WJC: 2021 Canada Roster Talk

[Gopher13]

Why not postpone the tournament until March or April? Who cares when it is played and by then the vaccines will be out and hopefully working.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

One man's opinion
Projecting Team Canada's World Junior Roster - The Prospect Network

And here’s the final roster if Alexis Lafreniere is allowed to play:

• Line 1: Lafreniere-Dach-McMichael
• Line 2: Perfetti-Cozens-Quinn
• Line 3: Newhook-Byfield-Krebs
• Line 4: Holloway-Zary-Mercer

Extras: Tomasino, Poulin

• Pairing 1: Byram-Drysdale
• Pairing 2: Harley-Schneider
• Pairing 3: O’Rourke-Korczak

Extras: Robertson, Barron

• Goalie 1: Dylan Garand
• Goalie 2: Taylor Gauthier

Extra: Devon Levi

I don't mind the forwards in either scenario. Not sure I'd put Quinn ahead of Tomasino at this time. I might switch them in both scenarios. I would probably take Pelletier over Poulin.. Newhook vs Krebs at C.. may flip that.
On D. I would have Korczak vs Shnneider as the near lock. I would put Guhle ahead of O'Rourke. I think I would take Spence over Barron just for his puck moving ability in case Drysdale goes down .

 

[Wishywashy20]

One man's opinion
Projecting Team Canada's World Junior Roster - The Prospect Network

And here’s the final roster if Alexis Lafreniere is allowed to play:

• Line 1: Lafreniere-Dach-McMichael
• Line 2: Perfetti-Cozens-Quinn
• Line 3: Newhook-Byfield-Krebs
• Line 4: Holloway-Zary-Mercer

Extras: Tomasino, Poulin

• Pairing 1: Byram-Drysdale
• Pairing 2: Harley-Schneider
• Pairing 3: O’Rourke-Korczak

Extras: Robertson, Barron

• Goalie 1: Dylan Garand
• Goalie 2: Taylor Gauthie
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Extra: Devon Levi

I don't mind the forwards in either scenario. Not sure I'd put Quinn ahead of Tomasino at this time. I might switch them in both scenarios. I would probably take Pelletier over Poulin.. Newhook vs Krebs at C.. may flip that.
On D. I would have Korczak vs Shnneider as the near lock. I would put Guhle ahead of O'Rourke. I think I would take Spence over Barron just for his puck moving ability in case Drysdale goes down .

I think they need to find room for Pelletier.
I haven’t seen Quinn do enough so to me he needs to pick it up.
I don’t see Wright to make it this year.Rees would be ahead of him.
Other that that it is a good representation of the team.

 

[novisor]

Covid is a joke??? Go tell that to all the families that have lost a love one because of Covid. I guess compassion and empathy is not one of your strength!

Sure. Have fun staying inside the rest of your life while people like you push for unprecedented levels of suicide & depression this winter over a bad flu w/ a 99.997% survival rate for those younger than 70 (CDC stats).

 

[novisor]

One man's opinion
Projecting Team Canada's World Junior Roster - The Prospect Network

And here’s the final roster if Alexis Lafreniere is allowed to play:

• Line 1: Lafreniere-Dach-McMichael
• Line 2: Perfetti-Cozens-Quinn
• Line 3: Newhook-Byfield-Krebs
• Line 4: Holloway-Zary-Mercer

Extras: Tomasino, Poulin

• Pairing 1: Byram-Drysdale
• Pairing 2: Harley-Schneider
• Pairing 3: O’Rourke-Korczak

Extras: Robertson, Barron

• Goalie 1: Dylan Garand
• Goalie 2: Taylor Gauthier

Extra: Devon Levi

I don't mind the forwards in either scenario. Not sure I'd put Quinn ahead of Tomasino at this time. I might switch them in both scenarios. I would probably take Pelletier over Poulin.. Newhook vs Krebs at C.. may flip that.
On D. I would have Korczak vs Shnneider as the near lock. I would put Guhle ahead of O'Rourke. I think I would take Spence over Barron just for his puck moving ability in case Drysdale goes down .

So basically if Laf is allowed to play, Wright is cut?

 

[DJB]

Anyone have the lines from the last game? Cant seem to find them.


