2022 Hlinka-Gretzky Tournament (Canada Wins Gold)

[Boss Man Hughes]

Fantilli, Benson, Stenberg, Yager, Gauthier, Barlow, Wood, Ritchie, Allen and many more.

Exaclty. I was just listing the players not in the Gretzky-Hlinka.

That guy not a lot of people talked about...Barlow.

Yes. Saw him a lot last season 47 pts in 59 games in his first OHL season. I liked him a lot.

 

[Habs]

I laugh when guys like Button who completely missed the boat on the top 4 order of the 2022 draft try to justify this botching by saying the Kirby Dach trade made the Slafkovsky pick make sense for the Habs. Then why the hell did Arizona take Cooley over Wright? He's simply out of touch with the actual NHL scouting community and should have listened to his buddy Bobby Mac's poll of scouts.

As if the Habs weren't taking Slafkovsky even if they didn't have a young center lined up.

he's a total moron

 

[peate]

10 minutes to GOLD.

 

[1909]

Yager wow, what a player! Gauthier, I love how the frenchie constantly fights to get the positional advantage on his opponents, thats going to traslate well to the pros. Those Canadians kids are real good, thats a likable edition for sure.

The "Frenchie". WTF man ?

 

[Whitesnake]

2. freakin. strong.

 

[peate]

The "Frenchie". WTF man ?

Really not the best choice of word. @Goldenhands should know better.

Meanwhile Canada scores to make it 4-1, it's over.

 

[Whitesnake]

I know it's a packed team...but this will be a good note in Julien's file.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

 

[atrud66]

This was a really fun team to root for

 

[Whitesnake]

Ratzlaff....1st round?

Congrats. What a great team.

 

[atrud66]

Ratzlaff....1st round?

Congrats. What a great team.

He's the real deal. Could be Team Canada's future goalie if we ever have best on best international competitions

 

[Sagikev]

Ratzlaff....1st round?

He really stepped up when needed. Not the tallest at 6'1 I believe, but he looked good, looked sharp, and he has good WHL stats.

 

[Goldenhands]

The "Frenchie". WTF man ?

Forgive my ignorance, but whats wrong here? Frenchie = french guy, no?

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Forgive my ignorance, but whats wrong here? Frenchie = french guy, no?

...derogatory term...no bueno, amigo...

 

[Goldenhands]

...derogatory term...no bueno, amigo...

So whats the proper wording? Is french guy fine? Im french BTW.

 

[Whitesnake]

First time I see a silver medalist actually be..fine with it...lol. That's how strong Canada was. Sweden is the first team ever to be happy with the silver.

 

[Sagikev]

First time I see a silver medalist actually be..fine with it...lol. That's how strong Canada was. Sweden is the first team ever to be happy with the silver.

Where's Lias Andersson when we need him?

 

[Goldenhands]

First time I see a silver medalist actually be..fine with it...lol. That's how strong Canada was. Sweden is the first team ever to be happy with the silver.

I guess they learnt from the Lias Andersson incident.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

So whats the proper wording? Is french guy fine? Im french BTW.

...just letting you know that many find the term "Frenchie" derogatory...

 

[Schooner Guy]

Coach Julien looks like an older Shane Wright.

 

[Goldenhands]

...just letting you know that many find the term "Frenchie" derogatory...

Ok, thx for mentioning, Im no bilingual, didnt think the term frenchie was derogatory.

 

[Sagikev]

...just letting you know that many find the term "Frenchie" derogatory...

How we feeling about Frenchie in The Boys then? I'm also francophone and I didn't know it was derogatory. I guess it depends on the context, as I could see it being belittling.

 

[Goldenhands]

So how you guys rank those 3 wingers after the Hlinka?

Stenberg
Salé
Yager

 

[Sagikev]

So how you guys rank those 3 wingers after the Hlinka?

Stenberg
Salé
Yager

for me it's

Yager
Sale
Stenberg

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Ok, thx for mentioning, Im no bilingual, didnt think the term frenchie was derogatory.

How we feeling about Frenchie in The Boys then? I'm also francophone and I didn't know it was derogatory. I guess it depends on the context, as I could see it being belittling.

...one of those terms that got overused in negative contexts, so it's a No-No in Society now...we are the Kinder, Gentler Society now...or so we tell ourselves...