WC: TEAM USA

[William H Bonney]

Did the IIHF change their rules to allow injured players to be replaced? We were already at a full roster

 

[garbageteam]

I think it's a recent rule change that allows for injury replacements on rosters at this tournament, not sure if it's IIHF wide. It's a good change considering how hard it is to get players to come as-is.

 

[SK94]

How needed that really was? I would have just run with this roster.

 

[tade]

Did the IIHF change their rules to allow injured players to be replaced? We were already at a full roster

Yes, seems to be the case. They are discussing it here in Switzerland Roster Thread.

WC: - 2023 Switzerland Roster Talk

Very exciting news for team Switzerland. They are definitely one of the gold favorites with these additions and I hope they go far.

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[William H Bonney]

Yes, seems to be the case. They are discussing it here in Switzerland Roster Thread.

WC: - 2023 Switzerland Roster Talk

Very exciting news for team Switzerland. They are definitely one of the gold favorites with these additions and I hope they go far.

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I wonder if this was borne out of last year's tournament where the US lost half its defensemen to injury and had to play forwards on defense. Some of those guys were lost very early. Merrill was injured and out of the tournament during his first shift.

I personally don't like this change. We'll see more claimed injuries because teams will see the chance to upgrade their roster.

 

[SanDogBrewin]

Sitting pretty good heading into the remaining games.

 

[Joe Zanussi]

Im so used to not caring about this tourney very much but I hafta recalibrate. I love the fact that we’ve just gone young and fast. Today wasn’t great, but they’ve got my attention.

 

[AmericanDream]

Brown is another good soldier. He can hold down a 4th line role and pk for us. He is better than Luke Hughes right now so this is a plus. Sucks seeing other guys heading to play for their countries after playoff loses and not seeing anyone come for us...

 

[WarriorofTime]

Germany with 3 regulation losses and only a -3 goal differential is pretty rough.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Brown is another good soldier. He can hold down a 4th line role and pk for us. He is better than Luke Hughes right now so this is a plus. Sucks seeing other guys heading to play for their countries after playoff loses and not seeing anyone come for us...

I believe it’s a USA Hockey debut for Brown at any level. Nice to get the opportunity to represent your country. Wonder why he wasn’t there from the jump?

 

[Nexon]

Germany with 3 regulation losses and only a -3 goal differential is pretty rough.

Their defense is pretty good but they lack all the key players whi usually score goals for them this year. If Draisaitl comes, he will still be the only natural goal scorer on the team. But this is common problem with mid tier teams... look at Latvia or Slovakia.

 

[AmericanDream]

I believe it’s a USA Hockey debut for Brown at any level. Nice to get the opportunity to represent your country. Wonder why he wasn’t there from the jump?

Kleven probably dragged his ass with him...

 

[William H Bonney]

I believe it’s a USA Hockey debut for Brown at any level. Nice to get the opportunity to represent your country. Wonder why he wasn’t there from the jump?

Yeah, it's interesting that our final 2 additions were guys who had long been available and seemingly would have been asked to play awhile ago, too. While I'm sure it's happened before, I can't remember the last time we had a player who was always available end up deciding to play during the tournament.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

The brass probably wasn't getting much interest from any NHLer of note from teams just eliminated so they went with the ole USA Hockey standby-plan Z.

 

[WarriorofTime]

The brass probably wasn't getting much interest from any NHLer of note from teams just eliminated so they went with the ole USA Hockey standby-plan Z.

but you'd think they wouldn't want to sit around on standby if they knew USA was calling up college kids and AHL players ahead of them, haha

 

[Jimmy71]

Yes, seems to be the case. They are discussing it here in Switzerland Roster Thread.

WC: - 2023 Switzerland Roster Talk

Very exciting news for team Switzerland. They are definitely one of the gold favorites with these additions and I hope they go far.

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At the world juniors during Christmas Canada replaced Dach who was injured with Owen Beck so yeah it's an injury replacement allowed by IIHF

 

[WarriorofTime]

So is anybody getting cut to make room for the new additions? Sweden sent a couple guys home today to make room for 2nd round eliminated players.

 

[SanDogBrewin]

The brass probably wasn't getting much interest from any NHLer of note from teams just eliminated so they went with the ole USA Hockey standby-plan Z.

Agree think this is what happened.

 

[Great99]

Did the IIHF change their rules to allow injured players to be replaced? We were already at a full roster

All teams can register 25 players included the 3 goalies, then they can still replace 2 players if some is injured

 

[ORRFForever]

All teams can register 25 players included the 3 goalies, then they can still replace 2 players if some is injured

Can you replace a player if someone "better" comes along?

 

[Great99]

Can you replace a player if someone "better" comes along?

It depends on how many you have registered, before the Tournament start, all countries need to register 22 players , then until quarterfinals you can still add 3 more and replace 2 more

 

[SK94]

Is Walker going to get a medal if they win one?

 

[Great99]

Is Walker going to get a medal if they win one?

Sure he will

 

[EXTRAS]

How have eyssimont and perbix looked?

 

[SanDogBrewin]

I'd like to see the two new adds in the lineup.