1Gold Standard
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Although talented, this team is dependent on 18's + a 17 year old, if memory serves, in Gauthier, in what has been, traditionally, a tourney dominated by 19 year olds...
Historically, such young teams haven't fared well in this tourney.
Like somebody said, TC could go off the rails rather quickly, considering the pool they're in, and considering they get the Yanks right off the hop.
your memory doesn't serve you well. Julien Gauthier? He's 18. The only 2 17 olds at camp were cut yesterday.
And while I don't subscribe to the theory that this tournament is the exclusive domain of 19 year old players, I wouldn't send a team of predominantly 18 year old players. It is a skill tournament and all things being equal, I'd take the better skilled 18 year old over the 19 year old player every time. If a U20 team has 5-7 18 year olds, that's about right imo. any more than that and I start to worry.
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