U18: 5 Nations Tournament 4-8 February

[Bjornee]

4-4 now.

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

4-4!!

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

USA wins after SO

 

[ulvvf]

USA is clearly the better team

In the first 2 periods I would say sweden was better, in the third USA was much better. So over the whole game, I would say draw was fair.

 

[VictorLustig]

In the first 2 periods I would say sweden was better, in the third USA was much better. So over the whole game, I would say draw was fair.

Homer?

Sweden was pretty good in most parts of the 2nd. Other than that it was mostly USA.

 

[JJTT]

http://www.hokej.cz/zapas/1554357/roster

Lineup for Czech Rebublic-Finland if anyone is watching.

 

[JJTT]

1-0 Nättinen

 

[Fantomas]

Does this tournament have a website? I am really confused about scheduling, rosters and results.

 

[Fantomas]

Does anyone have Russian rosters for both tournaments?

 

[JJTT]

Does this tournament have a website? I am really confused about scheduling, rosters and results.

U17

http://fhr.ru/national_teams/junior/u17/info/tournament/?id_4=519#stages

http://fhr.ru/common/upload/protocole/u17/1415/-.jpg

U18 http://www.hokej.cz/reprezentace/zapasy/32

 

[Bjornee]

2-2 tied

 

[JJTT]

Finland can't play pk. 3 PP goals for Czechs.

 

[Bjornee]

3-3 game again. Go Suomi!

 

[FinPanda]

4-3 lead and Nättinen 3 points. Wow.

 

[teddy83]

Am i blind or isn't Puljujarvi playing?

 

[teddy83]

Am i blind or isn't Puljujarvi playing?

Yes, i am blind. On a related note, why hasn't Puljujarvi scored a hat-trick yet???

 

[Jussi]

Czechs won, 6-4.

 

[Fantomas]

U17

http://fhr.ru/national_teams/junior/u17/info/tournament/?id_4=519#stages

http://fhr.ru/common/upload/protocole/u17/1415/-.jpg

U18 http://www.hokej.cz/reprezentace/zapasy/32

Thanks. These Russian teams look very good.

 

[Tomas W]

A SO loss to US sounds like a decent result for Sweden.

 

[joe89]

A SO loss to US sounds like a decent result for Sweden.

Sounds like the everyday result. No matter if we played better or worse, we found a way to lose against them.

 

[B Boarding]

Sounds like the everyday result. No matter if we played better or worse, we found a way to lose against them.

This is something that's been bugging me for years. When losing to somebody constantly for 10 years, maybe it's time to come up with a slightly different game plan? For the last 10 years, facing USA in playoffs in juniors = Sweden are out. We are usually not even close to win. That means that Sweden could only win a championship if somebody else knocks out USA. That is not the best circumstances when apparently Sweden is going for gold every year. It's been obvious for a long time that the way Sweden play fits the US like a glove. Still we (Sweden) just keep knocking our heads into the wall over and over again. It's just dumb.

 

[JJTT]

Russian roster for the U18 tournament

1 G Anton KRASOTKIN
30 G Ilya SAMSONOV

3 D Mikhail SIDOROV
4 D Aleksandr KOZYREV
5 D Egor VORONKOV
7 D Egor RYKOV
14 D Alexander YAKOVENKO
15 D Mikhail SERGACHYOV
22 D Andrei BANNIKOV

8 F Nikolai CHEBYKIN
10 F Mikhail VOROBYEV
11 F Artyom VOLKOV
12 F Artyom IVANYUZHENKOV
13 F Danil YURTAYKIN
17 F Danila KVARTALNOV
18 F Dmitri SOKOLOV
21 F Kirill KAPRIZOV
24 F Ivan YEMETS
25 F Denis GURYANOV
26 F Vladimir BARABANOV
27 F Dmitry ZHUKENOV
28 F Kiril BELYAEV

Russia Finland stream, 16.00 CET

 

[cagney]

I think it's difficult to implement a game plan at the junior level that allows for success against every opponent. Coaches just want the kids to be on the same page and changing things up based on different opponents could do more harm than good.

At the junior level you could compare the US, Sweden and Russia to a game of rock-paper-scissors. US beats Sweden, Sweden beats Russia, Russia beats US.

 

[Fantomas]

Dmitri Sokolov with two goals today against Finland. And he's an underager.

 

[Jussi]

Puljujärvi got injured.