That’s a very unfortunate development. Wonder if he’s done something when he was in the US last time
U18: Russian Team at the WJC-18
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It was just his assumption. The RIHF recieved a letter from The U.S. Immigration Service and that's all.
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Gives the Americans a better chance to win, no other reason.
Gives the Americans a better chance to win, no other reason.
When they win it'll be top sports story. Although your right Americans don't know what a puck is for the most part
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It won't even register. I live in a northern state and hockey is fairly popular, but I can guarantee that nobody knows that this tournament is happening. You are completely out to lunch with your take on the situation. But by all means, keep projecting your biases against my country. Curious, where are you from? Location says Canada but I have a feeling that's not it.
Bias or not, I doubt there is any other country in the world, that can ban a pretty big international event's participant from entering the country without any explanation. American immigration service just told him "f*** you", and that's it. And we talk about 17 year old kid...
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Final roster:
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GK Valeri Brinkman Kirill Gerasimyuk Sergei Ivanov | D Artyom Duda Alexander Figurin Vladimir Grudinin Gleb Ivanov Arseni Koromyslov Nikolai Makarov Nikita Novikov Vladislav Sapunov | FW Dmitri Buchelnikov Nikita Chibrikov Vsevolod Gaidamak Ilya Ivantsov Dmitri Katelevskiy Ilya Kvochko Daniil Lazutin Ivan Mekhovov Matvei Michkov Ivan Miroshnichenko Matvei Petrov Prokhor Poltapov Fyodor Svechkov Danila Yurov |
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I must say, I did quite a bit of LOLing reading this thread at the hyperventilating over an issue in which nobody had any insight and knew would get resolved.
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Very excited to see Michkov this year.
Hopefully we get to see him and Bedard head to head.
Best Russian prospect since Ovi and the best Canadian prospect since McDavid.
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Oh gee, look at that. There wasn't some grand conspiracy to keep some random 17 year old russian hockey player out of a tournament so that the US could win and keep us bumbling sheep distracted with headlines of a GRAND USA VICTORY IN THE U18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT!! I'm shocked, absolutely shocked. However will I keep myself distracted from the plight of our country and planet now?
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Since he isn't playing for Loko now, I suspect it is an injury. And yes, ouch, especially since Grushnikov, Mintyukov and Sobolev are also unavailable.
It is the same old story, over and over again. The chance of winning becomes dependent on dominating at the offensive end to protect against general weakness at the defensive end.
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It is a bit different this year in the way it is really extreme this time: a lot of losses on the D, yet a huge amount of attacking talent available.
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There are about 100 ethnicities living in Russia. Brinkman can be a Jew. Or he can be a Russian German or Russian of German origins.
I start to feel bad about the coming game vs Americans. We looked terrible vs Belarus. Miroshnichenko - Gaidamak - Michkov line was especially bad. They scored a goal because of Michkov's brilliance, but were outplayed by opponents overall.
I don't understand it, Buchelnikov - Ivantsov - Michkov played about 15-20 games together in the MHL and looked decent most time. They played on three different lines vs Belarus. This all star way to build lines, not sure it's a good thing for such a short tournament. Belarusians mostly outplayed us just because they know each other really well.
Americans play together the whole season as well, and they are even better, than Belarusians. I'm afraid it's going to be a bloodbath for us.
I don't understand it, Buchelnikov - Ivantsov - Michkov played about 15-20 games together in the MHL and looked decent most time. They played on three different lines vs Belarus. This all star way to build lines, not sure it's a good thing for such a short tournament. Belarusians mostly outplayed us just because they know each other really well.
Americans play together the whole season as well, and they are even better, than Belarusians. I'm afraid it's going to be a bloodbath for us.
They looked very slow and disorganized against Belarus today. Not much chemistry and D is a big weakness. Only a pre tournament game though.
