GDT: 2020-21 IIHF WJC, Edmonton/Red Deer, Canada: 12/25/20 - 1/5/21

[Ziggy Stardust]

Judging by today's scores, we may surmise that the Canadian and Russian junior teams are severely lacking in talent and offense and their futures are doomed. Post your overreactions in here.

That said, a pretty damn good day for Kings prospects.

 

[Sleeping Dog]

Parik shutout!!!

And Czech player of game!!

 

[ru4reals]

9 prospects everyone has a point and now a win with a shutout. Not bad at all!!!

 

[SufferingSelfCreated]

Parik,looked poised. Tbf,the defense in front of him was spectacular, and he didn't face many,if any,grade A scoring chances. But talk about a confidence booster! He looked great

 

[ru4reals]

Next two games is not going to be easy for the U.S. seeing how the Czechs was stellar against the Russians. We can possibly lose our next 2 games. Crazy what can happen, why you can never get too comfortable.

 

[Ghetty Green]

For all the talk about Byfield being the next Kopitar, he sure looks like January slump Kopitar out there

It's like he hasn't played a game in 9 months or something...

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[ricardfromage]

This is the way

This is the way........As long as we stick to it.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

It's like he hasn't played a game in 9 months or something...

Neither have most of the other kids out there

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Neither have most of the other kids out there

And they all looked bad yesterday in failing to generate much offense, so they must project into some bad NHLers in the future.

 

[crassbonanza]

And they all looked bad yesterday in failing to generate much offense, so they must project into some bad NHLers in the future.

For a good chunk of the fanbase this is the first live opportunity to watch the Kings most hyped prospect since Doughty so it shouldn't be shocking that people were expecting to see a little bit more from him. The tourney is still early and he should hopefully get plenty of opportunity to shine, but the beginning hasn't been great. I don't think most people are calling him a bust, they are just a bit let down by the performance so far and this is also compounded by Stutzle looking fantastic.

I personally think that the 15 extra pounds he gained is weighing him down(no pun intended), he definitely looks gassed towards the ends of shifts and in the latter part of games. Hopefully he can get up to speed because it would be a lot of fun to have a Kings prospect dominate the WJC(although, Fagemo somewhat did last year).

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[ru4reals]

Austria vs. Sweden is unwatchable my goodness. Swedes literally skating circles over and over again around the Austrians. Gotta give credit to the Austrian goalie for standing in there for the pounding.

 

[King'sPawn]

Austria vs. Sweden is unwatchable my goodness. Swedes literally skating circles over and over again around the Austrians. Gotta give credit to the Austrian goalie for standing in there for the pounding.

2-0 Sweden, outshooting Austria 27-1.

 

[riznat]

Austria vs. Sweden is unwatchable my goodness. Swedes literally skating circles over and over again around the Austrians. Gotta give credit to the Austrian goalie for standing in there for the pounding.

Bjornfot is looking good at least, no points but looks very comfortable in the offensive zone. But I know, gotta take into account the competition as well, the Austrians are likely exhausted right now and still have half the game to go.

 

[King'sPawn]

Tough potential injury for Raymond, who the Red Wings took 4th overall.

 

[ru4reals]

Tough potential injury for Raymond, who the Red Wings took 4th overall.

Sorry I turned it off just sad to watch but what happened to Raymond?

 

[King'sPawn]

Sorry I turned it off just sad to watch but what happened to Raymond?

It looks like he was preparing for a collision that happened differently, and he went into the boards awkwardly.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Dach out 4-5 months.

 

[ru4reals]

It looks like he was preparing for a collision that happened differently, and he went into the boards awkwardly.

Man he looked like he was knocked out a bit there. Not good sheesh. Hate seeing players go down even if they're not our prospects. Man that bites and now Dach is out 4-5 months too.

 

[Steve Zissou]

Bummer for the Hawks. Dach will be back with more hunger.

But they lucked out with Kubalik, so there's that.

 

[ru4reals]

Looks like Raymond is back good to see.

 

[crassbonanza]

Saw this tweet in another thread and was pretty impressed by Turks possession numbers.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

But we’ve been told repeatedly that Turcotte isn’t that good.

 

[tny760]

But we’ve been told repeatedly that Turcotte isn’t that good.

no surprise, the main board blows their wads at spinoramas and have no understanding of the value of 2 way play