U17: Five Nations Tournament in Romanshorn, Switzerland (7-10 February)

[theslatcher]

Czechia
Finland
Sweden
Switzerland
USA

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[Eye of Ra]

Jack Berglund is the son of Christian Berglund. Does he play the same style as his dad did?

 

[Postulates]

USA win likely?

 

[Speyer]

USA win likely?

They usually send a B or C team to those kind of tournaments but often still end up winning. I guess it depends on how strong Sweden or Finland are.

Switzerland has a pretty decent 06' group. No surefire star-prospect but pretty good depth for our standards and a few intriguing players with upside.

 

[theslatcher]

They usually send a B or C team to those kind of tournaments but often still end up winning. I guess it depends on how strong Sweden or Finland are.

They usually lose to at least one of Sweden/Czechia/Russia.

Can't remember when their last loss to Finland was.

 

[William H Bonney]

The US sends the NTDP U17 to this tournament.

 

[czech]

Czechia roster:

Good roster. It's nice that two younger hockey players are announced at once.
Of the guys born in 2006 playing in North America, you can keep in mind such players as Sedláček and Fischer, from European you can also consider: Vilém, Švec, P. Král...

 

[Erikfromfin]

Finns

Goalies:
1 Rimpinen Petteri, TPS Turku
30 Hannikainen Otto, JYP Jyväskylä

Defenders:
3 Nieminen Daniel, Pelicans Lahti
4 Leppä Mikko, Tappara Tampere
5 Jalasti Bruno, HIFK Helsinki
6 Kaasinen Samuel, Jokerit Helsinki
7 Marila Eelis, HIFK Helsinki
8 Soini Sebastian, Ilves Tampere
10 Välilä Arttu, Lukko Rauma
11 Nykyri Niklas, Lukko Rauma

Forwards:
12 Keinänen Kasperi, KalPa Kuopio
13 Paqvalin Joonas, Jokerit Helsinki
14 Loponen Markus, Kärpät Oulu
15 Pulkkanen Akseli, KalPa Kuopio
16 Suoniemi Tuomas, TPS Turku
18 Ruohonen Heikki, Kiekko-Espoo
19 Viuhkola Nooa, Kärpät Oulu
20 Keinänen Juho, Jokerit Helsinki
21 Teshome Natan, Jokerit Helsinki
23 Väärälä Ville, Tappara Tampere
24 Saarelainen Joona, KalPa Kuopio
28 Sinivuori Lauri, HIFK Helsinki


Kiviharju, Muhonen, Väisänen, Jokinen, Helenius, Miettinen, Vesterinen playing age up U18 team
some notables imo missing: Saarinen, Hemming, Nyman

 

[Hinterland]

Swiss roster is out:

Kirsch Christian 18.06.2006 G EV Zug
Solèr Laurin 18.02.2006 G HC Davos
Blessing Niklas 12.08.2006 D EHC Biel-Bienne
Geisser Mischa 26.01.2006 D EV Zug
Kurt Joel 16.05.2006 D EHC Biel-Bienne
Meier Gian 10.07.2006 D GCK/ZSC Lions
Muggli Leon 09.07.2006 D EV Zug
Müller Simon 07.08.2006 D HC Davos
Sansonnens Basile 19.08.2006 D Fribourg-Gottéron
Ustinkov Daniil 26.08.2006 D GCK/ZSC Lions
Antenen Robin Nico 21.05.2006 F EV Zug
Bosson David 17.01.2006 F GCK/ZSC Lions
Cattin Nolan 19.06.2006 F EHC Biel-Bienne
Forget Jordan 16.04.2006 F Lausanne HC
Giger Lenny 24.11.2006 F Rögle BK / SWE
Grossniklaus Joel 30.03.2006 F SCL Tigers
Körbler Kimi 25.09.2006 F HC Davos
Ponzetto Yannik 08.06.2006 F EHC Kloten
Reber Jamiro 04.09.2006 F SCL Tigers
Tarchini Noé 06.06.2006 F EHC Biel-Bienne
Wehrli Nils 29.01.2006 F EV Zug
Wey Loris 24.01.2006 F EV Zug


