I value your input, as I would have scouted their team only shortly before the WJC and it's nice to know that they have a deeper team than usual, but they will likely still get relegated.He isn't supposed to be impressive, he is a depth player for their team. If you wanted to discuss impressive you could have written about Sarkenov whose performance this year pretty much matches Mateiko (albeit on a deeper team) or Orazov who is well over PPG as a defenseman in the MHL to go with few minutes here and there in the KHL.
But anyway, this wasn't about the specifics. If they could beat the Czechs, they can definitely challenge Latvia.
Looking at Germany, actually, they're still very unimpressive as well and it looks like their prospects are on the younger side too. For some reason I expected them to be much deeper. A potential Griva match-up looming.