Official 2018 World Junior Championship Thread

[LegionOfDoom91]

Preliminary rosters starting to trickle.

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[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[FLYguy3911]

Pretty impressive Krys made the team at 17 but can’t even get invited at 19.

 

[Magua]

Hugh McGing is Allison’s teammate. Good draft year numbers too, but he’s small.

I really feel like Josh Norris does not deserve to be there. I don’t know why he is viewed on some different tier than Mismash, but it’s beyond dumb because he’s actually worse. Both were NTDP so they each get that boost.

Be interested to see if Max Jones actually makes it.

 

[Stizzle]

Linus Hogberg, of course.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Yamamoto having an NHL hangover? 9 points in 10 games including a 4 point night in his 1st game back. I thought he would push 100 points this year even after missing the start of the season.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Anyone have a list of Flyers prospects set up?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Anyone have a list of Flyers prospects set up?

Carter Hart (Canada)
Linus Hogberg (Sweden)
German Rubtsov (Russia)
Maksim Sushko (Belarus)

That’s probably what we’re looking at this year.

 

[RANKKA]

we should've sent nolan there

 

[Tripod]

Carter Hart (Canada)
Linus Hogberg (Sweden)
German Rubtsov (Russia)
Maksim Sushko (Belarus)

That’s probably what we’re looking at this year.

I think that will end our 2 year reign as most prospects at the WJC...5 2 years ago, 9 last year.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Frost has no chance by this guys comments

 

[bennysflyers16]

we should've sent nolan there

This should absolutely happen

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I think that will end our 2 year reign as most prospects at the WJC...5 2 years ago, 9 last year.

Yeah they drafted a fair amount of late birthday’s in 2016 & Laberge tanking didn’t help. The guys in the 2017 class are more so guys who have a shot as 19 year olds.

 

[Stizzle]

Frost has no chance by this guys comments

They just announced invites. No Frost. Plenty of inferior players, though.

 

[Curufinwe]

The '99 forwards are:

Comtois
Formenton
Glass
Suzuki
Thomas

Comtois and Formenton aren't producing nearly as well as Frost.

 

[FLYguy3911]

If Formenton didn't "make" the Senators out of camp, I doubt he'd even be there.

Comtois is there as a classic bottom 6 guy. Also doesn't hurt that he is from the Q.

 

[Striiker]

we should've sent nolan there

This should absolutely happen

How does going backwards and playing in a lower level cluster**** help him in any way?

 

[RANKKA]

How does going backwards and playing in a lower level cluster**** help him in any way?

he gets ice time and confidence

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

How does going backwards and playing in a lower level cluster**** help him in any way?

It’s not the worst idea. Boston did it with Pastrnak in his last year of eligibility.

 

[Striiker]

he gets ice time and confidence

Getting icetime isn't enough... it has to be in the right environment... not those kind of games. If he plays 30 minutes of rollerhockey it isn't going to help either.

And his problem isn't confidence, it's getting real time with real players and not being setup to fail.

It’s not the worst idea. Boston did it with Pastrnak in his last year of eligibility.

I don't see any real positives and that's the kind of environment where I could imagine players taking a run at big name guys to get attention. Some little 4th liner from Uganda who wants people to notice him.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Carter Hart (Canada)
Linus Hogberg (Sweden)
German Rubtsov (Russia)
Maksim Sushko (Belarus)

That’s probably what we’re looking at this year.

Hopefully German gets more usage this year. Feels like we can't catch a break at the WJC.

Myers was heavily relied upon but then got concussed.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Getting icetime isn't enough... it has to be in the right environment... not those kind of games. If he plays 30 minutes of rollerhockey it isn't going to help either.

And his problem isn't confidence, it's getting real time with real players and not being setup to fail.

I don't see any real positives and that's the kind of environment where I could imagine players taking a run at big name guys to get attention. Some little 4th liner from Uganda who wants people to notice him.

It’s not that bad of a level. There’s still a lot of players with NHL potential playing in it. So getting a way from this team for a few weeks to get a solidified role isn’t bad.

The IIHF is more strictly called than the NHL. So it’s really not that chaotic.

 

[Curufinwe]

It’s not the worst idea. Boston did it with Pastrnak in his last year of eligibility.

Yes, this was their thinking.

Bruins make Pastrnak available to Czech Republic for World Junior Championship | The Hockey News

“I think the opportunity for him to go play really heavy minutes in all situations, at a very, very high level, competitive level, against his peers, I think is a unique situation — with the timing and such, with the freeze, his injury and things all collided at once,” Sweeney told Switaj. “I think it’s a great opportunity for him, as I said, for him to return to the level we expect him to be back at and be able to impact our own lineup.”

 

[FLYguy3911]

I doubt the GM that doesn't believe in 9 game trials will go for it, but if it gets Patrick away from Hakstol for a few weeks sign me up.

 

[Curufinwe]

The posts Xmas schedule is

12/28 at Florida
12/29 at TB
1/2 Pit
1/4 NYI
1/6 StL
1/7 Buf

Then a five day break. The WJC gold medal game is on 1/5, so he'd miss six games at most.