WJC: 2021 Medal Finalists/Tourney MVP/Best D-man/Goaltender and All-Star team.

[IHaveNoCreativity]

Levi best goalie ?

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Niemela wins best D but doesn't make all star team? Lol.

I think they are voted on by different people. Pretty sure anyways.

 

[Mestaruus]

Top F: Stutzle
Top D: Niemela

All star team: Zegras - Cozens - Stutzle - Byram - Heinola - Levi

Finnish D-men got some recognition. Finland has started to produce some of those in the recent years. It used to be only forwards and goalies.

Also Kokkonen was chosen as one of the top-3 best players of Finland along with Heinola and Lundell. I personally thought at that point Niemelä instead of Kokkonen, but it's possible that the bronze game raised Niemelä's stocks and perhaps those top-3 selections were already locked while the bronze game was being played.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Niemela wins best D but doesn't make all star team? Lol.

Democracy.

 

[NyQuil]

The real AS lineup might be

Levi

Byram-drysdale

Cozens - zegras - lundell

No, the real AS line-up has Tim Stuetzle in it, Ottawa Senators #3 pick in the 2020 draft.

He was also selected as Top Forward of the tournament.

 

[Asquaredx2]

Happy for Tim but Zegras was definitely the best player (and by extension forward) overall.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Congrats Stutzle. Was on another level. Him and Zegras were the two biggest gamebreakers this tourney, real easily.

 

[violaswallet]

No, the real AS line-up has Tim Stuetzle in it, Ottawa Senators #3 pick in the 2020 draft.

He was also selected as Top Forward of the tournament.

It’s tough: Lundell willed his team to a medal and provided excellent off puck play (I think he led the tournament for face off percentage) with a better team; Stuetzle had a higher ppg with a worse team but arguably a line with much better chemistry: I wish they split Lundell and Stuetzle. One gets best forward; other gets all start

 

[violaswallet]

Happy for Tim but Zegras was definitely the best player (and by extension forward) overall.

I thought the MVP can’t be the best forward?

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Happy for Tim but Zegras was definitely the best player (and by extension forward) overall.

Agreed. Stutzle had a great tournament, but Zegras was a superstar out there.

 

[Mestaruus]

Happy for Tim but Zegras was definitely the best player (and by extension forward) overall.

Zegras, Lundell and Stuetzle all could've been MVP forwards but perhaps I would've given it to Zegras. I'm sure few of the Canadian forwards were in the contention of that award as well. Many good options this time.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Niemela wins best D but doesn't make all star team? Lol.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

I thought the MVP can’t be the best forward?

No they can, simply put, Stuetzle was the best forward of this tournament. but Zegras was the Most Valuable to his team

 

[violaswallet]

No they can, simply put, Stuetzle was the best forward of this tournament. but Zegras was the Most Valuable to his team

I’m pretty sure the standard is that they put different players right?

 

[Canada4Gold]

I’m pretty sure the standard is that they put different players right?

No Lafreniere got both last year

 

[Canada4Gold]

No they can, simply put, Stuetzle was the best forward of this tournament. but Zegras was the Most Valuable to his team

I think people voting on said things usually tend to think best forward and most valuable are 1 and the same(assuming most valuable player is a forward of course). What happened here is there were 2 different groups of people voting on these 2 things and they just came up with different results.

 

[violaswallet]

No Lafreniere got both last year

Thanks for clarifying then

!

 

[violaswallet]

I think people voting on said things usually tend to think best forward and most valuable are 1 and the same. What happened here is there were 2 different groups of people voting on these 2 things and they just came up with different results.

Probably one group respected Stuetzle a bit too much for playing from behind: I would have him behind Zegras and Cozens with performance. I think Lundell was far more valuable and willed a weak team to Bronze

 

[Sensinitis]

No, the real AS line-up has Tim Stuetzle in it, Ottawa Senators #3 pick in the 2020 draft.

He was also selected as Top Forward of the tournament.

It’s difficult for some Leafs fans to admit that the Sens have good things.

Probably one group respected Stuetzle a bit too much for playing from behind: I would have him behind Zegras and Cozens with performance. I think Lundell was far more valuable and willed a weak team to Bronze

That’s ridiculous. Put Cozens in Stutzle’s spot attempting to carry a shorthanded and offensively limited squad and he doesn’t even put up half the points he did playing with Canada’s 1st rounders.

I do agree that Lundell was impressive though.

 

[EXTRAS]

I’m pretty sure the standard is that they put different players right?

Probably have different people vote on MVP, different people vote on best F/D/G and different people vote on all star team.

 

[NyQuil]

It’s difficult for some Leafs fans to admit that the Sens have good things.

Is that who he cheers for?

 

[GermanSpitfire]

I’m pretty sure the standard is that they put different players right?

No, looking back at MVP’s since they started handing out the award, i’ll put a star next to the players that won MVP along with being the top player at their respective position.

Trevor Zegras (F)
*2019-2020		Alexis Lafrenière (F)
2018-2019		Ryan Poehling (F)
*2017-2018		Casey Mittelstadt (F)
*2016-2017		Thomas Chabot (D)
*2015-2016		Jesse Puljujärvi (F)
*2014-2015		Denis Godla (G)
*2013-2014		Filip Forsberg (F)
*2012-2013		John Gibson (G)
*2011-2012		Yevgeni Kuznetsov (F)
*2010-2011		Brayden Schenn (F)
*2009-2010		Jordan Eberle (F)
*2008-2009		John Tavares (F)
*2007-2008		Steve Mason (G)
*2006-2007		Carey Price (G)
*2005-2006		Yevgeni Malkin (F)
2004-2005		Patrice Bergeron (F)
*2003-2004		Zach Parise (F)
*2002-2003		Marc-André Fleury (G)
*2001-2002		Michael Cammalleri (F)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

From the list, it’s extremely rare for the MVP of the tournament to not be named the top player at their position also, This is only the third time it’s happened since the MVP award was introduced in 2002

 

[NyQuil]

No, looking back at MVP’s since they started handing out the award, i’ll put a star next to the players that won MVP along with being the top player at their respective position.

Trevor Zegras (F)
*2019-2020		Alexis Lafrenière (F)
2018-2019		Ryan Poehling (F)
*2017-2018		Casey Mittelstadt (F)
*2016-2017		Thomas Chabot (D)
*2015-2016		Jesse Puljujärvi (F)
*2014-2015		Denis Godla (G)
*2013-2014		Filip Forsberg (F)
*2012-2013		John Gibson (G)
*2011-2012		Yevgeni Kuznetsov (F)
*2010-2011		Brayden Schenn (F)
*2009-2010		Jordan Eberle (F)
*2008-2009		John Tavares (F)
*2007-2008		Steve Mason (G)
*2006-2007		Carey Price (G)
*2005-2006		Yevgeni Malkin (F)
2004-2005		Patrice Bergeron (F)
*2003-2004		Zach Parise (F)
*2002-2003		Marc-André Fleury (G)
*2001-2002		Michael Cammalleri (F)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

From the list, it’s extremely rare for the MVP of the tournament to not be named the top player at their position also, This is only the third time it’s happened since the MVP award was introduced in 2002

Well, the IIHF is European.

 

[nobody]

A bunch of highly touted 1st round drafted D-men in this tourny, yet our boy Topi takes it home as a 3rd rounder at age 18. I hope HF is ready for the hype train.

 

[Backcheckmonster3]

The actual best team IMO:

Knight

Heinola-Niemelä

Stutzle-Lundell-Zegras