[GDT] Ongoing 2025 WJC Game Day Thread

[troutman]

14 OHL players.

The West is Best!

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ

I’m certain 100% of people on this forum could have picked a roster that would have at least made it to the semis.

That's even giving them too much credit... remember that blog post from 10 years ago, Dave Nonis vs a Potato? Yeah, the Potato takes this.

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by jayswin

The blame is on the coach and roster. The roster was not the best selected and therefore is majorly to blame for bowing out this early. The world juniors are way more evenly matched these days, Canada is falling and needs to select it's best roster each year to win Gold, and they didn't do that.

I disagree, this roster is still better than any team at the tournament, other than maybe USA. They are too good to be eliminated early by the Czechs, they should STILL be competing for gold, but the coach didn't have them properly prepared for each game, didn't properly address the discipline issues, didn't play the right line combinations, and didn't employ a system that would bring success.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by troutman

14 OHL players.

The West is Best!

There’s some truth to this though. There’s bias and it’s annoying and stupid. And also eastern Canada needs to pick it up.

[Teroy]

Yes, the coaching was pathetic. The team selection was pathetic. However, the fact that we had to play the Czechs in the 1/4s is directly on a bunch of undisciplined players. No one else. This team was a bunch of supposed tough guys out to prove no one can push us around and they paid the price.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Sandman

I disagree, this roster is still better than any team at the tournament, other than maybe USA. They are too good to be eliminated early by the Czechs, they should STILL be competing for gold, but the coach didn't have them properly prepared for each game, didn't properly address the discipline issues, didn't play the right line combinations, and didn't employ a system that would bring success.

No they're not that good at all and it's showing. This isn't the old days where Canada can just bring 20 randoms and be a Gold medal threat. These days they need to pick the best teams possible and they failed at that, horribly.

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by jayswin

No they're not that good at all and it's showing. This isn't the old days where Canada can just bring 20 randoms and be a Gold medal threat. These days they need to pick the best teams possible and they failed at that, horribly.

This roster on paper is better than any roster in the tournament, other than maybe USA. They are certainly a better group than the one that beat us tonight.

[Teroy]

On paper doesn't count.

[Royle9]

If your 23 man roster is not the BEST 23 players you can get right now in Canada then you're not doing it right, plain and simple.

Canada tried to 200iq a bunch of kids, then played politics and brought in guys from the Q just because I guess you cant omit a CHL league? Even still there were a few defenseman in the Q that they could have brought who made more sense.

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by Teroy

On paper doesn't count.

Right, that's why you still need a good coach.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

This isn't rocket science. You take the best hockey players, period.

Especially when they're mostly 19-year-old kids. You can't build a team of grinders when they haven't yet learned to grind. All these kids need to work on their defensive game if they're going to make the NHL one day, and they know it. So let them work for a couple of weeks by defending against the best players in the world their own age. Take those skilled guys and help them round out their skills by playing them in a slightly different role.

And for Pete's sake, PRACTISE! Cameron said there was nothing he could do to fix the team. Well, you certainly can't fix anything if you don't even try. Trying is what practice is for!

[Sandman]

Let's compare how many players on Team Canada have been drafted by NHL clubs, compared to Team Czechia, or how high they were picked...

[Teroy]

What would you have done; bench some of them?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Sandman

This roster on paper is better than any roster in the tournament, other than maybe USA. They are certainly a better group than the one that beat us tonight.

No, their roster on paper is not better than any roster in the tournament at all.

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by jayswin

No, their roster on paper is not better than any roster in the tournament at all.

Actually it is.

This roster with a competent coach makes it to the Gold Medal Game.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

I could pick next year's team right now and do a better job than Hockey Canada is likely to next year. That is sad.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Sandman

Actually it is.

This roster with a competent coach makes it to the Gold Medal Game.

No way this roster makes it to the gold medal game under a competent coach. They didn't take their best roster and you admitted that they left some of their best players at home. No way man, they blew it in roster selection, not sure why you're arguing that when it's so obvious.

[Winnie]

Originally Posted by Sandman

Actually it is.

This roster with a competent coach makes it to the Gold Medal Game.

That team needed to start with some basic horseshoe drills.

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by jayswin

No way this roster makes it to the gold medal game under a competent coach. They didn't take their best roster and you admitted that they left some of their best players at home. No way man, they blew it in roster selection, not sure why you're arguing that when it's so obvious.

They didn't take their best roster, but the one they did take is good enough to be competing for gold under a different coach.

[Goriders]

How’s the lynching going?