U17: Five Nations Tournament (Chomutov, Czechia)

[Antiillafire]

USA
Slovakia
Czechia
Switzerland
Germany

USA wins first game 5-3 over Slovakia
Switzerland and Czechia currently tied 2-2

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[Czechboy]

There is a promising d man on Czech team here
.. I think Millen? Could be way off

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Any way to watch these games?

 

[Maverick41]

Any way to watch these games?

Haven't had time to check if this works, but I saw this link that is supposed to have the games, mentioned on the website of the German hockey federation.

https://www.czechicehockey.tv/en/content/reprezentace--mladez

I think you have to be registered, not sure if it's free.

 

[Pazucha]

https://www.czechicehockey.tv/en/game/64cd0d8311c25440a9797b82

0:0 After 3 periods

Bad showing from Slovakia

- Slow decision making
- Inaccurate passes
- Players keep going solo against two-three opponents just to lose the puck

Switzerland won 1:0 in OT!

Best players in my opinion
1. Brezani
2. Dravecky
3. Nemec

 

[William H Bonney]

US beat Switzerland 7-2

 

[Czechboy]

Ran the table! 4 and 0.

Nice little tournament for the Czechs with some promising players. Not saying it means much to win or lose this tourney but it's nice to have some wins!

 

[Wooren]

Good win, but the Czech team allowed 3+ goals in every single game. If my math is correct, they allowed 14 goals on 75 shots, that's terrible.

 

[Czechboy]

Good win, but the Czech team allowed 3+ goals in every single game. If my math is correct, they allowed 14 goals on 75 shots, that's terrible.

Any guys you think will be talked about on draft day in a couple of years?

Seems like some promising players on here and another group that could create a first rounder or 2 for us.

 

[Wooren]

Any guys you think will be talked about on draft day in a couple of years?

Seems like some promising players on here and another group that could create a first rounder or 2 for us.

Overall it's a promising generation, yes. Probably the best forward group in recent years. But it badly needs more competent defensemen to emerge, we have seen at the U20 WJC and recent Hlinka what a mobile and skilled defense does to a team.

 

[martygod12]

Any guys you think will be talked about on draft day in a couple of years?

Seems like some promising players on here and another group that could create a first rounder or 2 for us.

Well obviously Benak, but others who seems interesting to me so far are Matej Pekar, Dominik Pavlik and maybe Adam Novotny (he Is 2026 draft I think) but thats still early guesses.

Definitely more strenght in offense then defense in this group.

 

[Czechboy]

Overall it's a promising generation, yes. Probably the best forward group in recent years. But it badly needs more competent defensemen to emerge, we have seen at the U20 WJC and recent Hlinka what a mobile and skilled defense does to a team.

I agree but we don't seem to have balance. We went a decade without any great Dman (Hronek being the best) but lots of good forwards (Pasta, Chytil, Necas). Now we have a few drafts with great D but not great forwards.

So if we can go 3 drafts and stock up on legit NHL D's and not just 'warm bodies' like you say then I'd be thrilled with a draft with some good forwards and weaker D to even it out.

But I totally agree a team built on D is better than a team built on F's.

 

[Antiillafire]

Pretty good final game and overall tournament for Slovakia considering this team was missing 12+ players

 

[Goodman68]

Overall it's a promising generation, yes. Probably the best forward group in recent years. But it badly needs more competent defensemen to emerge, we have seen at the U20 WJC and recent Hlinka what a mobile and skilled defense does to a team.

I just wonder what happened to Svozil. I really never saw or heard any information that he was possibly injured. Strange.

 

[Wooren]

I just wonder what happened to Svozil. I really never saw or heard any information that he was possibly injured. Strange.

In the final day of Hlinka, I saw him in person by the team bus, a few hours prior to the gold medal game. He looked fine, no visible injury. But as I said in another thread, quality of his is far above the quality of Zielenski, A.Kral or Skok, so he must have had some sort of injury. I do wish the coach straight up said what's up with Svozil though.

I agree but we don't seem to have balance. We went a decade without any great Dman (Hronek being the best) but lots of good forwards (Pasta, Chytil, Necas). Now we have a few drafts with great D but not great forwards.

So if we can go 3 drafts and stock up on legit NHL D's and not just 'warm bodies' like you say then I'd be thrilled with a draft with some good forwards and weaker D to even it out.

But I totally agree a team built on D is better than a team built on F's.

Well it would sure be nice to have a balanced group for once. But the 2007 group is not that. I don't know anything about the 2008-born generation, but hopefully it has some promising defensemen, who could eventually be used as underagers to strenghten the team. As of now, I see 3-4 defensemen in the 2007 group that are solid at the international level, which is not enough, any injury can be a huge problem.