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2023 Womens Worlds and U18 Women’s Worlds

My two cents:

1. LaChapelle has now NOT won gold at either U18 Worlds she has coached. She is 2-18-1 this year at Holy Cross, while the team is 2-1-0 while she is out of the country.

2. Last year, when she had the players from the dominant 2004 birth year, she underachieved and went from beating Canada 7-0 in the round robin to losing in the final. It seems like she got out-coached over the course of one week pretty badly.

3. This year, with the normal 2005 birth year, she couldn't even make the finals. How is she the coach?
 
LongGame said:
How is she the coach?
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Joel Johnson and Maura Crowell combined to be the coach of USA U-18s for years, so there is a precedent for both head and associate head college coaches. Who are some other NCAA coaches who we'd like to see in this role?
 
As someone so nerdy for international hockey that I've started keeping a sheet of every IIHF roster/tournament result, noticed a curiosity: former UVM player and assistant coach, and current Middlebury assistant Ashley Salerno is serving on the coaching staff of the Turkish U18 national team, who begins play in the D2A (fourth division) U18 tournament in a few hours from now. She worked with the Spanish team last year, but at least that kinda made sense (their head coach at the time was North American, former Yale/Quinnipiac associate head coach Harry Rosenholtz)...this just seems too delightfully random not to share lol

I've gone through the staff of every team to have played thus far, including the others of that tournament, and I see only one other North Americans on a non-NA staffs: Laura Rollins, the Canadian HC of Spain who has worked in Europe forever. So a current NCAA assistant is just so odd at such a low level lol
 
TovarishchLisa said:
I've gone through the staff of every team to have played thus far, including the others of that tournament, and I see only one other North Americans on a non-NA staffs: Laura Rollins, the Canadian HC of Spain who has worked in Europe forever.
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I may not be getting the parameters that you're considering for this, but Carla MacLeod coached Japan and I believe she is coaching the Czechs now. Shannon Miller was involved with the Russians in some capacity. So there have definitely been North Americans trying to grow the game internationally.

Thanks for your post; Turkey isn't a country that I would have guessed would be too involved in hockey.
 
ARM said:
I may not be getting the parameters that you're considering for this, but Carla MacLeod coached Japan and I believe she is coaching the Czechs now. Shannon Miller was involved with the Russians in some capacity. So there have definitely been North Americans trying to grow the game internationally.

Thanks for your post; Turkey isn't a country that I would have guessed would be too involved in hockey.
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Was going off just this year's U18 tournaments
 
Thanks for all the kind words! As a lone person covering the tournament, it's just really not feasible for me to do full recaps of each game, so this is the format I came up with to provide context and make being on site worth it, but not run myself totally ragged. It also allows me to watch more hockey. If I were trying to file game stories after each game, I'd miss at least a period of the next game. This style gave me the opportunity to watch some of the B group games, as well.

I'll have an article with Nela upcoming on another site and my column this week on USCHO will be a bit of compilation of interesting info that I picked up at the tournament.

I was told that the plan is always for a U18 coach to be on a 2-3 year rotation, so regardless of outcome from this tournament, the plan would have been to have a new coach.
 
Lindsay said:
https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/te...ers?teamid=179


23 person roster for Canada. Only 2 of the players “most recent team” is a college team vs 13 for the Americans. Rebecca Johnson is back after being gone a while and so is Natalie Spooner after maternity leave.

Any takers on who will win?
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With 4 former Golden Knights on Team Canada and One former and one current Golden Knight on Team USA I'm OK with whoever wins.

I hate putting the Vicb jinx on the Americans (Maybe it only applies when I pick Eastern Teams in the NC$$ Tourney ;-) ) but I am gonna say Oh NO Canada, Team USA with the Gold.
 
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There is an apparent correlation in that Gabel and Giguere, neither being selected, play with Boston Pride; meanwhile, the players selected are playing in the PWHPA or are in college.
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It went a bit the other way for Team USA; Becca Gilmore made it over Compher, Zumwinkle, and Brandt.
 
11 of the 48 players are current or former Badgers (6 on Team USA and 5 on Team Canada). Success breeds success which is why so many talented players end up at Wisconsin.
 
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Perhaps this quote explains why some players, after being in the 2022 Olympics, are not on these teams now for the USA and Canada:
It is not uncommon in a new Olympic quad — the four years between tournaments — for the coaching staff to opt for younger players, ensuring they get proper reps on the team before the Olympics.
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- from an article about the Canada roster. Interesting that Becca Gilmore is a new addition, though.
 
2022-23 college players on announced rosters outside USA/CAN:

Czechia - Mlynkova and Patkova from UVM, Hymlarova from SCSU, Neubauerova from PC, Skodova from UMD, and Klara Jandiuskova from D-III Colby.
Finland - Karjalainen and Parkkonen from UVM, Laitinen from Minnesota, Nylund and Ahola from SCSU.
France - Aurard from NU. Canadian college link in McGill's Mia Vaananen.
Germany - The Welcke twins from Maine, Voigt from SCSU, Jobst-Smith from UMD, Christof from RPI, and Abstreiter from PC.
Hungary - Ognoda from UST, Sergely from Maine
Japan - No NCAA, but one Canadian college player, Guelph's Chihiro Suzuki.
Sweden - Bouveng from Minnesota, Holm and Begrstrom from LIU, Lundin from OSU, Soderberg from UMD, and Hjalmarsson from PC.
Switzerland - Mueller from NU, Brandli from BU, Zimmermann from SCSU, Villario and Maurer from UST, Enzler from Maine. Canadian college link as well with Kaleigh Quennec at the University of Montreal.

And as a lower-level tournament degenerate, a couple college links in the low level women's worlds right now:

-D-III Suffolk's Sofia Scilipoti suiting up for Spain, as is as a Canadian college connection in McGill's Bridget O'Hare.
-Mexico's squad features two ACHA gals - Utah's Miranda de Antunano and Liberty's Dione Duenas.
-Former Yale captain Krista Yip-Chuck is suiting up for Latvia, as is Liga Miljone, formerly of Maine.
-Australia's tournament was played over a month ago, but did include D-III Anna Maria's Sara Sammons. They missed out on promotion after getting goalied by an EXTREMELY young Belgium team.

Second tier tournament was punted to August because China Moment, so I don't have the squads for those..
 
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