WJC 2025

[sioux rube]

 

[SiouxForever]

19 hours ago, Clark17 said:

Boisvert should be on Canada roster as well

Pretty crazy he didn’t get a sniff as a first round draft pick and also having an excellent first half of college hockey against physical mature and stronger young adults. 

[stoneySIOUX]

35 minutes ago, SiouxForever said:

Pretty crazy he didn’t get a sniff as a first round draft pick and also having an excellent first half of college hockey against physical mature and stronger young adults. 

Unfortunately not crazy. Pretty much par for the course. After watching the Canada-Finland game last night, Sasha is certainly as good as any of that forward group. So stupid he's not there.

[cberkas]

1 hour ago, SiouxForever said:

Pretty crazy he didn’t get a sniff as a first round draft pick and also having an excellent first half of college hockey against physical mature and stronger young adults. 

Wood was cut from that team and he's doing better. 

[sioux rube]

1 hour ago, stoneySIOUX said:

Unfortunately not crazy. Pretty much par for the course. After watching the Canada-Finland game last night, Sasha is certainly as good as any of that forward group. So stupid he's not there.

Canada passed on quite a few players including one that leads the OHL in scoring. I think a lot of these coaches are like Herb was when he choose the '80 Olympic team, and we know how many excellent players he left off that team 

[stoneySIOUX]

2 hours ago, sioux rube said:

Canada passed on quite a few players including one that leads the OHL in scoring. I think a lot of these coaches are like Herb was when he choose the '80 Olympic team, and we know how many excellent players he left off that team 

Fair enough. My point was that Sasha certainly looks like he would have fit with the team talent wise.

[sioux rube]

15 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

Fair enough. My point was that Sasha certainly looks like he would have fit with the team talent wise.

I'm not disagreeing with you at all. Would have loved to see him on Team Canada 

[90siouxfan]

Still no Russia eh?

 

[SiouxFan100]

Need the hockey fix

[Clark17]

28 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

I'm not disagreeing with you at all. Would have loved to see him on Team Canada 

me too

[brianvf]

https://www.flohockey.tv/articles/13327487-what-we-learned-from-usas-10-4-win-over-germany-in-world-juniors-opener

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USA may have run away with the game, but there were signs in the opening 40 minutes that the defense has some work to do. Germany got a few good looks in transition and off of turnovers, including the second goal that arguably should have been overturned for offside. The fourth goal Germany scored came directly off of a turnover by a U.S. defenseman coming out of their zone. There just wasn’t a lot of sharpness from Team USA’s defense and if that persists against better teams, they’re going to have problems.

USA’s defensive depth was always a concern coming into this tournament and the first game did little to dissuade that notion.

Emery should be on this team and playing top 4 minutes.
Instead, Team USA is going to have to rely on Buium and Hutson to play a ton of minutes, as outside of those two, there's not a ton of depth.  A shutdown dman like Emery would have paired well with two offensive dmen like those two.
If those two dmen start to get fatigued later in the tourney, the US is gonna be in trouble.

[sioux rube]

Latvia giving Canada all they can handle. 1-0 Canada with 10 to go 

[sioux rube]

Latvia ties it up at 1 

[sioux rube]

And Canada retakes the lead 2-1 on the power play 

[sioux rube]

Latvia returns the favor and ties it at 2 on the power play 

[SiouxFan100]

Going for the underdog 

[sioux rube]

Down goes Canada!!!!

[SiouxFan100]

The shootout was amazing 

[The Sicatoka]

Latvia played their game to near perfection. 

[The Sicatoka]

Canada Tire Center will need a lot of air freshener overnight with all those Canada fans having just crapped their pants.

[SiouxFan100]

The better team doesn’t always win

[cberkas]

Twitter is going to be gold tonight 

[hky]

1 hour ago, brianvf said:

https://www.flohockey.tv/articles/13327487-what-we-learned-from-usas-10-4-win-over-germany-in-world-juniors-opener

Emery should be on this team and playing top 4 minutes.
Instead, Team USA is going to have to rely on Buium and Hutson to play a ton of minutes, as outside of those two, there's not a ton of depth.  A shutdown dman like Emery would have paired well with two offensive dmen like those two.
If those two dmen start to get fatigued later in the tourney, the US is gonna be in trouble.

No way are there 8 better defensemen than Emery. 

4? probably 8?  no. 

[sioux rube]

16 minutes ago, cberkas said:

Twitter is going to be gold tonight 

It's hilarious 

 

[Wilbur]

Now the USA needs to make a point and beat Latvia like 8-1.  Latvia just won their superbowl, overwhelm them early and don't let them hang around.