Ice Hockey - Sweden 0 - 3 Canada - Men's Full Gold Medal Match | Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
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Full coverage of the final of the Men's Ice Hockey tournament as Sweden take on Canada in the gold medal match at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Final Score: Sweden 0 v 3 Canada
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This was the most dominate performance I've ever since in any hockey game. Very controlled and professional by the whole Canadian team, it doesn't get any better than this.
I remember watching this, and I was so confident Canada would win after the 1st period. They were absolutely flawless. It was like watching a clinic.
Arguably the greatest team that Canada (and perhaps any team) has ever assembled.
2014 team Canada was one of the greatest teams ever put together, the defensive dominance was remarkable, usually Canadian teams are known for high scoring but they were low scoring and just smothering defensive hockey, it was masterclass.
Never seen a Canadian national team let their determination to win be so tempered by disciplin and accuracy. They took care of any possibility that lucky bounces would allow an opponent to gain momentum in this short tournament on big ice. Undeniable effort, nothing could have stopped them this time. Hat Off!
I have nothing but respect for Sweden. A great country with a great hockey program.
+Diamond Vault ty im from sweden
+IMORŦΔL More like top 5
+IMORŦΔL more like top 3
Yeah, but they're flooding their country with Blacks and West Asians who don't like hockey. Swedes are going to become a minority in Sweden in 10 years.
More like top 2 xD just look at their defence, impressive!
It would be nice if you wouldnt put the final score in the title...
IKR I'm trying to find one that doesn't have a score
Oh gee were you living in a cave before you posted that comment?
Lol for real...
I remember waking up at 4 am to watch this in BC. My kids woke up 30 mins later and would not go back to bed LMAO
My dad woke up at the same time. I just counted score by how many cheers he did.
Me too
This Canadian team could arguably be the best team to ever take the ice, such depth in every position.
Not bad eh!
As dominant as they were in this game and the entire tourney my money on best team ever is still the 87 canada cup...have a look at that roster again and marvel at how many super star/hall of famer/all time best ever players they had.
Imagine mario and gretzky having a go at this olympic team with coffey and bourque helping them from the back end :)
RW Glenn Anderson
D Ray Bourque
D Paul Coffey
D Doug Crossman
RW Kevin Dineen
G Grant Fuhr
RW Mike Gartner
C Doug Gilmour
LW Michel Goulet
C Wayne Gretzky
D Craig Hartsburg
C Dale Hawerchuk
G Ron Hextall
G Kelly Hrudey
RW Claude Lemieux
C Mario Lemieux
F Mark Messier
D Larry Murphy
D James Patrick
LW Brian Propp
D Normand Rochefort
C Brent Sutter
RW Rick Tocchet
@@krimpoo I'd say as far as team defense goes, this 2014 squad was the best ever. Flawless all tournament.
49:05 to 50:54 is the most dominating stretch of hockey I have ever seen.
you need to watch some sedin shifts my friend.\
This announcer is way too slow for hockey. He was like five plays behind all the time
Clearly a soccer... sorry "football" announcer. way too used to trying to make a sport more entertaining than it is.
I watch this for the play-by-play guy. he's too funny.
its the crowd too..so quiet ......nothing like a north american rink
Eh. I still go for Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson of CBC for this.
Bergeron's shift @4:50 just showing why he's one of the best two way forwards of all time.
Congrats to Team Sweden & Team Finland in winning the silver and bronze medal. Well earned medals by both teams. Unfortunately our neighbour to the south of us gave up in the bronze game. What a shame for hockey.
Kim Le Or Finland is just a better nation in hockey.
This Canadian team was probably the most powerful team to ever take to the ice, any time, any place. They'd have beaten the Leaf dynasty of the 60's, the Hab
flying circuses of the 70's, the Isle and Oiler teams of the 80's. It's not even close, these guys could have made it 10-0 had they wanted. The Swedes were lucky
to get the puck into the Canadian zone.
I'm aware this is 2 years old but Salt lake city Olympic Canadian team was just as if not more dominant
SO weird hearing a British accent calling hockey, LOL
Canadian team was the most skilled, fastest, disciplined, cohesive, defensively capable, powerful team to ever take the ice anywhere, anytime.
