had another offensive defensemen that they could of brought along to help *Zayne Parekh*. Maaan the politics behind Hockey Canada really kinda ruin what could be

[@cobaltaqua]

The absolute NERVE of the coach placing the entire blame on the players being undisciplined…what does a coach do, then?!

[@NickChemist-yf6oj]

Trudeau . Whole country is angry

[@AR-td3tu]

We lost one because of a hot goalie who stopped 50+ shots, and were dominating the third but had penalty trouble and lost a tight game with 30 seconds. Let's all relax.

[@cv4314]

Christie Freeland

[@belligerent-irony]

I will be genuinely surprised if we get a medal in this tournament.

[@steve8803]

I miss the wrecking ball players Canada had in the tournament ~20 years ago. Now, nobody hits.

[@andygrenn680]

Canadian Hockey fans as a whole must realize that other countries play and excel at Hockey…this may be revelation…

[@donaldrusland2065]

Agree with bruce

[@jferg999]

Remember the scene at the beginning of Miracle when Herb Brooks & Craig Patrick are talking on day 1 of the Team USA tryouts. Herb tells Craig that he's not looking for the best players...he's looking for the RIGHT players!!! Well....fiction or real who cares.....the point is well taken with Team Canada. Maybe the "brain trust" went for a bunch of individual stars at tge expense of a solid and disciplined TEAM!!! A true team player would not be taking selfish, idiotic retaliatory penalties but you saw it on full display vs USA....played right into the USA hands. If that happens tonight I'd bench the undisciplined players & run 3 lines if necessary.

[@tallesttreeintheforest]

porter marone flopped in a scrum early in the game, he challenge the hockey gods with that one. that powerplay ended after 2 seconds with a trip. play the right way.

[@13e11even11]

As a USA fan keep Cameron as head coach until you end up in the B pool

[@maxbork7140]

Road Apples! How can Hockey Canada's 2 scouts ignore the draft picks of 32 NHL teams that employ on the averge 5 pro scouts per team? Are we in the IIHF junior Championship tournament to win, or to just ice a team? Real mindset changes are needed before the 2026 toutnament!

[@dougmackinnon5346]

They simply picked the wrong players.......coach was selfish !

[@SpooksDinat]

Easy answer, the "Coach", if you can even call Cameron that..

[@dmwd96]

If it’s the players responsibility to play as a team then what’s the point of a coach? Just a suit behind the bench collecting a pay-cheque?

[@infj-j8t]

turdeau

[@jeffsavage7135]

Blame equally the players and coach. Players for not playing with discipline. Coach for not clamping down on the players' lack of discipline. But first blame choosing the wrong players.

[@northforksfords8665]

Coach needs to sit the guys dipsy doodling with the puck. You can also sit the guys with 2 to many passes. Ya gotta put the puck on the net to have a chance of victory. It would appear some players think it's a video game???

[@berryscott3590]

Don't think that's the problem... Deep in the zone guys have been treating the puck like a hot potato, rushing too much, missing the net from the slot, sending errant passes into skates ... The Yanks demonstrated far more patience and pose with the puck round the net... Plus looked far more dangerous off the rush... Canada was on the pp, a Yank loses his stick... Why not try to beat the 'sans stick' kid one on one, since he's at your mercy, and hit the open man with a cross ice pass for a possible empty net goal? Steada just taking a little sidestep and blindly shooting the puck? This is what happens when you leave more talented players like Parekh, Yakemchuk and Misa at home in favor of, ostensibly, grittier role players

[@rickmayer9614]

for that question. - the players

[@Midge1k]

Monopoly is over - Global parity is real

[@berryscott3590]

20 Gold Medals for Canada... 6 for USA, 5 for Finland, 2 apiece for Sweden and Czechs... (Russia/CIS have 13)... None for anyone else... Not sure that constitutes parity... NOT YET

[@Midge1k]

@ on the way

[@Mick-zz]

@@berryscott3590 When you don't medal at WJC 2 years in a row the jig is up, trust me. A panel to review these sad results is necessary .... need unbiased persons on this panel to investigate. This is serious.

[@tedwazonek7956]

When the HC picks a bunch of players from his own team n gives the C to one of those players that coach should have been relieved from his duties! Cameron is responsible nobody else!! 😡👊🏼👎🏼

[@quebecforce111]

First only 2 players from the LHJMQ are a pure shame. And they are not the 2 best. The 5 best scorer in the LHJMQ not in Canada team. It's a pure lack of respect for the LHJMQ . The Québec league win years after years the Memorial Cup but the english side of Canada continue to ignore the LHJMQ. Imagine 3 players in the Canada team play for the London Knights . Its more than a entire league . In the Letonie team the goalye who are the best in the tournament play in the LHJMQ and he dominate nothing . In the last 15 years the LHJMQ are the best league in the country but continue to be ignore in NHL draft . The best way to replace this situation are to place in the Hockey Canada office alots of Quebecers. Now not one are there. or the second way to look for us Quebecers are to form our own team. The Québec team. Québec are a Nation like Scottland or Irland and these countrys have there own National teams in all sports , Fifa tournament . Quebec team can rivalise with Sweeden, Finland, Slovakia, Tcheckie, Switzerland for medals. Quebec have approximatively the same number of population than Sweeden but with more players in minor hockey. Quebec team probably win against Canada this year.

