Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 27 February 2026 12:50

Adam wrote on Fri, 27 February 2026 11:19 Skookum Jim wrote on Thu, 26 February 2026 20:21 Matt Schaeffer just scored another two goals tonight.. Wudda shudda cudda 16G for the year.. same as Bouchard .. on a crap team.. Should also have had Schiefle instead of at least 4 other forwards.. Reinhart, Jarvis, Horvat, Hagel, Adding Bouchard, Schaeffer and Dobson and deleting Parayko, Sanheim and Doughty would have improved that team significantly. May not have made a difference, as Canada still had a great game in the finals and the goaltending was very good from Hellebuyck, but probably at least makes the quarter and semi final games a little less of a struggle. Morrissey's injury definitely played some havoc with the team's plans - but when you only take two good puck-movers, then you're really at risk if either goes down. Also - I wonder what it is about Shea Theodore that Cooper doesn't like? He was really the guy they seemed to use least and yet it was Parayko that looked worst to me. Yeah Paryko looked the worst for me as well.. Theodore is much better, should have taken some of Parayko's minutes After watching Doughty last night as a reference point, I'm pretty convinced Schaeffer would have been a big upgrade over Parayko, Doughty.. TC need another elite skating puck carrier to take the load off Makar.. you can tell they planned it to be Morrissy but should have had Schaeffer in the back pocket in case of injury. IMHO Schiefle, Wyatt Johnson at forward over some of those other plugs would have helped net a few more goals in the tight checking games. Biggest dissappointment was Reinhart.. brought nada

All the Panthers players were useless or worse. Bennett was a complete negative contributor, creating a PP goal against with a dumb play running a goalie, and then almost making us lose the gold medal game in regulation with a stupid high stick. A high stick that fired up Hughes and turned him into an American icon scoring with a smashed mouth.


We definitely got goalied, but we also domianted play less than we could have. There was only 1 line that was consistently creating chances in that gold medal game. And they were simply off a bit. With more playmaking from the D, and some more snipers up front (Bedard should have been there too), we could have just managed to have 1 more guy that actually had a hot stick getting a puck in the net. Helle is not unbeatable, lots of our shots were right at him, and lots of great chances went wide. But we had at least 2 forward groups that did nothing at all with the ice time they had and 2 D group that could barely do more than defend.

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