GDT: AMERICA ON TOP OF THE HOCKEY WORLD! USA USA USA

[GeorgeKaplan]

They're calling the game for TSN.

Oooooo, that makes the way your first reply was worded make much more sense. I only have the NHL network here

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

That’s typical caufield. Meaningless Powerplay goal in a 6-0 game

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[Thirty One]

Stylistically, Boldy reminds be so much of Vesey.

 

[Rangers in 7]

kaliyev is tough to watch out there....can shoot but damn is his skating horrible

 

[Kovalev27]

I mean it happens to the best. the ice seems to be really bad as we’ve seen several blown tires this game.

sure it does but it happens way more often to guys like berard than if that puck landed on zegras’ stick.

frankly lias Andersson would have scored there he had that poise. Zero doubt in my mind. He didn’t have anything else that berard has was the issue

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Another Malik benefits from a between the legs goal.

 

[Kovalev27]

Stylistically, Boldy reminds be so much of Vesey.

he reminds me of max pacioretty more than anyone

 

[bl02]

Berard good effort there drawing penalty. I know differential counts but give the bottom 6 some pp time.

 

[Kovalev27]

This calm goaltending minimal movement is the Spencer knight I know and love

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

Berard good effort there drawing penalty. I know differential counts but give the bottom 6 some pp time.

It’s very annoying that they’re still rolling just the top 6 on the PP in a blowout. I suspect it’s to build chemistry.

 

[Thirty One]

It’s very annoying that they’re still rolling just the top 6 on the PP in a blowout. I suspect it’s to build chemistry.

Yeah it's a short tournament. It's valuable practice time.

 

[Kovalev27]

It’s very annoying that they’re still rolling just the top 6 on the PP in a blowout. I suspect it’s to build chemistry.

goal differential comes into play in this tourney is why

 

[Kovalev27]

Moynihan looks like he went to the Libor Hajek school of getting face planted every shift

 

[bl02]

It’s very annoying that they’re still rolling just the top 6 on the PP in a blowout. I suspect it’s to build chemistry.

Yeah definitely for some extra "practice" time especially for pp units. Also Now it could get interesting with Russia losing to the Czech and now the US beating the Czechs. Goal differential could come in to play at some point.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

Scott Sterling lol

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

It’s very annoying that they’re still rolling just the top 6 on the PP in a blowout. I suspect it’s to build chemistry.

They need the practice

 

[Edge]

When does Vierling start playing this year (if at all)?



Eh maybe he's a victim of the hype. I think the problem is how much people got up to proclaim him the potential best player in the draft and talked about how he could be the best player in the draft easily when he developed and a lot of that talk didn't hedge the bets too much on that either. Basically, he's been talked up a LOT, with some people saying he should have gone first overall because of his "higher upside".
So when he's playing a support role at best in the WJC after his draft year and isn't even doing the things that made him successful in the OHL, the backlash is inevitable.

I think the truth would seem to be that he has fantastic talents and a high upside but he's nowhere close to that upside right now. And if I'm being honest I'd say I would have been nervous if it was the Rangers in the position to pick him because the whole "huge guy with skills that just needs to develop into it and he'll be dominant!" story so rarely works out in such a way that the player actually hits their top upside. What are the odds he really completely hits his full upside and becomes a franchise center? What are the odds he becomes a pretty good NHL center with size, maybe 60-70 points per season? If I'm hedging my bets I'm hedging a bit more towards that 70 point center with size, and that is very valuable but not the 100 point dominant force people keep expecting him to be

And yeah, Byfield also has to learn how to play a pro style game and do more than generate points off the rush

Reminder: The Berard Bonanza continues in 22 minutes.

re: Vierling, that's anyone's guess right now. The OHL was scheduled to start in February, but now that's been pushed back to an undetermined dated.

re: Byfield as the top pick, realistically there was no debate as last season progressed. Maybe to start the year it remained a talking point, but it quickly faded. Lafreniere held a death grip on the top spot. If anything the debate was who was the second best prospect in the draft. If you had 100 scots in a room, you probably would've had 55 votes for Byfield, 45 for Stuetzle, and probably somewhere in the ballpark of 10 assorted votes for other players.

But I'd say confidently that damn close to 100 out of 100 scouts would rank Lafreniere first. It really wasn't a footnote, let alone a debate for most people who saw the kids play.

 

[kovazub94]

That’s typical caufield. Meaningless Powerplay goal in a 6-0 game

You mean Kaliev

 

[Kovalev27]

You mean Kaliev

no Caufield got the 6th one no?

but you could say the same for kaliyev too. Both guys do nothing f

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

surprised he didnt make it

He got the Covfefe and was released together with 4 others

 

[kovazub94]

no Caufield got the 6th one no?

but you could say the same for kaliyev too. Both guys do nothing f

Yeah, I’m just more down on Kaliev. For a Russian (even by the way of Staten Island) it’s unacceptable. And otherwise outside of this world class shot - what else is there?

 

[Kovalev27]

Yeah, I’m just more down on Kaliev. For a Russian (even by the way of Staten Island) it’s unacceptable. And otherwise outside of this world class shot - what else is there?

Well like I said you could say the same for Caufield and frankly Brisson doesn’t do much more than that either. Not a fan of any of those three

 

[kovazub94]

Well like I said you could say the same for Caufield and frankly Brisson doesn’t do much more than that either. Not a fan of any of those three

3rd line was the stir for USA. Top-6? Pretty much nothing outside of PPs. I’d move guys around before elimination starts. Split Zegras and Turcotte and then take it from there.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Oh snap Schneider is playing

 

[Thirty One]

Harley keeps making those D-to-D passes to Schneider into his body. He needs to recognize how long his arms are.