GDT: 2023 World Junior Championship Thread (Clarke, Connors, Salin)

[AbsentMojo]

Oh ffs, I just realized why Zellweger is getting all the ice time. Team Canada's head coach is his junior coach in Everett.

Makes sense... also why Clarke isnt getting a fair shake.. doesnt 'know' anyone on the inside

 

[Trash Panda]

I have zero concrete knowledge of it, but based off the unearthing of the last few years, the politics inside Hockey Canada must be a f***ing nightmare to navigate even for the chosen ones.

What a shit show of organizational culture.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Im glad Clarke isnt a sellout to team Canada.. seems like cesspool

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

I have zero concrete knowledge of it, but based off the unearthing of the last few years, the politics inside Hockey Canada must be a f***ing nightmare to navigate even for the chosen ones.

What a shit show of organizational culture.

Canada's starting goalie tonight has a .868 save percentage in the OHL this year in 22 games, yet he's starting because of his connections to Hockey Canada. The bullshit favoritism that goes on in these organizations is ridiculous

 

[AbsentMojo]

The Dean kid is Canada's Steve Bernier for this game.. momentum was done after that

 

[ru4reals]

This Chech goalie is Eligible for the '23 draft wonder how good of a prospect he is.

 

[King'sPawn]

Makes sense... also why Clarke isnt getting a fair shake.. doesnt 'know' anyone on the inside

I have zero concrete knowledge of it, but based off the unearthing of the last few years, the politics inside Hockey Canada must be a f***ing nightmare to navigate even for the chosen ones.

What a shit show of organizational culture.

Just did some looking because I was curious.

Out of the OHL, the only member of the coaching staff is one of their equipment managers. Everyone else is WHL and one QMJHL coach.

Consequently, these are the OHL players on Team Canada (20 teams in the OHL):
Shane Wright
Brandt Clarke
Ethan Del Mastro
Brennan Othmann
Jake Matier
Benjamin Gaudreau

QMJHL players (18 teams):
Tyson Hinds
Nathan Gaucher
Joshua Roy
Zach Dean

WHL players (22 teams):
Thomas Milic
Nolan Allen
Kevin Korchinski
Olen Zellweger
Caeden Bankier
Connor Bedard
Colton Dach
Dylan Guenther
Zack Ostapchuk
Reid Schaefer
Logan Stankoven

NCAA:
Adam Fantilli

 

[AbsentMojo]

This Chech goalie is Eligible for the '23 draft wonder how good of a prospect he is.

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[kingsfan28]

Tough night for team canada, getting smoked by Czechia . Sucks Clarkes goal got waved off.

 

[ru4reals]

Canada's starting goalie tonight has a .868 save percentage in the OHL this year in 22 games, yet he's starting because of his connections to Hockey Canada. The bullshit favoritism that goes on in these organizations is ridiculous

For the sake of all the teams in the tournament hope he starts all the games. Lol.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Tough night for team canada, getting smoked by Czechia . Sucks Clarkes goal got waved off.

At least he got the rush of scoring it... he acquitted himself well all game I thought. Hopefully he ends up on PP1 and top pair.

 

[kingsfan28]

At least he got the rush of scoring it... he acquitted himself well all game I thought. Hopefully he ends up on PP1 and top pair.

He had that real good chance in the 2nd , where he dragged the puck around and flipped it on goal. I've seen him score that type of goal before.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Czechs played a team game, while Canada tried a bunch of heropuck bullshit. Canada deserved to lose

 

[AbsentMojo]

He had that real good chance in the 2nd , where he dragged the puck around and flipped it on goal. I've seen him score that type of goal before.

I saw that, it was a nice toe drag in close quarters to get shot off if he couldve waited a bit might of gone in

Czechs played a team game, while Canada tried a bunch of heropuck bullshit. Canada deserved to lose

I agree - thats a reflection of the coaching/leadership

 

[kinghock]

Oh ffs, I just realized why Zellweger is getting all the ice time (especially on the powerplay). Team Canada's head coach is his junior coach in Everett.

