Prospect Info: 2025 WJC Thread

Hisch13r

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This has to be the first time Canada has ever had a losing record at the event right?

Darn, missed the game. Naturally some not at all irrational comments on Twitter, already spotted one person complaining that they left Cayden Lindstrom (among others) at home.....apparently they are unaware Lindstrom hadn't played all season due to injury.

I saw a clip of the Chiclets guys complaining they left off Lindstrom and Iginla. Welp not like anyone says those guys are smart lol
 

PWiz30

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I just wanted to hop on here to say "Holy F**k Czechia".
I still can't believe they won that game the way the third period was going. Everyone on Czechia except the goalie looked rattled. They couldn't even catch tape to tape passes most of the third period, but they beared down on that last powerplay.
 
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Canada’s roster construction was always suspect this year. Leaving out guys like Yakemchuk, Parekh, Cristall, Sennecke, Hage and Misa were all major head scratchers. Guys like that would’ve helped. It’s a 2 week tournament, load up with as much skill as possible and go from there. Feels like Canada tried to balance out the lines/team like a full season team, with some older energy/grinder type players in the bottom half of the lineup. Questionnable move imo. They’ve done stuff like that for a few years now, and it’s failed the last 2 years pretty heavily. Maybe this will cause a change of philosophy.

I have no doubt that with the guys mentioned above, Canada would’ve been in the gold medal game, most likely against the US.
 

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I was surprised that Yakemchuk and Parekh didn't get winter camp invites (Parekh and Sennecke both got invites eventually due to injuries). But I could understand if they weren't impressed by Yakemchuk's play this season. I caught one random Calgary game being streamed for free a couple months back and he looked like the guy going through motions who went -5 against us in the prospect camp rather than the guy who impressed in preseason and almost got a cup of coffee in Ottawa. Sounded like Yakemchuk and Parekh struggled in the summer camp. The Matthew Schaefer injury didn't help since they had him penciled in to get PP time.

Not sure if they thought Cristall would be redundant once Nadeau got the green light to join the team.

Naturally some would question having Luca Pinelli who plays for Dave Cameron in the OHL, but I thought Pinelli was okay. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall for the roster meetings. Not sure if it's just the tin foil hat crowd, but I remember reading about there being political pressures to include QMJHL players. But I might also be conflating that with Sam Montembeault making their Four Nations Faceoff roster as the lone Quebec born player on the roster.
 

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They said on the broadcast that was the first time in the history of the tournament that Canada had ever been knocked out 2 years in a row in the quarterfinals.

I didn't care who won but thought the refs were terrible. That kneeing 5 min major was a joke with the Sikora on the Czechs absolutely faking the injury, he even looked up to see if the refs were looking at him. Pretty embarrassing call.

USA vs Czechs should be a close game. I won't be surprised by either team winning.

Q vs Finland is always a fun game too.
 

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Traff took an unfortunate holding penalty vs Finland and took a 2-1 lead with a PP goal.

I’m guessing he won’t see much ice after that.

Edit: All is forgiven! Back net front for a PP when they tie it.
 
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“Marek Zidlicky’s son”

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PizzaAndPucks

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I watched highlights for pretty much all the games so far and only got to catch the USA game against Germany for a bit live. Thankfully I'll be able to watch this game in its entirety and hopefully the Stars & Stripes take home gold again.
 
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evnted

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czechs wins bronze, nothing for our boy. disclaimer that i only caught chunks of games and not full length viewings. overall, pretty unspectacular tournament from traff outside of that 2g game. primarily used as an energy, forechecking, net front option with super limited deployment, but i thought he did well enough in the role
  • usual game very much on display. quick counterattacks in transition, competitive in puck battles and along the boards, generated chaos around the crease, shifty and strong on the puck down low, extra good at digging pucks out/getting them up to the point
  • thought the playmaking game was fairly solid, which isnt always the case, so i appreciated that. smart decisions, good timing/didnt rush things, thought he made better use of short range passes which ive seen him get away from at times in the shl. had a couple notably good reads to find teammates in front for chances. little bit of a habit of leading on some stretch attempts but nothing egregious
  • glad he got looks on the man advantage, felt like it was earned from his hv71 performance. sort of in the noesen role on pp2 although a bit more redirect than tap in focused. got pucks back, made plays, screened the goalie, wasnt just a passenger on the unit
  • given his usual play style, i thought he couldve been more actively physical. body use on the puck was great, but i didnt see the same hit-based pressure he normally applies on the forecheck
  • D zone play, as ive said before, couldve been higher tempo as well. really just covers high ice a lot of the time, which is fine when hes actively pressuring the point, but he can be too passive for my taste
  • i will say, i dont think i really saw him make many bad plays (the hold wasnt great lol). its not like he was getting caved on his shifts or struggling to establish a forecheck. he certainly wasnt always the most impactful player out there, but he did feel like he belonged
i dont think we saw anything new here, a lot of the tournament was basically confirming what we already knew about the player, though i dont say that negatively considering consistency wasnt always his strong suit in his DY
 

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