Team Canada goalie Jordan Binnington winning new fans and respect after 4 Nations heroics
'All credit to him. Hopefully some of those haters will back off him, because honestly, he played great.'
Published Feb 21, 2025  â˘Â 4 minute read
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Jordan Binnington of Team Canada makes a save against Jake Guentzel of Team United States during the third period in the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off final. Getty ImagesWinners earn the label over time and rightly wear it with pride, but how many hockey fans could immediately recite the exact number of National Hockey League victories in which Connor McDavid has played?
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Or Sidney Crosby? Drew Doughty? Cale Makar?
Itâs different for goalies and head coaches. Wins and losses are writ large on their permanent records. The cold, hard stats follow them around year after year, from team to team, season to season, tournament to tournament, building a legacy or betraying a secret.
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It is just that easy to find out goalie Jordan Binnington, for instance, has 160 wins in 319 NHL games for the St. Louis Blues. And that head coach Jon Cooper has 556 wins in 934 NHL games with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Netminders and bench bosses have to wear those wins and losses just a little bit more transparently than any other player or assistant coach, and that reality contributes to the co-dependent nature of their relationship.
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The goalie doesnât see the crease on the regular without the head coachâs faith and consent while the head coach doesnât stay employed for long without the goalieâs ability to close out victories.
And that ought to lend some context to the lengthy post-game embrace Cooper and Binnington shared on Thursday night in Boston, moments after McDavidâs overtime winner against the USA gave Canada a 3-2 victory and the 4 Nations Face-Off title.
The goalie and the head coach were soaking up a glorious moment that so many observers doubted would come, in part because of Cooperâs undying faith in Binningtonâs ability to get the job done in a winner-take-all game.
It should be noted that only 19 head coaches in NHL history have won two or more Stanley Cups and Cooper is one of them. His instincts, demeanour, work ethic and, yes, his permanent record, make him a winner.
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So why was his faith in Binnington so easy to second-guess?
It shouldnât have been. On Thursday, in eight-plus minutes of overtime, Cooper got what he knew, or at least what he told everyone he was going to get from Binnington.
âHe saved his best for last and thatâs what winners do,â Cooper said of the goalie.
Binnington made 31 saves on Thursday, six in overtime. Quite obviously, Canada doesnât win the title without those last half-dozen stops.
But that amounts to a gross understatement because those six saves in OT were made under intense pressure in a hostile environment, with everything â including his reputation â on the line.
Binnington stopped American sniper Auston Matthews three times from in close. He robbed Brady Tkachuk with an out-stretched glove while doing the splits and sliding from one side of the crease to the other in apparent desperation move.
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There wasnât a bigger or more trademark save made that night. Binnington could be faulted perhaps for the juicy rebound he coughed up that was converted into Jake Sandersonâs go-ahead goal in the second period, but he slammed the door when there was no more margin for error.
âThe moment doesnât get to him,â McDavid said of Binnington. âHe made probably three or four all-world saves in overtime to allow us to score the goal. So, all credit to him. Hopefully some of those haters will back off him, because honestly, he played great.â
Binnington played every minute of Canadaâs four games in the tournament, allowed a suspect goal in three of them and was the goalie of record when the Americans beat Canada in the round-robin portion in Montreal. That one particular result had every doubter doubling down on their pre-tournament positioning, which was decidedly against naming Binnington the Game 1 starter ahead of Adin Hill.
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But Cooper did not waver and the man deserves credit for standing fast, especially since the player selection process was particularly cumbersome right from the start.
Rosters had to be declared in early December, when Binningtonâs stats did not stand up to scrutiny. Nor did Hillâs. Or Samuel Montembeaultâs.
By early January, those numbers were even more damning for Team Canada management and coaches. The goals against averages and save percentages of all three Team Canada goalies lagged behind those of the unchosen Logan Thompson, Mackenzie Blackwood and Darcy Kuemper.
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In fact, Canadaâs roster reveal had some on-air and online pundits calling for a forensic examination of the Canadian goaltending development system. Because, when it comes to hockey in this country, it is never too early to panic.
There is, however, a level of calmness that comes with having been there and won that. Cooper, as noted, has twice lifted the Stanley Cup. Binnington won it in 2019 â in Boston no less.
Cooper already has been named Canadaâs head coach for the 2026 Olympics in Italy. With a 4 Nations title on his permanent record, Binnington will surely be a candidate for a roster spot there and another chance to solidify his reputation as a winner.
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