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U18: World Championship, Lappeenranta & Imatra, Finland

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Periwinkle said:
Obviously Sweden has the bigger population so just based on that they are bound to have more talent per generation, but the gap is so clear that in the same time I do wonder what we could maybe learn from Sweden's junior program.
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They educated their junior coaches more, we still have uneducated dads doing most of the jobs.
 
ElHefe said:
10-0 hahahah in front of the home crowd! Someone give Urama a one way ticket to Mars please!
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Well i'm kinda happy it happened this year because outside of Rantanen and Kapanen that 96 age group is bad and didn't have a realistic change for medal. Hopefully next year our 97' and 98' age group guys get a decent coach as we should have a very strong team then.
 
Its just systematic catastrophe from top to bottom for this Finnish team. It reminded of those World Junior teams we had few years ago when they just pick some guy to coach it like Helminen/Urama/Rindell and then they give the players zero system and hope guys like granlund win themselves. The same ideology is in this u18. No system, no passion, no leadership no nothing... was just dreadful to watch. Well in the end its just u18 and main purpose is to develope these players medals will come later if they come. Its shame that the federation doesnt take these youth teams seriously. We fixed the u20 WJC when they brought Kivi in and they had purpose and system and great coach and everything they did was targeted to finish first at the WJC. This was just abysmal.
 
The 2015's forwards are looking better than the 2014's for Canada. McCann, Perlini haven't done much. Barzal looks very confident with the puck.

Gropp has been one of the better energy players. He set Quenneville up for goal after Hawryluk did what he normally does in hitting hard and freed the puck up for him to redirect.

Virtanen of course scored the first Canadian goal with a nasty shot from the top of the circle.

If there's any line that can pull off an upset over a power country like Canada, it's this Malgin-Fiala-Rod line. Malgin is small, but great one-on-one. Fiala is a bit of dance and calculated offensive threat, and Rod is a raw, physical skater with decent skill.
 
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