WJC 2020

[lari]

Alec Regula was cut by USA, so only two Blackhawks prospects will take part and both are 2019 4th round picks.

Antti Saarela (brother of the ungrateful Alexi Saarela who is now riding the bus in Springfield, MA) will play for Finland and Michal Teply playing for the hosts, Czech Republic.

As for the actual teams, Canada & USA are the favourites. Finland the defending champs.

[lari]

Starts on the 26th, with CAN-USA and FIN-SWE

[jimc]

Dec 25, 2019 0:50:52 GMT lari said:

Starts on the 26th, with CAN-USA and FIN-SWE

Massive rivalry day

[brendan]

soooooo excited!!!

[garyu]

When's the Spengler Cup start???

[khawk20]

Today or tomorrow!!

[lari]

Dec 25, 2019 15:59:29 GMT garyu said:

When's the Spengler Cup start???

www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/team-canada/men/national/2019-20/spengler-cup/stats/team-rosters?teamid=151

Steeger has cracked Team Canada!

[lari]

THE WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP IS A PROSPECT-LOVERS PARADISE THANKS TO STRONG DRAFT CLASS

As many as six players who will appear at the world juniors will land in the top 10 of the 2020 draft: Alexis Lafreniere, Quinton Byfield, Alex Holtz, Lucas Raymond, Yaroslav Askarov and Tim Stutzle.

Players to watch, knowing the Hawks will draft high again.

[Merpes]

Stay away from Tim’s (Erixon) and any Alex’s (Zhamnov) from the Hawk’s perspective.

[lari]

I watched the first period of the Czech - Russia game and barely noticed Teply out there. I think he got some PK time.

Hockey was okay. 4 goals and lots of energy. A nasty injury to one of the better Czech players early on (Jakub Lauko).

I'm going to miss the rest, but I'll try to catch USA-Canada / Finland-Sweden, though wife wants to take me somewhere to visit her friends so I might have to watch a stream secretly in the bathroom or something.

It's okay, they won't guess. They will probably just think I'm masturbating and can't finish.

[garyu]

Dec 26, 2019 15:02:52 GMT lari said:

I watched the first period of the Czech - Russia game and barely noticed Teply out there. I think he got some PK time.

Hockey was okay. 4 goals and lots of energy. A nasty injury to one of the better Czech players early on (Jakub Lauko).

I'm going to miss the rest, but I'll try to catch USA-Canada / Finland-Sweden, though wife wants to take me somewhere to visit her friends so I might have to watch a stream secretly in the bathroom or something.

It's okay, they won't guess. They will probably just think I'm masturbating and can't finish.

I was sure Teply got a primary assist on the 1st Czech goal. He does need some agility drills.

[lari]

Dec 26, 2019 15:10:33 GMT garyu said:

Dec 26, 2019 15:02:52 GMT lari said:

I watched the first period of the Czech - Russia game and barely noticed Teply out there. I think he got some PK time.

Hockey was okay. 4 goals and lots of energy. A nasty injury to one of the better Czech players early on (Jakub Lauko).

I'm going to miss the rest, but I'll try to catch USA-Canada / Finland-Sweden, though wife wants to take me somewhere to visit her friends so I might have to watch a stream secretly in the bathroom or something.

It's okay, they won't guess. They will probably just think I'm masturbating and can't finish.

I was sure Teply got a primary assist on the 1st Czech goal. He does need some agility drills.

He indeed has three assists already in the game now.

Maybe I'll tune back in.

[garyu]

Teply has good O-instincts.

[jimc]

Great first day...rivalry day. All 4 games quality close affairs.

[lari]

Fun game, Canada - USA. High drama with the finish. Lafreniere scores the GWG right off the faceoff, seconds after the Americans had just tied it, late in the third.

Sweden beats Finland with 4 seconds remaining in OT.

Czechs hold the Russians off and celebrate as if they just won WW2.