WJC - 2026

[The Sicatoka]

FIN, CZE, and even SWE, play a harder game than USA or CAN.

[sioux rube]

52 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

FIN, CZE, and even SWE, play a harder game than USA or CAN.

I like that Czech team. They played like it was their last game on earth. Pulling for them against Sweden 

[Sioux_Hab-it]

3 hours ago, Johnny Five said:

2 Unbelievable hockey games last night.  Unfortunate for Canada to lose their composure, but understand how much it means to those kids as well.  Gotta remember their passionate young men and this is their dream since they laced them up...live and learn.  

 

Canada only wins the WJC when they have a player that can take the team on his back which we now know is not McKenna.   The kid was completely over-hyped and unfortunately the type of players who could have done it ( ie Celebrini and Schaeffer) were already in the NHL.   Also everyone forgets that this tournament isn't won by teams that play a bunch of underage juniors but rather a tournament where 19 year old players often dominate.     

[Dustin]

All I could think of when this shot came on the TV is "welcome to sports, kid."  A lifetime of mostly disappointment, and it doesn't get easier with age.

[fightingsioux4life]

11 minutes ago, Dustin said:

All I could think of when this shot came on the TV is "welcome to sports, kid."  A lifetime of mostly disappointment, and it doesn't get easier with age.

But it's harder when you are younger because you don't have the years of experience and maturity to process it.

[Dustin]

15 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

But it's harder when you are younger because you don't have the years of experience and maturity to process it.

Perhaps, but you also don't have the history of disappoinments.

[fightingsioux4life]

16 minutes ago, Dustin said:

Perhaps, but you also don't have the history of disappoinments.

Good point. But you have experience learning how to deal with those disappointments. Everything is more raw and emotional for kids.

[Wilbur]

2 hours ago, Sioux_Hab-it said:

Canada only wins the WJC when they have a player that can take the team on his back which we now know is not McKenna.   The kid was completely over-hyped and unfortunately the type of players who could have done it ( ie Celebrini and Schaeffer) were already in the NHL.   Also everyone forgets that this tournament isn't won by teams that play a bunch of underage juniors but rather a tournament where 19 year old players often dominate.     

Blame me.  I went with my Canadian bloodline and put allegiance to Canada after what team USA did.

[Blackheart]

2 hours ago, Dustin said:

All I could think of when this shot came on the TV is "welcome to sports, kid."  A lifetime of mostly disappointment, and it doesn't get easier with age.

Hey Grok, change the hat in the picture to the Minnesota Vikings...

[tnt]

3 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:

But it's harder when you are younger because you don't have the years of experience and maturity to process it.

Maturity isn’t a given with years of experience.  Case in point all the people that call for a coach to be fired after losing a big game, or simply go to the Clarkson thread from earlier this year for overreaction, which doesn’t scream maturity.

[mygarske]

22 hours ago, JacksonW said:

He’s 64 and had tragic life event a few years back-I believe his coaching skills have slipped and this maybe his last year coaching but know plenty of people who know him and they all speak highly of him as a human being. Is being a dick part of popularity here?

I wrote, I waited, came back & read what I wrote. I'm still going to send this. Bob's coaching failures have nothing to do with his life experiences, or if he's a good human, in my opinion. And you show your ignorance for lobbing that kind of dirty insult about posters on this site. Having lost a child of my own, I would never want any parent to experience that loss, ever. But it did not then, nor does it now, affect the decisions I make in my business or professional life. 

His lack of experience, low hockey knowledge, inability to learn from mistakes, being stubborn, or just aloof - is what cost those 25 young men, who have been dreaming of playing in that tournament since they started skating, a chance to win a medal. That is his unforgivable sin. 

The examples are a mile long. Jockeying lines non-stop every game. Matching the wrong lines against opponents. Sitting players with skills that better matched opponents. Not acknowledging, or worse, rewarding bad play with more ice time. The list goes on and on.

A good coach would have given those young men an opportunity to succeed. A good human would set aside his ego, learn from his mistakes, look at the numbers and make the obvious choices to give those boys have a chance to win. He did not. He selfishly made the same mistakes, over and over.

The overtime in the last game was the perfect example. He put players on the ice who had not scored and had made mistakes & given up goals. And it cost the entire team the game.

And every single one of those boys knows how Bob failed them. Especially the kids he put on the ice in OT. These kids are the best in world, more than anyone they know who should be on the ice to give their team the best chance to win. But Bob knew best, now those kids have to live with letting down their teammates in the biggest game of their hockey lives.

THAT, is being a dick, in my opinion.

[nascar99]

 

[siouxfaninseattle]

Very frantic finish - congrats to Sweden.

[Blackheart]

2 hours ago, nascar99 said:

 

Are you guys brothers? #Slapshot

[SIOUXpucks]

On 1/5/2026 at 12:52 AM, nodakgirl93 said:

Yeah what's up with that? Clearly went off of Reschny and then into the net.

They did state during the game yesterday that things got changed back, such that the goal did ultimately go to Reschny. I didn't look for any validation of that but I believe that's what was said.

[cberkas]

Almost the same bracket as this year