Team USA bits the bed, accident 3-0 to Aggregation Europe. If they don’t get a point from Canada tomorrow night, their clash is apparently over. (So it’s apparently over.) Bummer, afterwards all that hype. But—ah!—the World Cup of Hockey had aloof this book in mind, aback they created your absolute advancement aggregation to basis for. Aggregation North America, we are 100 percent on board.
Team North America—the adolescent guns, Americans and Canadians 23 and under—dominated a actual acceptable Finland aggregation in their accumulation comedy opener. It was a 4-1 win, and they outshot the Finns 43-25 alike with an aboriginal lead. North America is, as expected, fast as hell. And that didn’t alone construe to an end-to-end game, admitting they absolutely took the bogie up the ice with apparent alacrity—it showed up in the way they pounced on apart pucks, and darted through the Finnish coverage.
And they’re fun! They’re accepting fun! You could see the players continuing on the bench, aptitude over to get a acceptable attending at anniversary rush. They adulation watching anniversary added every bit as abundant as we do.
Coach Todd McLellan formed his curve with absorbing evenness, with every amateur seeing amid 12 and 16 account of ice time. This team, abnormally the forwards, are so, so deep, and so talented—this is no B team, not aback they can accelerate the brand of Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, and Jack Eichel adjoin you on a ability play, as they did on the aperture goal.
Eichel, Johnny Gaudreau, Jonathan Drouin, and Nathan MacKinnon all denticulate for the adolescent guns, afore Finland got one aback adjoin goaltender Matt Murray.
“They got better, they won every battle, they skate hard, they are so aggressive,” Finland drillmaster Lauri Marjamaki said. Such a abundant team.”
We knew the acceleration would be there, but the abilities on North America’s scorers are still a affair of awe. I can’t accept Gaudreau was able to get a stick on this deflection.
There is still affluence of allowance about the Aggregation NA bandwagon, but hop on now: Tonight they face a cornered, accomplished Russian aggregation that needs a win to accept any achievement of affective on. There are still absolute questions about their aegis and their goaltending, and about their condiment already they face adept teams like Sweden. But hell, this is absolutely possibly the fastest, flashiest hockey aggregation anytime assembled. They deserve your fandom.
