3 Minute Minor
Registered User
- Sep 29, 2009
- 5,183
- 831
I love the way this video was named
best video name I've seen in a while!
I love the way this video was named
Jordan Cownie (8GP 4G 11A 15PTS) is now 4 points shy of tying Ben Davies (10GP 7G 12A 19PTS) for all-time point lead with GB U18. He's also just 1 assist shy of tying Ben Davies for all-time assists lead with GB U18.
What makes it even more impressive is that he's done that under the new format, while Ben Davies and co. played against hockey giants such as China and Serbia
So now we need Hungary to lose both of their remaining games in order to get promoted as well as win our last game
ye they fixed this tournament by making it more competitive but the tournament is still broken. It's all but decided by day 2 who's getting promoted...
Odds of Hungary losing to Estonia? you could bet a dollar and win a million if Estonia pulled off the upset
How is it broken? Outside of the fact it isn't decided by day 2 since all the games aren't played by that date, there will always be a couple of teams at these levels clearly higher than the rest.
No suprise to see Hungary dominate this event. Comfortably the best nation from top to bottom at international events.
What's the point of a round robin if there's nothing afterwards? If you lose 1 game in the round robin you're done.
What's the point of a round robin if there's nothing afterwards? If you lose 1 game in the round robin you're done.
If you're gonna ignore what I said I will say it again. These tournaments are all funded by the IIHF, they pay the arenas for the ice time and all that stuff. Why would they want to waste money on the lower division who nobody really cares about?
It isn't broken, much more often than not the best team does get promoted. Hungary are a better team than us this year, they deserve to go up. The IIHF always schedules the #1 seed to play the #2 seed on the final day to add the excitement, so usually the only way it is decided early is if one of them is upset by another country in an earlier game. GB were weaker last year so it is unfortunate we did not get to play Hungary on the final day, but that is our fault for not being better last year.
One could also argue that because of this system every game is do or die just like the playoffs in the top division? Every game matters, one slip up and that's it. I would much rather have a system where every game means something.
But that's the thing, not every game means something. Hungary beat Estonia 9-3 meaning they've already won the tournament. That's 3 game tomorrow with 0 meaning lol Croatia vs Lithuania meant nothing today as well.
The money part is meh to me. They (IIHF) make amazing amounts of money, they can afford to get all the division 2 teams in 1 location (they usually do 2 locations) and add on 10 more MEANINGFUL games, it's not that many, that's 5 extra games for each group in Division 1 & 2. Their funds aren't that tight when they sell 20K tickets for 1 U20 game in Canada lol
But that is our fault, if we were better last year we would be playing them Saturday. We messed up the seeding by being bad last year.
Maybe the IIHF think your argument for more games is "meh" and the cost wouldn't justify the benefit.
Yeah you're pissed GB didn't win the group, but get it over it, nobody else is complaining. I accept we weren't the best team, I'm not going to scrape the barrel to find excuses and nitpick the system
It's not your fault, you didn't play Same can be said about most of the players on GB actually
The IIHF says & does a lot of stupid things as well, you can't deny that
And no, I'm actually not pissed GB didn't win the group. I'm just glad I was able to GB games for once. All I said was that it's nice that the groups are now more competitive but the setup is still broken. I never liked the fact that the lower divisions don't have medal games. Doesn't matter if it's Division 1 Group A, Division 9 Group Z, I don't like that system. It's not much of a tournament if it's just a round robin. There isn't those meaningful games at the end that people would like to see.