Which players raised their stock? Which players hurt their stock?

[Erik Alfredsson]

Your question mark should be inside the end quotation mark. That's the kind of punctuation mistake that can cost a game. This is how trivial you're being. Things happen fast, there's no time to figure out the percentages of whether you can ignore Marner in the corner alone just because it's Marner and not someone who loves to drive the net. "A-man's-left-open-do-I-go-or-not-go?" There's less time to decide than to even ask yourself the question. Shit happens. Fox missed his mark, Matthews had a 50/50 chance of making the best decision, it didn't work out for him or the rest of the US team.

It's not about percentages, it's about his assignment is to cover McDavid in the slot. It was a boneheaded decision to leave him alone like that, there's no justification for it. I don't care if Fox was late to pick up his man, let Marner walk in and have confidence in Helle to seal the post. The very last thing you should do is leave a man wide open in the slot like that, especially when that man is Connor McDavid.

 

[Jared Dunn]

I think the player who maybe took the biggest leap was Thomas Harley considering he was left off altogether and when he got in was one of their best D, last night one of their best players outright.

Fans finally understand how good Slavin is I think although I think USA Hockey was well aware


For Canada after this tourney I think Parayko, Sanheim, Konecny, Cirelli, Stone, Jarvis, Hill, Montembeault are either questionable for the Olympics or unlikely. Legitimately think everyone else might be a lock

edit - old man Marchy won't be there either

 

[nowhereman]

Bennett, B. Tkachuk, Harley, and Slavin were all quite impressive, based on my expectations. J. Hughes, Fox, Sanheim, and Cirelli were just a few names that disappointed.

Elias Pettersson was, uh... yeah.

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

Dylan Larkin was in 10th gear from puck drop of game 1 til the buzzer last night.

Jaccob Slavin is no longer the most underrated defenseman on the planet.

Those dudes really showed out for team USA.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Jaccob Slavin is no longer the most underrated defenseman on the planet.

Give it 6 months and he’ll have completely dropped out of the minds of almost everybody. As someone stated earlier in this topic, Slavin has been doing that kind of thing for YEARS in Carolina and has never gotten fair recognition for it. Here’s a comp from 2 years ago that it solely his stick work on the PK:



Canes fans have been beating the drum for him since he came into the league. His first full season, the pairing of him and Pesce finished +23 on a team that finished with a -27 goal differential and the next highest defenseman on the team had -11.

He deserves every bit of recognition he got for this tourney, but it’s LONG overdue and it’ll likely fade compared to the flashier, point scoring defenseman

 

[connellc]

Larkin was great and Jack Hughes was terrible. I didn't hear his name at all.