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Hughes is a smart add for the kind of team that this will need to be
 
AmericanDream said:
must have had a lot of declines...I have no problem with him here, but he had a rough go at the WJC...so hopefully he does better here.
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It's embarrassing for USAH that we're naming 18 year olds to this team, and that's not meant as a slight to Hughes. He had a poor WJC, but Motzko and company own the majority of blame for that given their ridiculous usage of Hughes. However, even if he had a great WJC, it's not a good look for USAH and its dispassionate player pool that we have to leverage draft eligible NCAA players.
 
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William H Bonney said:
It's embarrassing for USAH that we're naming 18 year olds to this team, and that's not meant as a slight to Hughes. He had a poor WJC, but Motzko and company own the majority of blame for that given their ridiculous usage of Hughes. However, even if he had a great WJC, it's not a good look for USAH and its dispassionate player pool that we have to leverage draft eligible NCAA players.
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yep, kind of odd that he wasn't "good" enough for a regular top 6 role at the WJC with his deployment which was terrible, but apparently is good enough for this team. I will wait on further comments until I see the rest of this team, but we should have a strong offense, but this defense could be very bad especially with all the names we had available.

if reports/rumors are true:
Murphy
Butcher
Hanifin
Martinez
Hughes
????? - team definitely needs Leddy and Gardiner or something like that...
 
William H Bonney said:
Darren Dreger reporting that Quinn Hughes is on the team.
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Well that sort of sucks, as an Islanders fan who hopes he drops to 10th, I have to believe this might raise his stock a bit, at worst he has a poor tournament and doesn't change his status
 
Obviously there are a couple dozen players I would have liked to see on that roster...but it's pretty much a NHL roster. It's as good as it gets for USAH at the worlds.
 
Jez said:
Obviously there are a couple dozen players I would have liked to see on that roster...but it's pretty much a NHL roster. It's as good as it gets for USAH at the worlds.
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This is pretty solid roster. Some suprises but least this year they got some really big names.
 
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Whoof that defense looks brutal.

Bit surprised to see Coleman and Gibbons there considering they are an RFA and UFA.

Good for Coleman though. He's had a real breakout year.
 
Gaudreau - Larkin - Atkinson
DeBrincat - White - Kane
Lee - Thompson - Kreider
Coleman - Ryan - Gibbons

Martinez - Murphy
Oesterle - Butcher
Jensen - Pionk
Hughes
 
Gaudreau-Kane-Debrincat
Kreider-Larkin-Atkinson
Lee-White-Milano
Coleman-Ryan-Thompson
Gibbons

Martinez-Pionk
Butcher-Murphy
Oesterle-Jensen
Hughes

Kinkaid
Darling
Lindgren
 
that they left Casey Mittelstadt off the USA World Championship team in favor of Brian Gibbons, Tage Thompson, Blake Coleman because Eichel maybe with the influence of the Sabres turned down the invitation?
 
Mittelstadt not being on the roster is really strange. Defense won’t be bad but won’t be great either and so-so goaltending. With the firepower at forward, scoring shouldn’t be an issue. Gonna be a lot of 4-3 games
 
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