These are great debates but my money is still on the 87 canada cup team....just imagine them playing this olympic team....epic.
Imagine mario/gretzky/messier/bourque/coffey coming down on pietrangolo/keith....if i had to bet i would take the 87's :)
RW Glenn Anderson
D Ray Bourque
D Paul Coffey
D Doug Crossman
RW Kevin Dineen
G Grant Fuhr
RW Mike Gartner
C Doug Gilmour
LW Michel Goulet
C Wayne Gretzky
D Craig Hartsburg
C Dale Hawerchuk
G Ron Hextall
G Kelly Hrudey
RW Claude Lemieux
C Mario Lemieux
F Mark Messier
D Larry Murphy
D James Patrick
LW Brian Propp
D Normand Rochefort
C Brent Sutter
RW Rick Tocchet
2010's finals were better than this one.
because it was in canada
***** no....because it was a better game
doublestrokeroll true but also because it was in canada
***** 2014 Sochi team was but men's hockey in the Olympics in 2010 was better
***** Yes it was....but the games were boring. 10 was a much more exciting games.
thank you for putting this up on youtube
Watching Weber playing with Price you can get a look what its gonna look like in montreal i love it!
LMFAO... how did THAT work out for ya?
@@zarroaster2886 they made the finals
Hockey will, and always will be, CANADA'S sport.
Usa has more top notch prospects than Canada atm
Play List Top Notch prospects? Lmao, so? In general, Canada destroys Usa.
Play List Google searching names. Nice. Clearly you don't know anything about hockey. Cherry picking American names doesn't discount the plethora of Canadian names. You randomly associate many players as top 5 prospects, which they are not.
Eichel and Hanifan, along with along with Matthews are top 5 prospects. The first 2 are come after Connor McDavid, but Hanifin might fall out of the top 5. He had a bad World Juniors, and he is 2nd or 3rd best among freshman defencemen, behind Jordan Gross and at the same level as, or behind Brandon Montour. Marner and Crouse can likely surpass him as #3 and/or #4, with Strome and Barzal right there for #5 or #6 (these 2 not ahead of Hanifin though.
Matthews is the only surefire top pick in 2016. However, it is way too early to even consider anyone else. If you want to throw out names, Clague, Chychrun, Fabbro, Steel, Green, Howden and Benson can all slide into the top 5 for Canada, but again it is way too early to tell; 1 and a half years away.
Google searching? There's something called prospect forums, "and mock drafts".... 3/4 of the scouts voted Hanifan as the number three best prospect in the draft..Most of these kids have broken records, and are receiving Crosby-like attention. Wise for example even though he's only 14 he has broken the QC Int PW AA Elite scoring record, and is the most hyped player in the 2000s... Dhooghe? he has already committed to Ohio State Univ, and is being called the next patrick kane, putting up patrick kane type numbers at a similar age...Max Jones was the leading scorer at the u17 champions... Wahlstorm is the youngest player to make NCAA hockey commitment (scholarship)..www.draftsite.com/nhl/mock-draft/2016/ ..... hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/index.php .... www.eliteprospects.com/draftcenter.php?year=2017 .... try reading for once
Play List Please continue using the unqualified opinions of those on forums and conducting mock drafts before there is even a draft order.
I said Hanifin _might_ fall out of the top 5, not that he wasn't the 3rd best player. He has hurt his stock lately, which _could_ push him out of the top 5. Too significant of drop? Remember Seth Jones dropping 3? Hanifin however is still a top 5 (#3-5) prospect, with Crouse and Marner, who have clearly established themselves in the top 5. Also, please link _the scouts._
Oh really? Crosby like attention? I hear people in the streets clamouring about Wise, Jones, Kirwan, Day, Chychrun (who's Canadian), Wahlstrom, Anderson, Dhooghe, Gildon and Keller. Oh yeah, no one is. Crosby like attention is when Wayne Gretzky says you are the best player he's seen since Mario Lemieux. Crosby like attention is when you are heiled as "The Next One." The men who were: Lindros, Crosby, Kessel, Tavares, McDavid and Eichel. None of the above, Wise to Keller, receive any sort of attention whatsoever. That is you making a comment to hype those players in an attempt to convince me to thinking you are right.
