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Originally Posted by mikephoen
They put him on Canada's world junior team and he looked bad there too.
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Eh. Looked better than the other guy frankly. Yeah he let in some goals but the majority of them were tips. I didn't think McDonald was to blame in the games he played in and Mackenzie Blackwood was bad in the elimination game against Finland and should've been pulled for McDonald in that one.
I mean yeah, would've been reassuring had he stood on his head, won the starter's role and led the team to victory. But I'm not sure how much we can really read into those tipped goals. Canada's defense was not incredibly strong at the WJCs. And McDonald was strong in the QMJHL playoffs reportedly.
And in the end he's basically still in the infancy of his career. We'll be able to judge a lot more based on his pro resume once he starts logging some games at the ECHL or AHL level.