U20: 2019 World Junior Summer Showcase

[Star Ocean]

Raymond & Holtz should play Hlinka instead

Nah they carried u18 to gold and should learn to play with the u20 team. Good experience.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Filthy goal by Robertson

 

[Leafidelity]

Nice strip and goal from Robertson

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

26 for Sweden has been terrible

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

delete

 

[ProspectsFanatic]

26 for Sweden has been terrible

Was to be expected for a player playing hockey for the first time since November struggling with a back injury
HockeyBuzz.com - Bob Duff - Swedes Cautious With Berggren

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

Was to be expected for a player playing hockey for the first time since November struggling with a back injury
HockeyBuzz.com - Bob Duff - Swedes Cautious With Berggren

Ahh makes sense. Two abysmal lazy turnovers today.

 

[TeddyBare]

If you were to analyze every pass canada made in the finland game

I would confidently say 95% were either in the skates or missed the player outright.

 

[Star Ocean]

What is Wernblom doing on the swedish team.

 

[AB13]

What is Wernblom doing on the swedish team.

Monten afraid to use youngsters as usual. Absolute joke to not see Noel Gunler and Simon Holmström playing.

 

[perolofbrasar]

Monten afraid to use youngsters as usual. Absolute joke to not see Noel Gunler and Simon Holmström playing.

It's crazy to see SHL-players like Fagemo, Lundkvist, Cederqvist, Eriksson and Ginning being toyed with like this. Perhaps it's time to call bullshit on SHL as a general yardstick for quality - unless you are are a true impact player.

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

It's crazy to see SHL-players like Fagemo, Lundkvist, Cederqvist, Eriksson and Ginning being toyed with like this. Perhaps it's time to call bull**** on SHL as a general yardstick for quality - unless you are are a true impact player.

and most of these guys are 1st, 2nd or 3 round picks aswell. They should do better!

 

[AB13]

It's crazy to see SHL-players like Fagemo, Lundkvist, Cederqvist, Eriksson and Ginning being toyed with like this. Perhaps it's time to call bull**** on SHL as a general yardstick for quality - unless you are are a true impact player.

It really is crazy, but doesn’t say anything about the SHL as a league. A few players don’t say much about a whole league. The SHL is still very much the third best league in the world.

The players really should do better, but Monten is an absolute joke too.

 

[Star Ocean]

It's crazy to see SHL-players like Fagemo, Lundkvist, Cederqvist, Eriksson and Ginning being toyed with like this. Perhaps it's time to call bull**** on SHL as a general yardstick for quality - unless you are are a true impact player.

Elias Pettersson looked meh at this tournament so it might not be a great measure stick in summer

 

[Lambo]

Finland vs Canada 8:3! Wow!

 

[perolofbrasar]

Elias Pettersson looked meh at this tournament so it might not be a great measure stick in summer

He was pretty meh in the wjc as well. Except for pp, which obviously counts as well - not the least as the Swedish WJSS team so far is 0% in pp through three games...

 

[IceColdOx]

Finland vs Canada 8:3! Wow!

Finland is no joke. You're going to see a run of Finns get drafted.

 

[Lambo]

Finland is no joke. You're going to see a run of Finns get drafted.

Yes of course! But Canada is Canada. It s always impressive for me, to beat them.

 

[Chainshot]

It's crazy to see SHL-players like Fagemo, Lundkvist, Cederqvist, Eriksson and Ginning being toyed with like this. Perhaps it's time to call bull**** on SHL as a general yardstick for quality - unless you are are a true impact player.

And the tournament is not indicative of U20 success. Look at the records over the last few years, it doesn't correlate in December.


Edit - @William H Bonney did the grunt work on that - it is in the US 2020 U20 thread. Credit where credit is due.

 

[UnSandvich]

It's crazy to see SHL-players like Fagemo, Lundkvist, Cederqvist, Eriksson and Ginning being toyed with like this. Perhaps it's time to call bull**** on SHL as a general yardstick for quality - unless you are are a true impact player.

Could be wrong, but didn't Lundkvist get hurt in Game 1? Pretty sure he was being held out for the rest of the tourney.

 

[theslatcher]

Could be wrong, but didn't Lundkvist get hurt in Game 1? Pretty sure he was being held out for the rest of the tourney.

He got injured against USA Blue yeah and won't play any more games.

 

[kelsier]

Woah! What happened there? The Finnish team wasn't even that strong on the paper. Then again talking about strange occurrences in hockey, when a punch of nobodies win a gold at @ Worlds' then what's one individual game compared to that. Kind of meaningless result, but still nice.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Woah! What happened there? The Finnish team wasn't even that strong on the paper. Then again talking about strange occurrences in hockey, when a punch of nobodies win a gold at @ Worlds' then what's one individual game compared to that. Kind of meaningless result, but still nice.

Defense looks pretty good on paper imo.

 

[JK2K]

Canadian goalie struggled badly
Hunter did not change lines or do anything to light a fire.
Kept putting out his players (Foudy) and others he knows from the O.
One game.

 

[AB13]

Could be wrong, but didn't Lundkvist get hurt in Game 1? Pretty sure he was being held out for the rest of the tourney.

That is true, he was injured in the first game.