Jake Wise generated absolutely no attention in the time period of 2000 to 2009. I put 100% faith in that statement. You're high off something. You sound like a machine spitting out the internet. Anyways, Barzal broke the point scoring record at 12 or 13 years of age. It is a league that has yet to provide any NHL talent in its history.
Just because he puts up Patrick Kane numbers doesn't automatically mean he's Patrick Kane. In fact, he isn't even close to Crosby or Kane. Dhooghe may strike as a Grimaldi, but as a mid to late round pick, 5-6 year development project, and then either a top 6 star, or a bust, but the top 6 remark is being generous. His height is an issue as well. Looking at the 30 shortest players in the league, there is a 6/30 chance he makes it as a regular, and 1/30 chance he truly plays at a level of Crosby, or Kane. This is with adjusted growth between the next 3 and 5 years. If you want a Patrick Kane, look for Jeremy Bracco; late-1st, early 2nd round pick.
We're still a year and a half away from the 2016 draft. Max Jones today may very well be a top 5. But that could all change in a year. There are surefire #1's, but not top 5's. Austin Matthews is the former, no one is the latter for sure. Just look at for example, the 2000 draft until 2014. 2000 had Dipietro, Heatley and Gaborik, 2006 had E.Johnson, J.Staal and Toews. Any one of them could have been drafted first overall. None of them could have been predicted 1.5 years before. 1.5 before, you could with Ovechkin and Malkin in '04, Crosby in '05, Stamkos in '08, Tavares in '09, and McDavid and Eichel in '15. No more than that, do to the sheer difficulty and constant changes. Even with surefires, you have Jones going from #2 at the start, to #1 late in the season, to #2 heading in, to #4 leaving the draft.
Is Wahlstrom playing as a Swedish or American international? Looks good from numbers, even if he's 383rd in scoring, he is very young. It's premature to judge him at the moment. He needs two more years before we can begin. I'd slot him as an early, early, early prospect for 2018 when he's eligible.
The announcers are so funny.
The Canada Team looks like they are not even trying lol
Awesome game. What a performance by Canada. So glad I woke up for this amazing moment in Canadian hockey history!
Disinfect777, Canada did not win the gold medal because Sweden was missing their best players or the refs were Canadian, they won because they were the better team!
Gillian Campbell im just saying, it would have been 4-3 to sweden if they had, zetterberg, h sedin, backstrom, franzen and hedman, loads more of missing players to mention.
@@cg891109 whatever,making excuses, what if,what if,
@@Thenakedfinisher Theres a difference between making excuses and pointing out obvious injustices. It's a fact that sweden was not at their strongest
@@cg891109 No, no Swedish team would have won this time, when Canada excelled in playing as we often do in Sweden all for the team a well thought out game plan that everyone sticks to, not taking any penalties. Just doing good things, attention to detail, focus on what we can do and let the statistics work it out. When Canada and all their broad hockey tradition, with their best players bye into that, we are screewed. Our hope is that this time was the first time it happened and it maybe takes a while befor it happens again.
@@rwt2320 Did you see how stacked Canada's team was? Even with all those players Canada would have won.
Revisiting this game and I am absolutely amazed how stacked this canadian team was. Holy
Would have easily been 2-0 if not for Henrik Lunberg
Beijing is going to see NHLers again. Canada will have McDavid and co. Sweden could have Pettersson and Nylander.
awesome game, thanks for posting
It was like a AAA world class hockey team getting a hockey lesson by the gods.
19:33 0-1 🇨🇦
58:17 0-2 🇨🇦
1:21:39 0-3 🇨🇦
I guess it's a good thing Stamkos and Tavares sat this one out.
It was enough of a blow-out as it was.
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Ummm... you go ahead and tell the Swedes they were in the game .... just be ready to duck. They'll think you're being sarcastic and will want to wallop you one.
***** 7-1, 7-2...blowouts??? No sir!! LOL I was a huge World Hockey Association fan. 12-3! THAT sir, was a blowout!!! This British fellow was used to 3-nil footy blowouts!
Mad respect to the Canadian team. They didn’t throw their equipment when they won
THANK YOU CAREY PRICE!
