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2024 World Junior Championships Thread

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JCProdigy said:
Interesting moments in the USA/Slovakia game. Fortescue got pissed at Mesar for a lil bit of a slewfoot behind the net at the end of a play. He became ornery and next knocked Sykora into his own goalie as they were crashing the net. Funny enough, Sykora, the ever sportsman, "apologized" with a smile to Augustine. Shortly after, Sykora goes for a loose puck at net mouth and Fortescue mushes him in the face and gets a minor roughing for it (called major on ice for review because Syrkora went down on ice). I'm like, easy Fort. f*** with Mesar all you want but leave your, hopefully, future teammate be.

In regards to Gabe. He's been what he's been. Get the puck on his stick in the offensive zone and he can make a pass that results in a scoring opportunity. Nothing has changed there. His line has had problems getting the puck out of the defensive zone (this has actually been a problem at times at BC as well) which has limited those offensive ops. That combined with them being line three at best and them getting second PP time has limited his offensive output.

Again, I've never put much stock into performance at WJC in evaluation of any player's future. An aside, before the tourney, I was thinking of other comparables to Gabe and I thought of a young Brad Richards (but a winger). When he was drafted, he had the same scouting report: Slow/awkward skater, pass first with great vision and offensive IQ but question asked were his points a result of playing with Lecavalier in QMJHL. Richards proved the answer to that as no but also in his WJC appearance, he only scored 2 pts for Canada in 7 games.
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They've gotten a decent bit of power play time and all but the Smith, Leonard and Perreault line are definitely the third line and their coach is looking at his 19 year olds and returnees from last year to really carry the offense and as forwards go that's pretty much everyone on the top two lines. Next year I would expect Smith, Perreault and Leonard to be USA's first line dependent maybe to a degree on Cole Eiserman's development. In Perreault's specific case his average foot speed kind of shows up on a larger dimensioned ice rink at least in the role he's in. He does have great edge work. Derek Stepan was able to make the same detriment work for him as an older player in a larger role though so........but anyway I'm not worried at Perreault not putting up big numbers but chipping in here and I think his foot speed will be fine when he's ready for the smaller rinks of the NHL.
 
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Shesterkybomb said:
Well it's better than watching games with the rink empty
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Frölundaborg sucks ass. They should have just done a multi-city tournament.

When the WJC in 2020 was held in the Czech Republic, attendance was higher than in Vancouver the year prior. The WJC can be a success in European countries, but they have to pick the right venues.

Scandinavium is a great venue for this, but the other arena should have been either Catena Arena in Ängelholm or Husqvarna Garden in Jönköping.
 
Quarterfinals of the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship this morning. NHL Network

6am ET - Slovakia vs Finland
8:30am ET - Canada vs Czechia
11am ET - USA vs Latvia
1:30pm ET - Sweden vs Switzerland
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Frölundaborg sucks ass. They should have just done a multi-city tournament.

When the WJC in 2020 was held in the Czech Republic, attendance was higher than in Vancouver the year prior. The WJC can be a success in European countries, but they have to pick the right venues.

Scandinavium is a great venue for this, but the other arena should have been either Catena Arena in Ängelholm or Husqvarna Garden in Jönköping.
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Vancouver sucks too...Halifax was always the premier host for that event, latvia vs sui games were even full.
 
RangersFan1994 said:
Quarterfinals of the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship this morning. NHL Network
6am ET - Slovakia vs Finland
8:30am ET - Canada vs Czechia
11am ET - USA vs Latvia
1:30pm ET - Sweden vs Switzerland
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RangersFan1994 said:
Sykora goal 1-0 but it was reviewed and it surprisingly counts. Sykora driving the net
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Slovaks fell in OT to Finns, so Sykora back w Pack in a few days

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Shame for Sykora, but he had a decent tourny, good effort. Canada down by 1 in the second, Czech's were the better team through 1, Canada woke up a bit here.
 
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