[GDT] North America vs Sweden - 1 pm - Sportsnet

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by AC

Morgan Rielly's reaction to the OT goal:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKpHgCajJRM/

About Johnny's defensive play and pass: "What a play!"

Silly Reilly. Doesn't he know that this tournament is a meaningless cash grab?

[Huntingwhale]

http://www.tvasports.ca/2016/09/21/l...i-vous-y-etiez

[Locke]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

So, why were the players unaware of the ramifications of the game?

Isn't that kinda important? That's extremely strange to me.

Its actually an excellent coaching tactic when you're dealing with children to keep them focused on the task at hand.

McLellan must have gotten confused by all of the professional hockey players in the dressing room.

[GoJetsGo]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

http://www.tvasports.ca/2016/09/21/l...i-vous-y-etiez

Great view of Johnny's hustle to retrieve that puck and slide it back to McKinnon. He is just tenacious when pursuing the puck.

Also, looked like he was in some distress in the post game celebration getting a nice face-wash. Funny stuff

[getbak]

Originally Posted by GoJetsGo

Also, looked like he was in some distress in the post game celebration getting a nice face-wash. Funny stuff

It looked like McDavid was trying to suffocate him.

[FBI]

Wow that Reilly celebration is pretty awesome... That guy was pumped..

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

I know this won't be a popular opinion, but take it as a friendly moderator's suggestion to improve the overall quality of the site:

If NA makes it through, can we focus on the game and cut down on the McDavid crap for goodness sakes?

I watched the same game without being in this thread, and I thought McDavid was easily a top 5 player in the game for both teams. Johnny was by-and-far the best, but catching up on this thread after the fact, you would have thought McDavid was Daigle. But he created a ton, easily outskated most of the best team D in the tourney and was called on an atrocious penalty late; he's not pulling a Jack Eichel, who has been the worst player out there.

Yes, I get the hype is overbearing, but like Jim Rome says, if you aren't making the [site] better, you're making it worse. If a moderator doesn't want to log in and participate in a thread, what about your average fan who just enjoys the game? (which I like to think is the majority of people who have ever registered for the site.) The NA team has been crazy fun to watch.

Don't just look for reasons to complain. Enjoy it. Don't let your McDavid pettiness overshadow your enjoyment of what Johnny is doing. It's so much fun. Enjoy that he's getting his due - he's not getting slighted. It's a great time to be a fan.
XM NHL was effusive after the game. Twitter was lit. I haven't heard a negative against Johnny this week, so let's not invent stuff that isn't there and try to keep a high quality to the hockey discussion.

There's an Oilers thread, go whine there if you want to pick apart McDavid ad nauseam.

A million times...this.^^^

Brilliantly said, thank you.