|
Who will win the 2019 World Junior Championship This poll is closed. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
 |
|
19 | 46.34% |
 |
|
7 | 17.07% |
 |
|
1 | 2.44% |
 |
|
5 | 12.20% |
 |
|
0 | 0% |
 |
|
2 | 4.88% |
| Slovakia |
|
0 | 0% |
| Switzerland |
|
0 | 0% |
| Czech Republic |
|
1 | 2.44% |
| Kazakhstan |
|
6 | 14.63% |
| Total: | 41 votes | ||
|
Welcome to the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship thread! This year's tournament is co-hosted by Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada   Venues: Rogers Arena, Vancouver Capacity 18,910   (Hosting Group A games, two quarter-final games, both semi-final games, bronze medal game, gold medal game) Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria Capacity 7,006   (Hosting Group B games, two quarter-final games) Rosters Group A - Vancouver (click for rosters):      Group B - Victoria (click for rosters):      Schedules: Group A - Vancouver(click for format):  Group B - Victoria (click for format): 
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2018 22:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 10:38 |
|
|
(reserved)
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2018 22:49
|
|
|
one of the Kazak players has a wikipedia entry, i like their chances.
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2018 22:58
|
|
|
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I don’t have to talk to my mongoloid cousins because they’re big hockey nerds too so we just sit around the TV in silence
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2018 23:15
|
|
|
I kinda wish the US just took the entire U18 team instead as that team is insane. But this team is also good and I like their chances
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2018 23:47
|
|
|
Thanks for making the thread this year, I didn't get around to doing a huge effort post this year. I think this is going to be a great tournament. Both groups are fairly even and I have a gut feeling we're looking at another USA-Canada gold medal game. Canada is probably the favorite this year, the dark horse to unseat them is going to be the opposite group. USA or Finland, in my opinion.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 01:40
|
|
|
Have we mentioned how awesome Quinn Hughes is yet?
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 01:41
|
|
|
Canucks fans should be watching the US with interest and praying they blow the rest of the season for a Hughes brothers reunion in Vancouver for the foreseeable future. Quinn is nasty. Great skater, great vision. He'll never be a physical guy at his size but I think he could be a Torey Krug kind of player which would be a huge boon for Vancouver.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 01:49
|
|
|
QUINN HUGHES My town hosted the Kazakhstan team for their pre-tournament practices and exhibitions and when we did radio broadcasts for the games they gave us pre-game interviews while the Swiss team didn't. My takeaway from this is I hope the Swiss get relegated and Kazakhstan don't.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 02:33
|
|
|
For CAS, overshadowed by Hughes is Tyler Madden who is also a Canucks prospect (2018 68th o/a) that made a deep and good U.S. team. I'll be keen to watch him in this tournament as well. I have the full tournament package to all the games in Victoria, so I'm going to a fuckton of hockey over the next couple weeks. Oh and sorry Isles fans, I was at the Canada-Slovakia pre-tournament game on Wednesday and Noah Dobson played like absolute trash
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 02:34
|
|
|
goldrush posted:For CAS, overshadowed by Hughes is Tyler Madden who is also a Canucks prospect (2018 68th o/a) that made a deep and good U.S. team. I'll be keen to watch him in this tournament as well. I have the full tournament package to all the games in Victoria, so I'm going to a fuckton of hockey over the next couple weeks. Also Michael DiPietro is the goalie for Canada and probably the best goalie in the tournament BUT NEVER MIND THAT poo poo HERE COMES QUINN HUGHES
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 02:52
|
|
|
I feel like Canada's team might be the best they've had in a while, but I also feel like the tournament has been very unmemorable for a while. Hopefully something will happen to restore interest this year, especially if that involves humiliating the jingoists.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 04:43
|
|
|
Nick Suzuki, you're my only hope.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 07:31
|
|
|
Finland has rarely won against Canada on any level as comprehensively and convinxingly as just in the pretournament game. Whether that moves on at all to the real tournament will be seen and this might help Canada a lot more in the end.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 14:43
|
|
|
Hand Knit posted:I feel like Canada's team might be the best they've had in a while, but I also feel like the tournament has been very unmemorable for a while. Hopefully something will happen to restore interest this year, especially if that involves humiliating the jingoists. Yea i don’t think I’ve been this disinterested in the world juniors since the year before ovi was in it cuz i was too young to gaf
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 15:12
|
|
|
heeheex2 posted:Yea i don’t think I’ve been this disinterested in the world juniors since the year before ovi was in it cuz i was too young to gaf I seem to remember from last year that this isn’t just us, and WJHC interest has dropped a fair bit.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 15:41
|
|
|
Last year's tournament was a down year imo, but I think the tournament has been just as good or better than it always has been the last few years.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 16:03
|
|
|
One of the problems was they kept holding the World Juniors in the Buffalo/Toronto area so the crowds were kinda underwhelming because people stopped going. I think Victoria and Vancouver will come through.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 20:12
|
|
|
