[GDT] 2026 Olympics Game #4: Quarterfinals - Canada vs. Czechia

[TheIronMaiden]

Call me a bad canadian, but I can't help but cheer a little for Czeckia, a great hockey nation in a david Vs goliath match up.

[MRCboicgy]

The best part about this PP is if they can keep unit #1 out for the whole 2 min if it goes into the 3rd

[Five-hole]

A goal here would be so big. Not just for momentum but to make them pay for the dirty play, and maybe they tone it down.

[GioforPM]

They need to score before the period ends. Splt power plays are tough

[Itse]

Originally Posted by Goriders

Canada is waking up

This has been a pretty one-sided period. What are the shots, 16-4 for Canada or something like that.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

They need to score before the period ends. Splt power plays are tough

Not when you’re resting this insane #1 unit in the middle.

[Goriders]

Need to start double shifting McD and McK

[Scornfire]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Call me a bad canadian, but I can't help but cheer a little for Czeckia, a great hockey nation in a david Vs goliath match up.

Czechia isn't David. Italy was David. Czechia has long been an established/Successful Hockey Nation

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

Not when you’re resting this insane #1 unit in the middle.

Still need to win a face off and gain the zone. You lose 20-30 seconds of zone time in a split.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

It kinda felt like when Crosby went out the rest of the team was like, "well, he's not going to save us this time", and the urgency went up a couple of notches.

The last rush by Mack needs to happen basically whenever he is on the ice. He's essentially a momentum changer on his own.

[3rd liner]

Czechs getting tired. But Canada needs other lines to ramp it up so the top line doesn't play all game. Can't run out of gas later in the tournament.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Call me a bad canadian, but I can't help but cheer a little for Czeckia, a great hockey nation in a david Vs goliath match up.

right now, you're a bad Canadian.

#### Czeckia in this tourney.

[Voodooman]

I think if Suzuki plays for any other team, he isn't on this roster. Some internal Hockey Canada politics requiring representation from the Scabs.

[trackercowe]

Are we really reduced to becoming Oilers 2.0 and depending on McDavid to save us? Feel gross about the commentators demanding him on the ice every shift.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Call me a bad canadian, but I can't help but cheer a little for Czeckia, a great hockey nation in a david Vs goliath match up.

If Czeckia won I would find it kind of hilarious to be honest. Team Canada fans/media have been really cocky, everyone acting like Oiler fans..

Of course I still want Canada to win and I'm sure they will but I'd ind it funny.

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

What a shift by Makar.

The point where he was backing up behind the blue line anticipating a counterattack from the Czechs, stopped on a dime when the puck was free inside the line and won the race to control the zone.

He showed a priority to defend but had the offensive instincts and reaction time to pounce on that opportunity. That's what makes him great.

I hope Parekh watches that over and over and over again.

[3rd liner]

Was that Crosby's dad standing up and yelling at Gudas? If so, that's all of us hockey dads when somebody roughs up our kid lol.

[FlamesAreOne]

The Crosby injury lit an enormous fire in the boys. Love to see them coming together for Sid.

[MrMike]

Stupid not to have Bennett in if he’s healthy

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

Are we really reduced to becoming Oilers 2.0 and depending on McDavid to save us? Feel gross about the commentators demanding him on the ice every shift.

I mean lines 2-4 can't put the puck in the net, so yeah.