Great Britain: WC D1B Vilnius, Lithuania

[3 Minute Minor]

Swindlehurst made it.

K. Phillips & Matt Towe were the last 2 cuts.

 

[Siamese Dream]

Swindlehurst made it.

K. Phillips & Matt Towe were the last 2 cuts.

Murphy
Bowns
Will

O'Connor - Richardson
Weaver - Meyers
Lee - D. Phillips
Swindlehurst

Dowd - Shields - Tait
Lachowichz - Myers - Clarke
Farmer - M.Davies - Hewitt
J. Phillips - Garside - Hill
B.Davies

Based on reported lines from the warmup games.

I feel confident that those are 6 D and 4 lines that can and should be rolled

 

[3 Minute Minor]

If Tait is anything like the last couple years, he might end up the 13th fwd before the tournament is over lol

 

[ChaiTiefling]

Given how he played last year and vs the Dutch there's no way Ben Davies will be the 13th forward.

 

[crobro]

Is there a live thread for the GB croatia game?

 

[3 Minute Minor]

Is there a live thread for the GB croatia game?

I don't know if there will be anything in the International Tournaments section but I'll likely be posting in here.

 

[Lynx54321]

2-0 down after the 1st despite dominating possession, oh dear .

And the stream I'm watching is showing last years match again Hungary in the interval just to keep my morale up .

 

[3 Minute Minor]

2-0 down after the 1st despite dominating possession, oh dear .

And the stream I'm watching is showing last years match again Hungary in the interval just to keep my morale up .

haha ye what the hell are they thinking showing these old games?


Nothing worse than carrying the play throughout the first period and going down by 2 early.

The gap in talent between GB and Croatia is a bit wider than I thought it'd be.

I really like that Davies-Dowd-Davies line. They're so small but so fast and shifty.



Also been impressed that GB isn't in penalty trouble yet lol

 

[3 Minute Minor]

That 4th line group of Phillips-Garside-Hewitt-Hill waste so many possessions...

 

[Shrimper]

We lost to Croatia? Didn't expect that.

 

[3 Minute Minor]

We lost to Croatia? Didn't expect that.

Croatia has 14 guys on the KHL roster or in the KHL system, 2 in Austria, then 1 in Slovakia Denmark and SM Liiga.

The KHL growth have these guys training & playing at higher qualities and a lot of them are training/playing together most of the year.

 

[cave troll]

Reality is this:
KHL players : Martinovic, Letang
Fringe KHL players : Kostovic, Waugh - but with experience in NLA, EBEL or AHL
EBEL player: MacAulay
INL (AUT-SLO): Novak
SM Liiga: Rendulic
Denmark 1st legaue: Kanaet - with EBEL experience
Slovak 2nd league reserve : Tomljenovic
KHL roster spot but no exprience in play : Sakic
German 3rd league with Slovak league experience: Markovic
All other players are amateurs.

Not playing this championship: Andy Sertich (EBEL)

 

[Lynx54321]

Problem is whilst most of the GB team might be better than Croatia's amateurs they're also a long way off the likes of Martinovic and Rendulic. We don't have properly good players. O'Connor is the closest but not much else.

 

[cave troll]

GB started good. They dominated first 10 minutes but during the game individual quality of top croatian players started to show up.
Like i wrote before, our Top4 defencemen are above the level of GB league, and they dominated in croatian slot. It'a hard to score when you can't put a player infront of opposition's goalie.
GB coach did a good analysis after the game.

 

[Siamese Dream]

So basically Croatia beat us with their ringers I.e. cheated

 

[3 Minute Minor]

lol clicked send on that PM too early.

Ben Bowns starting vs. Romania!!!!

Been waiting for this for a couple years now lol

 

[Lynx54321]

Bah I'm in work so going to miss it. Expecting a full account to read through when I get home lads .

 

[Siamese Dream]

I'm watching this before I watch last night's Game of Thrones

I had better not be let down

 

[3 Minute Minor]

This is exactly like last night minus the 2 weak first period goals against lol

 

[Siamese Dream]

This is like watching the Rangers under Tortorella, the reason I hardly ever watch the NHL anymore

 

[3 Minute Minor]

****ing finally.

 

[Siamese Dream]

And it's a power play goal!

 

[3 Minute Minor]

my feed is bad but looked like colin shields took a puck to the David Longstaff.

 

[3 Minute Minor]

It's weird watching GB and not seeing a parade to the penalty box

 

[3 Minute Minor]

You can't review goalie interference so I doubt that's what they were looking at lol