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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 6160
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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| Adam wrote on Sat, 27 December 2025 19:42 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Sat, 27 December 2025 17:26 |
This version of Team Canada is awful.. going to OT with freaking Latvia.. gave up the tieing goal with a minute left.. IMO a lot of high drafted prospects on TC are dropping in value.. even McKenna looking mediocre.
TC has two forward lines, rest are plumbers.
Surprised how TC's speed seems so average..
I think a problem with Hockey canada is that some kids that separate themselves when they are younger in the Team Canada program U-17.. U-18.... stay on top of Hockey Canada's radar even though they may already have started to fall back to their peer group once they get up to the U-20 group..
Haven't been impressed with a lot of the players so far.. one of those unimpressive players is Mertone.. he was big as a kid and his size and speed stood out amongst his young peers.. .. now not as much..
Misa was supposed to be elite.. he was playing for SJ.. but he hasn't stood out either.
I think Iginla has looked good, Mckenna.. Hage, Martin.. they stand out.. make stuff happen.. rest are looking very average.
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I didn't pay much attention to the selection process here - did we leave a bunch of good offensive players off the team and do that weird Team Canada thing where they think we need role players?
I didn't see today's game but against the Czechs they didn't look dangerous if the top two lines weren't on. And Hunter making some odd choices with his PP. He's tried to balance out the two units, so you don't have any time with all the best players on the ice.
I didn't like some of the antics from the Canadian team too - getting in to it before the game with Czech players and then the unsportsmanlike tap from the captain after he scored the empty net game. In games where you're the massive favourite, maybe just focus on getting business done.
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Yeah the unsportsmanlike was Martone.. he's the freaking capatin.. guy is brainless.. classic where a kid is on team canada all the way up through his youth then loses the sense of accountability..
You weren't wrong .. basicly two lines have any danger of scoring and the bottom 6 struggle to make any contributions at all.. these are supposed to be the character type guys that were supposed to energise the team.. forecheck and cycle the puck.. build momentum.. problem is they are just average skaters.. can't hit anyone because they can't get there in time. . kinda like the Oiler bottom 6 .. like the NHL.. TC needs speed as a core requirement of any roster player.. even these stiff Latvians were keeping up to them.
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