[@carouselvertigo509]

Ownership, NOT ONUS…!

[@Make-CanadaGreat-Again]

Nobody to blame. Its team game, shit happens. Now no more mistakes.

[@shawnwilson5905]

I blame donOLD tRump.

[@kennethtuck-e6e]

the picked hard hitting guys and not high offensive scoring players ,,,,,,it was a bag player pick all around.....period

[@RobertOsborne-x9o]

Checkers NHL starved for players take all the under age kids BS from the top down

[@brianmouland209]

Cameron

[@robertostamas5675]

They Should Have Learned By Now That Politics In Hockey Don't Mix Well! ...& This Is What We Get, Another Early Exit From The Tournament! 😔

[@alexanderh.999]

The suck 5 on 5 as well

[@daveyboy2497]

Cameron,

[@zzz7zzz9]

the president and CEO of hockey canada, katherine henderson.

[@adamsons2890]

The team has players who should not be on that team. It’s political. Rich,influential parents with sub par players playing for the country

[@Eric-uh7nl]

FIRE DAVE CAMERON AND COMPANY NOW!!!! SO ARROGANT. HE SHOULD BE APOLOGIZING TO CANADIANS, NOT SAYING HE HAS NO REGRETS. FFS

[@michaelpanacheese604]

Yager is a bum. Suppose to be a captain. That's prob why pittsburgh traded him to the jets. Give mckenna better linemates.

[@livelife4471]

Who's to blame? The other teams were better.

[@13e11even11]

Canada was the favorite🤔really🤔did they watch the prelim games🤔Canada was as uninspired and uncreative as I have ever seen…they were actually worse than last year.

[@AndreC-f9o]

Coach

[@stewdumplings7847]

This is the fall of Hockey Canada, two years in a row a bad team played poorly. Not even close to contention. Sad Canadian people can no longer afford to have kids and put them in hockey.

[@user-bq4tc6zc3f]

Ok skip.....

[@chrisd4112]

For the last game the refs.

[@Mr.Rosebud]

It doesn't matter what you do. No team will beat Sweden.

[@Make-CanadaGreat-Again]

Give your head a shake.

[@berryscott3590]

Yeah right... 2 gold medals in over 40 years... and none since 2012... If there's ONE THING our Canadian Jr Team (20 Gold Medals!) has ALWAYS done, in a Sudden death game, it's BEAT SWEDEN

[@Make-CanadaGreat-Again]

@@berryscott3590 everyone's giving up on this team. There is no motivator like embarrassment. CANADA IS TAKING HOME THE GOLD.

[@Mr.Rosebud]

Well. History don't mean $hit. Work ethic and a calm mind is key.

[@Make-CanadaGreat-Again]

@Mr.Rosebud swedes just barely beat Lativia 3-2..... how's that for history.

[@sandrarandall9309]

Get over it folks ,these are young boys why go on about who to blame sometimes you win sometimes you lose.Not the end of the world it's just a game.The big problem is there youngsters that want to play sports but can't afford it. I've watched this for years where money has come ahead of skills, there is probably a gold mine of talent being rejected because there parents could not come up with the cash for there kids to play sports.

[@ПутинлюбитРамзанКадыровлюбитУк]

What a bunch of HOSER😂😂😂😂

[@Poppinwheeeeellllllieeeeez]

Dave Cameron's judgment is apparent with that lame try hard hairstyle.

[@OuZi9891]

Dave Cameron sucks

[@yadamsurensh4003]

Canada lost motivation since Russia left the tournament

[@kfjdsoihf8452]

lol, the last time Russians won U20 was in 2011 so don´t make it look like they were always the strongest contender. Anyway, Russians are not missed thanks to their brutal, illegal invasion of UA.

[@js70371]

@@kfjdsoihf8452that’s nothing but cope. All international athletes are worse off for Russia not being there. Lowering the level of competition is never beneficial. And why punish athletes over politics they have nothing to do with? The west is just petty and immature in how they deal with their mistakes and loss. They think they are superior to everyone else and treat them accordingly. Why didn’t the USA get kicked out of international competition for its illegal invasion of Iraq under false pretenses which resulted in the deaths of over 1 million people? Why the double standards?

[@bartekmedes8281]

Our goaltending sucks too, not just the discipline with guys infront of him .

[@berryscott3590]

What are you talking about? Our Goalies, BOTH George and Ivankovic vs Latvia, HAVE BEEN GREAT! Our forwards can't finish, the injury to Schaeffer hurt us BIGTIME, coach Cameron and Hockey Canada braintrust look like idiots in terms of player selection and management... BUT BUT BUT... The ONE THING that can't rightly be questioned is Canada's goaltending!

[@bartekmedes8281]

@@berryscott3590 HAVE NOT BEEN GREAT, is what you meant .

