obviously i have not a best feeling about the nomination and about the whole tournament. first step must be quaterfinal, but like joey16 said, it won't be easy since Denmark and Switzerland are dangerous as hell this year. and then by some mirracle avoid Canada and USA in the quarterfinals..
but yeah lets be positive, altough the omissions this year's group is still much better than the last year. and we still could make some noise here.
Prerost said they want 4th line full of big and strong forwards, so who is it? i guess Vozenilek, Ruzicka? 1st line is Vrana with Kämpf and Kase, 2nd Pasta with Zacha(i hope) and maybe Kubalik? the 3rd it will be between Spacek, Mandat, Zdrahal and Kase..and the defense definitely doesn't look that horrible as the last year did, despite Zboril's omission still hurts..
So this team still could show something, i will support them, i just can't stand that incompetent idiot on the bench
Its definitely hard to be positive. It makes no sense to cut Karabacek. It makes me sick to my stomach because we wait a whole year to finally have a chance at a medal and this is what happens? very frustrating. But we will have to see how the team plays and how far they go before we can truly criticize everything that Prerost has done. WE feel like this team could be better. But we don't see everything that the coaches do. So we have to be patient and wait for the tournament to start.
I believe that after just the first game against Sweden, we will already know if Prerost made good choices or not. Im worried that we get beat pretty good but you never know. These lines still look good.
Vrana-Kampf-O.Kase
Kubalik-Zacha-Pastrnak
D.Kase/Zdrahal-Mandat-Spacek
Those top 2 lines are amazing.
O.Kase-is believed to be one of the biggest steals of the 2014 Draft. He has been playing very well.
Zacha-Ive seen him play live this year in Sarnia. He is the real deal. And I think he could be one of our top scorers. He is so so good at every single aspect of the game (especially shooting. OMG) and defenders will have a hard time with this kid.
I don't have to say anything about Vrana and Pastrnak but they could be 2 of the top 5 players in this tournament.( I don't think its a stretch to say that either.)They have both been on fire this year. Pastrnak had another nice goal last night. 26 points in 23 games in the AHL. WOW.
Kubalik played well in the 4 nations tournament and hes had a good year and Kampf has that chemistry with O.Kase that will get a lot of goals.
The 3rd line? they will still be tough to handle. Spacek is the best forward of the 97 group after Zacha. The kid knows how to play and I expect great things from him as well as D.Kase who is also an exciting and skilled player. I believe that these 2 will really raise their draft stock by the end of it all.
I still have high hopes for this team. On paper it doesn't look as good as it should BUT. look at how far we got last year with the team we had. Our team sucked yet we made the QF and should have beat Finland (eventual Gold medalisits) if it weren't for Libor Sulak. What does this mean? it means that Prerost has some coaching ability and we can't lose all hope just yet. I don't think we could win Gold, But I sure believe we could make the final.
Lets have some faith in our boys!
CESI DO TO HO
