GDT: Discussion: 2025 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (Ottawa, Ontario)

[Lou Sassole]

~21 minutes for Mateiko last night. Wild how generic that Canada roster is up front. McKenna pretty easily their best player.

Am I remembering wrong, or did Canada not let Luchanko try at least once in the Shootout. He's probably their fastest skater and already scored on a breakaway, makes no sense.

 

[Holtbyisms]

Hutson with the puck on a string all day, had several chances to score and just looked so confident with the puck. He looks every it as capable, maybe more as Buium. Leonard got himself a PP goal and was a menace most of the day. He could have had a couple too. Great game for USA, 3 more points. On to Finland!

 

[DWGie26]

Great seeing Leonard, Hutson, and Moose! All look like bright prospects for us. haven’t watched much (maybe one) BC game this year. Leonard really sticks out. And frankly, i have been loving Hutson skating the puck. It’s young, raw talent.

 

[wickedwitch]

Not happy that Lenny seems to be getting the shaft by the coaching staff when it comes to 4 on 4 play.

He was in the box for that.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

He was in the box for that.

Really? That makes a lot more sense in that case.

 

[Cush]

Hutson on the board

 

[wickedwitch]

Hutson on the board

Leonard won't get an assist, but he made that happen with his hit.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

You genuinely can't place a puck tighter to the top left corner than that. Dart!

 

[Cush]

 

[DWGie26]

Man, I am impressed with Hudson. Great control of the puck and can dangle but also sneaky good at protecting the puck. It’s probably a biased lens but he has been the most notable defenseman for USA. He has a game face though. Serious!

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

Wasting Leonard’s talent on this setup. I would like to see him in a bumper spot instead of just standing at the side of the net.

 

[twabby]

By NHLe projections Hutson is their best prospect! 80+% star probability! Wow!

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

Lenny not having the best few games right now.

 

[stephenball]

Not a great play by Leonard there pushing the puck back into the USA zone. Will have to bounce back.

 

[Lou Sassole]

Not a great play by Leonard there pushing the puck back into the USA zone. Will have to bounce back.

Yeah, that was a dipshit play to nullify offside.

Man, he's on the schneid right now.

 

[Cush]

Finland wins in OT. Softie

Hutson player of the game for the US

 

[Holtbyisms]

Tough loss, the US defense is in shambles this year. Thankfully Canada's offense is too. Going to be a tough game. They looked just completely totally gassed halfway through the game, legs were concrete.

Wasting Leonard’s talent on this setup. I would like to see him in a bumper spot instead of just standing at the side of the net.

He's spent quite a bit of time as the screener too. Can't really utilize his shot standing on the edge of the paint for a minute and a half.

 

[Langway]

I know Leonard's a competitor and all but if he's all about hardware he probably needs to pick his battles better. He seems to get caught up in scrums left and right. Just play. He's been whelming.

 

[usiel]

Tough loss, the US defense is in shambles this year. Thankfully Canada's offense is too. Going to be a tough game. They looked just completely totally gassed halfway through the game, legs were concrete.


He's spent quite a bit of time as the screener too. Can't really utilize his shot standing on the edge of the paint for a minute and a half.

Yeah noticed that also. Planting him there looking for low percentage slam dunks seems a bit of a waste of his pro shot. He's basically in the same position in BC's PP...not surprising BC's PP sucks.

 

[DWGie26]

hated the Hutson had that turnover because he was awesome today. So much control of the puck. Loves to shoot. Knows how to make the deflection pass. He is at last a full year or two away from NHL ready. With Caps that may be 3 or 4 as we have the luxury of a young Dee on left side.

 

[Corby78]

Not impressed with Augustine in his two games.

 

[Holtbyisms]

Hutson in early conversation for top D award​

The pre-tournament favourites for the top D award were undoubtedly Wild star prospect Zeev Buium and the award’s reigning winner, Swedish captain and Red Wings star prospect Axel Sandin-Pellikka. Sandin-Pellikka has had a strong tournament and leads the Swedes in goals (four), points (seven), shots (22) and plus-minus (+6) through three games. But Capitals second-rounder Cole Hutson and not Buium has been Team USA’s best defenseman.

He has been outstanding with the puck on his stick all tournament long, making things happen with his feet and creating the inches of space he needs to execute. After scoring a beautiful bar-down goal surfing across the offensive zone against Finland on Sunday, he now has six points of his own through three games. But it’s his calm, steady play defensively that has most impressed me. He has defended at a high level and the results match the eye test, too: Team USA has outscored the opposition 9-0 at five-on-five through three games with Hutson on the ice. The only two goals against he’s been on the ice for came on the power play on Sunday after he’d just stepped onto the ice for a bad change as Trevor Connelly turned a puck over, and at three-on-three in overtime after he blew a tire. He was still named USA’s player of the game.

I know Hutson has talked, despite having 14 points in 16 games as an 18-year-old freshman at BU (tops among all under-19 D in college hockey and fifth among all under-19 skaters) about how he wants to be better than he has for the Terriers at points. But he has been good for them and excellent for Team USA here in Ottawa. He plays a more competitive style defensively than his older brother Lane does and while there are questions to ask about whether that will work against NHLers, he defends hard at this level. I’ve seen NHL upside this week. — Scott Wheeler

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Bam…..hop on that Hutson train!

 

[notDkristich]

delete

 

[Empty Goal Net]

Missed the SLO-KAZ game - checked online and it was 4-2 Slovakia after 2, so I decided to pass - then found that KAZ scored 2 in the final 4 minutes of regulation to tie it. And it looks like they did so down a man:
55:21 5min penalty for Kazakhstan #11 SARKENOV Assanali for Cross-Checking
then SLO gets the winner in OT.
Hockey!