Before the game we had a small chanche by winning the gold, But then Bäckström got suspended and we didnt even had a small chanche. But even with Sedin, Bäckström, Franzén and Zetterberg Canada had won 7 games out of 10. But we did it good in the final, i wounder what would happened if Nyquist shot in the post would go in...
Proud Swedish
Don't need to watch since you post the score and take the intrigue away. Thanks man.
One of the greatest Hockey team ever. Canada dominated this game, Sweden almost had no scoring chances.
Proud of Canada love you Crosby;)
Just think, in a few years Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby will be playing for team Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics
if the NHL allows it's players to go...
McDavid is on Team North America
High Mungus he said in 2018 not in 2016 :P
World Cup was disappointing..
Olympics has more teams
WAAYY better jerseys
and way more revenue.
If only your were right
I haven't ever seen Tre kronor being outplayed like this, almost didn't think it was possible. But apparently Canada is top dog no doubt about it. Congrats on the olympic gold Canda.
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Three Crowns is Tre Kronor in swedish the name of the national team, hence the jerseys
+whateverpbk Russia usually outplays Sweden.
+ardemua Yes Russia has a slight advantage on Sweden but not like this. Even if you are Russian you must admit that Canada is number one. Russia hasn't won an olympic gold since 92 I think.
GREAT!
Interesting for the 1st hockey match I've ever seen...Go canada✊
I‘ll always be rooting for Sweden in hockey. I love how offensively they play at every tournament.
Canada is the best!!!!! Absolutely amazing, as always! So proud to be Canadian! :)
It's very useful for me because I am a student want to good at English and of course Ice Hockey is my favorite sports ^^
Sochi needs the commentators from NHL hockey...
They don't have the charisma
Yes they do! That would make these games so much better!
Hahaha Jack Edwards and Daryl Reaugh would be funny . I think Pat Foley and Eddie O would be a great pair
And better crowd
@@pokemonlatias1 I watch this because of the commentators. it's hilarious
Don’t get me wrong I’ll back my Canada any day, but lundqvist played his heart out in this game. (Sorry I know I butchered his name)
awesome
yaass goodjob canada greetins from finland
Carey Price won this game for Canada
:-) :-)
he did ezpz weber and price won that game byt hemselve
I am actually pretty stoked on this play by play guy. I can't exactly explain why. Perhaps because it sounds so much like play by play on a soccer game and I'm unlikely to ever hear the play by play of a World Cup Final featuring a Canadian side. If you just listen and don't watch you could almost picture it's a soccer game. I admit though I may have been less than impressed if this was my only option to watch on the morning of the game.
His has to be the best canadian men’s hockey team to take the ice so dominate no team had a chance
Canada should be allowed to send a B-Team as well .....
Gold and Silver then.
Plus, it would make for a better Gold Medal Final.
I agree
Innis Mor no way
the best hockey in olympics are USA VS CANADA! and yes i am from sweden
Great Game Plan by the Coaching Staff of Team Canada.
Go Canada Go
One has to follow college hockey to find a play by play call as good as this guy.
SWEのErik Karlsson、めっちゃ男前やね！素敵～
I agree with Matt Stati. Best team Canada ever, at least how they played. 2002 may have been the best personel though.
Kunitz played a great game
I always comeback to listen to this commentator. Its too funny
That hit at 1:02:19, I’m just wondering why that was only two minutes. I mean, it doesn’t really matter cause we won but it was a hit from behind resulting in blood. In the nhl I think that’s five, they might use different rules in international hockey.
go canada go
Fairly good hockey. That's the way it goes - "sometimes da puck goes in and sometimes da puck does not go in"! Glad that it was clean and sporting.
What telecast was this? I don't recognize the voices?
MegaWolfgang sounds like the bbc
Why do you put the final score in the title?
I Agree with the 875 Likes, Ice hockey: Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of four lines of three forwards, three forwards, three pairs of defencemen, and two goaltenders. Normally, each team has five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team. and I also heard that on Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia that it states that Team members: 6 per side (including goaltender). ;-)
Look at me... I'm proud of 2 gold medals in the World Juniors . But we have the most SILVER medals ever!!!! WhoooHoooo!!!
