More surprising than Canonica's is Hofer's absence. Very experienced and solid player. In my view easily one of the better players available but from what I remember he always seemed to get discriminated with national junior teams. Even when he was on the roster he hardly ever got enough ice time.
I think they wanted to try out 03 04 birth year players more than giving roster spots to 02‘s. I mean he abd also a player like jeremie bärtschi are obviously better than jonas taibel.
Maybe and I don't even disagree with that but Hofer is also a lot better than Graf or Ritzmann.
What cavalleri wasn’t selected either? I didn’t take an in depth look at the roster but it didn’t seem like there were many surprises on the first look but IMO Cavalleri should be a lock because he played many games in the NL. I agree that Ritzmann isn’t a good choice with other calibers availabe but his size is excellent and he can bring in some physicql power what normally lacks our NT‘s. And Graf i can’t really tell i didn’t really notice him against Russia but he can play a grinder type of role can‘t he?
Agree. However the 06‘s don’t look bad depth wise IMO. 07 no clue but we will see this year. Regarding the roster choices i completely agree on Fust he‘s just not good i believe he only got a spot because he play‘s overseas. Here in Switzerland Players who play or played abroad get a bonus and get regareded as goof even if they’re not. I like that fust didn’t get invited and also stefano Bottini i didn’t really like him 2 years ago. However IMO Cavalleri, Hofer and Canonica should’ve played. Canonica could brinh some value as a 3 or even 4th line center nonetheless.
I'm not sure about Canonica. I'd take Hofer and Cavalleri over Graf and Ritzmann every day of the week but I kinda like the rest of the forward group. Not sure who you'd cut to put Canonica on that roster. Remember they need to cut one more player anyway.
He may would’ve needed a mental coach or smth like that he looked like he couldn’t handle the pressure
Maybe. I don't know. I just never saw him as this good. I always thought he was overrated. I wouldn't be mad if he was on the roster over a few other guys but I'm also not mad about the fact that he's not. Bichsel, Meier, Cavalleri and Hofer are the ones I really think definitely should have made the roster.
Yes that’s really bad selecting of our coach when i heard that Bayer was going to be the new coach of our u20 i was sure he wouldn’t fit. Why did Wohlwend stop being coach of the u20 by the way? I think he made quite a good job as head coach. Since we reached the semifinal with him once. And beat finland in his last year. I think Fischer accomplished things as a coach not only 2 silver medals he also helped switzerland to establish himself as a top hockey country. Since him we know we can beat teams better than us and we don’t need to play like Kazakhstan anymore against the top nation. But with the recent struggle i think he should go. Maybe there needs to be a new person who takes switzerland from having chances against nations to favourites ahainst them, or at least is able to play the same against top nations even when in the favourite role. We are able to handle the favourite role against small nations but against the big ones we can’t. Bayer is pretty bad imo the team looked so bad in the 2021 wjc. Very questionable line combinations etc. In the game against russia an the tournament in general IMO the team looked much better. I also can’t think of any dumb roster decisions and we were able to compete against a top team like russia. And finally jenni is a tough one. I thought highly of him at first but now he has to go. It is embarrassing how we can’t compete against top teams and i think with smarter roster moves we could have higher chances. The PK seemed to be really bad in the Hlinka since we got atleast one Power play goal against us in every game except against germany were i haven’t checked. Against sweden we got 4 PP goals i believe out of 4 power plays they had so unless they have a really lethal PP our PK seems to be very bad. And also his roster decisions are quiet questionable considering we don’t have the depth of the men‘s team at this level.
They all don't have a clue. Piss poor coaches and also completely crazy. All four of them. Bayer, Jenni, Wohlwend and Fischer. I couldn't say one good word about these clowns. They can all get lost and should preferably take their stupid followers like Albelin or Weibel with them to nowhereland. We don't need any of these grade a morons. Paterlini was the only SIHF coach I respected and who actually did a good job but he didn't get a new contract because he didn't want to act as dummy coach for Fischer.
