I may be wrong, but I was left wanting more from much of the lineup offensively throughout the tournament. Obviously Brown being hurt did them no favors but some of them seemed to really struggle to get anything done in the offensive zone.
WJC: 2018 Team USA Roster Talk
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William H Bonney
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I have no problem with Oettinger getting the nod either. I think he'd be just as motivated as Swayman. Oettinger to prove he should have been the guy, and Swayman just happy to play.
SanDogBrewin
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Yep. Secondary scoring was down. Thought Frederic and Yamamoto passed up too many shots.
Those two are the ones I directed a great deal of television yelling at. Yamamoto in particular -- love seeing small guys succeed, but I thought he had a rough tournament even before the slash.
William H Bonney
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You're not wrong. The offense was basically Mittelstadt, Tkachuk, and Bellows. A lot of forwards have disappointed in the tournament offensively.
- Yamamoto has been less noticeable than his 4 points would indicate.
- Poehling has been playing huge minutes with nothing to show for it offensively, not even dangerous chances.
- Anderson put up some points, but that's mostly due to him playing all his minutes with the two best forwards. Outside of his two goal game, he's been mostly invisible.
- Brown, as you mentioned, was never a real option to produce after his injury.
- And none of the other guys stepped up despite receiving more ice team than you would have expected after losing Lockwood and Brown. You wouldn't expect most of them to be heavy contributors, but you usually need an unsung guy to step up and unexpectedly contribute, yet guys like Norris, Frederic, Tufte, Jones, etc. all had plenty of opportunity to do so and were mostly non-factors throughout.
SanDogBrewin
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Yeah both against Russia and Sweden and even really against Slovakia we probably won the zone time 60-70% but struggled mightily to get anything really dangerous.
William H Bonney
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Watching this second semifinal is a good reminder why you don’t lose to Slovakia in the round robin to give away the top seed in your group.
William H Bonney
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For sure, especially if we don’t score early. Team needs to contain their big three, but moreso we need to score early otherwise I fear our team will fall apart again.
LickTheEnvelope
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A little of this and a little of boneheaded defense. I thought the US defense would be better puck movers.
Machinehead
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Hoping we get to host a tournament one day outside of Buffalo. You know that place would have been a sea of red tomorrow if we met Canada for the gold.
Nothing against Buffalo, but it's just too close. You can go to games from Toronto and go home the same night.
Nothing against Buffalo, but it's just too close. You can go to games from Toronto and go home the same night.
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Jaykay
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Parsons' performance was overrated last year. If you want to see a goalie stealing a game watch John Gibson in 2013.
LOL that's why USA Hockey picked it. It's just that Toronto has had the World Juniors like 2 of the last three years so nobody cared anymore.
Machinehead
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The original comment was about Canadians coming to the games. But that’s literally why it was picked was because of Canadians filling the seats.
This. I spent a lot of last night thinking about all the what if's connected to that Slovakia game. I'm fairly sure we'd be playing at 8:00 tonite if we hadnt given that one away.
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Jaykay
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I was pretty pissed about that while watching, if I remember correctly he was at the end of his shift but that's not exactly what you want to see out of your captain.
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Had game. Seems like he's lost all confidence after Edmonton stupidly gave him a 9-game trial after his great preseason. Has been very underwhelming in juniors following that and has carried that play into this tourney.
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I hope they show up and put out an effort and at least medal. This team had the talent to play for the gold, just looked like many of them kept looking for someone else to carry the load.
Yamamoto was surprising as this was simply the worst he looked in 2 yeas - he was relentless in the NHL, goes back to junior tears it up there and just kind of fits in with the crowd here...something doesn't make sense here with this many 1st round forwards looking that vanilla.
Maybe they didn't like the system or the line combos, I don;t know...team never looked like it gelled from the get go when Brown went out.
Yamamoto was surprising as this was simply the worst he looked in 2 yeas - he was relentless in the NHL, goes back to junior tears it up there and just kind of fits in with the crowd here...something doesn't make sense here with this many 1st round forwards looking that vanilla.
Maybe they didn't like the system or the line combos, I don;t know...team never looked like it gelled from the get go when Brown went out.
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The Canadian lol? Just kidding!
I do feel badly for Logan Brown, I still consider him a local guy (Ottawa). His last kick at the World Junior can shouldn't have gone down this way. Hopefully he will have a tremendous NHL career.