This is what superiority looks like. 3 goals allowed in the tournament. And here I thought the European teams were supposed to know how to play strategically on the big ice. Thank goodness Canada and their skill destroyed the "trap" systems that less talented teams employ when they know they can't match up. I think the only team that matched up ok against the Canucks was Finland. Much tougher than the Swedes.
i like it.....
that looks so fun. where can i join as a beginner?
Xi Zui Where do you live?
Most local ice rinks have some sort of beginner and recreational league (sometimes known as a "beer" league) or drop-in times for games. If you live in a place where there is a local rink, see if there is one and join it.
You can also play what's called "shinny" on outdoor public rinks, which is usually cheaper because you don't have to pay for ice time and the only equipment you need are skates, a stick, a few pucks, and gloves.
Alternatively if you live in a warmer climate where there isn't a rink nearby or you want a cheaper option, you can also play road/ball hockey, which has almost identical rules but is played on a hard surface and usually is played with a ball instead of a puck. You can also play at any time you want if you live on a quiet residential street. All you need is a net (optional but highly recommended, cost roughly around $30-100), a stick (for road hockey you can make do with a $15-30 stick), and a ball (three tennis balls for $5 local sports store). Goalie equipment for road hockey will run you about $100-150 total probably if you want that too.
anyone know where I can watch the usa vs canada semi final
Google it! I found a good stream about a week ago
i can't find any I tried but no :/ can you see i you can find that link again?
CANADA IS THE BEST!!!
Go Canada 🇨🇦 Go love you guys
Well, Canada is a big country and has alot of people, and Sweden is small and has got mouch les people, but from that little country has those great hockey players come from.
ok... bro... let's look at Canada's population... More than 60% are visible minorites... meaning out of the 35 million, 20 million are First generation immigrants that haven't got a clue what ice is, let alone hockey. So, out of the remaining 15 million, we have enough talented players to field three or four competitive teams in the olympics... Team Sweden, ONE only!!! lol
Tom F
Read up on registred player..not population only..read up on hockey h alls.
Mulli Gan
There are more variables to bring forth a country of good hockey players, culture and tradition and economics...china haven´t had the same tradition or economics in order to bring forth
a good hockey nation, regarding economics..in the future we might see them therem If they decide to balance their population to start playing hockey rather than ping pong that is:)
if no such variables...Canada would have won all the time over sweden, or should I say russia.
russia had it going because extreme investment in a completly different form in the 80´ ...the big red machine.
o D a n i e l
Read up on hockey halls and registred players
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population is several millions more than sweden ..also, don´t put it in regards to africa..where they in many cases don´t have snow or food on the table nor water to drink.
Theres only one team/country that can lose 4 of their best players and still be the best, and thats Canada. Certainly not Sweden, we lost Zetterberg, Franzen, one of the Sedins, Backstrom - to many of our key players gone. And thats way to many to make a dent in a Olympic Canadian team.. Well deserved gold medal to Canada..
and as of 2019, Sedin and the others in the World Cup of Hockey were beaten handily by teenager rookies. So sick of Swede excuses, claims of cheating, crying foul. There is no nation on earth so full of excuses and so much in denial about things. That's exactly why Sweden never wins when it counts...because they're too busy making excuses.
you go Canada!
Канадцы, как всегда лучшие!
Lloyd Paul Sr Team Canada #1FAN ..is my 1st clip watching Team Canada at the Winter Olympics 2014 and with some hard cheering doing CZcams Clips for the Olympics Hockey..check em out...Nova Scotia Fan being silly & VERY Proud of both our Women & Men's Canada teams for bringing home GOLD..YESSSSSSSSSS. .lol.Rez Humor (Canadian Humor)...lol...check it out & once again way to go CANADA. .:)
I was screaming in the final 10m of the game
LET'S GO CANADA
Loui Erickson possibly the vancouver Canucks most underwhelming trade in history
Love how they cut away from the hits
best defense ever, notice how Sweeden cant get close enought to have good shots on Carrey Price. even the forwards play as defenseman.
The Swedish coach was recently voted as the best looking man in Sweden
It's so weird hearing a british announcer use hockey slang, like "OFF THE PIPE!" He's reading all that stuff right off of a paper
Canada is a beast team
So weird hearing British commentator.
In any event, great game. Sweden is the team I root for after my Canadians.
