GDT: [Official]: WJC Thread
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Johnny Hoxville
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Johnny Hoxville
The Return of a Legend
Strome finds Marner across the crease on the PP. Then Marner burys it with a Cammyesque snipe down on one knee. 5-1 Canada!
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Canada's missing that game breaking talent. Coaching is also subpar (Same old Lowry) On some level, it might have been interesting to see what a 19 year old Sam Bennett could have done.
Blackwood has looked pretty solid though. Think he takes the starters job from hereinafter.
Didn't notice Hickey much but that's probably a good thing.
Blackwood has looked pretty solid though. Think he takes the starters job from hereinafter.
Didn't notice Hickey much but that's probably a good thing.
Johnny Hoxville
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By my count the Hickey-Fleury pairing has allowed 2 scoring chances in 3 games. Although I did miss the first five minutes of todays game. None in the last two games. I'd say they are playing pretty good 
Blackwood looked really solid back there.
Mitch Marner... Remember when Leaf fans were saying he was better then Eichel and should have gone second overall? They also said Strome would bust . He reminds me of John Drouin from two years ago so much. Just terrible overall. Holding onto the puck too long, making the extra play, whether its an extra deke or extra pass. He looks flashy but at the end of the day he creates very little and is a turnover machine. There were at least three or four times he didn't pass to some wide open guy in the scoring area and he tried to deke three guys and surprise surprise he lost the puck.
Blackwood looked really solid back there.
Mitch Marner... Remember when Leaf fans were saying he was better then Eichel and should have gone second overall
? They also said Strome would bust . He reminds me of John Drouin from two years ago so much. Just terrible overall. Holding onto the puck too long, making the extra play, whether its an extra deke or extra pass. He looks flashy but at the end of the day he creates very little and is a turnover machine. There were at least three or four times he didn't pass to some wide open guy in the scoring area and he tried to deke three guys and surprise surprise he lost the puck.After a few hours away, I still think it was a disappointing win and poor effort. Many of the puck battles the Swiss won, when the Canadians should have.
One thing I'm appalled by is the coaching, specifically Lowry's line decisions and ice management. It is unacceptable when Mitch Marner is on the ice for more than two minutes at a time, especially when the team is playing on the back-end of a back-to-back. Another issue about the time management is the fact that Canada has four extremely capable scoring lines. Why exhaust the Quennville/Chartier - Marner - Point (not like they played well, either) line, when Travis Konecny and Matt Barzal are sitting on the bench 10 minutes at a time.
While Hicketts did play fine this game, how in the world are him and Dermott playing over the likes of Sanheim and Hickey? It makes no sense and I feel Lowry is simply playing favorites here. It was confirmed to me when Hicketts won Player of the Game, as I believe the coaches pick. Again, the lines he is choosing is simply confusing when Matthew Barzal is not getting ice-time while Marner is, who was struggling a lot in the game.
Also, Hicketts apparently played 4:15 minutes in OT; again, poor ice management when you have Sanheim who didn't play at all in OT. Why?!?
Hickey has played fairly well in the tournament. I counted one mistake, where Hickey pinched and it resulted in a two-on-one, but like TJ Brodie, he quickly skated back and disrupted the counter-attack.
If I'm Lowry, here are the lines for the next game:
Crouse - Strome - Virtanen (best line in the game even tho Virtanen has been a passenger, on the ice for both goals)
Perlini - Marner - Barzal (Barzal played with Marner for a bit in the 3rd and they seemed to click)
Konecny - Point - Beauviller
Chartier - Stephens - Quenneville
Hickey - Sanheim
Hicketts - Fleury
Chabot - Dermott
Blackwood
Split Dermott and Hicketts, no point in two offensive-dfenseman on the same pairing. Put Hickey with Sanheim as I think Hickey is very responsible in his own end and it lets Sanheim do his thing.
Also, please do something about the power play! They play too much on the perimeter and the power play in the 3rd period was amateur!
One thing I'm appalled by is the coaching, specifically Lowry's line decisions and ice management. It is unacceptable when Mitch Marner is on the ice for more than two minutes at a time, especially when the team is playing on the back-end of a back-to-back. Another issue about the time management is the fact that Canada has four extremely capable scoring lines. Why exhaust the Quennville/Chartier - Marner - Point (not like they played well, either) line, when Travis Konecny and Matt Barzal are sitting on the bench 10 minutes at a time.
While Hicketts did play fine this game, how in the world are him and Dermott playing over the likes of Sanheim and Hickey? It makes no sense and I feel Lowry is simply playing favorites here. It was confirmed to me when Hicketts won Player of the Game, as I believe the coaches pick. Again, the lines he is choosing is simply confusing when Matthew Barzal is not getting ice-time while Marner is, who was struggling a lot in the game.
Also, Hicketts apparently played 4:15 minutes in OT; again, poor ice management when you have Sanheim who didn't play at all in OT. Why?!?
By my count the Hickey-Fleury pairing has allowed 2 scoring chances in 3 games. Although I did miss the first five minutes of todays game. None in the last two games. I'd say they are playing pretty good
Hickey has played fairly well in the tournament. I counted one mistake, where Hickey pinched and it resulted in a two-on-one, but like TJ Brodie, he quickly skated back and disrupted the counter-attack.
If I'm Lowry, here are the lines for the next game:
Crouse - Strome - Virtanen (best line in the game even tho Virtanen has been a passenger, on the ice for both goals)
Perlini - Marner - Barzal (Barzal played with Marner for a bit in the 3rd and they seemed to click)
Konecny - Point - Beauviller
Chartier - Stephens - Quenneville
Hickey - Sanheim
Hicketts - Fleury
Chabot - Dermott
Blackwood
Split Dermott and Hicketts, no point in two offensive-dfenseman on the same pairing. Put Hickey with Sanheim as I think Hickey is very responsible in his own end and it lets Sanheim do his thing.
Also, please do something about the power play! They play too much on the perimeter and the power play in the 3rd period was amateur!
Johnny Hoxville
The Return of a Legend
Alpha, really good assessment man. I agree on all points. Barzal reminds me of Giroux and if it were me I'd playing him with Gauthier/Crouse and Konecny. But yeah the management overall has been pretty brutal.
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Top scorers in U20 history that were under 18. Pulju now has 10 points in three games
You're going to be really distraught when Finland gets eliminated in the first round.
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Top scorers in U20 history that were under 18. Pulju now has 10 points in three games
Haha Reichel>McDavid, suck it Oilers!
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Also, Puljujärvi will be drafted by CBJ because no other GM can pronounce his name at the podium.
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