The last time I really cared about the World Juniors a lot was 2015, since future Edmonton Oiler Connor McDavid was on Team Canada along with Nurse, Lazar ( ) and others. Last 3 tourneys I've more or less been indifferent to it for most games.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 21:10
|
|
|
Yaya posted:One of the problems was they kept holding the World Juniors in the Buffalo/Toronto area so the crowds were kinda underwhelming because people stopped going. god, I hate how USA Hockey dropped the ball on last year. they had Pittsburgh (which they've done a lot of USHL things recently in, plus Erie and Johnstown are two excellent jr hockey towns within a short drive) and St Louis (non-traditional market, two good arenas, great hockey culture) as host finalists, but NO BUFFALO UNDERSTANDS HOCKEY MORE THAN YOU OUTDOOR GAME #BILLSMAFIA JERSEYS OUTDOOR GAME! plus, because of the focus on #BILLSMAFIA OUTDOOR GAME! they screwed up the ticketing process for the other games, meaning that HSBC Arena was at best half-full for most games.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2018 22:10
|
|
|
I feel like none of the rosters wowed me last year, it was just a bad year for the tournament overall. I mostly only hone in on team USA and this is one of the more fun rosters I've seen recently. A lot of good players top to bottom with top prospects for quite a few NHL teams, and then you have Jack Hughes who's a probable top two pick and Spencer Knight, one of the best goalie prospects in the last decade or so.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 05:16
|
|
|
Yaya posted:One of the problems was they kept holding the World Juniors in the Buffalo/Toronto area so the crowds were kinda underwhelming because people stopped going. In toronto the ticket prices were obscene and the venue was awful. Not surprised nobody wanted to go. I paid $120 to sit in the very top row for a round-robin game at the ACC and have my view obstructed by the press box. Who the hell designed that?
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 05:40
|
|
|
fisting by many posted:In toronto the ticket prices were obscene and the venue was awful. Not surprised nobody wanted to go. It was also the 3rd time in 4 years Toronto co-hosted so people were probably all world juniored out. It's coming here in 2021 and we have a cozy little arena so it should be pretty good as long as they don't get silly with ticket prices. Rebels tickets against the glass are like $20.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 16:30
|
|
|
I don't follow the World Juniors that closely, but don't Canada and the US usually always play in the same Group? Has it changed this year?
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 18:00
|
|
|
Twin Cinema posted:I don't follow the World Juniors that closely, but don't Canada and the US usually always play in the same Group? Has it changed this year? no, it's just happened to work out that way in the past few years. I really have no idea how the seeding works for the preliminary round and I'm not having luck finding any information. It is pretty rare that it doesn't happen though. Last time USA and Canada weren't in the same group was 2011.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 18:18
|
|
|
drat, was hoping to see Canada face off against the Hughes brothers. Guess I'll hope for them to face off at some point.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 18:27
|
|
|
The World Juniors peaked when Kazakhstan beat Canada in like the 7th place game in 1999 or whenever it was. Been all downhill ever since.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 18:33
|
|
|
Jamwad Hilder posted:no, it's just happened to work out that way in the past few years. I really have no idea how the seeding works for the preliminary round and I'm not having luck finding any information. Excluding last year (where the organizers had Canada and USA in the same group on purpose for the outdoor game), group seeding uses the previous tournament's standings like this: Group A: 1st place 4th place 5th place 8th place 9th place Group B: 2nd place 3rd place 6th place 7th place Promoted team from Div I
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 19:43
|
|
|
Ivan Vereshagin made Team Kazakhstan's final team which I normally wouldn't care about but he wears number 69 and I think that's very funny.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2018 21:25
|
|
|
Kilza posted:Excluding last year (where the organizers had Canada and USA in the same group on purpose for the outdoor game), group seeding uses the previous tournament's standings like this: thanks for clearing it up. I knew it was some nonsense.
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2018 05:53
|
|
|
Fuckin Denmark spelled their own name wrong on their flag. Good job, "Danmark," you stupid fucks.
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2018 06:00
|
|
|
Do we think Canada wins against Denmark tomorrow by a dozen goals or only 10
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2018 07:59
|
|
|
USA Captain Mikey Anderson is going to loving destroy everybody.
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2018 17:02
|
|
|
gord and ray calling some hockey, tis the season
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2018 22:39
|
|
|
If everybody is just gonna be white and red, Canada should go back to green.
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2018 22:45
|
|
|
fits posted:gord and ray calling some hockey, tis the season I’m dreading who is gonna call the regional TSN NHL games during the WJCs Also both Hughes bros are a delight to watch play hockey The Dirty Burger fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 27, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 27, 2018 02:27
|
|
|
Morgan Frost
|
|
#
?
Dec 27, 2018 03:03
|
|
|
Poor Danmark. They look like high school kids (which they probably are)
|
|
#
?
Dec 27, 2018 03:19
|
|
|
Stop they're already dead
|
|
#
?
Dec 27, 2018 04:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 10:38 |
|
|
Grand Theft Autobot posted:Fuckin Denmark spelled their own name wrong on their flag. Good job, "Danmark," you stupid fucks. Does anyone have a screenshot of this or know when it happened?
|
|
#
?
Dec 27, 2018 04:03
|
|
