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WJC: 2020 Team USA Roster Talk

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I'm really looking forward to seeing Turcotte and Zegras this Christmas. I think a true test for them at this stage in their careers.
 
Choralone said:
Kaliyev has developed underrated playmaking abilities; he's not just a one-trick pony. I, for one, would love to see the two Kings prospects together.
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I can 2nd second this point. I've gotten to watch him live this year a few times and he can move the puck almost as well as he can shoot it. It opens up a lot more room for him when he has the puck, so he's racking up the points like he should be
 
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Jaykay said:
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Pretty stacked. Should be the tournament favourite. Now imagine if they had Hughes and Farabee!
 
Interesting that team USA will be bringing their entire camp to Czech Republic. So you fly everyone over there and cut a kid while he's in a foreign country. Seems odd. Have they done this in the past?
 
ReLyT said:
Interesting that team USA will be bringing their entire camp to Czech Republic. So you fly everyone over there and cut a kid while he's in a foreign country. Seems odd. Have they done this in the past?
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I think the NTDP did it at the U18 WC last year. Brought Landon Slaggert to Sweden but didn't roster him and then cut him when they added Bobby Brink, so he ended up not playing in the tournament but also missed the USHL playoffs as well.
 
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William H Bonney said:
Agreed. We're at a point where there's basically 5 favorites each year and doing well in this tournament is about a lot more than the perceived strength of a paper roster.
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Like all single-elimination tournaments where there is some level of parity, it will generally come down to a hot goaltender like Lukkonen in 2019, Hart in 2018, and Parsons in 2017. That tends to be the margin. Other factors come into play, if your team is leaking shots against you'll eventually run into trouble regardless of the goalie.
 
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SpartanProdigy said:
I think the NTDP did it at the U18 WC last year. Brought Landon Slaggert to Sweden but didn't roster him and then cut him when they added Bobby Brink, so he ended up not playing in the tournament but also missed the USHL playoffs as well.
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That situation was maddening, completely unfair to Slaggert, and avoidable. Both Kaliyev and Robertson were available at the time but USAH didn't pick them because Coach Wroblewski wanted Brink and he wasn't yet available. So they took an undeserving U17 instead, wasted his time, and hurt his development. I'm not surprised that he's had a disappointing U18 campaign thus far given how USAH treated him to end his U17 season.

USAH does a lot wrong, including at the WJC, but that Slaggert situation is an egregious example.
 
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ReLyT said:
Interesting that team USA will be bringing their entire camp to Czech Republic. So you fly everyone over there and cut a kid while he's in a foreign country. Seems odd. Have they done this in the past?
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Don't forget... they get to cut the kid on Christmas!
 
93LEAFS said:
Like all single-elimination tournaments where there is some level of parity, it will generally come down to a hot goaltender like Lukkonen in 2019, Hart in 2018, and Parsons in 2017. That tends to be the margin. Other factors come into play, if your team is leaking shots against you'll eventually run into trouble regardless of the goalie.
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Special teams, in particular the power play, is as important as goalie play too. 4 of the last 5 gold medalists have also had the tournament's top PP. Harder to quantify but team chemistry matters a lot too. There's a long list of stacked paper rosters that crashed and burned in the tournament because the team couldn't find the right line combinations or they didn't gel quickly enough.
 
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ReLyT said:
Interesting that team USA will be bringing their entire camp to Czech Republic. So you fly everyone over there and cut a kid while he's in a foreign country. Seems odd. Have they done this in the past?
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I, for one, wouldn't mind a free trip to a foreign country as a consolation prize.
 
Jaykay said:
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Kaliyev-Zegras-Brink
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Jones

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Has Gruden been cut or are you just expecting this to be the line up?
 
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