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I hope he plays well too, either way, he's going to give up quite a few goals. The US team has a lot of fire power and the Slovaks looks terrible last night. I've kind of felt bad for him. He's been an easy target to criticize (by local writers), which has came out of no where (other than local fans wanting to see him play earlier this year). He's also been poked fun at by national writers for not seeing any playing time in the two years at UND. If he does play well I'd like to see him get a few games in at UND before the end of the year. Having two good goalies ready to play is a best case scenario. Also, Cam's statistics won't get him in the Richter conversation this year.

oh boy.....at least he'll see a ton of pucks. Hopefully he plays well.

If Tomek's first real game in over a year and a half is against the Canadians that would be terrible Whoever is the goalie tonight is going to get blown up. If he doesn't start tonight I wonder if he get's the US game tomorrow....that would be interesting.

Haha yeah. I just heard from a very reliable source that we missed out on Will Borgen by 24 hours. I guess Borgen was kind of heart broken but had verbally committed to scsu the previous night.

I think keeping Ahcan was the right move. Krys wasn't good at last years tournament and hasn't been very good for BU this year. Ahcan will bring it.

Yeah....sounds like he was a tad rusty. He's awesome though. I'm guessing he's still dinged up. If he goes back to the O and does well from the get go I'll be scratching my head.

Well they are kind of going in the same direction... but this year's forward is slightly deeper.

Logan Brown and Alex DeBrincat cut from the US team. Pretty nuts.

I saw that....he played very very welll considering Sweden is much better than Slovakia this year. 40 saves!. Still would be tough to get that #1 spot considering huska is the man. But either way I'm rooting for him.

He's 16, he'll go through this coming years import draft. He's top three 16 year old on the planet. He gets a lot of press. It was a big deal when he said he'd play in the ushl this year.

I don't disagree. However he was recorded as saying the reason he wasn't in the chl this year was because he felt he was too young. Next year he'll go.

...and he's only 16. I believe he's going the CHL route.

Huh...that has happened. Against BSU and also against teams much worse (MSU).

Agree. In the first part of my post I was addressing the different types (not necessarily the +/- numbers) of defensemen we have on roster. I was responding to a previous post which questioned that we had too many offensive minded dmen.

The surgery was an easy guess as that is a rumor that has been flying around since the goph series.....you also noted the team surgeon was doing it while also noting he was bolting after Christmas. Barring unknown academic issues, he isnt going anywhere.

I'm sure. But had he had surgery in October (prior to MN series) he would already be back now....given the current timeline. So I'm the docs said rest was an option as well. Which many players lean to for obvious reasons. Either way, I heard Jost was hurt last night blocking a shot. He isn't in the game tonight.

Im guessing surgery was an option....but that was have ruled him out of the WJC for sure. Again, he was probably crossing his fingers that it would get better and that he could play in the WJC (which was probably a big reason he didnt sign a pro deal). I mean, he's probably pissed off about this. But to say he doesn't care about UND's schedule is also false, because he probably was hoping (praying) that this injury just went away.

Probably not, Im guessing he had to make a tough decision today as the USA is finalizing rosters. He missed time thinking it would get better...and it obviously didn't. I'm guessing he saw a doctor a few weeks ago and he had two options...have surgery now or wait and see if it gets better (as is usually the case with these types of injuries). Why would he have ruled himself out of the WJC several weeks ago not knowing if he would get better or not?

There is enough F's to still build an elite team....but he would have made a difference. Sounds like he'll be back in January.

Brock having surgery, out for WJC. Dang.

Yeah I get that....I was wondering if there are real odds out there. This year should be a little different I believe.

I haven't see odds but are they the favorite this year? Team USA smoked them this summer and that was with Canada having Marner, Crouse, and Chychrun. USA will be smaller on D but they should be very skilled. Their forward group is deep. Pretty much 4 first lines.

This thread needs to die. On to the World Juniors.

Western is a pretty decent team. We were definitely better, even without Boeser, Shaw, and Jost (from a depth perspective). But Allison and Iccopelli (sp?) shined. Those guys are supposed to shine. Our squad had a lot of passengers Saturday night and our special teams is a joke right now. The positive thing is that we can also beat any team in the country as well. They need to put it all together and make sure they finish in the top 16 in the pairwise....top 12-13 to be safe with conference winners. I've seen folks blame the forwards, D, and goalie at different times this year but the only real problem is our PK and PP scoring. If we had a +90% PK and a +20% PP we're a top 5 team. At this point I'm more frustrated with the PK. This team is built to play 5x5 hockey and grind out wins (important toward the end of the year when the refs start to swallow their whistles).

Luckily their schedule is tough. When they get Boeser, Jost and Shaw back they should get must better. A few wins here and their against higher PW teams should get them in...and that's all that matters.