HF Habs: 2023 World U18 Men's Hockey Championship: Finals Sunday, April 30 | Canada wins Bronze, 4-3 (OT) | USA wins Gold, 3-2 (OT), Sweden Silver

[MarkovsKnee]

HuGo in their end of season press conference mentioned they were planning to go to Switzerland for the U18 tournament.

Well, it's now 5 days away!

Link to tournament site:

IIHF - Home 2023 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

IIHF - Home 2023 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

www.iihf.com

Team Canada has been announced:

Rosters | 2023 IIHF U18 World Championship

Review the full rosters for all competing teams at the 2023 IIHF U18 World Championship in Switzerland from April 20-30, 2023.

www.hockeycanada.ca

Barlow, Lardis, Cristall, Wood & Ritchie are all on the team. Bjarnason too.

Macklin Celebrini a potential 1st OA for 2024 is going, as are Tanner Howe, Berkly Catton & Carter Yakemchuk. All are 2024 draft eligibles.

There are two 2025 draft eligible players:

Goalie Gabriel D'Aigle, and forward Porter Martone.

It's a pretty young team.


Sweden's roster:

Sweden U18 - Roster, News, Stats & more

Sweden U18 - WJC-18 - hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at eliteprospects.com

www.eliteprospects.com

Click to read more...

 

[Nico Cauzuki]

damn no Carlsson? wanted to watch him play

 

[Schooner Guy]

damn no Carlsson? wanted to watch him play

Carlsson's not eligible. He's born in 2004.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

damn no Carlsson? wanted to watch him play

We'll see if he gets an invite to the World Championships in May to play for Sweden.

I expect both Bedard & Fantilli to be invited by Team Canada.

Austria isn't at the u18s, but are at the World's, so we'll see if David Reinbacher gets an invitation to play for the National team.

 

[Miller Time]

We'll see if he gets an invite to the World Championships in May to play for Sweden.

I expect both Bedard & Fantilli to be invited by Team Canada.

Austria isn't at the u18s, but are at the World's, so we'll see if David Reinbacher gets an invitation to play for the National team.

Good, Monty & Matheson will get a chance to meet their future teammate

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Finland's u18 team:

Finland U18 - Roster, News, Stats & more

Finland U18 - WJC-18 - hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at eliteprospects.com

www.eliteprospects.com

 

[McPhees Moustache]

We'll see if he gets an invite to the World Championships in May to play for Sweden.

I expect both Bedard & Fantilli to be invited by Team Canada.

Austria isn't at the u18s, but are at the World's, so we'll see if David Reinbacher gets an invitation to play for the National team.

Pretty sure Reinbacher will be at the world championships - wouldn't be eligible for U18's anyways as he's an '04 birthday

 

[SOLR]

HuGo in their end of season press conference mentioned they were planning to go to Switzerland for the U18 tournament.

Well, it's now 5 days away!

Link to tournament site:

IIHF - Home 2023 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

IIHF - Home 2023 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

www.iihf.com

Team Canada has been announced:

Rosters | 2023 IIHF U18 World Championship

Review the full rosters for all competing teams at the 2023 IIHF U18 World Championship in Switzerland from April 20-30, 2023.

www.hockeycanada.ca

Barlow, Lardis, Cristall, Wood & Ritchie are all on the team. Bjarnason too.

Macklin Celebrini a potential 1st OA for 2024 is going, as are Tanner Howe, Berkly Catton & Carter Yakemchuk. All are 2024 draft eligibles.

There are two 2025 draft eligible players:

Goalie Gabriel D'Aigle, and forward Porter Martone.

It's a pretty young team.


Sweden's roster:

Sweden U18 - Roster, News, Stats & more

Sweden U18 - WJC-18 - hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at eliteprospects.com

www.eliteprospects.com

Looking forward to see what Martone can do. The Celebrini show will begin...

 

[Fatbiggie]

Can’t wait to see the USA team. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch some games and scout a little bit

 

[SOLR]

Wondering what will be the lines

Cristall - Celebrini - Woods
Barlow - (Yager?) - Lardis
Howe - Ritchie - Pharand
Catton - MacDonell - Halaburda
Martone

 

[Team_Spirit]

Living the life

 

[WinterLion]

Wondering what will be the lines

Cristall - Celebrini - Woods
Barlow - (Yager?) - Lardis
Howe - Ritchie - Pharand
Catton - MacDonell - Halaburda
Martone

That's a nice group... better than most years. I love this tournament!

 

[WeThreeKings]

I'm very excited. It's usually the best platform to evaluate the USA players since this is what they train for all year.

Bjarnason should get the net for Canada and I'm excited to see him against teams full of draft eligible talent.

 

[SOLR]

I'm very excited. It's usually the best platform to evaluate the USA players since this is what they train for all year.

Bjarnason should get the net for Canada and I'm excited to see him against teams full of draft eligible talent.

Same I've been waiting for this all year.

It's a good place to see where guys like Stenberg, Allen etc. are as well.

 

[NotProkofievian]

REEEEEE

 

[Whalers Fan]

I will probably miss this tournament for the first time in many years, unless I can find an alternative way of watching. Here in the States, the tourney is shown on NHL Network. I recently lost access to that channel when I dumped Xfinity and switched to YouTube TV. This and the U20 tourney are about the only things I watch on NHL Network.

 

[NotProkofievian]

Same I've been waiting for this all year.

It's a good place to see where guys like Stenberg, Allen etc. are as well.

Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time.

Prepare your butt cause I'm ready to gush again.

(hopefully)

 

[Vachon23]

If Cameron Allen have a great tournament, does it change something in your evaluation of him ?

 

[WeThreeKings]

If Cameron Allen have a great tournament, does it change something in your evaluation of him ?

Not dramatically, no.

His season was just -so- bad.

 

[Vachon23]

Not dramatically, no.

His season was just -so- bad.

That's what I think too

 

[WeThreeKings]

That's what I think too

U-18s I generally use to answer some questions I have from the beginning of the season on prospects. Most prospects will have some peaks and valleys, but Allen has just been a valley and so much worse than last year.. the best thing he can do is make you think maybe it was a down year, but that would just stagnate his positioning more than worsening it further.

 

[Schooner Guy]

Has Team Slovakia been announced yet? I'm hoping to see Dvorsky playing against kids his own age for a change.

I'm also looking forward to seeing Strbak. I was impressed by him when I saw him play in person at the WJC.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Has Team Slovakia been announced yet? I'm hoping to see Dvorsky playing against kids his own age for a change.

I'm also looking forward to seeing Strbak. I was impressed by him when I saw him play in person at the WJC.

Haven't seen it, but would expect both to be there.

Strbak's USHL play has really hurt his stock for me. I don't know if there's much offense there at all.

 

[BergevinBurner]

I wonder if a dominant performance from Dvorsky would do anything to help his draft stock at all. I know he has a track record of performing well against his own age group, but I'm curious if showcasing that again a few months before the draft would help offset the somewhat lackluster season he had in the AIK.