canuck2010
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I'm really looking forward to seeing Turcotte and Zegras this Christmas. I think a true test for them at this stage in their careers.
WJC: 2020 Team USA Roster Talk
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Hockey Stick
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I can 2nd second this point. I've gotten to watch him live this year a few times and he can move the puck almost as well as he can shoot it. It opens up a lot more room for him when he has the puck, so he's racking up the points like he should be
FinPanda
Team Finland 2022 WHC champions
SanDogBrewin
Righteous bucks!
Rabid Ranger
2 is better than one
Nice add. Top six looks really good from an offensive perspective.
Jaykay
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Caufield-Turcotte-Wahlstrom
Kaliyev-Zegras-Brink
Robertson-Drury-Pinto
Janicke-Beecher-Hall
Ford
Miller-Emberson
Samuelsson-Harris
York-Regula
Jones
Knight
Wolf
Saville
Kaliyev-Zegras-Brink
Robertson-Drury-Pinto
Janicke-Beecher-Hall
Ford
Miller-Emberson
Samuelsson-Harris
York-Regula
Jones
Knight
Wolf
Saville
Pretty stacked. Should be the tournament favourite. Now imagine if they had Hughes and Farabee!
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SI90
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ReLyT
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Interesting that team USA will be bringing their entire camp to Czech Republic. So you fly everyone over there and cut a kid while he's in a foreign country. Seems odd. Have they done this in the past?
William H Bonney
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TheBeastCoast
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Canada hasnt in the past but have one player to cut this year after the pre tourney games.
William H Bonney
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Nice to not just get Wahlstrom but to get him early enough that he'll participate in most of camp.
William H Bonney
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Agreed. We're at a point where there's basically 5 favorites each year and doing well in this tournament is about a lot more than the perceived strength of a paper roster.
I think the NTDP did it at the U18 WC last year. Brought Landon Slaggert to Sweden but didn't roster him and then cut him when they added Bobby Brink, so he ended up not playing in the tournament but also missed the USHL playoffs as well.
Like all single-elimination tournaments where there is some level of parity, it will generally come down to a hot goaltender like Lukkonen in 2019, Hart in 2018, and Parsons in 2017. That tends to be the margin. Other factors come into play, if your team is leaking shots against you'll eventually run into trouble regardless of the goalie.
William H Bonney
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That situation was maddening, completely unfair to Slaggert, and avoidable. Both Kaliyev and Robertson were available at the time but USAH didn't pick them because Coach Wroblewski wanted Brink and he wasn't yet available. So they took an undeserving U17 instead, wasted his time, and hurt his development. I'm not surprised that he's had a disappointing U18 campaign thus far given how USAH treated him to end his U17 season.
USAH does a lot wrong, including at the WJC, but that Slaggert situation is an egregious example.
William H Bonney
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Special teams, in particular the power play, is as important as goalie play too. 4 of the last 5 gold medalists have also had the tournament's top PP. Harder to quantify but team chemistry matters a lot too. There's a long list of stacked paper rosters that crashed and burned in the tournament because the team couldn't find the right line combinations or they didn't gel quickly enough.
Choralone
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I still think that it was bullshit call against Finland in the final. Lets put it right this time.
SanDogBrewin
Righteous bucks!
Knight has had only two poor games all season so far for BC. He was exceptional U-18 in 2018-2019. Spencer will need to be good early with Canada up 1st.
