2024-25 World Junior Championships Draft Scoring

[Tobias Kahun]

Whoever hired the coach and helped pick the team should be updating their resumes after this tournament though.

They called it by the book. But the IIHF book is dumb in a lot of places.

Hockey is far too physical and fast paced a game to make the kneeing standard completely dependent on the hitter. There needs to be a caveat for players avoiding a hit and putting themselves in a dangerous position.

They didnt always call it by the book though.

If they did McKenna would've drawn a 5 minute powerplay too.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

this team lost to Latvia....at home FFS

fire anyone who thought this roster was good enough

 

[McTonyBrar]

Carter George allowed a Skinner like goal

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Carter George allowed a Skinner like goal

Except he was playing infront of a san jose like team.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

They didnt always call it by the book though.

If they did McKenna would've drawn a 5 minute powerplay too.

Yeah that’s true…

I’m referring to the majors we had reviewed.

But yeah unsurprisingly they missed a bunch. Also who the hell thought it was a good idea to have an American ref this game? The narratives write themselves.

 

[Jumptheshark]

we can bitch about the refs as much as we like

but 2 things are obvious to me

1) The team was very undisciplined
2) Team was put together wrong. Not enough fire power was brought

 

[SupremeTeam16]

Cameron should never be behind a TC bench ever again but overall just an embarrassingly poor showing.

The officiating was inconsistent to say the least but at the end of the day hockey itself is becoming so soft. Players scared to take a hit head on, twisting themselves out of the way, putting themselves in bad positions, turning their backs on checkers. It’s getting worse every year.

 

[Messrules11]

Well when you lose to Latvia you know you’ve got problems.
What time is the Oilers game?

 

[The Head Crusher]

Sad performance by Canada, but good for my team.

 

[McDrai]

This team seemed doomed after the Latvia loss. I honestly checked out after that game. 2 really disappointing years in a row and no real excuse for it considering the amount of talent we have in junior

 

[Kirby]

Yeah, looked fair when McKenna's head was driven into the boards by a forearm shiver.

Canada spent more time trying to dive for calls instead of playing hard nose hockey. Combine that with some of the worst discipline and situational awareness in crucial game moments that a Team Canada has had since last year (wanted to say years, too bad last years team didn't perform either), and they didn't deserve to win

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Easton Cowan was thoroughly unimpressive. If he wasn't a Leafs draft pick we would've never heard anything about him.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Easton Cowan was thoroughly unimpressive. If he wasn't a Leafs draft pick we would've never heard anything about him.

Some leaf fans were really pumping his tires

 

[tardigrade81]

Agreed- discipline was a problem for Canada the whole tournament. That said, what a strange embellishment call against Canada in the 2nd period---more comical than anything else.

Canada had plenty of chances again tonight but finishing ability just wasn't there (again). Way too many passes as well.

Is it my imagination or do the Czech players look 22 or 23 years of age standing next to the Canadians? Looked huge in comparison to a Canadian team that was undersized?

Lol they definitely do. It's ridiculous. Some big players too

They might give the Americans a run for their money

 

[Oilhawks]

Don't count on a Laugh's reject to bring them to the promised land

I suspect Armweak's roster is going to be embarrassed in the dipshit tourney that Buttman is hosting as well

 

[BarDownBobo]

The Canadian D-men had trouble holding the offensive zone for the entire tournament. You would think that Akey deserved more of a chance. Yup, stubborn coach--hope he's gone next year.

I know correlation doesn’t always equal correlation but it was something that the team really seemed to pick it up when he started getting a more regular shift tonight. Obviously wasn’t all his doing but it did feel like he was able to get the puck moving through the neutral zone much more efficiently than the rest of the dmen. Honestly perplexing that the coaching staff stapled him to the bench most of the tourney while riding Gibson/Bonk as hard as they did on the right side.

 

[MoontoScott]

I know correlation doesn’t always equal correlation but it was something that the team really seemed to pick it up when he started getting a more regular shift tonight. Obviously wasn’t all his doing but it did feel like he was able to get the puck moving through the neutral zone much more efficiently than the rest of the dmen. Honestly perplexing that the coaching staff stapled him to the bench most of the tourney while riding Gibson/Bonk as hard as they did on the right side.

