2016 World Junior Championship Pool

[Crazy Joe Davola]

i would love to see Pulju drafted 1st overall instead of Matthews, but no team holding 1st overall is going to pass on the latter...trading down could be a possibility though.

I've been extremely impressed with both Puljujarvi and Laine, especially when considering they are 6-8ish months younger than Matthews - who for all intents and purposes, should have been in the '15 draft.

8 months may not seem like much, but at this stage of a player's development, it can be massive.

You're right though, 1st overall is likely going to be Matthews, but picks 2-5 are shaping up to be JP, Laine, Tkachuk, Chychrun and even Nylander 3.0 could be pushing his way up into that discussion for the 5-8 slot

The 2016 draft is going to be a lot deeper than the 2015 crop. No McDavid, but some real impressive talent in the top 10 and solid players all the way through the top two rounds.

[PenguinHunter]

Who is playing goal for Russia? The feed I am listening
(TSN 1290) to keeps saying Samsonov.... but on TSN.ca it has 19 saves for Georgiev. Anyone watching that can inform me?

[Crazy Joe Davola]

Samsonov got the start

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Shame that Russia beat the Yanks. Would've been fun to watch the '16 top prospects battle it out.

Oh well, Go Finland!

[PenguinHunter]

Samsonov got the start

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Shame that Russia beat the Yanks. Would've been fun to watch the '16 top prospects battle it out.

Oh well, Go Finland!

Thanks!

[audiopile]

An interesting take on the failure of Team Canada this year and how the blame lies at the feet of Dave Lowry.

http://www.hockeyspy.ca/lowry-didnt-coach-to-win/

So true.

[Nights]

Didn't think I would be saying these statements at this point, but :

- Finland won 2-1 over Sweden with none of Nylander, Kempe, Puljujarvi, Aho and Laine getting points.

- Only Russian point getter in the pool was Samsonov today. Woo! And no Matthews, Tkachuk sighting on the scoreboard either.

- In other news, the Leafs prospects did some good - Timashov with an assist on the lone SWE goal and Kapanen scoring 1g and assisting on the other Finnish goal as the Hintz-Kapanen-Rantanen line showed up to play.

- And I may have not noticed that Kahkonen was actually owned until now. Whoops. That changes things ;P

Rk	Team	Pts
1	Crazy Joe Davola	134
2	burnsy00	130
3	metaldude26	127
4	praba	126
5	Essej	118
6	newfcollins	116
7	Rocky71	116
8	CaptainCally	114
9	ChuckCouples	113
10	Bubba55	113
11	toddmackay	113
12	Doulos	105
13	Axeman33	105
14	horrorfan	105
15	Nights	104
16	Eskimo Brother	103
17	Daver	101
18	forsbergfan	100
19	Northernnuck	100
20	vandalay	99
21	Magicstew	98
22	Stacy_n11	98
23	Penguin Hunter	98
24	watchingthegame	97
25	als_revenge	96
26	kjamieson	95
27	InForAPenny	94
28	SensArmy93	94
29	Hollywood	90
30	markyj	86
31	audiopile	86
32	Dodospice	84
33	Big Ev	84
34	Sulla	83
35	Pit Bulls	83
36	reeveta	76
37	thewherewithal	55

Crazy Joe is begging Kempe to outscore all of Lindblom, Timashov, Dvorak, Nattinen and Kahkonen to keep the lead over Burnsy.

But Metaldude and Praba can still fight, especially if Samsonov gets a win, and Saarijarvi and Kamenev do some damage.

[Crazy Joe Davola]

One more day, let's see if the boys can hold on!

[burnsy00]

It's on Crazy Joe!!!

[Crazy Joe Davola]

USA is laying a BEATDOWN on Sweden. That bronze medal game is always a crapshoot. Neither team really wants to be there.. It'll take some time before both realize that a bronze medal is still quite the accomplishment.

[newfcollins]

USA is laying a BEATDOWN on Sweden. That bronze medal game is always a crapshoot. Neither team really wants to be there.. It'll take some time before both realize that a bronze medal is still quite the accomplishment.

It would have been nice if Matthews could have gotten a couple of points.

[PenguinHunter]

It would have been nice if Matthews could have gotten a couple of points.

8 goals for USA and no points for Matthews?

[newfcollins]

8 goals for USA and no points for Matthews?

According to the TSN web site, Matthews had no points.

[PenguinHunter]

According to the TSN web site, Matthews had no points.

So Sweden's strategy of using a 4th liner to 'shadow' Matthews obviously did not work! haha. I am not sure if they actually did this... was not able to watch the game

[Crazy Joe Davola]

I saw the first two periods.. Matthews looked pretty good out there, but didn't dominate. The 3rd and 4th lines looked pretty good though. Schmultz and Boeser were flying at times.

[Big Ev]

So does Russia have a chance? I wanna bet on this game