Jost played fine in this game. He was just given the Avalanche prospect treatment in this tourney. BCHL boy, turned collegiate player, and Avalanche draft pick. That's a recipe for a Team Canada coach not giving a **** about you.
He was great on the PP when they were getting tons of praise in the first couple games. Then he was relegated to the second unit which pretty much only went on after they usually left the first unit on for around 1:30.
He developed great chemistry with Roy and their line was arguably Canada's most dominant. Then he was moved off the line and tasked with getting Strome going who was struggling. If you watch their shifts, Strome would do next to nothing and just stand around in the slot, whiles Jost was all by himself in the corners. Strome continued to struggle and they eventually turned into Canada's 4th line because of it.
Case in point Jost got one 10 second shift five minutes into OT, and after the whistle Ducharme changed lines. He sat for another three minutes until he got a shift at the end of a PP. Then he sat again for another 3-4 minutes.
Finally Ducharme went to three lines with around five minutes to go, but like in true Hockey Canada fashion he bumped up 0 intensity Strome who had been invisible all game and gave him two shifts with Dube while he sat Jost until the final minute of OT where he went out with Barzal.
Jost looked a tad gassed towards the end, but he played fine. Worked hard, won a lot of battles for the puck, snapped some good passes around with good movement to set up chances, had some good shots. He just had no chemistry with his line mates, and didn't get much of a role on the team the last five games or so. He was their utility player.
