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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-21 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the ADM has been extremely successful. They've won like eight or nine of the last U18s tournaments, they have several WJC medals, and they've come in third and fourth recently at Worlds despite sending teams made up of NCAA players. Hell, Lombardi asked for Eichel this time around. And it's worth remembering they invited young guys like Galchenyuk and Jones to USA camp in 2014.

The issue is definitely the senior men's team level, and honestly I think the talent coming up, that USA Hockey has been promoting for four years now, will force change.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-21 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
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Yeah, they've had a pretty consistent problem of icing teams that are a few years too old in big senior men's tournaments, but I think it'll become impossible to keep ignoring their young talent in the future. Or at least I hope. But they're not investing all that time and money into building youth teams that have perfect chemistry together just to win U18s.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-21 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
They've been pretty "build the best team" for U20s, too - some people say they snub CHL players, but I don't see it that much as Canada snubbing NCAA players.

IIHF Worlds is clearly used for development, which is great in its own way. I think it was beneficial for Eichel, Larkin, Matthews all the last two years.