Forgot to mention: one goal called back for each team, both seemed correct to me.

Czechia played like a team. Canada played like individuals auditioning for the show.... with no script.

Getting this video recommended after we lost the finale against them feels like an insult.

Glad to see my Czech homeboys doing well. I was a bit sceptical about the future of our hockey, but games like this one give me hope. Let's go Czechia❤

I've watched the World Juniors for 20 years and I've never seen a team play with more cockiness and lack of fundamentals than Canada played tonight. The first two periods especially were just a string of missed assignments, bad penalties, cute nonsense, and even a little bit of bad goaltending, although the result was not primarily Gaudreau's fault. But contrast, the Czechs were fundamentally sound. They got in shooting lanes, they got pucks on net, they gave up a few nice chances, but their goalie was very strong tonight and didn't allow the Canadians easy looks on net. The talent on the Canadian team is incredible, but I think they believed this tournament is going to be easy. They really found out it's not.

Po 30 letech sme konečně porazili Kanadu. Moc sem si to užil . 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Win

I think that pulling two Michigans in 1st sums up arrogance, underestimation and direspect to your oponent. I am not Czech but it reminded me when Canada was winning over Slovakia two years back I think at WJC just 2:1, but Canadian stars were pulling tricks like it is exibition game and they dont even care. This loss is wake up call to that mentality of "we are unbeatable". You can be unbeatable if you are a team no individualistic mess with "big names"

The best Canadian World Junior team was in 2005 and included Patrice Bergeron and Sydney Crosby.

5 minute major was absolutely the right call per the IIHF rule book. IIHF rules don’t say anything about the head needing to be the primary or secondary point of contact, just that the offending player has to extend any part of their upper body to make contact with the head or neck of their opponent, which Dean did.

I truly believe Canada needs games like this to wake them up for the rest of the tourney.

The Edmonton comparison is on point. My buddy and I were texting back and forth and he was like "Pass, pass, pass, pass, turnover. This seems awfully similar to a local team huh?" I was like "Yup, go for all offense and 'What's a defence?' mentality. Try and outscore your mistakes and rely on a dude named Connor to drag you as much as he can."

czech goalie just shut down any attempt there was (obviously canada had issues in the players) but i had to give some props to the czech goalie for just being solid

TSN declared this Canada’s most talented team since 2005 just as they did the 2021 team that took silver lol

I disagree on your take of the the hit, the Czech player’s head was hit by the shoulder. Additionally, the Canadian player left his feet while making contact. While it’s not a Raffi Torres hit, I believe that it was still worthy of enforcement.

Canada might have best team on paper but Czech just wiped their asses with that paper.

It is funny you should mention Edmonton. I got the exact same vibes from this game that I often get from oilers games played against teams below them in the standings. Players not finishing great set ups, stupid penalties, getting outworked and losing the goalie battle. Overall though this should wake them up so not too worried. This team is stacked.

I can see Canada's next opponent releasing a bunch of butterflies to distract their defensemen.

“They’re gonna get their asses blown out” 😂😂😂 Still a fun game. Looking forward to seeing what Canada does for the rest of the tournament 👍

The amount of attempted Michigan/lacrosse-style goals had me worried these kids were cocky from all the press and didn't think they'd see resistance from this Czechia team. Seeing our team, the supposed all-time best Juniors team, play like a bunch of selfish kids trying to show they're the best scorer on the ice, was just embarrassing. Also, i am always hesitant to place blame on a goalie, but the backup completely showed up the starter. It happens, but it really shouldn't. This game should be a lesson moving forward

Totally forgot the world juniors were going. Nice to see the little bit of coverage on this. Hope someone comes through on those tickets for you brother! Hope you had a merry christmas with the family and happy new years!

Maybe they needed a lil humbling and will come back stronger because of this.

Czechia effortlessly smacking the attempted Michigan goal stick down was the game in a nutshell. Easily stopping stupid flashy shit.

Sometimes you need a bad game to improve x) greetings from the Czech Republic

Good to see Czech Republic to have some talent pool, despite the constant local hammering how the junior leagues and raising new players went to shit in last 20 years.