Exactly. The main issue is that Fischer did introduce a new overall strategy with his high tempo hockey. But if oppoisng coaches are reacting to that and take the speed out of the game Fischer has no means to react with a tactics change of his own. He has been outcoached like this multiple times, twice against Germany for instance and against the US this year. I agree that he has to go.
Bayer is a joke. While the 2020 WJC team has been terrible on paper he even managed to let it underperform. Especially the PP used overly complicated setups that requiered way more skill than the players on this roster had. He also let Fischer (who was there as an observer officially) completely take over the coaching staff after the first game against the Slovaks. This just shows you that he has no backbone at all and is a stand in for Fischer. Then there are the rumors that has been screaming repeatedly at his players and belitteled them on some occasions. The lone game against Russia this winter wasn't as bad as you said but we still didn't stand a chance.
Special teams are horribly coached in almost every junior national team. I can't say much about Jenni otherwise, because I haven't seen that much of the tournaments he coached in the last two years, but there are definitely some questionable decisions too. Not taking Gruber and Tim Metzger to the Ivan Hlinka tournament seems like a plain dumb move with the depth issues of this birhtyear. He also doesn't come across as very competent doing interviews. He has been a supporter of a U23 league in public wich is just the wrong way to go about our junior hockey issues. He also comes across as a guy who overvalues character and athleticism vs. talent and skill wich already seems to show in his selctions.
Wohlwend isn't one bit better than Bayer. This guy doesn't have a clue and he's completely crazy. You don't even need to watch any of the games he coached. 2mins of almost any of his interviews will do. I followed Thurgau pretty closely when he was hired and back there already I've come to that conclusion and was really happy when he left. His life is one big sad story, really. Father an alcoholic, apparently got screamed at a lot (if it was just that). As a player he was a career minor leaguer. Now he's a clown behind a bench pretending to be a hockey coach and his wife left him with their two kids. I get that that results in a lot of frustration and that it adds up over the years but if he can't see it himself maybe somebody else needs to tell him that he has to stop. I still can't believe the SIHF brought him back for the olympic games.
I agree all of them need to go but i don’t know about replacements maybe a foreign coach isn’t a bad idea. I like the idea of swiss coaches coaching our NT‘s but maybe a foreign coach will help a guy that has more knowledge of the u18 age level. A foreign coach seemed to work for czechia since they won bronze after underperforming for many years. Do you guys know who’s in charge of the coaching positions at SIHF?
I agree with most of what you said but would use other words for it
. I love how you hate them with a passion hahah. But i agree they are bad coaches and need to go. As i said in a Post referring to Speyer i don‘t know who should replace them. You’ve got an idea?
Well, foreigners are always a gamble, especially if they don't know leagues or country. Swiss options, as I've said already, are poor. However, at this point, I don't care. If the new guys aren't better coaches it's still likely they're better people who aren't looking to pubicly execute players via media or turn the SIHF into a cult.I agree all of them need to go but i don’t know about replacements maybe a foreign coach isn’t a bad idea. I like the idea of swiss coaches coaching our NT‘s but maybe a foreign coach will help a guy that has more knowledge of the u18 age level. A foreign coach seemed to work for czechia since they won bronze after underperforming for many years. Do you guys know who’s in charge of the coaching positions at SIHF?
I agree with most of what you said but would use other words for it
Henauer just gave up 4 goals on 9 shots and was pulled 10 mins into exhibition game vs Canada. Pasche takes over net now
I don’t know more than those 3 to be fair. Maybe a guy like michael Liniger who’s the head coach of the GCK Lions. Or Leo Schumacher if he is still a coach. He was the EVZ Academys coach and the u20 coach uf zug for a long time.
Yeah so Patenaude is our guy then. But would goals have been easy to stop?
Ah yeah. Liniger is promising indeed. You tend to forget about him because he's coaching a farmteam but he actually does a good job with the kids and GCK sometimes can be very hard to beat. Certainly looks like a well coached team. Liniger could be coaching NL already but wanted to stay with the Lions for family reasons. Still only 42 so very young for a head coach. You wonder if he's gonna be available though. Looks destined to take over the big club once Grönborg is gone.
