Disappointing I guess, but this game really shows that Canada’s fall from grace isn’t as big as some people believe.
For Germany, it doesn’t get much better than this. If the NHL went, they’d add Drai and a couple of others. Canada would be completely different. Crosby, McDavid, Stamkos, Scheifele, Seguin, Benn, MacKinnon, Bergeron, Tavares, etc. at forward. It just wouldn’t be fair.
Essentially Canada’s 6th or 7th best team (if that) put up a great fight with Germany’s A team minus their best players.
Hell, take off any two players from the Canadian squad and replace them Crosby and McDavid and that would probably be enough to win.
Hope that this grows the game in Germany. And hopefully we get some real best-on-best in 2022.
Congratulations Germany, will be cheering for you guys to kick some Russian ass.