It's amazing to see players I used to play with early in my teenage years now outplaying Canada. And my close neighbor is now in Minnesota draft (Pavel Novák). I have big hopes for my generation. Unfortunately it's well known that one of the most talented players don't make it anywhere in hockey because it's a truly expensive sport

After todays final game as a czech I must say GG. The final game was unfortunetly for us not like this one :D But I am little bit sad how Canada won. just like aganist Slovakia they won in overtime. Canada was so close to be a dissapointment (and it would make me happy little bit xd), in stadium in their own country, and I think, they had little bit of luck overall bcs of it. But yeah as a Czech it's more emotional for me cuz even Czech hockey have great reputation, it's not consistent, and this was first time after Czechoslovakian split when boys under 20 got into finals.

I think this is a perfect example of just because you have the best players doesn't mean they work well together.

I bought tickets to watch Czechia play for $25 tonight' all the canada games were at least $500 for Nosebleeds, lol. Now I'm really looking forward to that Czechia game tonight.

Brutal seeing those defensive breakdowns. Great reminder of why we love this tourney so much though - anything can happen. Thankful it happened in the first game, I have faith this group will snap together after this shocking loss

Love your videos man and I’m noticing a lot of other channels copying your template. You’re literally changing the game homie keep it up 🤘

I appreciate your videos so much! Happy holidays and thank you for what you do

i love this channel! always such good takes and analysis. you deserve to be the #1 hockey channel on youtube.

Thanks for this review of the game, i need to say i respect the way you respond to the game, your not salty, mad or blaming the refs, you took the loss and i higly rate you for it. Love from Czechia keep up the great work you are doing ❤❤

Beaten twice today by chech teams, Spengler Cup Canada lost 3-2 to Sparta Prague

Perhaps a much needed wake up call. Now let’s see if Canada actually wakes up.

I've been watching this tournament since the early to mid 80's and this happens all the time. Canada is always a favorite and there is almost always a hiccup along the way and it's up to the coach to gather his guys and remind them to play within the system the coaching staff has implemented. The Check's always have a good, disciplined team and they played the perfect road game and remember, they had nothing to lose because they are far from home and no one expected them to win. When a team is relaxed and feels no pressure, they are as dangerous as can be. Now we get to see what this team is really made of!

Greeting from Czech! I love how boys are playing i hope they will win championship!

Yo this aged like milk

After growing up recognizing Canada, as ground zero for Hockey, it seems more and more, that it isn’t Canada’s game anymore….

60k! Congrats, well deserved 🥳

Tonight was an absolute joke, I've never seen a Canadian team so preoccupied with showing off instead of actually winning.

This was my first time watching Bedard, the hype is real. Kid was absolutely nuts tonight.

So happy you did this because i watched the game and was just in shock at how bad they played

Excellent review. Thanks!

Canada's problem is ego. Every player on that team has been told they are the best and the team is the best. They don't think or feel they need to show up at game time. I expect an early exit for Canada.

Well, one problem with Canada's perpetual assumptions that they will always win this tournament is that they do, occasionally lose. So why all the fuss and hoo-ha ??? Being a Canadian, I am perplexed by the arrogance of the Canadian media, especially that of the TSN ( Toronto-Hockey-Network ) and Sportsnet, talk about over inflated ego individuals......

Such a pleasure to see Canadians fans with despair in their eyes !

Great breakdown as always. Was also unhappy with Wright during the player of the game awards. Almost always the two players shake hands after and the Czech goalie, Suchanek, even turned to go for one but Wright turned away and left.

The match penalty killed them, they were feeling very cocky in the first period (hence the 2 Michigan attempts), and then just got outplayed, that 3rd was so depressing to watch 😟

I laugh every time I hear somebody claim this is the "best team yet". Being a Leaf fan I've heard it for decades.

As a Blue Jackets fan, I was conflicted watching Jiricek and Svozil and co. style on my home country, but overjoyed that the CBJ has such studs coming up on the blue line

I always root for the least woke country. Go Czechs! It was a delicious win.

