GDT: Exhibition • Dec. 23 • Canada vs. Switzerland

[wings5]

Is there a way to watch the full replay?

 

[lawrence]

the players that stood out the most tonight was

Domi
Duclare
McDavid by far.

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

Eichel is going to be a great player and probably would go first overall in most years, but McDavid is a true generational talent. People want to make a case for Eichel because it creates a better story-line like Crosby vs Ovechkin, Taylor vs Tyler, etc. But McDavid is the number 1 prospect in this draft and you don't have to see much of him to figure that out. I'm of the opinion that he is on Crosby level. I think he will be a perennial 100 point player.

Not if my Oilers get a hold of him... : /

 

[lawrence]

I'd like to see McDavid with Virtanen.

Canucks fans are being torn apart for saying it, but they should give it try. Virtannen has the speed, and is also the only right handed shooting winger on the team. He's also a shoot 1st type of player, so it would be worth a try. Virtannen can also provide protective services to McDavid if needed too.

 

[veganhunter]

Not a bad game for Canada. A few thoughts:

Bowey is very much a mixed bag. He seems to run around on defence a lot, but he also manages to produce some great plays offensively. Interestingly the offensive plays don't really happen due to defensive cheating. I hope that he figures out how to calm down defensively.

They need someone who can finish on McDavid's line. Some of his setups were excellent, but wasted. Ritchie is a waste on that line, while Lazar can at least contribute away from the puck. Try Fabbri or maybe Virtanen with McDavid.

Virtanen looks over qualified for his fourth line minutes, though he does provide a nice threat from that spot.

I've tried to avoid talking about him given how much crap he gets, but Gauthier really doesn't deserve even strength minutes. He's fine defensively, but he handles the puck like it's a grenade. Give him a few shifts to keep him awake between PK duties, and otherwise let him sit. They should just run McDavid, Reinhart, Petan and Paul down the middle.

Domi and Duclair look good together while Reinhart fills in the gaps.

Morrissey reminds me of a bigger, smoother Ryan Ellis without the big shot. Impressed with him.

I don't know why they are lining Petan up with Lazar and McDavid on the powerplay. McDavid is the playmaker. They should either play with a goal scorer like Virtanen, or at least a net presence like Ritchie. It doesn't make sense.

Petan has had a 46 goal season in the WHL he is no slouch in the goal scoring department. Not to mention he is dynamite at moving the puck on the PP, keeping pucks in the zone, really just dynamite on the PP in general.

 

[The Iron Goalie]

Loved the dominance tonight,and the Duclair+ Domi combo could end up the top scoring pair in the tourny. I do agreed with others, and would like to see Fabbri back with McDavid+Lazar. That line needs a finisher.

 

[lawrence]

Petan has had a 46 goal season in the WHL he is no slouch in the goal scoring department. Not to mention he is dynamite at moving the puck on the PP, keeping pucks in the zone, really just dynamite on the PP in general.

I think the issue is that line of Petan Lazar and McDavid....

that's 3 centermans. lol

 

[Skip2myBordyloo]

Canucks fans are being torn apart for saying it, but they should give it try. Virtannen has the speed, and is also the only right handed shooting winger on the team. He's also a shoot 1st type of player, so it would be worth a try. Virtannen can also provide protective services to McDavid if needed too.

It's not a bad idea, but it's been brought up so many times it's annoying to read.

Not a dire need to change things yet either as Canada has more or less been dominant pre-tournament.

 

[veganhunter]

I think the issue is that line of Petan Lazar and McDavid....

that's 3 centermans. lol

Neither Lazar or Petan are unfamiliar to playing the wing, Petan's future in the NHL is likely on the wing. If that was an actual issue they wouldn't have selected a forward group that is nearly 90% centres.

 

[lawrence]

Neither Lazar or Petan are unfamiliar to playing the wing, Petan's future in the NHL is likely on the wing. If that was an actual issue they wouldn't have selected a forward group that is nearly 90% centres.

canada decided to selected the best players available regardess of position. Heck even Fabbri is naturally actually a centerman too.....

 

[BigBen]

Is there anywhere to watch the game replay?

 

[Alerion]

Is there anywhere to watch the game replay?

3 AM EST on TSN4.

 

[Hyzer]

Duclair is a beaut. Rangers are lucky to have that kid.

 

[BigBen]

3 AM EST on TSN4.

Thanks!

