They're teenagers so it's hard to go in on them but Cameron is right - some of it comes down to the individuals on the ice making better decisions when it comes to not taking penalties, crisper passing.
But Cameron and Hockey Canada should have had a plan in mind. It's like they selected the roster, did exhibition games and practices and then were shocked they were garbage on the PP, not good at even strength scoring either. And then Cameron talking about teenage athletes being "too tired" to practice and fix anything like they're turning 37 with tens of thousands of miles skated and multiple kids like say Claude Giroux. I get being a teenager and not being good early in the morning but come on.
Everyone on that team outside of the goaltenders needs to take a hard look at themselves. If their goal is the NHL they need to be more resilient as players, they need to be more prepared and willing to skate and practice.
The team definitely lacked confidence all tournament.
We saw in the 2nd and really the 3rd last night, where Canada got some confidence and momentum and started looking like, well, Team Canada. Suddenly the passes were connecting, guys were taking authority and scoring chances were appearing. Going into the game we had lots of shots but everything was so vanilla.
You lose to Latvia, and suddenly can’t score, and every player is trying to do too much themselves. Overthinking, nervous, and nothing is going right. It’s on the players individually, yup. But Hockey Canada made some bad decisions to get to that point.
But you put the best players on the roster, and you probably don’t need to worry about getting in the rut to begin with. Misa, Sennecke, Yakemchuk and Parekh. Draft position isn’t everything, but at this stage in the guys careers, it’s pretty indicative of who the best players are (of course there are some outliers). 3 players just drafted in the top 10 in the NHL should probably be locks for the team, barring anything insane. Too much talent to leave at home.
