I've never understood the Canadian fans dislike for Team USA in this tourney.
Oh wait, yes I do; we're a major threat to their "superiority" and actually have been better than them since 2010.
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." Vince Lombardi
"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man; free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case, my enemy is a varmint....and a varmint will never quit...ever. They're like Viet Cong...Varmint Cong, so you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower...and that's all she wrote. Au revoir, gopher."Karl Spackler 1980
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.
that stings. nevertheless they did not lie down nor give up. just keep gelling, team.
The US trailed Russia in the pre-tournament 2-0 after two and won, 3-2. Against Slovakia they faced a 1-0 deficit through two periods and won, 2-1. Tonight a four-goal third period forces overtime. It hasn't been pretty but they're sure not quitting...
This is a forward group that really has to work and be hard on pucks to have success and they're just not doing that for anything close to 60 minutes. Put a few games together and they can win this tournament.
Poehling may have been the only guy in the building who believed they could win after his first - he had a wild look in his eyes - but he took over and willed that comeback. What a performance...
The US trailed Russia in the pre-tournament 2-0 after two and won, 3-2. Against Slovakia they faced a 1-0 deficit through two periods and won, 2-1. Tonight a four-goal third period forces overtime. It hasn't been pretty but they're sure not quitting...
This is a forward group that really has to work and be hard on pucks to have success and they're just not doing that for anything close to 60 minutes. Put a few games together and they can win this tournament.
Poehling may have been the only guy in the building who believed they could win after his first - he had a wild look in his eyes - but he took over and willed that comeback. What a performance...
He was huge in that department...a leader on the ice who believed.
Honest question to Michigan fans....is Q. Hughes as bad defesnsivley for you guys as he has been for the U.S. in general? I mean his skating is superb and you can see his stick skills are at a high pro level but man does he make so many stupid stupid and even more stupid plays out there.
Honest question to Michigan fans....is Q. Hughes as bad defesnsivley for you guys as he has been for the U.S. in general? I mean his skating is superb and you can see his stick skills are at a high pro level but man does he make so many stupid stupid and even more stupid plays out there.
Very much NOT a Michigan fan, but I agree he is a real liability out there sometimes. He can almost always get away with the extreme razzle-dazzle against most college squads, but against the top WJC teams he needs to know when NOT to take unnecessary risk.
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