Players to watch are Ustinkov, Reber and Forget. I think the forwards are even decently positioned to make the the next WJC20 roster if they continue to progress nicely. Ustinkov is probably up against it because competition is gonna be much tougher on defense. The youngest player on the roster, Lenny Giger, used to be hyped a lot. Though that seems to have died down a bit I'm still interested to see how he does in this tournament.

 

[Wildabeast]

The US sends the NTDP U17 to this tournament.

A team incoming - watch out. lol

 

[Steve Kournianos]

Streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SwissIceHockeyFederation/streams

 

[theslatcher]

Streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SwissIceHockeyFederation/streams

Tournaments in Schweiz are always nice because you get easy access through youtube.

Game center:

Game Center National Teams

Alle Eishockey-Spiele der Schweizer National Teams – Spielplan, Resultate, Tabellen und Statistiken zu Spieler, Goalies, Teams.

www.sihf.ch

 

[Sanz4]

How i would line up

Sterner - Zetterberg - Hesselvall
Nordlund - Pettersson - Zetterlund
Engholm - Eriksson - Eklund
Berglund - Holst-Persson - Kulmala

Freij - Sahlin Wallenius
Olsson - Vilén
Sjöqvist - Öhrqvist
Sigurd

Liv

Zetterberg and Sterner, our 2 best forwards are in a bad form, 7 and 6 points in ten games, but i want them at same line cuz they have played well together in international games. Hugo Zetterlund, Engholm and Berglund are the new ones added, very deserved as they are producing many points rn. USA will own us, but we should win against the other three. Our 06 age group is very weak but cmon we are a hockey nation

 

[Goodman68]

Czechia roster:
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Good roster. It's nice that two younger hockey players are announced at once.
Of the guys born in 2006 playing in North America, you can keep in mind such players as Sedláček and Fischer, from European you can also consider: Vilém, Švec, P. Král...

The fact that Jecho no longer even plays for the U18 is interesting. While he played for her last season at HGC.. It's a bit of a let down given the hype he got. But it is not a surprise given his playing in the national team.

 

[Wooren]

The fact that Jecho no longer even plays for the U18 is interesting. While he played for her last season at HGC.. It's a bit of a let down given the hype he got. But it is not a surprise given his playing in the national team.

Agree, when he made the Hlinka squad in his U16 season I figured he must really be something. Still a good prospect, but he hasn't made much progress this season.
I wouldn't mind him gettting one more shot with the U18 squad though, with one or two exceptions, whenever he played up a category he got buried on the 4th/3rd line, I would like to see him get put in a scoring position.

 

[Erikfromfin]

Marila and Soini out for Finns.. not alot high end prospects this team since most in U18.
Rimpinen, Nykyri, Suoniemi, Saarelainen and Paqvalin the most interesting ones

 

[theslatcher]

Sw lineups:

Sterner - Zetterberg - Nordlund
Zetterlund - Pettersson - Hasselvall
Eklund - Eriksson - Holst Persson
Kulmala - Berglund - Engholm

Sahlin Wellenius - Vilén
Freij - Sjöqvist
Olsson - Sigurd
Öhrqvist

Liv

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Wehrli - Antenen - Wey
Bosson - Tarchini - Cattin
Ponzetto - Reber - Villard
Mottard - Grossniklaus - Giger

Muggli - Kurt
Ustinkov - Geisser
Johnson - Blessing
Cavadini - Sansonnens

Kirsch

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An injection of 07's would do very well for Sweden. Primarily Ekberg, Frondell, Ihs Wozniak, & Boumedienne(Adding Bodin on defense would bring that up too).

