Canada v. Germany Post-Game: Glanzresultat
by Scott Reynolds on Feb 23, 2010 9:24 PM PST
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This evening the tournament began anew and the Canadians made good. The first period was utterly dominant hockey as the Canadians out-chanced the Germans 5:1 at the very least. If we're a little less generous with the scoring chances, the ratio doesn't have a 1 in it. But the period ended 1-0 in actual goals and though the worry wasn't palpable, many chances and few goals has been a disconcerting theme over the last two games. So when eight pucks had been deposited behind Thomas Greiss by game's end everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. Or call out for the Russians.
Indeed, with five minutes left in the third period the black eagle had already been vanquished. The second German goal nothing more than one last hopeless cry: "I'll bite your legs off!" Sorry Germany, the Canadians have already started clapping their coconuts and walked off. Now the double-headed bird-monstrosity awaits. Ovechkin and Malkin wait impatiently for glory and will not be easily denied. It promises to be a wonderful night of hockey. I can hardly wait.
But now Latvia and the Czechs are going to OT. For more detail-oriented analysis on Canada-Germany, it's after the jump. But first, go cheer on the Latvians.
Below this little paragraph is the play-by-play for the Canadian side from tonight's game. I'll give some opinion on it after the data. The players will be marked by their jersey numbers for ease of writing but I'll provide a legend first:
2 - Duncan Keith
6 - Shea Weber
7 - Brent Seabrook
8 - Drew Doughty
10 - Brenden Morrow
11 - Patrick Marleau
12 - Jarome Iginla
15 - Dany Heatley
16 - Jonathan Toews
18 - Mike Richards
19 - Joe Thornton
20 - Chris Pronger
21 - Eric Staal
22 - Dan Boyle
24 - Corey Perry
27 - Scott Niedermayer
37 - Patrice Bergeron
51 - Ryan Getzlaf
61 - Rick Nash
87 - Sidney Crosby
First Period
61-51-24 and 27-06 NZ FO
21-87-12 and 02-08 NZ FO
15-19-11 and 22-20
10-16-18 and 27-07
61-51-24 and 02-08
61-51-24 and 02-08 OZ FO Icing
21-87-12 and 22-20
21-87-12 and 27-06
15-19-11 and 27-06 OZ FO
15-19-11 and 27-06 OZ FO
21-87-12 and 02-07 OZ FO end in Ger. penalty in their DZ
15-19-11 and 22-06 OZ FO PP
21-87-12 and 08-02 OZ FO PP penalty ends
21-87-12 and 08-02
21-16-18 and 08-02
10-16-18 and 20-07 NZ FO
61-51-37 and 27-06 DZ FO with 51 on FO and 37 to bench after clear
61-51-24 and 27-06
15-19-11 and 08-02
15-19-11 and 08-02 NZ FO
15-19-11 and 08-02 DZ FO Icing, ends in Cdn. GOAL
21-87-12 and 20-22 NZ FO
10-16-18 and 02-08
61-51-24 and 27-06
15-19-11 and 20-07 OZ FO Icing
21-87-12 and 22-08
10-16-18 and 22-08 OZ FO
21-87-12 and 27-06 OZ FO Icing
61-51-24 and 20-07
15-19-11 and 20-07
15-19-11 and 02-08 NZ FO
10-16-18 and 27-22
21-87-12 and 27-22
21-87-12 and 20-22
61-51-24 and 20-07
15-19-11 and 02-08
16-19-11 and 27-06 DZ FO with 19 on FO and 16 to bench after clear
15-19-11 and 27-06
Second Period
61-51-24 and 27-06 NZ FO
21-87-12 and 02-08 OZ FO
21-87-12 and 02-08 OZ FO
15-19-11 and 20-22
10-16-18 and 27-06 OZ Icing, ends in Cdn. GOAL
61-51-24 and 02-08 NZ FO ends in Ger. penalty in their DZ
21-87-12 and 02-08 OZ FO ends in Cdn. GOAL
15-19-11 and 20-07 NZ FO ends in Cdn. penalty in OZ
37-10 and 27-06 DZ FO
16-18 and 27-06
37-19 and 02-08 DZ FO with 37 on FO and 19 to bench after clear
37-10 and 02-08
16-18 and 27-06