For those who don't understand why Canada won, let me explain:
There were 2 strategies that Canada was using, the cycle game and the rapid shift switching. The cycle game is based on the principle that the puck will always move faster than the players, therefore, as long as you keep the puck cycling around the opponent's goal, the defense has more ground to cover and have to constantly try to get themselves between the goalie and the puck. But cycle game requires team work, meaning players cannot be selfish, meaning there is no "I" in team. The second strategy is rapid shift switching. By changing shifts roughly every 2 minutes, you give players on the bench roughly 6 to 8 minutes to rest, thus when they go out for their next shift, they will be fresh again and can go 100% for 2 minutes again. Thus in the 3rd period, the puck was rarely in the Canadian zone. This was actually used against the Canada vs US game with similar results, near the end of second period and for most of the third period, the US players were exhausted.
ChunLiKasumi the biggest reason they won, was that Canada has the best players. Compare the lineups and you will find out not even 3 players in sweden are good enough to play with Canda.
+ChunLiKasumi pro's change about every 45 seconds, rapid shift changes would be every 30
+How To Hockey - Coach Jeremy You are correct!
Babcock stated his plan to the Canadian media for rapid shift changes that consist of 30-40 seconds.
A 2 minute shift on Olympic ice would be ridiculous and very draining on the individuals stamina.
Love the Petro-Canada uniforms eh!
ALLEZ ALLEZ MONTREAL!!!!! im sayin dis for price okeh
Let me sound like a Swede: The score could easily have been 10-0 if not for the bad refereeing and bad bounces that Canada experienced during this game. Sweden is lucky to have not been embarrassed far worse than they were.
These are the top five countries in men's hockey in my humble opinion based on past olympics and the nhl, khl Swedish hockey leage etc.
1. Canada (of course)
2. USA
3. Sweden
4. Russia
5. Finland
1Canada
2Sweden
3Russia (amazing players who cant play together)
4USA
5Czech republic
CzyJaKurwaLubieTruskawki?
1.canada
2.sweden
3.russia
4.usa
5.finland
Sweden Is ranked no 1 by the IHF, based on the latest placement in olympics and world championships, it isn´t I who makes that list, but it will most likely change with the next evaluation..and you can argue about the list sure...and I really don´t agree, but it is the way the measurement are set up.
USA better then FInland and sweden finlnd beat us easily 5 0.
superbob3331 Usa didn't try that match, it was gold or nothing
Play List Well neither did Finland but theory can beat them without trying if they lost by that many goals it means there not as good.
Hmmm - a different game than today hey? NHL players elevates the play a lot :P (2022 Olympic QF where Canada lost)
My god the British play by play is just horrendous...for all the critics of this Canadian team, this final and how they played overall...this and the 2015 World Championships may have been the most dominant Canadian teams in Canadian international history.
The English commentator was pretty good.
Team Canada 2014, best hockey team ever
hahahha. Not ever. But a great team. The Soviet Union had the best teams ever.
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Completely untrue. The best Soviet team was their 1981 team, which smoked Canada in the Canada Cup by a score of 8-1. I stand by this as the greatest team of all time. Any team that beats Canada's best, including Wayne Gretzky, Bossy, Lafleur, etc. by a score like that ON CANADIAN ice with a smaller rink and NHL refs...That NHL All Star Team had 20 future hall of famers, the most EVER, in any sport, in history, on one team. And the Soviets didn't just beat them, they embarrassed them. Just 2 years earlier they buried the NHL All Stars 6-0. Those are blowouts. Canada won in 1976 but the Soviets only brought 7 of their top players that year. Canada won in 1984 but Tretiak had retired by then. 1987 was a great win for Canada. Keep in mind all of those games were played on Canadian ice with NHL refs. Very different game. Overall if you include Superseries, Canada Cups and Challenge Cups and any game of Soviets vs NHLers the USSR won 59% of the games. I studied every single series and every single game played between the 2 because my 2nd cousin was Vladimir Myshkin, the goalie who shut out the NHL All Stars 6-0 in 1979.