 

[Speyer]

Swiss roster is out:

Kirsch Christian 18.06.2006 G EV Zug
Solèr Laurin 18.02.2006 G HC Davos
Blessing Niklas 12.08.2006 D EHC Biel-Bienne
Geisser Mischa 26.01.2006 D EV Zug
Kurt Joel 16.05.2006 D EHC Biel-Bienne
Meier Gian 10.07.2006 D GCK/ZSC Lions
Muggli Leon 09.07.2006 D EV Zug
Müller Simon 07.08.2006 D HC Davos
Sansonnens Basile 19.08.2006 D Fribourg-Gottéron
Ustinkov Daniil 26.08.2006 D GCK/ZSC Lions
Antenen Robin Nico 21.05.2006 F EV Zug
Bosson David 17.01.2006 F GCK/ZSC Lions
Cattin Nolan 19.06.2006 F EHC Biel-Bienne
Forget Jordan 16.04.2006 F Lausanne HC
Giger Lenny 24.11.2006 F Rögle BK / SWE
Grossniklaus Joel 30.03.2006 F SCL Tigers
Körbler Kimi 25.09.2006 F HC Davos
Ponzetto Yannik 08.06.2006 F EHC Kloten
Reber Jamiro 04.09.2006 F SCL Tigers
Tarchini Noé 06.06.2006 F EHC Biel-Bienne
Wehrli Nils 29.01.2006 F EV Zug
Wey Loris 24.01.2006 F EV Zug


Players to watch are Ustinkov, Reber and Forget. I think the forwards are even decently positioned to make the the next WJC20 roster if they continue to progress nicely. Ustinkov is probably up against it because competition is gonna be much tougher on defense. The youngest player on the roster, Lenny Giger, used to be hyped a lot. Though that seems to have died down a bit I'm still interested to see how he does in this tournament.

I really like this class. There is no Meier or Fiala level talent in the group but its actually a very deep birth year for our more recent standards. It seems like even the players fielded on the bottom pairings/lines could have had a top 6/4 role on another birth year like 04 or 05. As for the players: A year ago I liked Reber the most, by far. Very complete and fluid skater with excellent vision that has also a good two way game and a great compete level. I feel like his development slowed down a little though and he seemed to struggle a bit more to make game breaking plays in U17 than in U16. In the most recent games I saw from this team I liked Ustinkov the most. Especially his edgework and hands stood out to me wich he could use effectively even at high speed. He also seemed very calm under pressure. I don't remember much about Giger in the games I saw but I will keep an eye out for him this time.

 

[Chainshot]

The Swedes rocking out Macklemore after that goal had me nearly spit out my coffee laughing.

 

[Erikfromfin]

I dont understand why they always play Teshome in bottom role these kind of tournaments.. he is clearly talented than most

 

[Erikfromfin]

Ruohonens 3rd line been Finlands best today... Saarelainen been rather quiet and Suoniemi dissapointing season continues. Lots of powerplays for Finns but 1st unit run by Välilä and Sinivuori for whatever reason isnt very good.

 

[Erikfromfin]

Finland 4 Czechia 2 final score

I thought Ruohonen had good game

 

[95snipes]

First day likes

Czech
Adam Benak - wow an '07? Tremendous skill
Adam Veselsky - doesn't seem to be on any scouting list, but has a rip. Kid can shoot the puck. Feel like he didn't play much.

Finland
Akseli Pulkkanen - composed, heads up player, good skill
Arttu Valila - good puckmover

Swiss
Jamiro Reber - hands and shiftiness reminded me of Gaudreau. Someone to watch going forward
Nils Wehrli - great skater

Sweden
Max Vilen - size/skating combo
Adam Hesselvall - liked his skill

 

[Postulates]

Cole Eiserman with a hat trick within the 1st minute of the Second

 

[Czechboy]

Cole Eiserman with a hat trick within the 1st minute of the Second

Not watching but all Eiserman does is score.lol He's clearly an elite striker.