The catch is, that we don´t have enough international quality u25 players to make the team out of them. Majority of our youth are guys that are never going to be playing even in extraliga. You´ve seen our u18, there was just Dvorak, Sale Hrabal and Jiricek, then there was massive hole compromised of guys who are going to be happy to play in Chance Liga, some of them are not even good for factories making sanitary napkins.
Not really true. Well maybe the euro part to some point, but I think we can easily field at least 10good U25 players from europe. But mostly, our best U25 players are in america and those are overlooked for no good reason.
Just for fun I will give a couple of names and that is EXCLUDING our U25 NHL guys.:
Forwards: Rousek, Kulich, Blumel, Jenik, Kaut, Lauko, Mysak, Sapovaliv, Szturc, Brabenec, Sale, Flynn, A.Najman, Kubik, P.Kousal, Bambula
Defenders: Jiricek, Svozil, Galvas, Kral, Spacek, Moravec, Tichacek, Zabransky
Goalies: Dostal, Patera, Suchanek
I seriously think that a team like this would not do any worse, that the team we actually had this year at WCH lol ...
And you just dont have to never exclusively make the team from just U25 guys, you mix in couple of experienced guys, of course bring some stars from NHL and voila. You have a young, promising and interesting team, which I guarantee you will be fun to watch.
Just again pointing out our 2018 roster. Avg. age 25.3 so we almost got under that U25 quota. And we did completely fine at that WCH, got qf no problems and there got eliminated by strong US team (with Kane in the squad lol) in a 50:50 game which was decided by one unlucky goal.
So the quality is there. Maybe we lack the depth in comparison to Sweden or Finland, but the quality is certainly there. The problem is that we just cant or are not willing to effectively use this quality. Thats the main problem.