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GDT: Latvia (1) vs. Russia (9) • Group B • Dec. 27

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Group B:
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Latvia vs.
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Russia
Dec. 27 • 16:00 ET • 22:00 CET
Air Canada Centre — Toronto, Ont.
TV: NHLN-US, RDS2, TSN3, TSN4, TV12

Projected lineups will be added after they are published here.


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Latvia

21 Rudolfs Balcers - 22 Filips Buncis - 10 Martins Dzierkals
9 Rihards Puide - 16 Valters Apfelbaums - 14 Roberts Baranovskis
6 Eduards Tralmaks - 12 Erlends Klavins - 11 Renars Krastenbergs
17 Roberts Blugers - 24 Deniss Smirnovs - 18 Ricards Bernhards

5 Kristians Rubins - 23 Karlis Cukste
7 Maksims Ponomarenko - 8 Kristaps Zile
4 Gvido Jansons - 3 Eduards Jansons
15 Tomass Zeile - 26 Rimants Zelis

29 Gustavs Grigals
1 Denijs Romanovskis


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Russia

7 Kirill Kaprizov - 24 Mikhail Vorobyov - 10 Alexander Polunin
19 Pavel Karnaukhov - 9 Danila Kvartalnov - 27 Denis Guryanov
8 Kirill Urakov - 25 Yakov Trenin - 17 German Rubtsov
22 Danil Yurtaikin - 21 Denis Alexeyev - 14 Kirill Belyayev

28 Yegor Rykov - 3 Mikhail Sidorov
2 Vadim Kudako - 26 Mikhail Sergachyov
15 Yegor Voronkov - 6 Sergei Zborovski
23 Grigori Dronov - 29 Artyom Volkov

20 Vladislav Sukhachyov
30 Ilya Samsonov


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Let's see if our coaches have done their homework tonight. :)

We had almost no preparation before the tournament. Just a single exhibition game with our A line-up and it really showed yesterday.

And it looked like there was no coaching whatsoever during the game, too, since the PP remained abysmal throughout the game.

There's no way we can have a good tournament without a semi-decent PP. On paper, we have all the tools available, believe it or not. Good puckhandlers, nifty forwards.
 
Latvia's problems are the same as they've always been: Dismal powerplay execution, slow passing and a tendency to over-pass or look for a perfect shot instead of putting the puck on net. It was apparent yesterday that half of the team is considerably slower than most of the players at the tournament, and the Latvia based guys especially looked drained by the third period due to lower conditioning standards overseas, but they have enough skilled guys that can get it done despite that if they keep putting up a solid defense and get scoring from the leaders. Dzierkals was the most noticeable guy on the ice for either team yesterday and will need to get the puck in the net if they're to have a chance. Zile has to step it up. He was particularly brutal on the pp and didn't look at all like a guy who's logged time in the KHL. Ponomarenko didn't impress either, although I understand he's coming off an injury, so it might just be rust. Buncis is a guy I had never heard of who looked quite good, was aggressive and putting in 100% every shift, especially early on. Hopefully Russia will still be tired after the late game last night, although I'm sure the meldonium will help with that ;)
 
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v-man said:
Latvia's problems are the same as they've always been: Dismal powerplay execution, slow passing and a tendency to over-pass or look for a perfect shot instead of putting the puck on net. It was apparent yesterday that half of the team is considerably slower than most of the players at the tournament, and the Latvia based guys especially looked drained by the third period due to lower conditioning standards overseas, but they have enough skilled guys that can get it done despite that if they keep putting up a solid defense and get scoring from the leaders. Dzierkals was the most noticeable guy on the ice for either team yesterday and will need to get the puck in the net if they're to have a chance. Zile has to step it up. He was particularly brutal on the pp and didn't look at all like a guy who's logged time in the KHL. Ponomarenko didn't impress either, although I understand he's coming off an injury, so it might just be rust. Buncis is a guy I had never heard of who looked quite good, was aggressive and putting in 100% every shift, especially early on. Hopefully Russia will still be tired after the late game last night, although I'm sure the meldonium will help with that ;)
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The horrible PP was a direct result only having one legit exhibition game against some random Canadian junior team, there just was not enough time to properly adress the PP situation.
Dzierkals was definitley the best player on the ice yesterday for us, although he did create some turnovers partly due to the fact that he had to put the team on his back.
Really disappointed with Balcers tho- he was completley invisible last night, i expect more from him tonight
Mitens was good for the most part yesterday, lets see if they him in the cage tonight.
 
Refs were also making some suspect calls near the end of the game, obviously if you are giving many pps and 2 man advantages to the US they are going to burn you. Take away there PP goals and the game was much closer.
 
These games are always fun to see how long the under dog can hang in.
 
5 shot attempts for Team Latvia during a 4 min PP? I'm impressed.
 
Well you had a second warmup game against Denmark but you chose to instead rest everyone who mattered. I don't know why teams do that. One or two guys to not show your hand is one thing but there aren't benefits to not utilizing practice matches other than fans feel good about themselves for a little while because they think "ok, the team wasn't trying so the result was unrepresentative of what we can actually do".
 
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We only have 1 goalie and then 2 guys who shouldnt even be here, that last goal- yeah....
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The guy who's in right now looks ok. Mitens is the 1 guy you're talking about I assume? But both him and the guy in now looked far far better than the guy who started the 2nd.
 
Canada4Gold said:
The guy who's in right now looks ok. Mitens is the 1 guy you're talking about I assume? But both him and the guy in now looked far far better than the guy who started the 2nd.
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Grigals let in some softies, so hes pretty bad but Romanovskis would bad even for DIV 1 A standarts.
 
Great save from the Russian goalie. If he didn't deflect that puck just a little bit it would have went into the net instead of inches wide :sarcasm:
 
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