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2021 World Championships

Gargoyle said:
I had misread your prior post as suggesting that Dube was the only BC native who ever was on an IIHF roster. I thought I recalled that one of the Potomak sisters had once been on the team, although not this year.
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Unfortunately, the Potomaks have spent recent history with the University of Minnesota, which has been seriously dedicated to underachieving and not expending too much effort.

We all hope that is not going to continue to be a hallmark of the Gopher program.
 
KTDC said:
Unfortunately, the Potomaks have spent recent history with the University of Minnesota, which has been seriously dedicated to underachieving and not expending too much effort.

We all hope that is not going to continue to be a hallmark of the Gopher program.
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I think you missed putting a troll alert on your post. I thought the Potomak sisters were a great addition to the Gopher team. Who can forget Sarah's playoff steal from a Wisconsin player in her first year? With injury and a wasted Covid season, it seems like woofing to criticize either the players or the team as a whole. We will now have a new coaching regime, plus the added excitement of an in-town rivalry. For what this program has given us in the past, I am happy to wait and see what will come. That which doesn't change, doesn't grow.
 
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KTDC said:
Unfortunately, the Potomaks have spent recent history with the University of Minnesota, which has been seriously dedicated to underachieving and not expending too much effort.
We all hope that is not going to continue to be a hallmark of the Gopher program.
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I look for the Gophers to again be very competitive this season, capable of beating any team on its schedule.

HOWEVER - and it's a big one - with their two top scorers ("Zoom Boom" Zumwinkle and Abbey Murphy) both gone, as they chase spots on the USA National Team and having put up more than 25% of the Gophers' scoring last season, where is the scoring going this upcoming season going to come from? Goaltending and solid team defense absolutely have to be their strengths against the likes of Wisconsin, Ohio State and UMD.
 
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Gargoyle said:
I had misread your prior post as suggesting that Dube was the only BC native who ever was on an IIHF roster. I thought I recalled that one of the Potomak sisters had once been on the team, although not this year.
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Yes I thought Dube was the only one ever. You are right though - Sarah Potomak was on the 2017 Worlds roster. When Canada named their Olympics roster for 18, Zandee Hart and Potomak were 2 of the final 3 cuts.

I looked on Instagram and Zandee Hart appears to have participated in the recent camp and be skating again.

can’t wait did the tourney to start.
 
Reddington said:
Lindsay: you follow it all in women's hockey. Is Nuutinen playing in the World's? Any production?
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Sadly no! She won a silver in 19, then came back to college and had her most productive season ever but was not named to the 2020
roster. Her Twitter says she’s at Lynn University now, playing soccer.

For her to keep improving her senior season but not make the national roster suggests Finland has a lot of confidence in their younger players, so they will also be interesting to watch, especially after the way the last worlds ended. I remember there was some discussion about whether or not Finland was truly closing A gap, or just getting by on the strength of Raty. Although Finland beat Canada to get to the finals, if I recall correctly they got soundly beaten by US and Canada in the early part of the 19 tourney. This go round Finland does have Mercyhurst goalie Jenna Silvonen on the roster. She is also a worlds ‘19 silver medalist.
 
Lindsay said:
Sadly no! She won a silver in 19, then came back to college and had her most productive season ever but was not named to the 2020
roster. Her Twitter says she’s at Lynn University now, playing soccer.

For her to keep improving her senior season but not make the national roster suggests Finland has a lot of confidence in their younger players, so they will also be interesting to watch, especially after the way the last worlds ended. I remember there was some discussion about whether or not Finland was truly closing A gap, or just getting by on the strength of Raty. Although Finland beat Canada to get to the finals, if I recall correctly they got soundly beaten by US and Canada in the early part of the 19 tourney. This go round Finland does have Mercyhurst goalie Jenna Silvonen on the roster. She is also a worlds ‘19 silver medalist.
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Finland won the gold medal in 2019. Watch the overtime period again if need be. I am not certain how to link to it, but Tiawan Hockey has the full game, plus many other interesting women's hockey games. YouTube also has the lengthy wait while officials tried to get the "right team" back into the game. I take nothing away from the United States players, but Finland was the better team that day.
Finland beat the United States in the final, but got robbed. That was a disgraceful display of politics trumping the efforts of the teams on the ice. There is NO WAY that the Finnish goal should have been called off. Yes they lost a shootout afterwards, but they had rightly celebrated beating the United States after already knocking Canada out of the finals. Really a terrible series of decisions by officials not on the ice that stole a well deserved gold medal from the Finnish women.
 
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Reddington said:
I had to look up Lynn University...in Boca Raton, Fl. Traded hockey for fun in the sun.
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Yes it looks that way. A great hockey career, and witnessed a lot of craziness along the way. She was part of the UND program that got cut, saw her gold turn to silver at 19 worlds, and missed out on her final chance at an NCAA tourney thanks to Covid. Can see how one would need a break after all that. I hope she is having lots of fun in the sun!
 
Haven’t seen this officially anywhere but Michelle Jay of the Ice Garden posted that NHL Network is going to show two pre tournament games on the 18th, USA Russia, and Finland Canada. Also tweeted that NHL Network is going to show the group games of
BOTH Canada and the US for the actual tourney. That is fantastic.

Their group includes Switzerland, Finland and Russia, so a bunch of NCAA or ex NCAA players there.
 
From a hockey newsletter I get, this is a handy list showing the number of years of NCAA eligibility remaining, both for players on Team USA and Team Canada.

Several NCAA players with eligibility remaining will play in this tournament for various countries. Rosters have not been named for each country except for Canada and Team USA. Here’s a look at who from Team USA Team Canada still have NCAA eligibility left. Once additional rosters are names, this list will be updated.
FirstLastPositionCountryLast TeamNCAA Years left
CaylaBarnesDTeam USABoston College2
NatalieBuchbinderDTeam USAWisconsin1
CarolineHarveyDTeam USANAHA White U194
JesseCompherFTeam USABoston University1
BritaCurlFTeam USAWisconsin2
LaceyEdenFTeam USAWisconsin4
AbbeyMurphyFTeam USAMinnesota4
GraceZumwinkleFTeam USAMinnesota1
SarahFillierFTeam CanadaPrinceton2
AshtonBellDTeam CanadaUniv. MN-Duluth1
EmmaMaltaisFTeam CanadaOhio State University1
 
Has anyone been able to find out if Frankel is going to centralize or if she's just filling in for Worlds? As an American I hope she's centralizating and as a BC fan I... also hope she is centralizing.
 
We'll be on vacation and I don't believe the hotel will have the NHL Network. What are the streaming options (if it's Reddit, you'll need to walk me through it)?

Thanks.
 
Rooney has a partial tear of her MCL 6 weeks out then rehab My guess is Frankel goes back to school and if Rooney takes longer then she gets called in.
 
D2D said:
From a hockey newsletter I get, this is a handy list showing the number of years of NCAA eligibility remaining, both for players on Team USA and Team Canada.
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Any chance you want to or are able to post a source to allow others to get this newsletter? That info was awesome.
 
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