You can try empty boasting if you will, but that' s not at all what history shows. You want medal charts? Since the Soviets came into hockey in the 1950's, they have 7 golds and 1 for the Unified Team. Canada has 3 golds in that same period. And tell yourself whatever you have to with the NHL All Stars, that's lame and you know it. There was one player who was not Canadian on that team, Borje Salming. It had the largest number of Hall of Famers EVER on a team, and they were all Canadian. So if that's not a representation of Canada I don't know what is. Because the jersey said NHL instead of Canada? Sure buddy. The Soviets were better. And if you won't take my word for it, take Wayne Gretzky's. He himself said it in his autobiography, that the Soviets had better hockey during the 1970's and 1980's.
Also not sure why you say the Soviets only one ONE best on best tournament. They won the 1974 games against the WHA all stars. Of course you will say that wasn't best on best, but then I have to say that the 1976 Soviet team was not their best since they did not even bring their top 2 lines. Tretiak sat out the '84 tournament so that can't be counted as their best either. You see, you can always find SOMEONE who wasn't on the team. The World Championships from 1977 on included NHLers. Esposito, Gretzky, Messier, Coffey, all those guys played on those teams, and the Soviets always beat them. Its not even close. Since 1950 when the Soviets started playing hockey they have won more World Titles, more Olympic Golds, and its not even close. No one outside Canada believes Canada was better than Soviet hockey so you just sound ridiculous and like the typical arrogant Canadian when you start saying that.
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Without canada's best athletes? Good one. The US can say that though for sure. Not even its second tier athletes play hockey. Its basically the kids who aren't big enough, strong enough, fast enough, resilient enough, or tough enough who play hockey. Otherwise they play American football, play basketball, or even soccer over hockey.
Great game...terrible commentators. Too bad we couldn't get the canadian feed but happy to at least have this.
Canada was actually going for their 9th olympic gold.
We actually got to watch this game in class and every other class watched it to so when Canada won are whole school just started screaming
Oh yah in my school we watched the USA versus Canada and we won so our school was screaming, and everyone started to dance around and that caused me being trampled over when I sat down again to talk about the match with my friends
Hate to say it as a US citizen, but deserved tournament win for Team Canada.
Hate to what? We deserve and win most championships,
1:20
ugh but Sweden was playing pretty good too. too bad they can't score even 1 :/
anyway, congrats to Canada!
+Sonny Arcand Ummm..... I don't even know what you wrote
I hope Team Canada will defend their championship in 2018.
They must, they must...
***** with McDavid in the lineup....yea I think they'll be defending for a looonnnngggg time
Sadly without the NHL players, we couldn’t
It looks like hockey. But I swear I hear... soccer?
Really hope more nations will join in on this awesome sport soon, need more challenges then Canada, USA and the Czech :P
+David Huynh 74 countries play according to IIHF.
***** Actually the fact is that we don't know yet if Finland's current run is any different that the Czechs brief era of glory in the late 90's and early 00's and if its more sustainable.
We will find that out in about 10 or so years so calm yourself. No idea why you're getting political and into USA and Russia bashing btw.. by assuming more people "love us" over them, that's quite pathetic and shows your inferiority complex.
Keep the focus on Hockey.
***** What a load of rubbish, "You've also attacked me for complimenting the USA, Russia and European goaltending."
I never did such thing, once again you must have misinterpreted by comments, the fact is that that Canadian goaltenders have been brutally underrated for years now and thrown under the bus just because they are Canadians, I was simply pointing out that fact.
An example is Crawford getting zero respect but Quick and Rinne being considered elite, even though Crawford has just as good and has equal if not better stats than both of them. Plus Quick playing behind just as good a team as Crawford.
For example statistically speaking Canada has hands down the best depth and elite goaltending at the senior level right now, but a majority of people will refute this and argue that Sweden/Finland/US has better goaltending when there is no real evidence to support that claim.
I am simply pointing out all the double standards and hypocrisy that Canadian hockey has had to deal with for many years now. You are taking it as some complex I have when the reality is that I am simply exposing the truth and double standards.
***** You're the one who brought up how nations are perceived and how you think Canada is more loved and supported in comparison to USA and Russia, that is classic inferiority complex.
***** There are plenty of people who hate Canada, your view that the world loves Canada and that we are favoured over other countries is classic inferiority complex, I don't know what else to tell you on this subject.