Blame Canada, Blame Canada

Australia played Canada in the late game today.

Short answer? Canada is still undefeated.

Longer answer involves describing what was a deceptively hard game. The score ended up being 19 to 5 with Australia failing to score till the second quarter. (Although it should be also pointed out that the scores were still 0-0 for the first 10 mins. Goals in this game were earned by both sides.) This of course IS actually a reasonably comfortable margin for the North Americans and effectively shows what happens when you completely dominate the ball out of the center.

Canada, without being able to quote official stats, probably won 24 of the 28 or so faceoffs during the game and then used their possession to work for and eventually score their goals. At their level of skills, Canada do not make mistakes and Australia simply struggled to take the ball back from them.

Australia, I feel, did play a much better game then the previous two. There was none of the stunned shock opening that the US seemed to bring out against us or any of the casual ill-discipline that allowed England back into the second game. It was more a case that Canada consistently won themselves the ball and then used the time to work for and score goals.