Anyone have any further thoughts on this?Looking forward to defending my championship in a few weeks. This pool always makes the world juniors even better.
I brought this up a few years ago but it was too close to the tournament to really gain any traction, but what if we had 2 forward captains? Looking over things, the captains this year will most probably be something like Cutter Gauthier, Will Smith, Matt Savoie, Joakim Kemell and Jiri Kulich, maybe Noah Ostlund). The Americans alone will have players on their top two lines (Snuggerud, Leonard, Perreault) that will most probably be on at least 75% of the rosters, if not more. Canada has Geekie, Sweden has a few. What if within that second tier we also could only choose one? That would create a lot more variance between rosters.
So something like this:
F Captain 1:
Cutter Gauthier
Will Smith
Matthew Savoie
Jiri Kulich
Joakim Kemell
Noah Ostlund
F Captain 2:
Ryan Leonard
Gabe Perreault
Jimmy Snuggerud
Conor Geekie
Jonathan Lekkerimaki
Liam Ohgren
D Captain:
Tristan Luneau
Danton Mateychuk
Lane Hutson
Axel Sandin-Pelikka
Now, instead of guys filling out their 5 Americans with Leonard, Perreault and Snuggerud, let us have to choose between a possibly third line Nazar, fourth line Moore, guess who will be on the first line with Gauthier and Snuggerud, decide on possibly using all 3 captains on Americans (who could have an all time great offense this year) and only have 2 more spots for Americans left to fill out the rest of the roster, etc.
Any thoughts? And if you guys are into this idea, any changes you'd make to these captains (Celebrini? Maybe less Swedes?)?
Not sure who is organizing the pool this year, but I can help with calculating results once all the entries are in Excel.
Thoughts about the 2 forward captain groups vs 1 forward captain group.
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Anyone have any further thoughts on this?Looking forward to defending my championship in a few weeks. This pool always makes the world juniors even better.
I brought this up a few years ago but it was too close to the tournament to really gain any traction, but what if we had 2 forward captains? Looking over things, the captains this year will most probably be something like Cutter Gauthier, Will Smith, Matt Savoie, Joakim Kemell and Jiri Kulich, maybe Noah Ostlund). The Americans alone will have players on their top two lines (Snuggerud, Leonard, Perreault) that will most probably be on at least 75% of the rosters, if not more. Canada has Geekie, Sweden has a few. What if within that second tier we also could only choose one? That would create a lot more variance between rosters.
So something like this:
F Captain 1:
Cutter Gauthier
Will Smith
Matthew Savoie
Jiri Kulich
Joakim Kemell
Noah Ostlund
F Captain 2:
Ryan Leonard
Gabe Perreault
Jimmy Snuggerud
Conor Geekie
Jonathan Lekkerimaki
Liam Ohgren
D Captain:
Tristan Luneau
Danton Mateychuk
Lane Hutson
Axel Sandin-Pelikka
Now, instead of guys filling out their 5 Americans with Leonard, Perreault and Snuggerud, let us have to choose between a possibly third line Nazar, fourth line Moore, guess who will be on the first line with Gauthier and Snuggerud, decide on possibly using all 3 captains on Americans (who could have an all time great offense this year) and only have 2 more spots for Americans left to fill out the rest of the roster, etc.
Any thoughts? And if you guys are into this idea, any changes you'd make to these captains (Celebrini? Maybe less Swedes?)?
Not sure who is organizing the pool this year, but I can help with calculating results once all the entries are in Excel.
Thoughts about the 2 forward captain groups vs 1 forward captain group.