U18: Hlinka Gretzky Cup 2024

[Czechboy]

Big game from Czech view against Germans. If we can win clean, we advance before having to play those pesky Finn's.

Conversely, I think German's would also advance with a clean win as they'd have 5 points and wins over Finns and Czechs.

Big game, I expect a lot of defending and a close score but game play to tilt towards Czech side. We obviously have to score early and try to stretch the German's out and counter attack. Hoping for some secondary scoring today! Looking at your Pekar, Pavlik and Zahesky!

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

They have Sykora and Fiddler.. US get all the breaks.lol

To be fair, Sykora isn’t any good, so you guys aren’t missing much. It’s like Milan Hejduk’s kid getting a free spot at the NTDP just because. Didn’t end up helping the team for it to be that way!

Fiddler is at least okay. Born and raised mostly in USA I think. Plays for Oil Kings now.

 

[Czechboy]

To be fair, Sykora isn’t any good, so you guys aren’t missing much. It’s like Milan Hejduk’s kid getting a free spot at the NTDP just because. Didn’t end up helping the team for it to be that way!

He did hit a post yesterday!

It was a funny sequence as the Czech guy playing for America beat the Slovak guy playing for the Czechs (Dravecky). Strange times.lol

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

It's soon going to become my dream in life to one day hear, for team Canada, number 10...................................Brayden Matthews!!

Then you’ll have to deal with all the poor performances when the games get more important.

 

[jj cale]

Then you’ll have to deal with all the poor performances when the games get more important.

Touche!!

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Jackson Smith looks good

Reminds me of Korchinski

 

[martygod12]

It's a low bar.lol

I think you named all the right guys... time will tell.

There is starting to be a gap between our real results (good) and how many guys get drafted (meh).

Just wait till Benak goes in Round 7.lol

At position 212 - a 7'2 player from Taipai who was spotted playing street hockey with his friends
At position 213 - Adam Benak

Kinda sad actually, still cant get over Galvas not being drafted, hope he will show all the NHL scouts how wrong they were lol.

Soon the NHL will be full of guys like this one lol: Alexander Karmanov - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

And we will rename it to ICE NBA

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Does Schaefer have a chance of going Top 5 ? No list I've seen has him there.

I think so. He’s top 10 most lists already. Likely the early best defensemen.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I didn’t like how the USA played yesterday. Our forwards were brutal. Couldn’t make any plays to create scoring chances other than Simpson. Kevan was a huge disappointment. He’s 1PPG in the USHL, but can’t do anything positive at the Hlinka? The forwards are very limited though. Between Kevan, Hayes, and Moe we need to see more. I don’t know if the other guys have enough juice to make things happen.

Defense and goaltending was good. Thought Grimes and Fiddler had nice games. Bleyl also. McCrate has some good plays, but error prone. Rombach is a total beast. I know nothing about the tender, but he wasn’t the reason we lost yesterday.

Need more offense today.

 

[Czechboy]

Kinda sad actually, still cant get over Galvas not being drafted, hope he will show all the NHL scouts how wrong they were lol.

Soon the NHL will be full of guys like this one lol: Alexander Karmanov - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

And we will rename it to ICE NBA

Well, we will lose Benak and Galvas to Europe but Sustr, Klapka and Kondelik will be full time NHLers.lol

 

[Czechboy]

I didn’t like how the USA played yesterday. Our forwards were brutal. Couldn’t make any plays to create scoring chances other than Simpson. Kevan was a huge disappointment. He’s 1PPG in the USHL, but can’t do anything positive at the Hlinka? The forwards are very limited though. Between Kevan, Hayes, and Moe we need to see more. I don’t know if the other guys have enough juice to make things happen.

Defense and goaltending was good. Thought Grimes and Fiddler had nice games. Bleyl also. McCrate has some good plays, but error prone. Rombach is a total beast. I know nothing about the tender, but he wasn’t the reason we lost yesterday.

Need more offense today.

