Prospect Info: 2023 WJC Thread

[Devs3cups]

4th goal was all him.

Yup, drew the call, patience, pass, boom.

Honestly, seeing a 18 year old D-man, who's played pro for the last few years, being so poised with the puck is impressive.

 

[FinnishDevil]

9 saves on 13 shots, lmfao

Jack texting Luke after the game "just wait till you get here, bro"

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Yup, drew the call, patience, pass, boom.

Honestly, seeing a 18 year old D-man, who's played pro for the last few years, being so poised with the puck is impressive.

It was his best asset in his game leading up to the draft, to be fair.

 

[Devs3cups]

Cooley tried to get fancy there while down 2.

 

[Devils090]

US playing pissed off…a little too pissed off, another penalty

 

[Devs3cups]

It was his best asset in his game leading up to the draft, to be fair.

Oh yeah, absolutely. But to witness it is another thing lol.

 

[Devils090]

That’s a bad hit from Connors

 

[Mgd31]

I mean how can you not love Nemec?

 

[Guadana]

Lets go Slovakia!

You are evil.

 

[FinnishDevil]

Thats just unnecessary play. Frustration taking the best out of the US.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Dirty f***ing hit

 

[Blender]

Dirty hit, since he injured him he should be out.

 

[RememberTheName]

What an absolutely boneheaded hit from Connors. Easiest 5 and a game call I've seen in a while.

 

[Devs3cups]

It's not that bad of a hit in itself, it's just so unnecessary. Should be a 5.

 

[Devils090]

Just such an unnecessary play, and dangerous on top of it, coach needs to get these kids focused

 

[FinnishDevil]

You are evil.

I'm here for underdog stories. Usually internationally I cheer for underdogs 99% of the time. I'd rather Slovakia or Swiss or Czechia win this tournament than Finland tbh.

 

[Dialamo]

Maybe we see a Nemec PP goal now!

 

[Blender]

It's not that bad of a hit, it's just so unnecessary.

The actual player-on-player contact is not the issue, it's the location/distance from the boards and that it is late that make it bad. It's the kind of hit that accomplishes nothing but possibly injuring the player.

 

[Devs3cups]

I wish the Slovaks hit up Nemec for the one-timer more

 

[Devils090]

Good PK so far

Mesar seems like a selfish player

 

[Devs3cups]

The actual player-on-player contact is not the issue, it's the location/distance from the boards and that it is late that make it bad. It's the kind of hit that accomplishes nothing but possibly injuring the player.

Thank you for explaining what I meant better than I did lol! The contact was fine, just unnecessary and dangerous given the boards.

 

[devilsfan35]

Nemec is more impressive than Cooley right now. Good to see

 

[StevenToddIves]

Who cares. He is risky. You know - risky.
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Everybody who rank him lower than 4 are stupid. Read it again. They are stupid. If you, my reader, read it and you think you would rank him lower than 4, you are stupid. Google mind pills, go back to school, reconsider your life, and at the same time rewatch the adult league VHL. If your opinion does not change and you continue to refer to some "specialists" who agree with you - you are a danger to society, quit power plants if you work there or any other socially significant work, start writing music, you don't need a basic iq for a sense of rhythm.
If you think the same way about Carlsson or you don`t think Bedard doesn`t deserve to be 1OA - read again this massage.
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btw, Steve, congrats with bar and novel. Great you are focus on that. Hope it makes you happier and calmer. It`s a good news.

You are the best, my friend. This post had me laughing out loud.

 

[Guadana]

I'm here for underdog stories. Usually internationally I cheer for underdogs 99% of the time. I'd rather Slovakia or Swiss or Czechia win this tournament than Finland tbh.

I`m fan of underdog stories all the time. It is painful often.

 

[StevenToddIves]

You are asking the wrong guy.
I have Carlsson as number 2-3 before things were getting started. In fairness, I can say - its very strong top 4 and we don't really know who will translate the game better. We just don't know. I like iq and two way game of Carlsson more, but he has some technical issues. On the other hand he is so good and definitely will work on his weakest sides of the game.

I'm not going to disagree with @Guadana too much at this point with Carlsson v. Fantilli because it's close between these two for me right now, and there's a lot of hockey to be played before the draft. I'll say right now it's more a matter of "what type of center do you prefer?" than a clear-cut "who is better?"

If I was going to tier the top of the draft right now? It would be as such:

Tier One:
1. Conor Bedard

Tier Two:
2. Matvei Michkov

Tier Three:
There's a huge gap between Michkov and anyone else, so no one

Tier Four:
3. Adam Fantilli
4. Leo Carlsson

This is to say that, in my view, Bedard is generational. Michkov is borderline-generational. Fantilli and Carlsson are tremendous prospects, so no slight on them, they're just not at the stratospheric level of a Bedard or Michkov. Either of them quite possibly would have gone #1 overall in 2022, just to give you an idea of how strong the 2023 draft class is at the top.