[@berryscott3590]

@@bartekmedes8281 Haven't given up an even strength goal all tourney... At, or near the top, in terms of save percentage... This from a team whose scored a grand total of 10 goals in 4 games, one of them a lucky bounce off the end boards that went in off the goalie... Another into an empty net... This from a team who couldn't score in EIGHT shootout attempts... Don't take it personally, but you're what the Ancients used to call... WRONG!

[@bartekmedes8281]

@@berryscott3590 They both look like fish out of water, thats all that matters.

[@JoelDoble]

@@bartekmedes8281 Can’t win games when we are averaging 6 penalties a game.

[@matt914]

whoever says the officiating was bad for the Canadians sorry bud you're on planet delusion.

[@DB-gr7ch]

Who's to blame? Well, TSN can take one of the bows on that. For deluding Canadian fans with the lies that this was as talented a Cdn team as previous years, when clearly they are not...and with the field steadily getting better (see: Latvia). The huge over-expectation pressures from this homer propaganda and disinformation manifests in the players as desperation and panic to do too much.

[@matsinilsson9578]

USA is totally dominating this tournament together with Canada. They are stomping on all teams. Canada vs US in the final. Sweden and Finland for bronze game. Sweden, which looks incredibly ineffective and also weak defensively, will finish 4th.

[@letsssgooo4618]

How can this be on the coach? He only has them for like two weeks lol

[@berryscott3590]

Because the coach had 3 exhibition games, and 4 round robin games to fix this/get his message across... You move guys who take selfish, undisciplined penalties further down the lineup, limit their ice time, park their keister on the end of the bench, or potentially make them healthy scratches... The first sudden death game is a VERY STRANGE time to BEGIN to address this... Besides, the head coach had the most say, in terms of player selection and final cuts... You chose grittier role players over more skilled guys... Now you're surprise by a failure to score and a constant parade to the penalty box?

[@Loco4Poco27]

Canada can’t always expect to win. Got SMOKED. SMOKED. LOTTA upset hockey parents The Porsche will have to wait

[@vincentsantacroce2131]

B. is such a terrible interview.

[@berryscott3590]

i dunno everything he said sounded BANG-ON to me... As I recall Bruce Boudreau sp? was a very talented AHL scorer who never got a fair shot at an NHL career, due to his size and lack of physicality, in an era which put a lot of emphasis on 'Rock'em Sock'em Hockey' Ok, he's not the most polished commentator... Still, I always like Bruce, even as a coach, for his substance/insight...

[@LeoBond]

The officiating was total bullish!t in that US game! You can't blame the players for terrible BS calls! It was obvious that the fix was in early on in that one. If we meet the US again, expect more of the same garbage!

[@berryscott3590]

Look I'm Canuck too... BUT... You're dreaming in technicolor... All of those calls were warranted... Seriously... a cross check to the neck, a hit from behind near the sideboards which was already interference anyway, a high elbow delivered from distance, a flagrant holding that lasted from the blue halfway to the redline... After whistle rough stuff by Penelli negating a Team Canada powerplay... Need we go on?

[@LeoBond]

@@berryscott3590 OMG are you blind or stupid????? You call that a HOLD??????? That was the furthest thing from a hold! It's called battling along the boards and getting tied up with your man! And the so-called crosscheck was a gloved push--no stick involves AT ALL! And the push "into the boards" wasn't even in the direction of the boards, yet somehow that's where the guy went. It's called a DIVE! Look it up! And Heaven help you if that's what you think is an elbow! Dude, hockey isn't the sport for you! Maybe you should start watching televised poker. Nobody ever gets hurt in that! Only their egos and bank accounts!

[@LeoBond]

@berryscott3590 I can't tell whether you have vision issues or are re-tar-ded, but none of those calls were even close to legit! A gloved push, a rubbing-out along the boards where the players get tied up together, a blatant dive into the boards after a hit that didn't even send the player in that direction. Give me a break dude! This is supposed to be hockey, not tiddlywinks!

[@LeoBond]

@@berryscott3590 And the same BS again today too! It couldn't be more obvious! The fix was in from the start!

[@berryscott3590]

@@LeoBond 'The Fix was in'...blah, blah... You sound like a whiney Euro cry-baby... Look at the replays... The calls against Canada vs US were legit... As for tonight's game... Not so much... The five + game wasn't legit, since the first contact was shoulder, Sykora was moving laterally... plus it wasn't even a knee on knee... It was a hard hit, and I'm OK with 2 minutes under those circumstances.... But you could see Sykora looking up to make sure the penalty was called, then acting hurt... Czechs, since time immemorial, have been known for their theatrics... Also the goalie interference call was a head scratcher since its clear the Canadian (Who was it Cowan?) was pushed into the Czech goalie... I'm OK with the 'No Goal' call, since the net came off its moorings...

[@trevor437]

Keep focusing on woke culture canada. Youll win every year

[@js70371]

Exactly. Go woke, go broke.

[@sandraclark760]

NOBODY, all the hype about a mediocre team does not make them a winner. This stuff is pure unadulterated BS.