Canada was the average team in WoC drop-ins. Czechia was an actual communicating team with everyone playing their positions properly.

Im from Czechia and Im really proud of them for being better and better hockey team in IIHF.

"If they play Sweden like this, their gonna get their asses blown out" LOL 😂

Sometimes, when you gather the best and hype them up as the best, they let it go to their heads. Obviously from the way they played, Canada's players bought into the hype and thought they would coast through the tourney only to get smashed in the face right away. So we'll see how they respond to the ego check.

Gotta say I think the major was correct. Not sure why you say the head was not the primary or the secondary point of contact. He def made contact with the head and as someone mentioned below, according to IIHF it does not necessarily have to be the primary point of contact. The Canadian player doesn't win the play because he is the "stronger player", he wins it because all the force is directed towards the upper body/head of the Czech player. His hands and stick belongs nowhere near the head of the Czech player to begin with. That being said I think Canada might be lucky to actually get this game out of the way early and get a necessary wake-up call. Teams like Czechia and Slovakia are better this year than previous, but as long as the coaching staff is anywhere near decent for Canada, they won't have a game like this again. They're still the favourites in my book but I hope my Sweden can upset :)

How can they say this is the best team ever going in when there is no Russia to compare.

Nice serving of humble pie 🥧. They will come back stronger.

Maybe team Canada got a little too confident coming in and got humbled. Let's see what they can do for the rest of the tournament. Great job by the Czechs!

Just want to point out that this is one of the best generation for Czechs from Jágrs, Hašek, Eliáš gen. Also Czechs are quite older than Canadians. So it makes sense that first game of IIHF might go their (our) way. Let's go Team Czechia! :)

Great analysis!

Canadians believe their own hype and forget that to win you actually have to work for it. The most talented team for sure but also the most arrogant one.

Canada looked like another team that wears the maple leaf

In the third period Canada was dominating but had so many weak calls penalty wise also, Canada was outshooting Czechia by 10 goals the whole third period so, there was nothing more that they could do because the Czechia goalie carried them to the end and was the only reason why they beat them.

This aged well.

Oh but regarding the hit to the head, I don't know how you say it doesn't reflect the IIHF rulebook. They don't get too focused on "principal point of contact." There's a brief passage early in the rule about: "A hit resulting in contact with an opponent’s head where the head was the main point of contact and such contact to the head was avoidable is not permitted." But later, it opens it up to even more scenarios such as: "A penalty for illegal checking to the head or neck will be assessed if one of the following occurs when a player checks an opponent: (I) A Player who directs a hit of any sort, with any part of their body or equipment, to the head or neck of an opposing Player or drives or forces the head of an opposing Player into the protective glass or boards using any part of their upper body. (II) A Player who extends and directs any part of their upper body to contact the head or neck of an opponent. (III) A Player who extends their body upward or outward in order to reach their opponent or uses any part of the upper body to contact an opponent’s head or neck. (IV) A Player who jumps (leaves their skates) to deliver a blow to the head or neck of an opponent" In that hit, I'd say I, II, III, and IV all happened there. You did a great job freezeframing both his skates leaving the ice. And the general motion of his hit, he glided in hunched down low, before quickly raising upwards to deliver the hit. But you also took the most flattering angle for this hit in an effort to intentionally obscure the head contact. There's a different one out there where you can see Dean's right shoulder absolutely making contact with the guy's head. Yeah, it was absolutely the right call, lol

Really? I wasn’t embarrassed. It’s hockey. Both teams show up to play. There can by design be only one winner. Relax.

I mean, what we just witnessed is just difference in history of this tournament. Canada completely dominate them for last 10 and more years and Czechia was just suffering. Yeah, they end up 4th last tournament and this is hopefully just start for better future. Czechia just hunting their comeback into ice hockey map in compare to Canada who just dominate. So, I believe that's the biggest different here. Different motivation. Anyway, first match of tournament usually does not matter much but will see. Greeting from Czechia! Loves your video's

"Gets cut by his own visor" ?????? What!?

watching this as a czech after the finals...

