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Getting goalied while nuking them on the shot clock is way more palatable than stinking up the joint too. Still sucks but just call it the Helle game and move on.

12 years just to get goalied

There's no fucking justice. Fuck

McDavid MacKinnon
Celebrini Marner
Suzuki and Bennett? Hagel?
Reinhart has sucked
Horvat for FOGO?

Makar
Toews
Theodore

I'm not sure who else touches the ice unless this goes on for several minutes.

US D group is better suited for 3 on 3. We all know the goaltending deal.

Canada's F group has to make up the difference.

Yes

Someone is gonna go back and do the manual tracking for this game and show that Helle stopped like 3.3 goals above expected in regulation. Incredibly dominant 60 minutes from Canada.

This is just a standard Jets game for Helle

I fucked this up

Canada looks inevitable right now. Keep rolling

It's better for Toews' scapegoat status that Helle somehow stopped that.

The false equivalency between Helle struggling this year and Binnington being bad for years is so frustrating. Thanks Friedman

Is there anywhere to get some proper stats for this game? More than the box score?

Wasn't sure Tom Wilson could play at this level but he can. Definitely a better impact than half the Canada F group.

That was the least dangerous 5 on 3 group I can remember in such a high leverage spot. Killed half the PP by themselves.

I expected a lot more from Sam Reinhart in this event. Figured he'd eventually be one of the trigger guys in the top 6 but he's buried in the lineup and invisible for long stretches.

Playoff Matthews bailing Canada out there

Across the last 3 games (including today so far) ... Binnington has allowed 6 goals on 44 shots.

.864 Sv%

Just elite.

Canada started on time aaaand they're trailing anyway

The ice being bad for speed skating seems so unfair. Oh, there's a huge crack and 2 favourites are out? We'll just patch that and make sure the other heats don't deal with it.

Sure am glad Finland decided to turtle for 30 mins. Sheeeeesh

At what point does Cooper throw things in the blender? They have 1 dangerous line and it partially involves stealing the 2C from his group whenever possible.

Canada just looks like much less than the sum of its parts

When he did this to Stolarz Lebrun chortled about him introducing himself to the series lol. Terrific

Bad game to be trailing with how effectively Finland has locked down the neutral zone and defended in their zone. Canada hasn't had much and now they need to chase.

Does the Gold Plan, as used by the PWHL, not work for ball? It's easy for anyone to follow, with the same fundamental incentives for teams to remain competitive, and the same difficulties for fringe teams. The only downside I see is teams "tanking" until they're eliminated and then trying.

She's always been a bit old school hockey on that stuff, IMO. A product of her era.

Very regrettably, this was never going to be a shutout. Ughhhhhhhhhhhh

These refs have been bad tonight. This is after the Harley shot was blocked. Via @thomasdrance.bsky.social

MITCHYYYYYY