GDT: WJC: Slovakia – Latvia

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Latvia played extremely well yesterday and solid game today. they just lack top end talent that can score goals.

They were pretty unlucky not to get 1 or 2 in the second period.

 

[Pieck]

Tough to be eliminated while being competitive in every single game. Compare that to Austria in the other group lol. It’s nice to see a group with no pushovers though

 

[debil]

Tough to be eliminated while being competitive in every single game. Compare that to Austria in the other group lol. It’s nice to see a group with no pushovers though

I agree. I'd like to appreciate Latvia team for playing competitive hockey in each game. They were kind of unlucky.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Tough to be eliminated while being competitive in every single game. Compare that to Austria in the other group lol. It’s nice to see a group with no pushovers though

To be fair, there have been quite a lot of decent teams that finish #9. Germany's golden generation in 2020, Finland in 2017, Switzerland in 2015 (finished 5th with 4 points, Muller, Siegenthaler, Fiala, Hischier, Meier, Suter, Malgin all on the roster) and so on. Sometimes it's just how it works.

It's just nice, that hockey had 9 competitive teams even without Russia and Belarus this year.

 

[Czechboy]

I agree. I'd like to appreciate Latvia team for playing competitive hockey in each game. They were kind of unlucky.

Does 'debil' have the same meaning in Slovak as Czech?lol

 

[stastny12]

Germany's golden generation in 2020

They were without many of their "golden" boys, though (Bokk, Seider, Reichel)

 

[SoundAndFury]

They were without many of their "golden" boys, though (Bokk, Seider, Reichel)

They had all of them and more.

Germany U20 at eliteprospects.com

Germany U20 hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at Eliteprospects.com

www.eliteprospects.com

 

[stastny12]

They had all of them and more.

Germany U20 at eliteprospects.com

Germany U20 hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at Eliteprospects.com

www.eliteprospects.com

Yeah. You´re right. My bad. I was thinking about year where they got smashed by Canada.

 

[Czechboy]

Yeah. You´re right. My bad. I was thinking about year where they got smashed by Canada.

This was the 'German's are coming' and will pass Czechs and Slovaks team. I remember at the time saying give it some time and let's see what happens. Bokk has yet to play in NHL. Reichel in 1 NHL point. Peterka with 17 points in his career. They may all still make it but that German 'wave' is really Drai, Seider and Stutzl today and 3 very good AHL players that may or may not become successes. Don't get me wrong I want Germany to rise up but the takes were tough to read at the time for me as I didn't realize two good draft class was all you needed to make it a big 6.

German's drafted since then:

5 guys in 2 years and 2 in top 100. I will cheer for Munzenberger as he's a Oilers pick! Not sure if they have a first rounder coming up this year.