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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:39 pm
by willeyeam
No thread? USA looks great thus far. Who are the top prospects here? Paging @mikey. Strome is the only name I know.

I went to Toronto ten years ago this time of year and watched the USA/Canada game at a bar. Ever since seeing how big it was there I've tried to watch it each year. Was bummed when Buffalo won the bid over Pittsburgh

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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:44 pm
by mikey
Yeah, last year there wasn't much interest...so I skipped out on it. USA is off to a good start for sure. Denmark is a great story. The Finns going from gold to the relegation round for the first time ever for any team...firing their coaching staff halfway through the tournament...

It's been a fun one for sure...

To address your question re: top prospects...are we talking draft eligibles? Already drafteds? Undrafteds?

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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:53 pm
by willeyeam
Let's say drafted players. Ha I saw the Finns had 0 points, didn't know they fired their staff. That's something

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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:05 pm
by mikey
With permission, I am just going to copy a text I sent the other day when asked the same question...

I guess Alexander Nylander, Dylan Strome, Matt Barzal, Kirill Kaprizov, Tyson Jost, Colin White, Olli Juolevi, Clayton Keller, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Mikhail Sergachev, Vili Saarijarvi, Jeremy Bracco would be a good launching point I guess at a glance.

Of those, it has been rough (rough I tell ya) for Dubois and Sergachev in this round robin stage. Strome has been a little sleepy too for the player that probably should be burning down villages in this thing, he's been mostly throwing centering passes around but he's the center...

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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:07 pm
by willeyeam
:thumb:

Dubois hasn't looked great

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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:13 pm
by mikey
He is a long trajectory player. Columbus went for the upper deck shot at this one. People will over react now because Puljujarvi will be better for the next few years (for the record, I have been all about Pulju for a couple years now...when he was 16 I said he would go 1st overall in 2016) but CBJ just wasn't feeling it and went with the long con...I can see it, but I don't agree with it...we'll see in 2020-ish where they're at on that...

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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:29 pm
by willeyeam
Scenario sounds like when the Pirates took Gerrit Cole 1st overall and his UCLA teammate Trevor Bauer beat him to the majors. Coles had much more success

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:12 pm
by willeyeam
We have ourselves a game

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:21 pm
by crusherstasiak
We have ourselves a game
Is that steve mears with the call?

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 10:19 pm
by willeyeam
We have ourselves a game
Is that steve mears with the call?
While I didn't think he did play by play, it does sound a little like him. And he works for NHL network.. But I haven't been paying enough attention to them to tell you

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 10:29 pm
by crusherstasiak
We have ourselves a game
Is that steve mears with the call?
While I didn't think he did play by play, it does sound a little like him. And he works for NHL network.. But I haven't been paying enough attention to them to tell you
It's him.

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 10:34 pm
by mikey
Yeah, he did it last year as well...pretty brutal at it, I had to watch about 9 minutes of NHLN coverage of this tournament and it sucked...Dennis Beyak and Craig Button / Gord Miller and Ray Ferraro always do a great job for TSN...

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 10:56 pm
by willeyeam
Sloppy OT for the US so far

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:08 pm
by crusherstasiak
high drama

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:20 pm
by MR25
Shame it's going to a shootout

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:20 pm
by willeyeam
This game deserves more overtime

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:31 pm
by willeyeam
That was fun. Thought Parsons deserved player of the game but McAvoy played great as well. Oh and Chabot is going to be a stud for a long time

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 1:12 pm
by llipgh2
On a side note: Leafs fans are flipping out because Auston Matthews had the audacity to congratulate Team USA, and for tweeing out American Flag emojis.

Phil Kessel part 2...

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 1:15 pm
by columbia
On a side note: Leafs fans are flipping out because Auston Matthews had the audacity to congratulate Team USA, and for tweeing out American Flag emojis.

Phil Kessel part 2...
Toronto sucks.

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:15 pm
by willeyeam
Looking forward to Matthews winning his first cup with the Pens

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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 2:17 pm
by willeyeam
Hey @mikey what prospects are we watching this year besides Jack Hughes?

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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 7:26 pm
by mikey
Watch the Finn Kaapo Kakko if we're talking about eligibles...

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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 7:31 pm
by Gaucho
Kaapo Kalsarikännit Kakko

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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 9:40 pm
by willeyeam
Watch the Finn Kaapo Kakko if we're talking about eligibles...
Nice. Might now be my second favorite current hockey name behind Nino Niederreiter

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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:14 am
by meow
Read this entire thread thinking it was all about this year and was severely confused