WJC Thread 2018

[WeThreeKings]

USA lines today,

Bellows-Mittelstadt-Tufte
Tkachuk-Brown-Yamamoto
Harper-Poehling-J Anderson
Jones-Badini-Norris
Frederic-McGing-Lockwood

They had one cut have 2 more forwards to cut likely tomorrow night after the game vs Belarus.

I'd say the tournament will start with this:

Bellows-Mittelstadt-Tufte
Tkachuk-Brown-Yamamoto
Harper-Poehling-J. Anderson
Lockwood-Frederic-Norris
Jones

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

Mitteldstadt playing center kind of throws a wrench into the idea Poehling would be the #2 center. Looks like they are planning to use Poehling in a 3rd line shutdown role.

 

[S Bah]

Team Canada having a goal from birthday boy Blake Speers the Sault Greyhounds Center ties the game 1-1 in 2nd period on TSN.

 

[S Bah]

Anyone knows if he will play at the World Juniors for Finland this year ? Can't find anything regarding Finland's roster on the web.

I was hoping to see a few MTL prospects at the tournament but unless i'm mistaken only Mete and Poehling will be there...

Noah Juulsen is with Team Canada's defence.

 

[S Bah]

Chabot with a great go ahead goal 3-2 Team Canada, Go TC Go!!!...

 

[S Bah]

Excellent hockey game, with end to end action, Team Canada with the edge in play, even when penalized.

 

[DesmondDekker]

Noah Juulsen is with Team Canada's defence.

What year is this ?!

 

[Captain Mountain]

What year is this ?!

2016 apparently.

 

[S Bah]

Carolina's picks both Gauthier & Nicolas Roy of the TC's French Connection line Gauthier stretches the lead to 4-2.

 

[S Bah]

What year is this ?!

Last year I missed it.

 

[S Bah]

Great warmup for this year's edition of Team Canada.

 

[S Bah]

I thought I'd seen some of these goals before the offside goal by Gauthier seemed very familiar.LOL

 

[S Bah]

Think I'll be pumped up for the WJHC's at Christmas?

 

[S Bah]

2016 apparently.

Watching the quarterfinal game from Jan.2nd 2017.

 

[Rapala]

Think I'll be pumped up for the WJHC's at Christmas?

It's always fun no matter what. Kids just loving the game trying to make a name.

 

[Kent Nilsson]

True, these prospects aren't at the level of McDonagh and Subban. But I have a good feeling about them, from watching them. I never had a good feeling about Colberg, De la Rose, Chipchura, and McCarron.

But definitely in the cases of Mete, Poehling, Ikonen, and Scherbak, patience is important. It will really be interesing to see where they are in 5 years and different players develope and different paces. Scherbak and Hudon are showing that this year - both seem to be coming around, after many were heavily critical of them or had written them off.

"Never had good feeling" about prospects who busted but good feeling with today's.

 

[Andrei79]

Anyone watch the TC exhibition ? Missed a good chunk of it as my kid is sick as hell, but I like this edition, despite the lack of really high end skill. They have speed and hockey IQ and they seem to have found chemistry real fast.

Mete was ok. Made a few mistakes, but his skating is so good that they don't really show. He wasn't a standout per se for me, but you can see he'll be a real important part of that D.

Makar, and I didn't say this on the main board as I don't want the arguing that would come from it, is still raw in some ways and I thought he made some junior stuff, but damn does he have potential. I think he'd be my top pick out of the whole club as of now, definitely looked like a 4th overall and I love the offensive package.

Thomas, Howden, Kyrou (surprised me), Batherson, Raddysh, Formenton all stood out for me, too. No one was bad, save Bean, and there's some things I don't like about the defense either, but a good effort for a preliminary game. Czech team was awful, so I'm not taking much away from this game. Only that I need to see more of Timmins as some things I liked, others less.

Really looking forward to seeing the US, Finland and Sweden.

 

[habaholic]

Anyone have any idea why Poehling didn’t suit up against Belarus?

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Mete looked good
Always made the right play and always well positioned
He also hit a post

Anyone have any idea why Poehling didn’t suit up against Belarus?

He's a lock
The coach is also his college team coach, so he already knows what to expect from him.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Anyone have any idea why Poehling didn’t suit up against Belarus?

Likely the coach looking at other guys. He's Poehling coach so he knows what he has.

 

[montreal]

Finland's lineup vs Swiss,

Innala - Luostarinen - Turkulainen
Koivula - Ikonen - Heponiemi
Vesalainen - Kupari - Nurmi
Moilanen - Koppanen - Laavainen

nothing for Ikonen, they play the Czech team next.

 

[Andrei79]

Finland's lineup vs Swiss,

Innala - Luostarinen - Turkulainen
Koivula - Ikonen - Heponiemi
Vesalainen - Kupari - Nurmi
Moilanen - Koppanen - Laavainen

nothing for Ikonen, they play the Czech team next.

Being with Heponiemi he's going to get his chance to shine offensively.

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

anyone watching this somehow?

 

[JianYang]

Anyone knows if he will play at the World Juniors for Finland this year ? Can't find anything regarding Finland's roster on the web.

I was hoping to see a few MTL prospects at the tournament but unless i'm mistaken only Mete and Poehling will be there...

The most habs players I ever remember suiting up for team Canada in one year was 4. It was in the late 90s.

Ribeiro, chouinard, and Ryder played on one line, garon was in net, and I think Julien might have been the coach.

The last Habs player on team Canada that had a large impact? Gallagher is the one that comes to mind for me.

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

I guess we have no idea how Ikonen played?