WJC: 2023 Team Canada Roster Talk Part 2

[Kevin Musto]

I really liked Fantilli’s game. He was physical and flying out there. Props where it’s due.

Yeah I thought that was his best game.

First time he looked settled in.

 

[57special]

I really like Gaucher's game. He provides the grit that this team needs. Bankier is very unspectacular, but plays a solid game, also, and seems to have embraced his role as a 4th liner. If Fantilli swallows his pride and can do the same, he would be one hell of a 4th liner on this team, which, IMO, they need.
I agree with the poster above that Beck might be the best option to replace Dach.

 

[ORRFForever]

What’s the story with Bolduc?

See article below...

Blues' Prospect Believes Hockey Canada Has Bias Against French-Speaking Players

Hockey Canada has finalized its 2023 World Junior Championship roster, and one player who missed the cut had choice words on the subject. Forward Zachary Bolduc - a 2021 first-round pick of the St. Louis Blues - believes that French-speaking Quebec-born players enter Hockey Canada camps with two...

www.markerzone.com

God bless Pope Benedict XVI. RIP.

 

[ORRFForever]

Watched the Canada/Sweden game, again. Certainly Fantilli's best game.







God bless Pope Benedict XVI. RIP.

 

[Gold Standard]

Happy New Year to all my Canadian compatriots.

 

[CanuckistanFlyerfan]

Boy. How far the mighty have fallen when all the pundits were initially calling this the best Team Canada since 2003. Another clear case of being wary of the consensus. With mediocre goaltending, a largely slow defence and few dynamic forwards, this iteration of the Team Canada may ironically turn out to be one of the worse teams since 2003. This team will only go as far as Bedard can carry it. The hand wringing about the state of Canadian hockey after a one and done result in the elimination round is looming.

The mediocre goaltending put up a .950 save percentage against the Swedes last night. He's got a 1.22 and .939 in the tournament. Mediocre.
Bedard has been in on more goals than every team in Group B and only 1 less than the entire US team. Take away all the goals he's been in on, and do the same with the US and their top scorer and his 7 points, and Canada has as many goals as the US.

The present state of Canadian hockey is they've won gold/silver/gold the last 3 WJs. The only time Sweden, who is a good team, got anything going last night was on the pp. It looks to me like they're getting better every game.

Wanna bet on that one and done in the elimination round?

 

[CanuckistanFlyerfan]

Watch tonight how often they get beat wide. That has nothing to do with structure. The Swedish forwards will go around Matier and friends like they’re pillars of salt.

Didn't happen.

 

[JackSlater]

What’s the story with Bolduc? Could you imagine how good this team would have been with Johnston and Mctavish as well…

Bolduc complained to the media that it is more difficult for players from Quebec to make team Canada, since he didn't get power play time at the camp.

 

[Auston Marlander]

Like we all expected, Dach is out. Owen Beck is taking his spot

 

[Daximus]

Not who I would have picked but grinder for grinder I suppose.

 

[CoSi]

Beck was a lock all along

 

[JackSlater]

Beck makes the most sense for the role that is likely to be given. As we all knew he was a lock all along, just had to be patient.

The Dach family has terrible luck with the WJC.

 

[MXD]

Should've been on the team from the start.

 

[Rob Sense]

Not who I would have picked but grinder for grinder I suppose

Not a grinder. He is one of the top PPG players and goal scorers in OHL. Complete player.

 

[Gold Standard]

Like we all expected, Dach is out. Owen Beck is taking his spot

Nice. me like.

 

[GTA]

See article below...

Blues' Prospect Believes Hockey Canada Has Bias Against French-Speaking Players

Hockey Canada has finalized its 2023 World Junior Championship roster, and one player who missed the cut had choice words on the subject. Forward Zachary Bolduc - a 2021 first-round pick of the St. Louis Blues - believes that French-speaking Quebec-born players enter Hockey Canada camps with two...

www.markerzone.com

So the story is that he is pretending that French Canadian players are victims so that he doesn’t have to face reality of not being good enough to make the roster.

 

[ORRFForever]

God bless momma Dach. She sends 2 boys to the World Juniors and both come home with broken bones. The Canadian hockey version of the Sullivan brothers.









God bless Pope Benedict XVI. RIP.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Beck is the perfect choice to fill in for Dach. Beck can plug & play anywhere in the roster. He should have made the team right out of camp. Selecting Dean over Beck was a travesty.

 

[glue]

If Canada were to beat Slovakia, who would they play the winner off?

 

[ORRFForever]

If Canada were to beat Slovakia, who would they play the winner off?

If we win and the Czechs beat the Swiss, we would face the U.S.







God bless Pope Benedict XVI. RIP.

 

[Czechboy]

I see 'the lock' has arrived to seal the deal.

I wish the other 7 nations all the best with this roster.lol

 

[Gold Standard]

I see 'the lock' has arrived to seal the deal.

I wish the other 7 nations all the best with this roster.lol

I'm sure technoboogie will make an appearance soon to toot his own horn and to say see, I told ya so!!!

 

[ORRFForever]

I'm sure technoboogie will make an appearance soon to toot his own horn and to say see, I told ya so!!!

Chalk it up to fate.






God bless Pope Benedict XVI. RIP.

 

[Kevin Musto]

Too bad it wasn't Ryan Greene.

Would have been an upgrade over Dach.

But we all know about the bias against him.

 

[Kevin Musto]