Way to go, Canada!! Back-to-back World Champions!
Canada played excellent and were the top offensive team in the tournament, backed by the sharp goaltending of Cam Talbot.
"I think you just saw how well we managed the puck," McDavid noted. "We didn't really feed into their transition and didn't really give them any chance to get anything going off the rush or in zone."
"In these tournaments where you don't have a chance to play very long together," Morgan Rielly said. "You have to learn from your mistakes and get better every game. You can only afford to lose one or maybe two games. You do that, you learn from your mistakes, you get better, and that's what we were able to do tonight. Credit goes to the coaching staff. We knew exactly what they were going to do. We knew how we had to play and we went out there and did it and won."
"The first game we played against Finland we felt pretty good about ourselves in the first period but tonight we did it for sixty minutes," said Derick Brassard, Canada's leading scorer with eleven points. "Tonight we were all over them. Finland is a really smart them that waits for you to make mistakes and go the other way to score. Tonight we didn?t give them anything. They really pushed us to be a better team."
We knew what we were up against," Mark Scheifele said. "Finland's a very good team. They have good goaltending, good defence, and great forwards. They shut it down pretty good and they don't give us a whole lot of opportunity in the offensive zone. We knew we had to take advantage of what we could, and we did a great job of that today."
"They forechecked hard, and we couldn't get the puck to the other end," admitted Antti Pihlstrom. "They played really strong on defence. We just couldn't get the offence going."
"They played one of their best games of the tournament, and we weren't at our best," Jussi Jokinen agreed. "It's tough to say why, but they deserved to win tonight. I've not often seen Canada play like that. It was a really smart game plan from them."
We're #1!! Congratulations Team Canada!
Game story:
http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/gold-game/