Thanks!

 

[HBK27]

Why not postpone the tournament until March or April? Who cares when it is played and by then the vaccines will be out and hopefully working.

It's a tournament, so you can create a rather good bubble for it. Let them play next month as scheduled.

 

[57special]

Going off the first two scrimmages, there is no way that Rees is left off the team. I also don't see Guhle left off.

 

[Adam da bomb]

Why not postpone the tournament until March or April? Who cares when it is played and by then the vaccines will be out and hopefully working.

Who says they are 1st to get it? They probably won’t get it till June if that as hopefully it first goes to sick, vulnerable doctors etc.

 

[Gopher13]

Who says they are 1st to get it? They probably won’t get it till June if that as hopefully it first goes to sick, vulnerable doctors etc.

The vaccine is being distributed starting in December...I assume that by March/April most people will have access to it.

 

[ORRFForever]

So basically if Laf is allowed to play, Wright is cut?

Yikes. Hope that's NOT true.

If the NHL does not play on Jan 1st, they should allow every team 1 additional player.

 

[ORRFForever]

Sure. Have fun staying inside the rest of your life while people like you push for unprecedented levels of suicide & depression this winter over a bad flu w/ a 99.997% survival rate for those younger than 70 (CDC stats).

Whoa.

Let's keep this to hockey, please.

 

[ORRFForever]

Why not postpone the tournament until March or April? Who cares when it is played and by then the vaccines will be out and hopefully working.

Why would you come to the Canadian thread to post that?

 

[ORRFForever]

Anyone have the lines from the last game? Cant seem to find them.


Thanks!

If you mean game 3, it wasn't played.

 

[dmac7719]

I can't wait for Newhook's quarantine to be over so these line projects that have him outside of the top 6 can be laughed at.

 

[surixon]

Anyone know if they are practicing today after yesterday's developments.

 

[Wishywashy20]

Anyone know if they are practicing today after yesterday's developments.

where are all the talking heads at TSN.
How come they can’t post any relevant commentary

 

[novisor]

Why not postpone the tournament until March or April? Who cares when it is played and by then the vaccines will be out and hopefully working.

I'd rather straight up cancel the whole thing if we're not going to have this at Christmas. The world juniors in Canada is as much Christmas as egg nog and Rudolph's red nose. The week between Christmas & New Year's is meant for sitting in front of the TV/fireplace w the WJC on!

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Anyone know if they are practicing today after yesterday's developments.

As of last night there were no practices/training planned for today but still frustrating that there hasn’t at least been an update.

 

[ORRFForever]

The world juniors in Canada is as much Christmas as egg nog and Rudolph's red nose. The week between Christmas & New Year's is meant for sitting in front of the TV/fireplace w the WJC on!

Amen, brother.

 

[ORRFForever]

As of last night there were no practices/training planned for today but still frustrating that there hasn’t at least been an update.

They're probably trying to figure out what to do themselves. They have a full 30 days until the tournament opens so they will take it slow and steady.

 

[JackSlater]

It is a bit strange that there hasn't been more information regarding the status of the camp. Rishaug posted that the expectation is that the camp can continue for the most part. I did see this today:

IIHF - World Juniors gets its game officials

The WJC refs are all Canadian (or based in Canada at least, as emphasized in the article) this year. Needless to say we were hear endless complaints about this before the tournament and after any game that Canada wins.

 

[ORRFForever]

It is a bit strange that there hasn't been more information regarding the status of the camp. Rishaug posted that the expectation is that the camp can continue for the most part. I did see this today:

IIHF - World Juniors gets its game officials

The WJC refs are all Canadian this year. Needless to say we were hear endless complaints about this before the tournament and after any game that Canada wins.

If there was any news, good or bad, I'm sure we'd hear - no news is good news. They were probably caught off guard with the positive cases and they're trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together, again.

I know quarantining is expensive, but I still think they should start early.

 

[DJB]

If you mean game 3, it wasn't played.

Games 1 and 2 id be happy with.

 

[ORRFForever]

Games 1 and 2 id be happy with.

Not sure... Maybe the Hockey Canada website?

It's probably somewhere in this thread as well.