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Originally Posted by moon
Because as I have stated many times Aulie has had trouble dealing with fast, smaller forwards in the WHL.
You get him out there with international refs that will call him for every elbow, hold, rough and I think he will really struggle.
He didn't look good against the average players in the WHL and with the forgiving (for his type of game) refs and that doesn't bode well for when the players get faster, better and the reffing gets more ridiculous.
Obviously the team Canada scouts saw something in his game but I have a hard time seeing what that could possibly having watched him play in the WHL.
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Meh, Robyn Regehr was supposed to be a big slow oaf in 1999 (?) and turned out to be Canada's best defenseman.
There might be more ice, but there's also more distance to reach the net. If they played hockey on a soccer field with hockey nets, I don't think that will help the forwards that much more either. I don't believe in the physical/slow defenseman = bad on international ice, they just have to adapt.