WJC: Division I-III

[ficohok*]

Any relation? Or is Sakic a fairly common surname?

No relation. Å akić is common croatian surname

 

[Siamese Dream]

Highlights, thanks AT for the link!!!!!




http://www.youtube.com/user/IHUKTV/videos

I admit, not a bad crowd for both games considering it's Scotland. Japan is a great skating team, not one of them looked bad in those highlights.

They had some local schools in for the first game and the kids were encouraged to cheer for one of the teams

France and Japan looked on a whole other level to the rest in terms of skating and passing.

 

[3 Minute Minor]

Average height for team Japan is 5'8" or 173cm... Ukraine & Italy average heights are 6'0" or 183-184cm. Japans lack of physicality is always made up for with their speed.

That's why I always wish GB could be better skaters, international refs all but eliminate the physical game and GB players are usually skinny so playing the speed game is the way to go.

 

[Shrimper]

Kazakh v GB later. Come on GB!

 

[3 Minute Minor]

Kazakh v GB later. Come on GB!

yep ~10 minutes until game time.

I don't have high expectations vs. Kazakhstan though

 

[Shrimper]

I saw that they demolished Ukraine 7-2, not sure what to make of that in context of the game. But if we can get something against Italy then I don't see why we can't try against Kazakhstan.

 

[3 Minute Minor]

Slashing? haha what? We could see the puck

 

[Siamese Dream]

Slashing? haha what? We could see the puck

I wouldn't have called that in a million years, nor would I call half of these icings

puck 2 inches behind the red line "OMGWTF ICING!!!!1111!1!"

 

[3 Minute Minor]

I wouldn't have called that in a million years, nor would I call half of these icings

puck 2 inches behind the red line "OMGWTF ICING!!!!1111!1!"

International officials lol

GB players are throwing the puck up before the red line a lot though, still no idea what Selby was doing on that "pass" off the boards to Antonov, not even remotely close to him lol

 

[Kiraly]

WC U20 Warmup

Hungary-Slovenia: 5-4

Goals:
Hungary: Vilmos Gallo (3), Krisztian Nagy (2)
Slovenia: Zan Jezovsek, Vid Jazbec, Luka Vincec, Jure Stan

 

[Shrimper]

Our PK has been poor today.

 

[3 Minute Minor]

Our PK has been poor today.

PP has been worse

 

[3 Minute Minor]

ROFLMAO

Did they just give a guy a penalty who never made contact?!?!

 

[Shrimper]

PP has been worse

According to the IIHF website we had a total power play time of 8 minutes compared to Kazakhstan's 14. They score 5 PPG's as well.

They scored on a 5-on-3 the rest were one man advantage PP's.

 

[Ryker]

WC U20 Warmup

Hungary-Slovenia: 5-4

Goals:
Hungary: Vilmos Gallo (3), Krisztian Nagy (2)
Slovenia: Zan Jezovsek, Vid Jazbec, Luka Vincec, Jure Stan

Whoa, what the hell. But it was a friendly, so eh.

 

[3 Minute Minor]

Today more so than yesterday you could see Stewart being a step ahead of the other players on the GB side. He lost his temper at one point because it's gotta be a frustrating situation, especially after the laughable slashing call against him. As a '94 wearing an A, it's not exactly what you want to see but I find it understandable.

According to the IIHF website we had a total power play time of 8 minutes compared to Kazakhstan's 14. They score 5 PPG's as well.

They scored on a 5-on-3 the rest were one man advantage PP's.

Ye but did you see how piss poor the PP was? They couldn't even get in the zone compared to yesterday where they were playing well on the PP.

The PK giving up goals for GB is nothing new, especially when playing a better opponent. They're already playing a better team and that team now has a man advantage? It should be expected that they'll get scored on often in that situation. The PP on the other hand, you have 1 more player on the ice than the other team and you can't even get in the zone? It was brutal and you could see some frustrated players try to go hero mode through 4 guys at some point on the PP. Worse than the PK was also the discipline, which again is nothing new for GB. Don't get me wrong there were a lot of silly calls going against GB and the ref seemed to let the Kazakhs get away with a few more things but there were also a number of really dumb undisciplined penalties.

I didn't like that Duggan got moved off the Stewart PP line. I liked what he was doing with Stewart & Venus in game 1 and Chamberlain didn't do all that much on that line. Cownie & Hook are a creative duo and they've been playing with Chamberlain in IIHF events so why split it up now? May have been a 1 game shake up.

 

[bobbeaver]

On the Croatian team i wonder how will Milic and Jarcov as they are best scorers and assistants in EBjL (austrian u18 league)

 

[ficohok*]

On the Croatian team i wonder how will Milic and Jarcov as they are best scorers and assistants in EBjL (austrian u18 league)

It is not Milic, it is Milicic. They won't score much...U18 EBEL is step back for them, as they already were scoring in U20 EBEL last season.

We are going to get relegated to D2B, this team sucks at every position.

 

[tony d]

Hungary was a decent hockey nation back in the day, still it was an exhibition against Slovenia so perhaps nothing should be took from the result.

 

[QuietContrarian]

Denmark U20 beat Frölunda U20 in a pre-wc exhibition match today 3-2 after SO.

Denmark controlled the game afaik. Ehlers didn't play.

Oliver Bjorkstrand looked heavy, probably jetlagged.

 

[Shrimper]

Hungary was a decent hockey nation back in the day, still it was an exhibition against Slovenia so perhaps nothing should be took from the result.

Hungary looked really good last year against us, might've been the WHC though. Potential for a future Division I team similar in stature of Switzerland?

 

[Ryker]

Hungary was a decent hockey nation back in the day, still it was an exhibition against Slovenia so perhaps nothing should be took from the result.

It's not like Slovenia is a powerhouse and the difference between our nations isn't that great, but we've traditionally done quite well in the U20's (always on the verge of making the World Juniors, but forever falling short), so I would've thought and hoped we'd have won the game. Certainly, it was an exhibition game, but the difference between the two countries seems to be decreasing both due to Slovenia getting worse and Hungary getting better. Both those changes might be small, but, as I said, we weren't overwhelmingly dominant to start with, so even small changes in the power levels can lead to results like the one at hand.

Or, you know, it was just one game, so whatever

 

[Ryker]

Hungary looked really good last year against us, might've been the WHC though. Potential for a future Division I team similar in stature of Switzerland?

Well, with all due respect, looking good against GB doesn't say much And I hope you're not serious with them being at the level of Switzerland anytime soon.

 

[Kiraly]

Hungary was a decent hockey nation back in the day, still it was an exhibition against Slovenia so perhaps nothing should be took from the result.

Back in the day would be about 80 years ago.

 

[Kiraly]

Hungary looked really good last year against us, might've been the WHC though. Potential for a future Division I team similar in stature of Switzerland?

Hungary played Britain in the WC and the U18 WC last year. Hungary already is a Division 1 nation at the senior level and could potentially become a Division 1 nation at the U18 & U20 levels.

Switzerland is an elite hockey nation at all levels. I think a better example would be that Hungary could potentially be in the same class as Slovenia, Italy, and Austria.