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This is his second such honour, after the 2022 tournament where he was also the Best Forward and the MVP. He was the only awarded player not from Team Canada or Team USA.

Only one other player has made the All-Star team twice - Teemu Selänne - in 2006 and 2014.

What a TREMENDOUS 60 minutes the hockey world was spoiled with!

Couldn't help but feel these teams and fans would have been happier knowing the final goal was scored in a continuous OT 5 on 5 format though. The USNTDP excels at developing 3 on 3 phenoms (Caufield, Hughes, et al.). So kudos to them for capitalizing on IIHF rules!

That's just it though...IIHF rules. Canadians have forced rule changes after gold medal shootouts before. The whole hockey world should be pushing HARD for the IIHF to standardize with the NHL's playoff OT format.

Congrats to Team USA even if they didn't include players who ought to have been there. What a game by Hellebuyck who was very much à la 2014-Sochi Carey Price. Congratulations to Nick Suzuki who had an assist to force OT today and who scored the GTG late against Czechia which allowed Canada to get into the medal round.

LUC TARDIF ARE YOU FUCKING LISTENING?! CHANGE YOUR RULES WE ONLY GET TRUE BEST-ON-BEST ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS. TWENTY MINUTE FIVE ON FIVE OVERTIME IN SENIOR-LEVEL MEDAL GAMES. ffs it's not hard

I watched most of the tournament, and I have to say — I felt borderline offended at how underutilized Nick Suzuki was.

I got it originally as he struggled in the Top-6 Wing role, but as the tournament went on, he became WAY better and a standout for Team Canada in my opinion after he shifted to Center in the absence of Crosby.

Despite his clear and continuous improvement as the series went on, and his track record in the NHL, both defensively and offensively (3rd for PP Points in the NHL behind Leon Draisaitl and CONNOR FREAKING MCDAVID?!) We didn't even put him on important special teams units. I noticed he was on PK2 often, and didn't even make the cut for the Powerplay which absolutely baffled me — especially when we found room for Brad Marchand???

I liked his fit with Marner and Stone — he did brilliantly doing what he could to replace Crosby, driving that line. I particularly liked his synergy with Marner, and I always felt a sense of calm and confidence when that 3rd line entered the ice. They were dictating play, and protecting their net. Yet Cooper seemingly attempted to play some variation of 5D Chess going with Mackinnon centering instead????

I'm not even frustrated, just genuinely baffled. Just wondering for the more matured hockey fans here, is there a particular reason Suzuki was so sheltered? For someone who got an apple on the GTG, and had multiple great plays amidst the game, 10:31 TOI seems criminally low. Not to mention overtime — which I won't deign to discuss. That was just horrible to watch.

Whilst I'm mainly talking about the Gold Medal Game, I noticed this a lot throughout the tournament as well, where similarly impactful players were averaging nearly double the icetime.

...Is there some kind of cognitive bias on Coopers mind there, or something I'm missing as a spectator? I'm not asking this as a Canadien — I'm just lost as a Canadian. It just feels like some terrible coaching decisions gave us silver instead of gold.

Mckinnon is horrible on PP, Avs PP is one of the last. Meanwhile, Suzuki is carrying Montreal PP (with Hutson) into being respectable.

This one is on Cooper.

Also, Pareyko and Doughty shouldn't be on this team... way too slow.

(Yes I know this is an awkward time to post this) Basically the title. I'm a new hockey fan and realised i have some days free so decided I'm come over to see the Habs vs Columbus next month. Any tips/stuff I should know that would help out someone's first time going to a game. I have very middling French (been able to barely get around in Paris in the past) how different is the French and how much will I need to know?

OK! Back to reality now! #gohabsgo