2019 World Junior Championship Part II

[Rich Nixon]

Holy ****, look at this.

For stretches of the game tonight, when the US was kinda mum for the first 40, Farabee was the best player in the red white and blue. He looks pretty special.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Was not particularly impressed with K’Andre Miller.

 

[Foggy14]

Congrats Finland.

That was a bad beat for the Americans, especially after that controversial no goal in the first. The IIHF should take a look at its rules. The no-goal in the Russia game and the one tonight were both pretty silly.

The pace of the game was fun to watch; very good hockey.

Farabee was noticeable, in a good way, and Cates' two assists were nice.

After Finland scored their first goal, I got a good chuckle from this Starman beauty:

"That's the best thing that's happened in this game for both teams."

Both teams? Really?

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Looks like hockey is our game now, Canada!

Just goes to show Hockey Canada can out dinosaur anyone.

Maybe this gets them to pull their head out of their ass and develop a system with a consistent coach and GM from year to year vs the hiring of a new CHL old boys club schmuck every year.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Canada - 5 Gold, 3 Silver, & 2 Bronze = 23
Russia - 2 Gold, 4 Silver, & 2 Bronze = 16
Czech Republic - 2 Gold & 1 Bronze = 7
Finland - 1 Silver & 4 Bronze = 6
USA - 1 Gold & 1 Bronze = 4
Sweden - 2 Silver = 4

That was the previous decade. Canada hasn’t dominated this decade while USA, Sweden, & Finland are factoring in more while the Czech Republic doesn’t really factor in anymore.

Historically it’s been dominated by Canada & Russia.

 

[kudymen]

US, Russia, Canada, Czechs, Germany in the same group next year.

Whoa thats incredibly sucky... The kids are going to love the setting though, Ostrava and Třinec are some of the most industrious and ugly towns in the country.

 

[Striiker]

Just goes to show Hockey Canada can out dinosaur anyone.

Maybe this gets them to pull their head out of their ass and develop a system with a consistent coach and GM from year to year vs the hiring of a new CHL old boys club schmuck every year.

No chance, they’ll double down because they’re too arrogant to admit they’re wrong.

More grit, more toughness, more character, more intangibles! They lost because of selfish skill players like Frost! Less talent, more good ol’ Canadian boys!

Team Canada and their coaches are always a joke. It’s as if theyre run by Hakstols at every level.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

No chance, they’ll double down because they’re too arrogant to admit they’re wrong.

More grit, more toughness, more character, more intangibles! They lost because of selfish skill players like Frost! Less talent, more good ol’ Canadian boys!

Team Canada and their coaches are always a joke. It’s as if theyre run by Hakstols at every level.

They are. Look at the Swiss consistent modern coach year after year. Targets kids from a young age for the national teams and molds them to play a certain way and learn a system.

All you hear about with team Canada is there relentless forecheck! Well guess what the game has changed and trying to run 4 skilled grind lines doesn't work any more.

Find a good coach, employee them full time, employ an actual system that rewards skill and they will go back to winning plenty. There is way to much talent in Canada for them to be do it so poorly.

Also bring a couple of high end underagers along for f*** sakes. TSN constantly hypes how much of an advantage it is to be 19 at the tourney, which is true, but when everyone of those 19 year olds but 1 is a rookie that kind of nullifies the advantage.

/end rant

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Whoa thats incredibly sucky... The kids are going to love the setting though, Ostrava and Třinec are some of the most industrious and ugly towns in the country.

Poor Germany probably worked so hard to get back into the tourney just to get mutilated by that pool next year.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Poor Germany probably worked so hard to get back into the tourney just to get mutilated by that pool next year.

Yeah but with Kazakhstan pulling off the upset against Denmark, they have a good chance to stick the following year in the top division. Kazakhstan loses all of their top guys next year.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

US, Russia, Canada, Czechs, Germany in the same group next year.

There's a decent chance that the semis in next year's tourney will have four teams from Group B.

 

[Appleyard]

Poor Germany probably worked so hard to get back into the tourney just to get mutilated by that pool next year.

They should survive for sure, and maybe even not be too humiliated at any point.

Honestly, 5 of their best ~6-7 guys this year are returning. Including the goalie, #1, half the top 6.

Dominik Bokk
Justin Schütz
Moritz Seider

Are all returning... and can hang with pro's in good leagues already.

Nikita Alexandrov
Taro Jentzsch
Tim Fleischer
Filip Reisnecker
Manuel Alberg
Yannik Valenti
Alexander Dersch

All play in CHL... with top 2 actually being good in the CHL.

And Hendrik Hane is a solid enough goalie playing pretty well vs men in 2nd tier.

Also... they have Tim Stützle and John-Jason Peterka who are both talented, but a bit younger (both 16 right now). Unproven, but Stützle is heading to UNH next year, and both likely in depth role if make team.

They also have Leon Hüttl, Niklas Heinzinger, Steven Raabe, Dennis Lobach, Luca Tosto, Georgiy Saakyan, Daniel Wirt and Tobias Möller who are solid, have experience vs men, to fill out depth.


They will have a better core group and more depth than Denmark did this year. Will be interesting to see how they do.

 

[FlyerNutter]

No chance, they’ll double down because they’re too arrogant to admit they’re wrong.

More grit, more toughness, more character, more intangibles! They lost because of selfish skill players like Frost! Less talent, more good ol’ Canadian boys!

Team Canada and their coaches are always a joke. It’s as if theyre run by Hakstols at every level.

Personally, I don’t think they were horny enough.

The Swiss knew what they were talking about.

 

[kudymen]

They should survive for sure, and maybe even not be too humiliated at any point.

Honestly, 5 of their best ~6-7 guys this year are returning. Including the goalie, #1, half the top 6.

Dominik Bokk
Justin Schütz
Moritz Seider

Are all returning... and can hang with pro's in good leagues already.

Nikita Alexandrov
Taro Jentzsch
Tim Fleischer
Filip Reisnecker
Manuel Alberg
Yannik Valenti
Alexander Dersch

All play in CHL... with top 2 actually being good in the CHL.

And Hendrik Hane is a solid enough goalie playing pretty well vs men in 2nd tier.

Also... they have Tim Stützle and John-Jason Peterka who are both talented, but a bit younger (both 16 right now). Unproven, but Stützle is heading to UNH next year, and both likely in depth role if make team.

They also have Leon Hüttl, Niklas Heinzinger, Steven Raabe, Dennis Lobach, Luca Tosto, Georgiy Saakyan, Daniel Wirt and Tobias Möller who are solid, have experience vs men, to fill out depth.


They will have a better core group and more depth than Denmark did this year. Will be interesting to see how they do.

Yeah to be completely honest, I wouldn't be surprised to see them do better than the Czechs. I wish I were wrong there. We will see

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Whoa thats incredibly sucky... The kids are going to love the setting though, Ostrava and Třinec are some of the most industrious and ugly towns in the country.

Now I imagine scenes from hostel lol.

 

[Appleyard]

Here is my in depth WJC review on every Flyers prospect.

Enjoy.