World Junior Pool - open for entry

[reeveta]

Looks like about 20 entries this year. I will send out all the rosters later today or tomorrow.

Looks like Ryan Ellis is the only consensus pick.

[metaldude26]

Hopefully you got mine!

[reeveta]

Hopefully you got mine!

Yup. Got yours.

[reeveta]

I got the following entries:

burnsy00
cannon
Dean Youngblood
dmvincent
dodospice
Doulos
dyzfunctioned
Fopa21
GeekasaurusRex!
InForAPenny
jake_canucks
Kudelski's Krushers
Mater
metaldude26
Nights
reeveta
TK12555
TML
Vandalay
watchingthegame

[TK12555]

Looks like about 20 entries this year. I will send out all the rosters later today or tomorrow.

Looks like Ryan Ellis is the only consensus pick.

so essentially, it doesn't matter that Ellis got a goal because everyone chose him?

[Dean Youngblood]

Ya Ellis was a given on everyones team. You would be mad not to take him

So far I am happy with my orlov pick. I am disappointed with myself as I shouldve went with my gut and picked marcus foligno. I think he will be a huge player for CAN

[TK12555]

Ya Ellis was a given on everyones team. You would be mad not to take him

So far I am happy with my orlov pick. I am disappointed with myself as I shouldve went with my gut and picked marcus foligno. I think he will be a huge player for CAN

ya, it's hard to pick 5 canadians only...i picked ellis, de haan, schenn, schwartz, and kassain

[Dean Youngblood]

Ya its tough with so much depth and especially this year with the lack of "game breakers" on CAN

I believe I took Ellis swartz leblanc couturier and barrie

[TK12555]

ya in their first 13 goals, they were scored by 13 different players, very balanched attack.

[doulos]

I only picked 3 CAN players this year.

[dodospice]

I like the team I picked. Im sure everyone does though lol.

Captain:Nino Neiderreiter(Switzerland)

Forwards:
1)Jerry D'Amigo(United States)
2)Richard Panik(Slovakia)
3)Jaden Schwartz(Canada)
4)Louis LeBlanc(Canada)
5)Sean Couturier(Canada)
6)Toni Rajala(Finland)
7)Evgeny Kuznetsov(Russia)
8)Andrej Nestrasil(Czech Republic)
9)Kyle Palmieri(United States)
10)Maxim Kitsyn(Russia)
11)Anton Lander(Sweden)
12)Sven Bartschi(Switzerland)

Defence:
1)Ryan Ellis(Canada)
2)Adam Larsson(Sweden)
3)Sami Vatanen(Finland)
4)Dmitry Orlov(Russia)
5)Nick Leddy(United States)
6)Martin Marincin(Slovakia)

Goalies:
1)Jack Campbell(United States)
2)Robin Lehner(Sweden)

I will probably be criticized for taking Bartschi but he has more points then Neiderreiter does in the WHL this year and is playing on a weak team in this tournament.

Best of luck to everyone
dodospice

[Dean Youngblood]

Dodospice,

Your team is almost identical to my team:

CAPTAIN: Jeremy Morin (USA)

Forwards:
1)Jerry D'Amigo(United States)
2)Richard Panik(Slovakia)
3)Jaden Schwartz(Canada)
4)Louis LeBlanc(Canada)
5)Sean Couturier(Canada)
6)Toni Rajala(Finland)
7)Evgeny Kuznetsov(Russia)
8)Gabriel Landeskog (SWE)
9)Kyle Palmieri(United States)
10)Maxim Kitsyn(Russia)
11)Anton Lander(Sweden)
12)Teemu Pulkkinen (FIN)

Defence:
1)Ryan Ellis(Canada)
2)Adam Larsson(Sweden)
3)Tyson Barrie (CAN)
4)Dmitry Orlov(Russia)
5)Nick Leddy(United States)
6)Tim Erixon (SWE)

Goalies:
1)Jack Campbell(United States)
2)Robin Lehner(Sweden)

Bolded players were the only difference for me. I am sure a lot of the teams are very similar though

[dyzfunctioned]

Mine will probably lose :P

Captain: Brayden Schenn

Forwards:
Calle Jarnkrok (SWE)
Tom Kuhnhackl (GER)
Evgeny Kuznetsov (RUS)
Stanislav Galiev (RUS) - ugh
Gabriel Landeskog (SWE)
Sean Couturier (CAN)
Louis Leblanc (CAN)
Kyle Palmieri (USA)
Nick Njugstad (USA)
Teemu Pulkkinen (FIN)
Emerson Etem (USA)
Sergey Kalinin (RUS)

Defense:
Adam Larsson (SWE)
Oliver Ekman-Larsson (SWE)
Jon Merrill (USA)
Ryan Ellis (CAN)
Calvin de Haan (CAN)
Dmitry Orlov (RUS)

Goalies:
Jack Campbell (USA)
Robin Lehner (SWE)

[dmvincent]

Here is who I took.

Captain
Vladimir Tarasenko

Forwards
Jaden Schwartz- CAN
Sean Couturier- CAN
Louis Leblanc- CAN
Gabriel Landeskog- SWE
Evgeny Kuznetsov- RUS
Andrej Nestrasil- CZE
Joel Armia- FIN
Teemu Pulkkinen- FIN
Richard Panik- SVK
Sven Bartchi- SUI
Jerry D'Amigo- USA
Carl Klingberg- SWE

Defence
Ryan Ellis- CAN
Sami Vatanen- FIN
Martin Marincin- SVK
Oliver Ekman-Larsson- SWE
Jon Merrill- USA
David Musil- CZE

Goalies
Jack Campbell- USA
Robin Lehner- SWE

[dodospice]

Dean Youngblood,

I almost put Landeskog on my team instead of Nestrasil.
I almost put Pulkkinen on my team instead of Bartschi too but I figured Id take my chances on the Winterhawks leading scorer in a weak division.
I almost put Erixon on it too instead of Marincin just because of how good Erixon was playing in the SEL put Marincin is playing as good in the WHL.

I never considered Barrie. I put Vatanen on it just because of what he did last year.


Does anyone else find it sad that Mikael Grandlund is missing the WJC. He had a chance to play in 4 of them I dont know how many people have done that but it would of been impressive.....still 3 WJC is impressive.

On a lighter note Olli Maatta plays on Finland as a 16 year old.