HF Habs: 2025 World Junior Championship: Canada vs USA, Tues. December 31st, 8 PM | TSN, RDS

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it's also unfair to those who are on the team not to take advantage of more fire power. It's like sitting on a lottery ticket and not cashing in.. insane.
Just weird decisions across the board. I'm usually careful to be overly confident criticizing decisions (or non-decisions) that NHL GMs make as we don't have the info to know who was/wasn't available, how players are valued, timing, etc. when making deals. That's not the case here. This team has the pick of the litter, years of data on short tournaments, and no restrictions around team construction. They can fill any role with the best available players. They can build whatever identity they'd like.

Leaving significant talent on the table, not filling key roles, AND not shaping the team based on a cohesive identity? Not fast, not big, not physical, not defensively elite, not all-out offence, not much of anything. Definitely good enough to still be competitive, but TC needs to start making more optimal choices if they want to continue to dominate this tournament moving forward.
 

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Well hope you enjoy your 2-team tournament then. Or perhaps make it 4 with Slovakia. Russia won't be allowed in any team sport for quite a while, let alone something as political and popular as hockey so better get used to it
 

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USA beats Latvia 5-1. They take sole possession of 1st OA of A group with 6 pts. Canada is at 4 pts.

A 2nd place finish for Canada would likely match them with Slovakia in QF.

Good game by Latvia considering they were playing their 2nd game in less than 18 hours. It's not a good schedule for them.
 
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MarkovsKnee

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Switzerland is actually playing much better than Sweden, but Sweden has 3 goals on 4 shots. Lol

2 PPG, and one off a long dump in play.

Switzerland outshooting them, 11-5, but are losing 3-1 after 1.
 

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Will they play McKenna and Cowan every second shift and sit the rest of the bench again today? lol
 

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Dave Reid roasting Canada for being terrible on the PK.

I thought they took less skilled players to be better with things like that ?

That's why they took guys like Beaudoin & Gibson and both have been pretty bad. Misa can pk. Still don't understand that decision. Also, Latvia kept winning big face-offs on those PPs to keep the puck in our zone, too.

Spence can pk, too. Both Misa & Spence are fast.
 

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That's why they took guys like Beaudoin & Gibson and both have been pretty bad. Misa can pk. Still don't understand that decision. Also, Latvia kept winning big face-offs on those PPs to keep the puck in our zone, too.

Spence can pk, too. Both Misa & Spence are fast.

That's why this year's Team Canada roster feels so bad. It's perfectly fine that Team Canada builds their roster based on roles. But they've made wrong selections at these positions. This team's composition also feels like it was made for European rink hockey too, in a year where we're playing in Canada lol.
 
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