All the makings of a nightmare playoff opponent.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Reminds me of Korchinski

Skates better than Korchinski IMHO. Kinda a Mateychuk/Korchinski hybrid IMHO

 

[kudla]

I didn’t like how the USA played yesterday. Our forwards were brutal. Couldn’t make any plays to create scoring chances other than Simpson. Kevan was a huge disappointment. He’s 1PPG in the USHL, but can’t do anything positive at the Hlinka? The forwards are very limited though. Between Kevan, Hayes, and Moe we need to see more. I don’t know if the other guys have enough juice to make things happen.

Defense and goaltending was good. Thought Grimes and Fiddler had nice games. Bleyl also. McCrate has some good plays, but error prone. Rombach is a total beast. I know nothing about the tender, but he wasn’t the reason we lost yesterday.

Need more offense today

It was kind of a weird, unusual game from the U.S. Looked like they somehow accepted that they were being outskilled and focused heavy on defense, which they did very well.

 

[landy92mack29]

Skates better than Korchinski IMHO. Kinda a Mateychuk/Korchinski hybrid IMHO

Skating is close but Smith is way more physical and better defensively than Korchinski.

 

[erikhamren]

Germany - Czechia can be a good one?

 

[PanniniClaus]

Germany - Czechia can be a good one?

Hard to say. Germany seem to be better than I had imagined they would. Their best bet is a Czech let down from their big win.

I think Germany have a top D pair they will want against the Czech top line.. so that should be interesting.

 

[erikhamren]

Hard to say. Germany seem to be better than I had imagined they would. Their best bet is a Czech let down from their big win.

I think Germany have a top D pair they will want against the Czech top line.. so that should be interesting.

yeah, after yesterdays german 2-1 win im curious if they can continue this way. But Czechia has a strong team this year, so i dont expect it too be as close

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

It was kind of a weird, unusual game from the U.S. Looked like they somehow accepted that they were being outskilled and focused heavy on defense, which they did very well.

Yeah, and USA outshot Czechia, but it also felt like Czechia had all the good shots, more dangerous shifts, and USA barely made the Czechia goalie make real saves.

 

[Alberta tough]

Does Schaefer have a chance of going Top 5 ? No list I've seen has him there.

He is 5th in the black book rankings (the top dman).

 

[Leviathan899]

Craig Conroy ALWAYS personable.


Does Schaefer have a chance of going Top 5 ? No list I've seen has him there.

He’s got a chance to go 1st overall imo

 

[Leviathan899]

After thinking about it for a while, I think Reschny reminds me of Eberle, and I think he'll get drafted in a similar position.

Yeah I see it, a bit faster than Eberle as well. He’s a really good all around player, heck of a shot as well. Probably a mid to late first round pick. Cootes is someone I haven’t seen a ton of but also a very good prospect.

 

[Leviathan899]

I didn’t like how the USA played yesterday. Our forwards were brutal. Couldn’t make any plays to create scoring chances other than Simpson. Kevan was a huge disappointment. He’s 1PPG in the USHL, but can’t do anything positive at the Hlinka? The forwards are very limited though. Between Kevan, Hayes, and Moe we need to see more. I don’t know if the other guys have enough juice to make things happen.

Defense and goaltending was good. Thought Grimes and Fiddler had nice games. Bleyl also. McCrate has some good plays, but error prone. Rombach is a total beast. I know nothing about the tender, but he wasn’t the reason we lost yesterday.

Need more offense today.

With how far the American program has come, you would expect them to have a deeper team here. With that and the most recent draft, not a great trajectory for the American program overall

 

[Mathieukferland]

With how far the American program has come, you would expect them to have a deeper team here. With that and the most recent draft, not a great trajectory for the American program overall

They’re very good at concentrating players 1-25 per age group and training them to be the best team at any given age group, even if they don’t have the best individuals (some years like 1997, 2001 they do have the best talent though)

However, and maybe it will get there one day, the depth of talent is not there in let’s say player 26-100 is not comparable to the CHL and to Canada, because the USHL is still a much smaller league than the CHL, even if it (and certain programmes such as Chicago, Muskegon, Youngstown) has taken great strides in the last decade.

 

[Czechboy]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1820877488446144840

Shuffled line 2.. different goalie

 

[martygod12]

Lol whats that beef between us and Germans? That was a lot of f***in around turing the pregame lol