I was actually curious if my memory of the tournament over the years was correct. Turns out this is the worst showing for the US at this tournament since 2009. They had only lost 2 out of the previous 32 games at the tournament, once to the Czechs and once to the Slovaks. There were some good players on teams over the years but mostly players I had totally forgotten about.
I for the life of me thought we sent a better group here years past...this team had so many names I have not even heard of.. I remember Kane played here lol!
The 2015 team was loaded and 2017 had Mastrosimone, Kaliyev, and Farinacci...2012 had Connor too I believe...but this team, this 02 birth year does not look deep, outside of Biondi,Dzhaniyev, Cameron, and Ratzlaff - I know very little of any of these kids. This isn't the best of signs for the 02 class after seeing such strong groups in 00' and 01'.