WJC: World Juniors Journal: 30 Final Thoughts

[UpsideHockey]

There's nothing else going on in hockey, right?

Here's a change of pace one wrapping up my final thoughts on what was a spectacular World Juniors tournament (and yes, I'm from Canada - horrible from our nation's perspective, but great tournament form hockey perpective.

World Juniors Journal: 30 Final Thoughts
(yes, I acknowledged Friedman as the inspiration)

There's a lot of criticism of Canada, but tried to balance it with praise from the nations and players that deserve it.

Feel free to share your thoughts. It was difficult to keep it to thirty.

Link: http://thehockeywriters.com/world-juniors-journal-30-final-thoughts/

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[Rabid Ranger]

Some good questions-although a lot of focus is on the country that finished second and not first.

 

[Yakushev72]

The IIHF lists Russia as having 340 rinks - he lists the number at 260. My guess is that the IIHF is right, and he's wrong. As Russia continues to build rinks continuously, 340 is no doubt already an obsolete number. It justs goes to show that the number of rinks and the number of registered players aren't necessarily indicators of international competitive ability.

 

[UpsideHockey]

The IIHF lists Russia as having 340 rinks - he lists the number at 260. My guess is that the IIHF is right, and he's wrong. As Russia continues to build rinks continuously, 340 is no doubt already an obsolete number. It justs goes to show that the number of rinks and the number of registered players aren't necessarily indicators of international competitive ability.

Thanks Yakushev - your last statement was the point being made - I was going to qualify that numbers are likely constantly changing. Do you have a link to the IIHF page that you cite your numbers from?

Appreciate the comments.

 

[UpsideHockey]

Some good questions-although a lot of focus is on the country that finished second and not first.

Thanks Rabid Ranger - as the author, I still agree with you! I'm fascinated by the way Sweden has transformed themselves consciously over past number of years. Plus, remember the 3 top blueliners they were missing (plus Pettersson as well).

Keeping it to 30 thoughts proved very difficult as I seem to have about 200 floating around.

I also probably focused too much on Team Canada - which could have been a separate piece in itself.