WJC: 2020 Team USA Roster Talk

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

i just don’t get what they are going for with these lines. There are much better combinations, and in these short tournaments is not the place to try and get cute. Put your most skilled players in the best positrons to use their skills.

It's like they are trying to spread the talent around. I feel like that rarely works in these short tournaments. Load up a couple of lines and let them go to town.

 

[ASPIFC]

How they can really see Pinto as a first line center. Least Turcotte should be center. Beecher over Zegras is a bad joke. Like always with USA hockey there is zero confidence for coaching staff.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Coaching could very well submarine this team. Achilles heel for many a U.S. team unfortunately.

 

[Jaykay]

I'm not going to start worrying before they play an actual game.

 

[SpartanProdigy]

I'm sorry but those are awful.

Just awful.

 

[SpartanProdigy]

Beecher and Drury setting up the best goal scorer in the tournament? Is this a joke? Caufield has documented success playing with elite playmakers (Hughes, Zegras). Beecher is a good all-around player but suited for 3rd or 4th line. He is fast, but not creative at all and upon zone entry primarily takes the puck in on the wing using a power move and shoots. That’s literally the only play I’ve ever seen him make and I’ve seen him a lot at the NTDP. This is extremely disappointing.

 

[SpartanProdigy]

They played Zegras w Pivonka and Hall/Janicke at the WJSS as well and Zegras was making amazing plays all over and they couldn’t capitalize for the life of them. You have a team loaded with elite goal scorers and this is how you utilize your best playmaker? Just wow

 

[swoopster]

Yep, if I'm a skilled player I want to be saddled with 2 others who's idea of a hockey stick closely resembles a shovel. Good players need others to play... grinders can grind with anybody.

 

[Dack]

Is Turcotte not your best center? Why is he playing 3LW?

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Is Turcotte not your best center? Why is he playing 3LW?

Turcotte and Zegras are our two best centers.

So naturally they are playing as bottom 6 wingers.

 

[ASPIFC]

Turcotte and Zegras are our two best centers.

So naturally they are playing as bottom 6 wingers.

Two time natty championship coach can see things like this is just beyond me.

 

[Dack]

Turcotte and Zegras are our two best centers.

So naturally they are playing as bottom 6 wingers.

Haha coaches man. Why would you want natural centers who were top 10 picks when you could play older, worse players instead? Also it's funny that Beecher has somehow made his way into the top 6 ahead of players who he played behind last year.

 

[SI90]

I’m flabbergasted.

 

[SI90]

I would go


Kaliyev- Turcotte- Wahlstrom
Robertson-Zegras-Caufield

The wings could be interchangeable. Those are lines 1A1B to me.

 

[SpartanProdigy]

These lines are basically saying, let’s go and try to win 2-1 games when you have the roster to be playing 6-2 games.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Miller is easily your best defenseman...

Unfortunately, and I say this as a Rangers fan, he’s not. But he’s somewhere in the conversation among our better defensemen. We need him to have a good tournament.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Beecher and Hall are solid 200 ft players. Beecher
had a great WJSS and has been good at Michigan.
Janicke can't hold Beecher's jock.

How many games have you seen Janicke play?

 

[ASPIFC]

Any way to watch tsn prodcast outside Canada?

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

I would go


Kaliyev- Turcotte- Wahlstrom
Robertson-Zegras-Caufield

The wings could be interchangeable. Those are lines 1A1B to me.

Too many snipers on the first line or why does the coach want to split them?

 

[TheYardMachine]

Is there a reason about York seemingly being the 7th D?

 

[SI90]

Too many snipers on the first line or why does the coach want to split them?

All 6 are snipers in their own right with the top 3 being Caufield Wahlstrom and Kaliyev.


I just think it’s a waste mostly not having Turcotte and Zegras as your 1-2 punch down the middle.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Is there a reason about York seemingly being the 7th D?

For the same reason Turcotte and Zegras are playing winger in the bottom six. Drafted in the wrong year and too talented.

 

[JiggsNY]

USA hockey just consistently has the wrong mindset. They tap successful NCAA coaches for these tournaments but successful teams in the NCAA have less skill and are more reliant on spreading out their lineup and manufacturing wins. This is the opposite strategy that should be used in these tournaments. To not have Turcotte and Zegras as the top two centers without at least one of the top end snipers is just incompetent.

 

[TheYardMachine]

USA hockey just consistently has the wrong mindset. They tap successful NCAA coaches for these tournaments but successful teams in the NCAA have less skill and are more reliant on spreading out their lineup and manufacturing wins. This is the opposite strategy that should be used in these tournaments. To not have Turcotte and Zegras as the top two centers without at least one of the top end snipers is just incompetent.

I am rooting for Canada but it would be quite sad to not see the potential excitibg top 6 that americans could have

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

As a Canadian I’m very excited to see these lines. So much talent used in such a confusing manner.