Hey guys I'm up in lake placid for the day. Thought I'd make some comments on the first game. Happy to answer questions but I mainly keyed in on the USA forwards so that's who I'll be able to give the most in depth analysis about. Comment:
- USA's three best forwards today to me were Milano, Matthews, Larkin in that order
- also thought Roslovic played very effective and involved
- loved the way Hitchcock attached the net out of the corners, did this several times
- Eansor played with a lot of hustle and showed a real strong work ethic. Liked him a lot
- would have liked to see more from Boeser, Schmaltz, Tkachuk
- Garland made a few nice plays but was overall fairly underwhelming. Struggled at times with the finish D
- standout defenseman for the U.S. was Werenski
- krys and carlo's penalties were both pretty bad. Carlo's a very controllable delay of game where he wound up and took a slapshot with all kinds of time from his own end into the far netting on the pk. Krys penalty came off the rush with the Americans on a 5 x 3 pp. not a good penalty to take
- Walman got toasted pretty bad by puljujärvi that led to a nice Finnish scoring chance
- Rantanen looked solid for the fins
- puljujärvi as mentioned showed nice speed producing a scoring opportunity but got off a poor shot. Sprung on the play off a nice pass by Laine
All I can think of right now, hoping the second game is just as entertaining as the first was!