Victor

but but but they were #1 in the FIFA rankings! Italy doing Italy things.

Eaglesfan supporting your team is pretty much a death knell. Also I really don't think Quebec has always been Calgary's rival - considering they didn't exist for the 30 better seasons of Calgary's history.

Yeah but they weren't S49 Europe bad.

So who won the NHL?

2nd half wasn't that back and forth, Germany pretty much smothered Ukraine. Not that I blame that. Just a shame Ukraine have nothing to show for a really good performance.

Apparently there were some handball goal + video replay fail shenanigans?

Ugh. Germany have basically become Spain 2.0, possession as best form of defence. They are bloody good though. Let's see what the original Spain are like these days.

It rhymes with Flajums.

damn choked

In other news Ukraine are playing some of the best football in the tournament so far. Unlucky to be down 1-0.

Northern Ireland the worst team I've seen in a while. 66 minutes til their first shot. Don't think they had one on target.

Croatia confirmed Euro champs.

I don't like breaking his heart.

Klajums can't read.

27. It's all going downhill from here.

Klajums feels your treatment of him is unfair and OSL G should also be inducted.

Dropped the ball a bit not gonna lie.

Not without Assistance!

Donovan confirmed S50 1st overall.

some depth showing up, not bad

Oh yeah, I guess it is guaranteed top 5. Even if Riga makes it, I'm thinking Davos beats them.

TBH, probably a bit of a risky move for both teams on second thought. I don't think Helsinki can keep holding that 3 point advantage over Riga. Dunno if top 6 is much worse than top 4 in this draft but that's that. For Cologne, they now have no picks til S52 and a core of 3 forwards, 2 defencemen, and a goalie. Basically have to win in the next 3 seasons by either selling more future or attracting free agents. That said, this season is great for trading.

Well in the last seasons before expansion (S28-S30), 3 of 4 European teams were so bad that we implemented crossover. But even then, Davos was still one of the top 4-5 teams, so it's not like NA was guaranteed to win every season (even though NA did win all 3, including a SEA/NY and SEA/CGY final). If you add in the record-breaking Quebec streak and Toronto still being better and NY not being slouches themselves, well, yeah, it's pretty unique all things considered.

More like Seattle wishes it was in EU.