And yes, I do know that Zellweger is a good d-man, but he has not played well. But the coach is hitching his wagon to his top player from Junior.

Clarke is much more creating comparing to Zellweger

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

I have zero concrete knowledge of it, but based off the unearthing of the last few years, the politics inside Hockey Canada must be a f***ing nightmare to navigate even for the chosen ones.

What a shit show of organizational culture.

Welcome to minor hockey EVERYWHERE.......

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Seeing Canada misuse Clarke after two years of snubbing him just makes me more angry than i initially was that this is Blake's 'development plan.'

Just total 4d chess big brain bullshit

Glad Canada got f***ing stuffed though, f*** that organization

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Seeing Canada misuse Clarke after two years of snubbing him just makes me more angry than i initially was that this is Blake's 'development plan.'

Just total 4d chess big brain bullshit

Glad Canada got f***ing stuffed though, f*** that organization

LOL dude, gonna pick on you a bit......tell me...what's a "good" development plan....since you seem to think that everyone in LA has BAD development......so show me good......what goes into it, what is that decision tree look like to you?

 

[Trash Panda]

Clarke is much more creating comparing to Zellweger

I really don’t see what’s with the buzz about Zellweger.

He is a solid smallish PMD, but I don’t understand anointing him the savior of the D and awarding him all the prime minutes. Reminds me of a Left shot Spence.

Coaching favoritism is a motherf***er.

 

[King'sPawn]

Seeing Canada misuse Clarke after two years of snubbing him just makes me more angry than i initially was that this is Blake's 'development plan.'

Just total 4d chess big brain bullshit

Glad Canada got f***ing stuffed though, f*** that organization

Yeah. I'm rooting for Clarke to do well, but for Canada to do poorly. I think they need to do a major overhaul for how they handle and do things (not just the nepotism/player selection); A poor showing may get them into trying to blow it up.

 

[King'sPawn]

Weird-looking standings after day 1.
Group A:
Sweden - 3 Pts
Czechia - 3 Pts
Canada - 0 Pts
Austria - 0 Pts
Germany - 0 Pts

Group B:
USA - 3 Pts
Switzerland - 2 Pts
Finland - 1 Pt
Latvia - 0 Pts
Slovakia - 0 Pts

Tomorrow's schedule:
Finland (Salin) vs Slovakia
Germany vs Sweden
Switzerland vs Latvia
Austria vs Czechia

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

LOL dude, gonna pick on you a bit......tell me...what's a "good" development plan....since you seem to think that everyone in LA has BAD development......so show me good......what goes into it, what is that decision tree look like to you?

This will be good...

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

For starters, playing a blue chip 19 year old prospect in 5 AHL games over two months because you are trying to be cute with ELC years is not what's best for his development. He's 19, he should be playing hockey, not twiddling his thumbs in the pressbox since November 1st. They should have spaced out his 9 games better, so he wasn't shelved for so long. Even if they wanted to get him those games in Ontario, that could have been accomplished without him sitting for so long. Instead the "plan" looks to be extreme start and stop with very long periods of no hockey being played. Common damn sense should tell you that's not ideal

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

For starters, playing a blue chip 19 year old prospect in 5 AHL games over two months because you are trying to be cute with ELC years is not what's best for his development. He's 19, he should be playing hockey, not twiddling his thumbs in the pressbox since November 1st. They should have spaced out his 9 games better, so he wasn't shelved for so long. Even if they wanted to get him those games in Ontario, that could have been accomplished without him sitting for so long. Instead the "plan" looks to be extreme start and stop with very long periods of no hockey being played. Common damn sense should tell you that's not ideal

So...he hasn't been practicing? At all? Ever?

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

I got no time for an argument saying a 19 year old blue chip prospect is fine not playing games for months because he's getting to practice