....my guy, you are clearly a Canucks fan. All your posts are in threads about Canucks players, you post on the Canucks forum, you post about Canucks prospects...there's nothing unbiased about your opinion.
What's the point of lying when this is public information?
I thought ASP had a solid tournament but could have been better. I think his injury probably had something to do with it. I'll fully admit I'm biased because I'm a DRW fan. Would be quite weird to pretend that I'm not.
What does him being a Canucks fan have to do with his analysis?
ASP aside from a couple of assists on the PP from Lekkerimaki one time goals, he was extremely sheltered and did not play as much as Pettersson, Lindstein, Havelid and Willander. He had been constantly exposed defensively numerous of times and was bleeding scoring chances sometimes for his entire shift. I did not see much of that puck moving breakout plays I expected from a PMD who has scored 9 goals in the SHL. It’s fair to say he had a rough tournament and absolutely was not the best defenseman of that tournament. Nor was Gauthier for best forwaed.
That said, I usually take these games with a grain of salt. Lots of players underperform in these world juniors and it took Lekkerimaki his 3rd tourney to be anywhere near productive. Then there’s the Poehling’s and Bellows’s who come out of the world juniors after litting it up and soon after dont really amount to much.
What he’s done in the SHL is what I’d be more focused on. Not the world juniors. ASP is certainly having the better D+1 season and it’s not even close, if we’re doing this ASP/Willander debate. Canucks fans have Hughes, so we’ll take Willander. Detroit fans need a Hughes, ASP could be that.