Again I find myself questioning your knowledge of hockey.
That was far from a great game. At least for Canada. What I saw was a team that looked slow and old. Couldn't figure out the wider ice surface, showed significantly less talent than the Russians and most importantly, far less desire than them. They had no jump and showed zero cohesion.
I'm afraid the weiner and his crew grossly overestimated their picks for this team.
Draper? Really?
Again, Draper, really????
Pronger looked like a total bust and should have been benched before this game.
To many guys gave nothing. I don't know how much of this is Quinn, or how much of this is weiner's choice of players.
I can't say that it's because we didn't get any practice time as a team because the same thing would apply to other teams and to us in other years also. So that will not be the crutch.
I personally will lay most of the blame with weiner and his boys choices. Including choosing Fat Pat for coach! But after winning it all in Salt Lake, I guess he owed Quinn that much.
Side note: did you see Pavel Bure in the Russian contingent? Didn't he look like a perfect little comrade?? I assume he lives over there since retiring because he didn't have any New York flair about him. Moscovite yes, NY, no