Didn’t get that at all. Don’t feel like he made a big impact on the game, but my expectations for a top 10 pick in his 19yo year are to dominate, and he didn’t.
I have to say I am shocked he’s on the second pairing for 5v5 and the power play. For all the hype I never saw that coming.
Count me as someone who wasn’t very impressed, although he was still solid. He had a great shift in the second period where his skating was on display.
I found he made a couple plays with his skating and hands on the o zone that were impressive but didn’t accomplish much.
I need to see him play a lot more. Limited to 1 game in Michigan, WJHC and world championships last year.
Him being on the 2nd unit is just a dumb decision by the coach, nothing he can do about that. Slovakia played a very difficult defensive neutral zone game i absolutely hate that style of hockey, they generated almost nothing offensively and it seemed the game plan was to play defensively and hope for a bounce off the rush, not a good way to coach imo. USA controlled most of the game but shots were either blocked or slovakia's goalie made the save. Quinn looked fine imo and you could still see the high end talent on some plays.
After every world jr i feel like I am always on here since the micro analyzing that occurs after limited viewings after each game is fine and people are entitled to it but people also form such strong opinions on a game by game basis, its fun to do post game writeup's but unfortunately its not a good way to form opinions without watching a player for a large number of games imo, a prospect being able to impress or not impress you after one game especially in a tournament like this is always going to be a crapshoot.
A players regular season is by far more important to me, I dont get high or low on prospects after world jr's, especially after the complaining about pettersson and boeser prior seasons. Its a random tournament where players are thrown together for a few weeks on lop sided teams. If our prospects play well its a bonus, if they do not as long as they do well in there regular season league's the wjc games are almost irrelevant to me. A players regular season performance imo has been a much better indicator of future success. I actually spent hours arguing with someone on here before the draft who did shift by shift video's of petterssons first wjc and used it to show why he did not want us to draft pettersson.
The denmark/canada game every player looks good on team canada and i am sure every fanbase with prospects is impressed with how each player dominated.
