My All-Star line + Tourney MVP

[Zack Kelly]

So too start i'm going too give a brief explanation for each pick. Then I will be addressing why I wont be picking certain popular players. This is MY opinion about the top 3 forwards, top 2 defenders and the top goalie. Also I'm not going to be position conscious, meaning I may choose 2 left defenders no RHD or I might have 2 left wingers and a center, maybe no center so on and so forth

Forwards:

Grigori Denisenko
The x-First Round 15th overall pick had a great tourney for Russia being a consistent force for them the entire time putting up numbers for them consistently through the entire tourney scoring in 6 of their 7 games throughout the tourney. Without having the most play time out of forwards be was a impact every time he was out there.

Aleksi Heponiemi
The young Fin was a key piece in the Finish success this tournament being consistently strong all over the ice having an assist in the finals to help lead the Fins too a gold medal. scoring in 5 games out of 7 Heponiemi played a massive part in the quarters against Canada having a goal and an assist in the 2-1 victory against Canada.

Philipp Kurashev
Leading the tourney in goals with 6 goals in 7 games played awesome the whole tourney. Swiss had a good run this tourney and it was piloted by him, with the second highest amount of goals being only 3.

Notable:
Ryan Poehling
Slepets Kirill
Alexander Chmelevski
Jason Robertson

The reason that they were not put in my top 3 is because of inconsistency. Poehling and Robertson were held scoreless in USA's last 2 games and Robertson having one assist in the Czech game.

Kirill was good, very good. Even getting a hat trick in the Switzerland game I just think Kurashev needed too be in there because of how well he did on a weaker team.

Chemelevski was really hard not too include, he was clutch throughout the Entire tourney and was a driving force behind their almost comeback in the finals against Finland

Defence:

Alexander Romanov
Leading defensive scoring with 8 points in 7 games. being hands down the best defender in the tourney it would be a crime not too involve him

Mikey Anderson
Consistently leading his team in TOI and being a consistent defensive wall while still putting up a nice amount of points. Anderson was definitely a major force in the USA defense that helped lead them too the finals against Finland

Notable:
Alexander Alexeyev
Henri Jokiharju
Martin Fehervary

All 3 were very good defenders and Jokiharju could be swapped for Anderson easily but I felt like I noticed Anderson more. Alexeyev was strong but I didn't want to have Romanov and him as the top 2 and having 5 points in 5 games as a defender on a struggling team like Slovakia is impressive, thats exactly what Martin Fehervary has

Goalie:

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
I had to chose between Primeau and Luukonen in my opinion, as good as Dipietro was I felt like it had to be between the U.S.A starter and the Finland starter. after looking at the stats at a glance Primeau has a lower GAA and a higher SVS% (Slightly) but looking farther into it Luukkonen had the highest Power Play Goals Against with 5 while Primeau only has 2. With this in mind not very often can you blame the goalie when you get scored on while on the PK and Luukkonen also had the most saves other then the Kazakhstanian goalie Yeremeyev. with both of these stats in mind i give Luukkonen the slight edge on Primeau

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[57special]

Agree with most of what you said. Goalies would be the hardest to pick. Like you, I was impressed with Robertson and Chmelevski. Slepets looked very talented and dangerous, but a bit inconsistent. Maybe he's just young?

Hughes bros were disappointing, to me. I will be curious to see how the older one does in the NHL, after seeing him struggle along the boards against Juniors. Miller ended up being a non factor, after a decent start. I thought Glass was going to be the Tournament MVP...sadly not.

 

[Zack Kelly]

Agree with most of what you said. Goalies would be the hardest to pick. Like you, I was impressed with Robertson and Chmelevski. Slepets looked very talented and dangerous, but a bit inconsistent. Maybe he's just young?

Hughes bros were disappointing, to me. I will be curious to see how the older one does in the NHL, after seeing him struggle along the boards against Juniors. Miller ended up being a non factor, after a decent start. I thought Glass was going to be the Tournament MVP...sadly not.

I stayed away from any Canadian players because they had that one huge game against Denmark but the team itself was not that good so players like frost had boosted stats and didn't correctly reflect how they played. I as well wanted too see more from Glass and Suzuki

 

[bert]

Agree with most of what you said. Goalies would be the hardest to pick. Like you, I was impressed with Robertson and Chmelevski. Slepets looked very talented and dangerous, but a bit inconsistent. Maybe he's just young?

Hughes bros were disappointing, to me. I will be curious to see how the older one does in the NHL, after seeing him struggle along the boards against Juniors. Miller ended up being a non factor, after a decent start. I thought Glass was going to be the Tournament MVP...sadly not.

Good list by the OP. Chmlevski is really hard for me not to have on the all star team, he was just everywhere and did it all. Great in the dot, PK PP heck of a steal by the Sharks. Captain of the Ottawa 67's too who we could very well see in the mem cup, so we will see if this was just a hot tourny for him or if he can continue his great play.

I thought Glass was far and away the best team canada player and desevers an honerable mention. I also thought Kupari had a great tournament.

 

[Zack Kelly]

Good list by the OP. Chmlevski is really hard for me not to have on the all star team, he was just everywhere and did it all. Great in the dot, PK PP heck of a steal by the Sharks. Captain of the Ottawa 67's too who we could very well see in the mem cup, so we will see if this was just a hot tourny for him or if he can continue his great play.

I thought Glass was far and away the best team canada player and desevers an honerable mention. I also thought Kupari had a great tournament.

I stayed away from Canadian players because the bulk of their stats came in the 14-0 blow out and i felt that would lead too an inaccurate stat line. and Kupari did well i just felt like the finish team was so well rounded not just one player stood out too me

 

[57special]

Good list by the OP. Chmlevski is really hard for me not to have on the all star team, he was just everywhere and did it all. Great in the dot, PK PP heck of a steal by the Sharks. Captain of the Ottawa 67's too who we could very well see in the mem cup, so we will see if this was just a hot tourny for him or if he can continue his great play.

I thought Glass was far and away the best team canada player and desevers an honerable mention. I also thought Kupari had a great tournament.

OOh, forgot about Kupari. He always had the puck, it seemed.

 

[saophim]

No offence but best goalie was Dostal.