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Now it's official: Germany is not - and never will be - a hockey nation. Today's match versus Finland was a shame, Germany lost 0-5. The penalty killing was terrible and there were too many penalties, which is a bad combination. The goalie and most of the team were overstrained, the offense was mostly harmless (seems they're all Douglas Adams fans). In the second period there were indeed some scoring chances, but nothing really compelling. Where went the German virtues? Where was the spirit? I couldn't see any, maybe with the exception of Manuel Klinge, who at least tried.

Summary:

I am really upset that I got up at 6 in the morning on a Saturday just to see this epic fail and to listen to such great comments as "Germany has not given up" when they managed to have a single scoring chance in the third period just because the Fins weren't paying attention while changing their lines. That had to be said, thanks for listening.