He had a bad tournament. His mistakes cost Canada games. AND he’s having a horrid year offensively. It’s looking like the Kiiskanen trade was a solid move by Detroit.
He had a solid first game where he blocked a bunch of shots killing penalties and got some hype. But you could see why his production is so low as well, had some turnovers, dint look great with the puck on his stick.
Say what you want about what happened after the fact with it, but getting a 2nd attached to Kiiskinen looks like a pretty good trade right now and I think Kiiskinens value has only gone up since. Not sure Gibsons value has gone up at all since
Good luck to ASP, Kiskinen, and Augustine the rest of the way. Did I miss someone? At least Canadian Wing fans can be comforted in that our prospects are doing well
Definitely makes it easier to stay tuned in the rest of the way. Guaranteed to have arguably the best player on the silver and gold medal teams as wings prospects.
I'm not super familiar with all of hockey Canada and other teams prospects. But I believe Lindstrom and Iginla are injured so they couldn't be on the team. Zach Benson is another name off the top of my head I believe that is eligible but too busy playing in the NHL.
It's fun for me to see Canada fail miserably, but I'm sure not acting like the country still isn't producing crazy talent.
Most Canadian fans were upset about this team from the hop. Also hilarious that Sennecke got announced as OHL player of the month with 9 goals and 22 points in 8 games the exact same day Canada got eliminated.
Canada could literally have Bedard - Celebrini as their 1-2 center punch with Benson on one of their wings right now though, so while losing sucks... there's definitely some context there
This the most physical swedish team I ever seen
A lot of that tone is being set by Eklund. For a draft eligible guy he's absolutely brought it this tourney. ASP has actually been a bit of a hammer on the back end too
