Official 2015 U20 World Junior Championship Thread

[LegionOfDoom91]

Group A:
-Canada
-Finland
-Germany
-Slovakia
-United States

Group B:
-Czech Republic
-Denmark
-Russia
-Switzerland
-Sweden

Official Website:
http://www.worldjunior2015.com

Schedule:
http://www.worldjunior2015.com/en/games

Flyers Prospects:
Canada:
-D #5 Samuel Morin

Sweden:
-D #14 Robert Hagg
-LW #22 Oskar Lindblom

Draft Eligible Prospects
Canada:
-LW #26 Lawson Crouse (2015 A)
-C #17 Connor McDavid (2015 A)

Czech Republic:
-C #21 David Kase (2015 A)
-RW #23 Michael Spacek (2015 A)
-G #30 Daniel Vladar (2015 A)
-C #14 Pavel Zacha (2015 A)

Denmark:
None

Finland:
-RW #26 Sebastian Aho (2015 B)
-LW #22 Roope Hintz (2015 B)
-C #19 Antti Kalapudas (2015 C)
-D #2 Sami Niku (2015 C)
-RW #13 Jesse Puljujarvi (2016)
-RW #16 Mikko Rantanen (2015 A)

Germany:
None

Russia:
-RW #25 Alexander Dergachyov (2015 B)
-D #29 Ivan Provorov (2015 A)
-D #3 Dimitry Yudin (2015 B)

Slovakia:
-LW #13 Radovan Bondra (2015 C)
-D #14 Erik Cernak (2015 B)

Sweden:
-RW #24 Jens Looke (2015 A)

Switzerland:
-C #13 Luca Hischier (2015 C)
-C #16 Denis Malgin (2015 B)
-RW #28 Timo Meier (2015 A)
-D #25 Jonas Siegenthaler (2015 B)
-RW #18 Kay Schweri (2015 C)
-C #24 Puis Suter (2015 C)

United States:
-D #26 Brandon Carlo (2015 A)
-C #9 Jack Eichel (2015 A)
-D #2 Noah Hanifin (2015 A)
-C #34 Auston Matthews (2016)
-D #23 Zachary Werenski (2015 A)

I used Central Scouting (they had the biggest list) for the rankings:
A = Potential First Round Pick
B = Potential Second/Third Round Pick
C = Potential Fourth/Fifth/Sixth Round Pick

The couple of 2016 kids listed are all highly touted for next year's draft.

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[Karma]

So glad it's back in North America this year instead of Russia or Sweden the past couple years. No more waking up at weird times to watch games.

 

[Striiker]

Yeah, me too. It'll also be great seeing it in that atmosphere.

It'd be amazing to see Morin and Sanheim play there and look good.

 

[Angry Hockey Dad]

I am so excited. Best time of year!

 

[Dirty but Good]

Love this tournament, will be great to see Sanhiem and Morin if they make it.

Really hoping for a USA v Canada gold medal game. Competition should be tough but I think Europe is gonna struggle a bit coming back over to North America ground.

 

[Striiker]

So does everyone involved with the tournament, especially the media, they want to be able to make a huge deal out of McDavid vs Eichel.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Canada's center position will look pretty underwhelming if they don't get any NHLers back. McDavid will be coming off injury around that time so he could potentially be rusty entering the tournament. They're usually good for goaltending collapse as well.

USA will probably have some younger players in key positions so that could go anyway. I just hope they give DeAngelo a fair shake this camp & cut out the bs politics.

 

[usahockey22flyers]

Anyone going up for this? I'll be at all of USA's games, and probably a few other random ones that I wasn't able to sell.

 

[kudymen]

So glad it's back in North America this year instead of Russia or Sweden the past couple years. No more waking up at weird times to watch games.

Speak for yourself

 

[Jtown]

when does camp start? when are final rosters announced?

 

[sa cyred]

Preliminary (?) rosters for Sweden were released. Hagg and Lindbolm are on the list.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Canada's center position will look pretty underwhelming if they don't get any NHLers back. McDavid will be coming off injury around that time so he could potentially be rusty entering the tournament. They're usually good for goaltending collapse as well.

USA will probably have some younger players in key positions so that could go anyway. I just hope they give DeAngelo a fair shake this camp & cut out the bs politics.

McDavid
Reinhart
Petan
Fabbri
Gauthier
Dickinson
Point
Chartier

Still a pretty good group. If anything they will be weak at RW.

 

[Curufinwe]

How were the groups decided?

 

[Coffe]

Preliminary (?) rosters for Sweden were released. Hagg and Lindbolm are on the list.

Yep, preliminary roster. Carrying 3 goalies, 7 D-men and 14 forwards right now w/o Burakovsky so a couple of guys will be cut I assume.


On a related topic. We did a fantasy draft at last years WJC, any interest to do it again this year? If so I could start a separate thread.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

McDavid
Reinhart
Petan
Fabbri
Gauthier
Dickinson
Point
Chartier

Still a pretty good group. If anything they will be weak at RW.

I'm not really a big Reinhart fan. I'm not really big on Gauthier neither. I just don't think they matchup well against a team like USA for example who has skill & size down the middle.

 

[FLYguy3911]

I'm not really a big Reinhart fan.

Me either but he's still solid and if he struggles they have plenty of depth.

 

[FlyTimmo]

Yep, preliminary roster. Carrying 3 goalies, 7 D-men and 14 forwards right now w/o Burakovsky so a couple of guys will be cut I assume.


On a related topic. We did a fantasy draft at last years WJC, any interest to do it again this year? If so I could start a separate thread.

So is this Hagg's 3rd WJC?

 

[FLYguy3911]

So is this Hagg's 3rd WJC?

Yeah. He made it as 17 year old as an injury replacement.

 

[flyershockey]

So is this Hagg's 3rd WJC?

Yes, and most have him on the top pair.

 

[Philadelphia Ducks]

My friend has the Toronto tournament tickets to this. So we'll see all Group B games, semis, and finals. I'm hoping I'll be able to tag along to some/most of these games. So excited.

 

[Philadelphia Ducks]

How were the groups decided?

It's determined from where you placed the year before.

 

[FlyTimmo]

Yeah. He made it as 17 year old as an injury replacement.

After looking at SWE roster he is the heaviest guy on the ice for them. Their D-core doesn't look very physical it would be nice to see Hagg throw around his weight a little this tourney.

 

[chupanibre]

excited for this!! not long now

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I added a list of draft eligible players who made camp rosters, if/when they make the final roster I'll add their numbers as well as take out the guys who didn't make the cut. The same goes for the Flyers prospects.

Some teams had more draft eligible players but if they weren't on Central Scouting's list I didn't list them. Also some teams didn't release a camp roster yet (the ones that have no names listed), I'll just add them at the start of the tournament.

 

[daynus]

Yah it's good to get the tourney in na. These crazy time zones in Sweden and Russia were pretty grinding. Get up at 4 am local time to watch requires bulk energy drinks.
Hagg was pretty much a shutdown d for Sweden last year. Had a few hits, good skater, good passer. He is gonna be a two way dman in the bigs, so I hope Sweden uses him as one.