87-21 and 27-06 NZ FO penalty ends
15-87-21 and 27-06 ends in Cdn. penalty in DZ
37-10 and 20-07 DZ FO
16-18 and 20-07
11-61 and 02-06
37-10 and 22-08 OZ FO penalty ends
21-87-12 and 22-08 ends in Cdn. GOAL
61-51-24 and 20-06 NZ FO
15-19-11 and 02-22 OZ FO
21-87-12 and 02-22 OZ FO
61-37-24 and 27-07 ends in Cdn. penalty shot (Crosby misses)
10-16-18 and 20-08 OZ FO
21-87-12 and 27-07
15-19-11 and 02-06
61-51-24 and 20-22
10-16-18 and 27-06
21-87-12 and 27-07
21-87-12 and 02-07 OZ FO
15-87-11 and 02-22 ends in Ger. GOAL
15-19-11 and 20-22 NZ FO
10-16-18 and 27-06 DZ FO
10-16-24 and 27-06
61-51-24 and 27-08
61-51-24 and 02-08 DZ FO
21-87-12 and 20-07
Third Period
61-51-24 and 27-06 NZ FO
21-87-12 and 27-06
21-87-12 and 02-08 ends in Cdn. GOAL
15-19-11 and 20-22 NZ FO
10-16-18 and 08-07
61-51-24 and 27-06
21-87-12 and 02-22
15-19-11 and 20-07
15-19-11 and 20-07 NZ FO
61-51-37 and 20-07 NZ FO
10-16-18 and 08-06 ends in Cdn. GOAL
21-87-12 and 27-22 NZ FO
15-19-11 and 02-07 NZ FO
61-37-24 and 20-22
61-37-24 and 20-22 DZ FO
61-37-24 and 20-27
61-37-24 and 20-27 DZ FO Icing ends in Cdn. penalty in DZ
16-10 and 02-08 DZ FO
16-18 and 02-20
37-10 and 20-06
11-61 and 20-06 NZ FO
37-18 and 02-07
87-21 and 02-07 penalty ends
21-87-27 and 02-07 ends in Cdn. GOAL
10-51-24 and 20-22 NZ FO
10-51-24 and 20-22 OZ FO
15-19-11 and 20-22
15-19-11 and 08-07
61-16-18 and 08-07
61-16-18 and 08-07 DZ FO
21-87-12 and 02-06 NZ FO
61-16-18 and 02-06
61-16-18 and 02-06 DZ FO Icing
61-16-18 and 20-22
10-51-24 and 20-22
15-37-11 and 27-07 OZ FO
37-19-11 and 27-07 OZ FO Icing
61-16-18 and 20-22 ends in Cdn. GOAL
21-87-12 and 20-22 NZ FO
21-87-12 and 20-22 DZ FO
10-51-24 and 20-22
10-51-24 and 08-06 OZ FO
15-19-37 and 02-07 ends in Ger. GOAL
61-16-18 and 27-06 NZ FO
10-37-24 and 20-22
End of Game
I think that the first period in this game will probably be more helpful for determining what the Canadians will be doing on the whole as we go forward. The third period saw quite a bit of mop-up time in which various players started getting ice time they won't get in closer games. To illustrate, Patrice Bergeron had more EV shifts in the third period than he did in the first (one, and it was under twenty seconds for a DZ draw). He's not likely to be in the plans at EV against the Russians except for possibly the odd DZ draw (Toews took an extra DZ draw this game, Thornton last game).
On defence, Keith-Doughty, Niedermayer-Weber and Pronger-Boyle seem to be set. Seabrook was the extra in that arrangement. They all ended up playing quite a bit in this one but those three pairs, and especially the first two, are going to be handling the most ice time against Russia tomorrow.
At forward, they spent most of the first period rolling lines at EV with a couple of exceptions. Both times the coaches broke cadence it was for a faceoff in the offensive zone and Canada rolled out Crosby's line. In the first instance the sequence ended with a German penalty so the cadence didn't come back until after the PP. In the second instance it was after an icing call with some weaker German players trapped, but the Germans managed to get the puck out without a problem. After that, the Canadians rolled into a new cadence with the forwards (from 51-87-19-16 to 87-51-19-16). No effort to match from the coaches in the first, but why would you? It's the Germans. It'll be interesting to see if that changes against Russia tomorrow.