5 goals on 16 shots. And whole video spoken like a true Canadian

Czech Mate.

I'm from Glace Bay, NS living in Halifax. I think they were overwhelmed by the hype. Their play was sloppy and their goaltending was ⤵️ hopefully this horrendous defeat brought them back down to earth.🤞 That call on Dean was terrible! Shame refs. SHAAAAME!

Canada thought they where playing curling.

Considering Czechia got almost a full period of power play time and Canada got like, four minutes and still managed to get almost 40 shots I’d say they did pretty good.

Did you watch the game? The shots were 38-27 for Canada. They were not dominated. The goalie had a bad game and the refs were awful. The hit was legal. That's it. 😅

If Dean's hit doesnt hit that Czeckias player, I don't know what does. The angel you played on that video might not seem like it, but watching the game live, the hit clearly hit Czeckia's player head. Canada was simply just looking like a bunch of unmotivated teenagers!

Should question their coach

garbage version of team canada... 2005 team was 100 times better..

Couldn’t agree more, also didn’t know u were from Halifax, I’m going to school there right now, great vid!

These are young (not fully mature ) men, who abandoned team play and tried to win the game back through their individual efforts after falling behind. I think the Canadian coach should have taken a time out after the second goal to calm his guys down and re-instill the need for "team" oriented play. I also concur with a previous comment about the lack of respect and arrogance shown toward the opponent by trying the " Michigan" goal shots. That type of "hotdogging" fits better when you are well ahead in the score, or in exhibition games!

And considering the fact that Canada had to win in overtime in finals... I am really proud of my Czech bois

damn, and in a few hours there will be a final between Canada and Czechia. What a passion from our Czech national team. BTW: such a great video man!

With a prime minister like Canada has , who even cares anymore ? This country is done for.

as a canadian who only watches things if we get past the quarter finals im extremely proud that we came back and beat them in the final

Thumbs up for saying "Czechia".

good recap ty

Btw about 2:01 at what point did the player get cut by his visor on the way down? I just watched the game and there was like 15 replays and none of these showed what you are talking about. It was the initial contact that hit the visor into his face. (shoulder to the head, not the hands going upwards from the chest, the hands were secondary contact)

All Canadian Broadcaster say,"This guy plays for this N.H.L.TEAM THIS GUY IS A TOP DRAFT PICK,Who the hell cares. Put the bloody puck in the net and winthe game.The Czchs played as a team not a bunch of Hot dog players trying to embarras the other team with the so called Mich play. Hats off to the Czh they deserved the game.

Germany just got absolutely EMBARRASSED omg fucking slayed them just ripped them a new hole to finger good lord all mighty

That penalty call was right as a major. He launches his body up and through the opponent and leaves his feet which is in the rulebook. Principal point of contact was probably not the head but the dangerous check was the right major call

As a Czech the whole Czechia thing pisses me off and a lot of other Czechs I talk to...sounds to much like Chechnya. Czech Republic sounds so much better. The name change is ridiculous.

Wow! Wow! very good breakdown, very good video!!

Honestly this is a good wake up call, I’ve seen this with Canada in the past, they are by far the best on paper, with the best forwards, defence, etc. you could ask for, but they aren’t the best _team._ Hopefully this will really show to a lot of Canadian players, yes you do have the potential to be the best Canadian World Junior team to ever exist, but hockey is almost never a walk in the park, you can’t just win automatically. Better they learn this lesson now than in elimination games.

Czechia is the most underrated team in this tournament

milic coming into that goal was great for him tho, he’s un drafted and is absolutely great in the whl. last year played amazing in playoffs and won the conference with his team. love this guy. and he’s not a super dry interview either. i can watch his interviews and not want to fall asleep

This is rough. Canada does have a great team on paper. But my word when you out paper to the test it doesn't hold much up. The chemistry or, as you said, their system, was impeccable. Someone was filling a cycle position or wheeling to the net on rebounds or getting in the crease while having controlled board passing. That's wonderful hockey flow.

this just shows how much of a hockey is a team game

Brutal defence. Brutal goaltending. Brutal officiating. Brutal.