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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.

To be honest....it's more than those guys.

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Great post. We are missing this concept completely. We are playing like their is way less time than there actually is. Panicking and simply throwing a bad angle shot on net praying for a tip. Those shots are ok in many cases but when there's a back door pass open (creating odd man opportunities), u don't throw it blindly on net.

Very true. Many folks are calling out the talent, and I don't buy that. All these boys were very good junior players.....they are all just used to guys like jost and boeser bailing them out. Yesterday's problem was a lack of effort (both mental and physical). Super tough game to watch. When a team is resorting to throwing the puck to the net blindly from the corners of the ozone (on the power play), they have no confidence.

Western's ok and we were missing some guys obviously. But that was the ugliest loss I've seen in a while. Way worse than those msu games. Roughly 14 minutes of penalties in the 3rd period alone ( against a team with no pk) and they lose the period (and game). To come off a strong second and !@#$ the bed in the third is terrible. They lost every wall battle in the third. Not to mention they were down a dman for most of the third.

Second period looked good....but this start to the third is bad.

Beyond bad....and they can't win draws

Ausmus looks good tonight

No one has ripped on jost. If there is a Sunday morning practice that makes sense.

At this point a kill is a strong pk with this bunch

Wolanin is real good.

Worst pk in Sioux history?

Our 4th is looking pretty rough

This is good though, some other guys will get more advantageous shifts.

Agreed. But the kids from other countries are all playing. If they played tonight it would not affect anything....other than risking injury.

Is fabbro playing for BU tonight? All the other US boys are playing for their respective teams.

Jost not playing to prep for Canada camp? That's a first.

Interesting I thought the D played quite well last night night. Missed the last half of the third. Cam had some good looks at pucks.

Wilkie is solid. Snake bit as hell...but solid.

I'm so sick of these goals immediately after ours.

No, it happened prior to the UM series though. I believe it's his bottom (right) hand. He puts a ton of torque on the bottom hand to snap off his shot so hard.