The Canadian D-men also had trouble penetrating the zone and getting shots thru but TBH I didn't think Canada was the one of the premiere teams in the tourney.

Times have changed in the World Junior championships. I guess we were spoiled by all those stacked powerhouse teams of the past. I didn't see one player on the Canadian team who really excited the fans about his NHL future.

Well, let's hope Akey does alright with Bako this Fall.

 

[iCanada]

The Canadian D-men also had trouble penetrating the zone and getting shots thru but TBH I didn't think Canada was the one of the premiere teams in the tourney.

Times have changed in the World Junior championships. I guess we were spoiled by all those stacked powerhouse teams of the past. I didn't see one player on the Canadian team who really excited the fans about his NHL future.

Well, let's hope Akey does alright with Bako this Fall.

I mean, have times really changed or is the current iteration of hockey Canada just completely f***ing incompetent?

Literally we have 4 top 10 picks sitting at home, plus a guy on pace to break the all time WHL scoring record... Names like Bennett Senecke, Zane Parekh, Andrew Cristal, Michael Hage, Michael Misa and Carter Yakemchuk... Some of which literally didn't even get an invite to the selection camp.

Honestly, I think anyone who pays a decent amount of attention to the CHL could construct a roster that beats this edition of Canada. Sure as shit a team with the above 6 doesn't lose to Latvia.

The entire group involved with constructing this roster and coaching it need to be canned.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Will be interesting what teams are still alive after the Canadians TKO

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

The gap has shrunk in the U20 Tournament and no longer Canada and the pack. That said our country's two elite peer players are NHL sophomore and freshman along with a third high skill guy lurching through the Sabres season. No solace in that but perspective.

This was an incredibly poor constructed team compounded by hiring an old coach whose prime has passed him by probably a decade ago or more. Accountability lay within the management group for this roster construction missing some traditional hard ice glue guys. Lots of flash, high zone time, big shot counts but seemed like a lot were perimeter stuff. Short tournament and this group didn't gell. Pushing a four line utilitarian deployment failed to help anyone get hot.

Players compounded the issue with significant discipline issues and an underwater PK defining losses and this tournament. Not helped at all in tonight's elimination loss by baffling poor refereeing calls notably impacting said elimination game with a highly questionable late game penalty call.

I thought this team would right itself and claw itself into the Gold Medal Game. But the individual pieces on this roster never gelled into a team. In short tournament play that leads to extinction. This one's on management which included a baffling coaching hire who seemed to have no solutions and seemed almost apathetic following the objects are closer than they appear scoreboard loss to the cocky American team.

Still the major producer of elite talent. But team construction and headmaster responsibilities can't be complacent. Doh Canada, this one stings.

 

[Fourier]

This may well be the worst performance by a Team Canada team in tournament history. That said I think it is less on the kids and more on management.

 

[Paralyzer008]

Pre-Semis scoring, unofficially:

Mozes 38
Cerebral 37
THC 36
Paralyzer 33
Soli 33
GrandLarseny 32
BarDownBobo 25
Lakai 24
Leftovers 18

Leftovers, just to fix your scoring board: Hallsquisth only has 1 now, but Jecho is at 6

 

[timekeep]

The work effort is finally there, but they just don't do enough, plus guys like mimio, Gibson, cataford, etc just accomplish nothing

Too little too late, needed it against Latvia unfortunately. Then needed it earlier last night. What a terrible team structure without a game plan or practices.

 

[timekeep]

first time I've agreed with Jeff O'Neill, calling Cameron "stubborn"

hopefully we never hear from this guy on the national team again

Don't hear O'Neill call out HC that much, it was good to see, hopefully the media doesn't stop. Add Bob MacKenzie with his Micro and Macro issues were spot on.

 

[timekeep]

This may well be the worst performance by a Team Canada team in tournament history. That said I think it is less on the kids and more on management.

Definitely on the management and coach, who for some reason didn't have very many practices??