 

[Elias Pettersson]

Haha Ritchie 4th line

He belongs there. He's worse than anyone on the other 3 lines.

 

[1Gold Standard]

Not a bad game for Canada. A few thoughts:

Bowey is very much a mixed bag. He seems to run around on defence a lot, but he also manages to produce some great plays offensively. Interestingly the offensive plays don't really happen due to defensive cheating. I hope that he figures out how to calm down defensively.

They need someone who can finish on McDavid's line. Some of his setups were excellent, but wasted. Ritchie is a waste on that line, while Lazar can at least contribute away from the puck. Try Fabbri or maybe Virtanen with McDavid.

Virtanen looks over qualified for his fourth line minutes, though he does provide a nice threat from that spot.

I've tried to avoid talking about him given how much crap he gets, but Gauthier really doesn't deserve even strength minutes. He's fine defensively, but he handles the puck like it's a grenade. Give him a few shifts to keep him awake between PK duties, and otherwise let him sit. They should just run McDavid, Reinhart, Petan and Paul down the middle.

Domi and Duclair look good together while Reinhart fills in the gaps.

Morrissey reminds me of a bigger, smoother Ryan Ellis without the big shot. Impressed with him.

I don't know why they are lining Petan up with Lazar and McDavid on the powerplay. McDavid is the playmaker. They should either play with a goal scorer like Virtanen, or at least a net presence like Ritchie. It doesn't make sense.

still way too many passengers on this team for my liking and 1 or 3 who'll make a contribution, but that contribution won't be in a positive way. Still a lot of work to do with this team and they've done nothing over the course of the 3 pre-tourney games to warrant the odds on favorite as so determined by the Vegas bookmakers...

My prediction (wish) from the opening of camp was a Canada-USA final. I think that's the most likely outcome and I'll give the Americans slightly better odds at the moment to take it... subject to change of course as GMG approaches.

Hopefully after that I can finally get my Canada-USA junior summit series.

 

[hototogisu]

I was at the game, just a few thoughts:

-McDavid was fantastic. He was making perfect tape-to-tape passes all night. Hockey sense is unreal and his play along the boards is really impressive for a young kid. His line still isn't showing as much chemistry as I'd like but he's doing his part.

-Domi was great, NHL quality shot for sure. Duclair had a couple of dominating shifts but wasn't noticeable on others. He looked like a man against boys when he turned it on though.

-I was hoping to see more offense from Lazar but he's a solid 200 foot player so I'll give him a pass if he doesn't rack up points in the tourney.

-Petan was also really good, could have easily had a couple of goals himself.

-Virtanen was also very impressive and I'm also in the camp of posters who would like to see him get a look with McDavid.

-I was hoping for more from Reinhart and Fabbri, both were fairly invisible to me. And I don't mean to pile on because I see him taking a lot of heat already but I thought Gauthier was flat-out bad.

-I didn't pay much attention at all to the defense since they didn't have too much to do. Fucale was okay, hard to judge a goalie when he goes long stretches without being tested. I thought his puckhandling choices were bizarre sometimes, like he was on a different page from his defense and it led to a couple of turnovers or near-turnovers. His rebound control also wasn't stellar but that could be a product of not being tested for most of the game.

-On Switzerland I only really kept an eye on Noah Rod (not very noticeable IMO) and Kevin Fiala. Fiala was by far the most talented player on the team but also incredibly selfish, which has been a criticism of him in the past. On one hand I get the desire to do it yourself when you're a great player on a bad team, but I would have liked to have seen him try to make his teammates around him better as opposed to straight up not passing the puck on obvious passing plays.

 

[Leviathan899]

still way too many passengers on this team for my liking and 1 or 3 who'll make a contribution, but that contribution won't be in a positive way. Still a lot of work to do with this team and they've done nothing over the course of the 3 pre-tourney games to warrant the odds on favorite as so determined by the Vegas bookmakers...

My prediction (wish) from the opening of camp was a Canada-USA final. I think that's the most likely outcome and I'll give the Americans slightly better odds at the moment to take it... subject to change of course as GMG approaches.

Hopefully after that I can finally get my Canada-USA junior summit series.

Done nothing? There wasn't anything else they really could have done, we dominated all three pre tourny games, and if it wasn't for Sorokin playing out of his mind we sweep all 3 very easily. I love how you say the US are the favourite right now but if canada allowed 5 goals to the swedes you would be calling for everybody's heads! At the very least, canada is a co Favorite with the US.