Prospect Info: Sharks at the 2025 World Juniors (Dickinson, Svoboda, Halttunen, Kirsch)

[landshark]

Let Sam be Sam!! #FreeSam

 

[The Nemesis]

Considering today's action was a pair of seemingly nothing games they both ended up being pretty exciting.

Kazakhstan stormed back to force a surprising OT against Slovakia, then Latvia, only needing to take Germany to OT to avoid the relegation round, came back from 2-0 down midway through, and went up 3-2 late only for the Germans to answer right back and restore the tie before a frantic flurry of attempts in the waning minutes weren't enough to break the tie.

Latvia still won it in OT to put the exclamation point on their best ever round-robin finish in WJC history.

I believe that Switzerland/Kazakhstan tomorrow has relegation implications for the other pool, but whoever doesn't advance to the quarters will play Germany, who now has to fight for their top division lives for the second year in a row.

 

[Barrie22]

Considering today's action was a pair of seemingly nothing games they both ended up being pretty exciting.

Kazakhstan stormed back to force a surprising OT against Slovakia, then Latvia, only needing to take Germany to OT to avoid the relegation round, came back from 2-0 down midway through, and went up 3-2 late only for the Germans to answer right back and restore the tie before a frantic flurry of attempts in the waning minutes weren't enough to break the tie.

Latvia still won it in OT to put the exclamation point on their best ever round-robin finish in WJC history.

I believe that Switzerland/Kazakhstan tomorrow has relegation implications for the other pool, but whoever doesn't advance to the quarters will play Germany, who now has to fight for their top division lives for the second year in a row.

Yup todays games basically all have big implications.

Canada vs usa. Has so many posibilities, that it is hard to type out, only guarantee here is that whoever wins gets 1st.

Latvia vs finland. Latvia win in regulation and they finish 2nd or 3rd in the group depending on the outcome of the canada vs usa game and who and where it ends.

Sweden vs czechia is playing first in there group. No other implications.

Kaz vs suiss, loser goes to relegation game.

 

[MackAttack71]

seemingly nothing games

Helloooooooo, here are some germans (@CaptainShark and me ) on board. No reason to be so mean

 

[LadyStanley]

Nice

 

[Barrie22]

Grier sighting at the world juniors, watching swiss vs Kazakhstan.

 

[YUPPY 2 7 10 11]

US vs Cañada today.

My $ is on USA. 4-2 USA.

 

[matt trick]

Grier sighting at the world juniors, watching swiss vs Kazakhstan.

Checking to see if we have our backup goalie of the future. Or perhaps an immediate solution to replacing Georgiev lol.

 

[Shark Finn]

Mike Grier being interviewed on the Finnish broadcast at the rink, questions about Halttunen and Granlund, his career and playing at World Juniors back in the day.

High expectations for Halttunen, no worries regarding development at this point, says Grier.

Granlund stated to be an influence on the younger guys both on and off ice, works hard and leads by example.

Kind of funny that one of the interviewers was Kekäläinen, former GM himself.

 

[Star Platinum]

Checking to see if we have our backup goalie of the future. Or perhaps an immediate solution to replacing Georgiev lol.

Exploring deportation possibilities

 

[Juxtaposer]

Word.

 

[Star Platinum]

Word.

Finland showing Canada how it's done...

 

[The Nemesis]

DJ for the Fin/Lat game randomly playing the Hardy Boys WWF theme song. Sure.

 

[coooldude]

Word.

Well, he certainly has an NHL "Ovie Shot from the Ovie Spot."

 

[LadyStanley]

More support for Halts

 

[one2gamble]

Feisty game

 

[Munnyro]

Apparently Buium murdered multiple kittens or talks a lot of trash. They are going after him hard.

 

[Munnyro]

BDE having a good game.

 

[vortexy]

BDE having a good game.

2 bad penalties taken by Dickinson and USA scores the only goal so far on one of them is considered a good game?

 

[one2gamble]

2 bad penalties taken by Dickinson and USA scores the only goal so far on one of them is considered a good game?

Meh, I'm not sure the second one was a great call

 

[vortexy]

Meh, I'm not sure the second one was a great call

Interesting I thought it was an easy to call make, if not holding it was clearly interference. Funny it was good on our other prospect Svoboda to draw that penalty

Big powerplay coming up for Canada and still lots of game to go. Other than the penalties I think Dickinson has looked alright, some scares in the defensive zone but I’m glad he has been more involved in the offense this game

 

[one2gamble]

Interesting I thought it was an easy to call make, if not holding it was clearly interference. Funny it was good on our other prospect Svoboda to draw that penalty

I felt like sv was holding on to him after the first hit, bde probably should have bounced away rather than staying there so he might deserve it either way

 

[Juxtaposer]

2 bad penalties taken by Dickinson and USA scores the only goal so far on one of them is considered a good game?

Yes. It's his best in the tournament by far two periods in. Obviously the tripping penalty was bad, but he's been very solid otherwise. No real turnovers to speak of, which is more than I can say for the likes of Gibson, Price, and Mynio. Jumped into the play a few times and didn't get burned. Wouldn't say he's been excellent by any means but he's getting a lot of ice time and nothing awful has happened.

Promoted to the top PP, promoted to the top PK unit, playing top-4 minutes and seemingly hard-matched with the Hagens line. An 18 year old getting his role increased is always a good sign.

 

[vortexy]

Yes. It's his best in the tournament by far two periods in. Obviously the tripping penalty was bad, but he's been very solid otherwise. No real turnovers to speak of, which is more than I can say for the likes of Gibson, Price, and Mynio. Jumped into the play a few times and didn't get burned. Wouldn't say he's been excellent by any means but he's getting a lot of ice time and nothing awful has happened.

Promoted to the top PP, promoted to the top PK unit, playing top-4 minutes and seemingly hard-matched with the Hagens line. An 18 year old getting his role increased is always a good sign.

That’s true I’m glad he was chosen by the staff to have a bigger role with Schaefer out. And with more ice time he hasn’t looked out of place with the bigger role and this experience can only help his development

 

[Juxtaposer]

Svoboda has been really freaking good today. Playing his role to a T.

Cole Hutson is the best player on the ice by far.