WC: 2025 Switzerland

[jonas2244]

Fischer won't be sad that the final is over.

Andrighetto, Malgin, Kukan and Marti.
Jäger, Rochette, Riat and Glauser.

Are the obvious ones. Not much more on Defense, Zürich has some interesting young(er) forwards, Baechler, Sigrist, Zehnder.

Latvia obviously a much better opponent. Jung is horrible, Ramel played again very well, Knak should get a spot, no question about that. He's a fighter and he's getting better offensivly each year. I liked the Berni/Karrer-pairing. Berni played probably one of his best games. And Charlin probably secured his spot, really good game by him.
Dionicio again played a very mature game, one time in the first period he was caught a little bit but otherwise I really like his game.

 

[stv11]

Yeah, that was much better than last week. Not much to complain about offensively, except that they should have scored more goals, although the two posts are a mitigating factor. I still really like the Bader line, Bader himself is a top defensive player and Fazzini shows his recent progress. Hofmann was a different player compared to last week, Knak should make the team if he keeps playing like this, Ambühl is still as motivated as if it was his first hockey game and Moy showed he can create a scoring chance at any time.

Defensively it wasn't as good, too many turnovers that lead to periods of sustained pressure. They need to handle forechecking better. Dionicio keeps making a good case for himself, and Egli brought a lot offensively, although he didn't look good on the first goal.

Charlin will also want that first goal back, but he probably played his best national team game.

 

[jonas2244]

Moser is down 0-2, too. So if we could add Moser, Hischier and Meier and all the finalist are healthy this can be a solid team.

 

[stv11]

First half of the game was terrible, second half merely bad (or the opposite if you're Latvian. I don't think either coach will be happy with this one). Tough to comment on this one as no one really stood out.

I guess Glauser, Kukan and Marti will upgrade the defense, plus Loeffel who is pretty much an addition (I assume he's only lightly injured given that there was no communication about him), that means we're looking at 3-4 cuts. Chanton and Wüthrich are likely, not sure who else. I hope Dionicio makes it, then Berni probably showed enough. That leaves Egli, Jung, Fora and Karrer. We all know Fischer likes Fora, plus Egli should stay on the team unless Moser joins. That leaves Karrer and Jung out.

Difficult to make any prediction at forward. Malgin, Andrighetto, Jäger, Riat and Rochette should join, but I don't see any obvious name to cut. And who do you play with Malgin and Andrighetto? I guess Ambühl has the right playing style, but do you really want to play a 41 year old with your best attacking duo?

 

[jonas2244]

Yeah, not a good game, but good to see that they found a way into the game.

Lehmann probably played the best game of his national team career. I still like very much what Ritzmann has to offer. His size, his long stick, but he also has an offensive upside. Bader was mediocre, as was Ambühl, who didn't have a good game. Knak was again the best forward, Moy played well too but his linemates were not up to the challenge. Fazzini played well on Thursday, but really bad yesterday. When all the finalists are joining I can see him getting cut because his role will be occupied by those players (Riat, Malgin).

Chanton didn't play in the last period I think, so either he's injured or he's benched, both leading to a cut. Wüthrich has stepped up and I cannot really say he played bad, but yeah, he should be an additional cut.
I thought Karrer and Berni played an excellent game defensively and got rarley into troubles, in comparison to all the other. So I wouldn't cut both. Dionicio had one or two not very good passes in the own zone, but overall he's just too skilled and solid to get cut.
Jung is horrible and shouldn't be there at that level. But I already said that last year. Fora is Fora, don't know where the love from Fischer comes. He makes so many mistakes. That penalty in 4vs5.
But yeah, we know Fischer too good to know that he'll cut one other player in favor of Fora and maybe even Jung.

Moy could be a partner for Andrighetto and Malgin, or Hofmann. I think Andrighetto and Hofmann played together before.

The Devils won their first game in OT. Siegenthaler played 27 minutes. That's the limited role they wanted to put him into.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Is the roster for betano hockey games out yet?

 

[Kuracmugger]

Is the roster for betano hockey games out yet?

No but should be released very soon. The Lions have the championship celebration today so i think they will realase it tomorrow or on monday.