WJC: Strong showings so far

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Another thread lists players who have been disappointing, but who are the players you have liked so far?

I have seen two games from the team Finland and the best players have been Kakko and Talvitie. The first one is really strong and creative with the puck and the latter one is just a strong all-around player.

Last night I watched that Canada-Russia game and I really liked Dobson-Smith pairing. Denisenko was also quite sneaky in the offensive zone.

I'm a Devils fan so I might be a little bit biased with my evaluations.

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[theslatcher]

For Sweden: Brännström, Boqvist, Sandin, Elvenes, & Bemström are those who sticks out.

 

[Legend123]

Poehling
Brannstrom
Romanov

Kakko
Bermstrom
Elvenes
Ylonen

The Russian paul byron (cant remember his name)
Robertson

 

[WilliamNylander]

Poehling
Sandin
DiPietro

 

[Newfoundland]

Valeri Orekhov

 

[FrankMTL]

From the Habs point of view, I'm obviously thrilled with the way Poehling (leading scorer in tournament) and Romanov (leading scorer for defensemen and just dominant) have played. I have also been impressed (in no particular order) by:

Kurashev
Robertson
Alexeyev
Brannstrom
Kravtsov
Bemstrom
Glass

and the three Swedish defensemen

Boqvist
Brannstrom
Sandin

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Poehling
Sandin
DiPietro
Glass
Kakko
Brannstrom
Kurashev

 

[Hfbsux]

My round robin all star team would be:
Kurashev-Poehling-Robertson
Romanov-Brannstrom
DiPietro

 

[Hfbsux]

Another thread lists players who have been disappointing, but who are the players you have liked so far?

I have seen two games from the team Finland and the best players have been Kakko and Talvitie. The first one is really strong and creative with the puck and the latter one is just a strong all-around player.

Last night I watched that Canada-Russia game and I really liked Dobson-Smith pairing. Denisenko was also quite sneaky in the offensive zone.

I'm a Devils fan so I might be a little bit biased with my evaluations.

Your NJ prospect, Talvitie, is forming a good pair with our habs prospect #27 Ylonen. I thought they were the best forwards for the Finns. Kakko was decent.

 

[bleuetbio]

My round robin all star team would be:

Kurashev-Poehling-Bemstrom

Romanov-Braanstrom

No goaltender realy impressed me so far

 

[EdJovanovski]

Poehling
Kravtsov
Romanov

 

[Jee]

Strong showing by the Habs prospects so far. Loving it

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Considering his ice time and role, I think MacKenzie Entwhistle has been surprisingly good for Canada. He's been more productive than quite a few Team Canada players who get much more cushy offensive chances than him.

 

[Ola]

My round robin all star team would be:

Kurashev-Poehling-Bemstrom

Romanov-Braanstrom

No goaltender realy impressed me so far

Bemstrom has to be mentioned, not a lot of pedigree nor a big name prospect, but he has been very strong for Sweden.

 

[ginomini]

Poehling
Brannstrom
Romanov

Kakko
Bermstrom
Elvenes
Ylonen

The Russian paul byron (cant remember his name)
Robertson

Slepets?

 

[Legend123]

Slepets?

the guy with a million breakaways.

 

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Craig Button's All-Stars and MVP so far.
https://www.tsn.ca/poehling-the-mvp-so-far-at-world-juniors-1.1234514

MVP: Ryan Poehling

Group A All-Star Team
Goalie: Lukas Dostal, Czech Republic
Defenceman: Alexander Romanov, Russia
Defenceman: Alexander Alexeyev, Russia
Forward: Philipp Kurashev, Switzerland
Forward: Pavel Shen, Russia
Forward: Cody Glass, Canada

Group B All-Star Team
Goalie: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Finland
Defenceman: Erik Brannstrom, Sweden
Defenceman: Martin Fehervary, Slovakia
Forward: Ryan Poehling, U.S
Forward: Emil Bemstrom, Sweden
Forward: Tyler Madden, U.S.

 

[M2Beezy]

The guy in my avatar

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

Poehling and Romanov should definitely be on any all tournament team, that's for sure.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Kravtsov has been the best of the three Ranger prospects.

Some other players who've done well: Poehling, Madden, Robertson, Barratt, Dostal, Glass, DiPietro, Slepets, Alexeyev, Romanov, Galimov, Bemstrom, Brannstrom, Boqvist, Sandin, Elvenes, Ylonen, Kurashev, Fehervary, Liska, Orekhov

 

[Outofbodyinhungary]

Adam Liska

 

[DFAC]

Alexeyev has been great. DiPietro too

 

[Go Wings]

Craig Button's All-Stars and MVP so far.
https://www.tsn.ca/poehling-the-mvp-so-far-at-world-juniors-1.1234514

MVP: Ryan Poehling

Group A All-Star Team
Goalie: Lukas Dostal, Czech Republic
Defenceman: Alexander Romanov, Russia
Defenceman: Alexander Alexeyev, Russia
Forward: Philipp Kurashev, Switzerland
Forward: Pavel Shen, Russia
Forward: Cody Glass, Canada

Group B All-Star Team
Goalie: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Finland
Defenceman: Erik Brannstrom, Sweden
Defenceman: Martin Fehervary, Slovakia
Forward: Ryan Poehling, U.S
Forward: Emil Bemstrom, Sweden
Forward: Tyler Madden, U.S.

I agree with most of these picks

 

[Kshahdoo]

I'd say Romanov, but he's been playing as expected so far. I'd say all KHLers are doing good/great at the tournament: Romanov, Kravtsov, Orekhov, Liska... The only one I don't love is Morozov (defenseman). His -4 game vs Swiss was a big let-down. But he looked ok in other games.

 

[alko]

Samuel Hlavaj. Numbers are not so great, but he showed his talent. Especially vs USA. He has definitely some future.