The one thing that I think might carry-over from the third period is the switch of Morrow and Nash. For the last half of the third period Morrow played with Getzlaf and Perry and looked good. Nash went down to play with Toews and Richards, a unit that helped Rick Nash get his first goal of the tournament. I could see those groups playing together tomorrow against the Russians, at least until (if) they drop down to three lines later in the game.
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+1 for the Black Knight reference.
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I resent you, Scott. GDTs are all I have here and you’re making me look bad! Make with the dick jokes and lame similes already!
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 23, 2010 10:25 PM PST up reply actions
It actually might work in our favor that we got the extra “practice” game.
I just hope that last night was indeed this team coming together finally as a unit and we’ll see that carry over tonight and it wasn’t just a clearly superior team dominating an inferior opponent (which obviously won’t be the case tonight).
I too must say awesome black knight reference. Hopefully the Russians play the part of the black knight tonight.
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by HockeyOutsiders on Feb 24, 2010 6:21 AM PST reply actions
I doubt very much that getting this game was a good thing. Finish fourth and we avoid the Russians and Swedes until the final. Their chances of winning are substantially worse going through the tournament in this fashion.
Plus, they didn’t play substantially better last night. There were still defensive miscues (two-on-nothing break!), long shifts (getting caught with an icing and having it lead to a penalty), an OZ penalty. But they had their shots go in. Most of that is the difference between Miller/Hiller and Jeff Deslauriers Thomas Greiss (not going to continue) and luck (please let it continue).
by Scott Reynolds on Feb 24, 2010 7:02 AM PST up reply actions
I know, I was just trying to stay positive. I sense a huge let down tonight.
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by HockeyOutsiders on Feb 24, 2010 7:18 AM PST up reply actions
Despite Pierre McGuire’s incessent insistance (yeah, I did that!), I don’t think the science/chemistry/physics/etc… experiment was all that successful.
Canada still only had 2 lines that consistantly looked like they were comfortable playing with each other (87’s line and the Sharks line), so despite Staal moving up and Nash dropping down, it didn’t change much.
Instead of Staal looking like crap playing with Getzlaf and Perry, it was Nash looking like crap playing with them (drawn penalty shot aside).
You can sort of live with 2 lines generating all your chances if you have 2 other lines that look they can hold their own. The Toews line looks like it can, they aren’t creating much but they aren’t giving anything up either. It’s the Getzlaf line that irks me though. They do their work by keeping the puck in the offensive zone and it’s just not happening in comparison to the other lines.
Side question… would Mike Fisher have been a better choice as the 13th F/PK/FO specialist?
I agree. Only two lines looked consistently good. That’s part of why I think those two bottom lines we saw at the end of the game might push on for today’s game against Russia, at least to start. I liked what I saw from Nash/Toews/Richards.
As for Mike Fisher, I don’t like him. I don’t think he’s particularly strong on the PK, he’s not really taking on the toughs and he’s playing in the East. And he’s not as good a player as Bergeron IMO. I think if you go with specialists, you go all out. Personally, I’d have eight defenders for sure (so that you could keep your pairings more consistent) and if you went with a fourth line of specialists, you make them specialists who rarely see the ice at EV. Maybe one or two shifts per period. All of the other forwards are used to big minutes anyway. Maybe a line of Bourque-Malhotra-Burrows. If you’re going to take specialists, make them specialists, guys that know the roles you’re giving them and who do it well. Going half-way on it (Mike Fisher) is no good IMO.
by Scott Reynolds on Feb 24, 2010 7:26 AM PST up reply actions
What are your impressions of Staal vs. Nash on Crosby’s wing Scott? I thought Staal had a terrific game but qualOpp should be heavily noted and history says that Nash probably still belongs on that top line.
As an aside, it irks me that Team Canada brass needed even one game to suss out who should play with who. Chemistry aside, months of scouting plus years of history should have given them an good guess at which players were the best at which position.
Granted I’m sure this brass doesn’t actually operate that way since it chose so many guys out of position (and kudos to Bruce from last night for pointing out the LD vs. RD splits, I would never have noticed that).
I think Staal looked fine last night. That line played well, though I still worry about Staal (and Mike Richards!) as a winger in the DZ. And I don’t mind the line mixing. The coaches do it all the time on their club teams so I didn’t expect anything different here. It’s actually been pretty consistent up front, moreso than I would have expected until last night. Not too many adjustments.
by Scott Reynolds on Feb 24, 2010 7:29 AM PST up reply actions
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