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U17: EYOF 2019

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Just what the heck is Finland doing? Losing to Belarus 2-4. This u17 age group seems to be aaaaawful. The only 2 goals were by Brad Lambert who even is an underager, and who seems to be doing 80% of the team's scoring lately. Can't anyone else do anything?

edit: Yep took a look at the lineup and if Eetu Liukas is on the 2nd line you know the age group is completely devoid of any talent.
 
We lost to Belarus yesterday after outshooting them 33-6 and we missed the final. They scored 3-2 goal when there was under 2 minutes left to play and they won 4-2.

I still can't belive we managed to lose to Belarus. Oh well, at least they beat Russia today 3-1 in the bronze medal game and took the bronze home.

So Belarus is in the final playing against Czech Republic.
 
ijuka said:
Just what the heck is Finland doing? Losing to Belarus 2-4. This u17 age group seems to be aaaaawful. The only 2 goals were by Brad Lambert who even is an underager, and who seems to be doing 80% of the team's scoring lately. Can't anyone else do anything?

edit: Yep took a look at the lineup and if Eetu Liukas is on the 2nd line you know the age group is completely devoid of any talent.
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Liukas had 1+1 in the bronze medal game against Russia.

But yeah it was awful to throw away the final like that.
 
FinPanda said:
Liukas had 1+1 in the bronze medal game against Russia.

But yeah it was awful to throw away the final like that.
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Regardless, he's a PPG player in BSM at u17 which isn't very impressive at all and he's also not getting drafted. Having such a person on 2nd line is very weak.
 
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Watched the Russia game and Finland had pretty good top4 defence in Sedoff, Rafkin, Viro and Lehmus all should be good draft picks next year. On forwards Lambert is in class of his own but Järventie and Niemi are good prospects aswell and theres some draft pick upside in Hahl and Määttä and maybe Myllyaho aswell... rest of the group to my eye is pretty rubbish to be honest.. quite embarrasing they lost to Belarus
 
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Erikfromfin said:
Watched the Russia game and Finland had pretty good top4 defence in Sedoff, Rafkin, Viro and Lehmus all should be good draft picks next year. On forwards Lambert is in class of his own but Järventie and Niemi are good prospects aswell and theres some draft pick upside in Hahl and Määttä and maybe Myllyaho aswell... rest of the group to my eye is pretty rubbish to be honest.. quite embarrasing they lost to Belarus
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Didn't this group won U17 hockey challenge silver though? And they could've won the whole tournament.
 
FinPanda said:
Didn't this group won U17 hockey challenge silver though? And they could've won the whole tournament.
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U17 world hockey challenge? They finished dead last in their pool. Then, yes, they won the 2 first playoff matches but it's pure pity and poor tournament format they even got to play there.
 
FinPanda said:
Didn't this group won U17 hockey challenge silver though? And they could've won the whole tournament.
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U17 challenge team had Aatu Räty, Roni Hirvonen, Oliver Suni, Valtteri Karnaranta, Topi Niemelä, Kasper Puutio and Joel Blomqvist in it was much stronger than this team
 
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Belarus is missing a bunch of their best 2002 players who stayed with U-18 team to prepare for the WJC: Palchik, Demchenko, Kuznetsov... Actually Palchik and Demchenko lead the U-18 team in scoring in the Belarus Extraleague. Some guys didn't come from Russian teams (Sapelnikov, Chezganov), and their most talented 2003 guys are playing in the USA (Nikita Tarasevich and Nikita Moiseyev).

Belarus has a 1:0 lead against Czechs right now. The game is heating up: a couple altercations here in the middle of the 2nd period and a lot of penalties.
 
firstafricanslovak said:
Of course Slovaks finish in consolation due to goal differential despite beating Belarus :rolleyes:
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How's that? Belarus lost to Slovakia in OT, so they simply had more points. Slovakia 2 points, Finland 3 points and Belarus 4 points. Slovakia couldn't win a single game in regulation, but you find reason to complain.
3rd period begins now, here's a feed, which is pretty nice today: BHT1 Live Stream
 
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