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T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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DeBrincat up to 60 in 28, Eerie is like 23-6, and it really annoys me that Chicago got him

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T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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Jagged Jim posted:

The US is notorious for favoring junior players that stay in the US over players that go to Canada to play in the CHL. This is incredibly retarded because the CHL has a much higher profile than any US-based junior league and therefore the best players will go to the CHL to play.

They favor NCAA players, and the better NCAA players often are the best (or some of the best) American players, but cutting DeBrincat is stunning.

This has more to do with Jim Johannson being a loving moron. Reminder that this is the genius who didn't take Connor last year either.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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It's still loving insane that the US didn't take him on the WJ team, I mean they won but good lord.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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And speaking of adorable good midget hockey players, Denis Smirnov is up to 39 points in 28 games for #9 PSU in his +1 season. He's the kind of guy pretty much any NHL team should be taking a mid round flier on in the draft this year.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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Kiril Kaprizov is going to be nasty.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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Alberta is also really good, they and UNB could play with any NCAA team.

(and goes without saying that they would crush any CHL team)

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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Do we want to do a World Championship thread? Anyway for some reason good players went for the US this year, despite the Olympics not being a thing. Eichel and Gaudreau are there and a bunch of other guys like Hellebuyck, Trouba, McAvoy, Larkin, Keller, Lee, Nelson etc. It looks like the best US WC team in years.

Canada has got Scheifele, ROR, Giroux, Marner, MacKinnon, Wayne Train, Skinner, Couturier, to name a few. Their D looks like a fun one for international ice with a possible top four of Vlasic, Demers, Barrie, Morrissey.

Sweden has a ton of NHLers as well: Klingberg, Stralman, Lindholm, OEL, Nylander, Joel Eriksson Ek, Hedman, Landeskog, etc -- probably the most NHLers they've ever had at the WC.

T-Bone fucked around with this message at 01:05 on May 4, 2017

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T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

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Hand Knit posted:

More threads are always good.

I'll throw one up tomorrow.

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