2023 World Junior Championship

[sioux rube]

11 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

When are we going to stop having to watch underachieving USA teams in this tournament? With Russia essentially banned from the tournament for the foreseeable future, we are the best hope to prevent Canada from winning gold. We better step it up.

They won it in 2020

[thUNDer]

2 hours ago, dden3 said:

Wonder if this Slovak goalie would be available to play for us this next semester. 

Nope, believe Starman said Sandy got him

[stoneySIOUX]

1 hour ago, sioux rube said:

They won it in 2020

Beat me to it lol. 2020-21, 16-17, 13-14, 09-10. Medaled in 18-19, 17-18, 15-16, 10-11.

So, since 2011 -- 4 golds, 1 silver, 3 bronze and 5 no medals. 

Not sure I'd consider that under-achieving in any shape or form, but a lot of people on here could LOL.

[The Sicatoka]

3 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Fire pecker?

Not sure we want to know what you’re doing right now.    

[sioux rube]

Canadiens took their frustrations out on Germany by the tune of 11-2 

[The Sicatoka]

You know ... there's what I'll call the "Pecknold Scenario" lurking out there ... 

LAT took SUI to OT (got an OT point) and lost to USA 5-2. LAT has SVK and FIN left. 
USA just lost to SVK and has SUI and FIN left.

Imagine a scenario where USA stumbles twice and LAT picks off someone ... USA could end up in relegation. 

[stoneySIOUX]

2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

You know ... there's what I'll call the "Pecknold Scenario" lurking out there ... 

LAT took SUI to OT (got an OT point) and lost to USA 5-2. LAT has SVK and FIN left. 
USA just lost to SVK and has SUI and FIN left.

Imagine a scenario where USA stumbles twice and LAT picks off someone ... USA could end up in relegation. 

Care to wager? 

[The Sicatoka]

10 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

Care to wager? 

I give it at best 10% chance of all happening. The USA may stumble twice but I don't think LAT pulls off a win over SVK or FIN.   

[stoneySIOUX]

20 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

I give it at best 10% chance of all happening. The USA may stumble twice but I don't think LAT pulls off a win over SVK or FIN.   

I'm hoping for a big bounce back today from the boys. Man, I wish Rand wasn't coaching this team lol.

[The Sicatoka]

FIN 2-0 LAT after 2. 

[The Sicatoka]

4 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

I'm hoping for a big bounce back today from the boys. Man, I wish Rand wasn't coaching this team lol.

SUI is not the team to be hoping for that against. 

Bubs and Dane are Canadians (and not being up there will never get a WJC coaching sniff); but, will USA Hockey ever give Karl Goehring a call even as an assistant? 

[The Sicatoka]

FIN 2-0 LAT about 6 left but LAT going on PP. 

[The Sicatoka]

FIN ENG

FIN 3-0 LAT final 

[The Sicatoka]

SWE CZE each with a donut mid first. 

[The Sicatoka]

This tournament is the "top division".
Someone (assume AUT or LAT) will be relegated to "Division IA" and Norway has earned the right to play "top division" in 2024. 

This link defines the six tiers of IIHF Juniors play: Top, IA, IB, IIA, IIB, and III. 

As the tiers drop, what do they look like? Would IB look like the MN HS AA tourney? Would III look like late night UND intramurals? 

Does someone have a "____ tier would look like _____" reference? 

[The Sicatoka]

SWE 0-0 CZE after one 

[The Sicatoka]

CZE 1-0 SWE at 3:12 into the second

[The Sicatoka]

SWE answers back

1-1 

[The Sicatoka]

SWE 2-1 CZE ... apparently SWE overslept but just showed up. 90 seconds apart. 

[The Sicatoka]

SWE 2-1 CZE after 2

[stoneySIOUX]

1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:

SUI is not the team to be hoping for that against. 

Bubs and Dane are Canadians (and not being up there will never get a WJC coaching sniff); but, will USA Hockey ever give Karl Goehring a call even as an assistant? 

If the US plays like they did against Finland, they'll be fine. It's only game three and still trying to gel. I'm hopeful. Some around here would say I'm always wearing rose colored glasses, however. I swear I won't bring up their xG 

He's very well connected, so I could definitely see it happening. If he's not a UND at the time and a HC elsewhere, I can definitely see it happening. 

[The Sicatoka]

3 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

If the US plays like they did against Finland, they'll be fine. It's only game three and still trying to gel. I'm hopeful. Some around here would say I'm always wearing rose colored glasses, however. I swear I won't bring up their xG 

He's very well connected, so I could definitely see it happening. If he's not a UND at the time and a HC elsewhere, I can definitely see it happening. 

If the USA team that played SVK shows up against SUI it'll not go well. And what is the USA xG ...  

If KG is a HC anywhere but UND I'll be displeased. 

[stoneySIOUX]

Just now, The Sicatoka said:

If the USA team that played SVK shows up against SUI it'll not go well. And what is the USA xG ...  

If KG is a HC anywhere but UND I'll be displeased. 

Agreed. LOL I'm sure I could find it, but I better not!

KG and Jax are two incredible options. Will be interesting down the road.

[The Sicatoka]

SWE 2-1 under 8 to go

[The Sicatoka]

And we are tied.

SWE PP with about 5 minutes left