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World Junior Championships -- 2021

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It speaks volumes about the decline of participation on this board that nobody has yet started a thread for the 2020-21 World Juniors, which is now underway in Edmonton. Plenty of things to interest college hockey fans, what with 20 NCAA players on the US roster (9 B1G; 7 HEA; 3 NCHC; 1 WCHA) and three more on the Canadian roster (2 HEA; 1 B1G). Even Russia (2 HEA).

Hopefully, discussions on this thread stick to hockey.
 
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Your guess is as good as anybody's. Usual training and preparations disrupted by COVID factors, especially on the other side of the pond. Germany still has some players in quarantine and will play its first game with a reduced roster. USA and Canada appear to have had the smoothest workups but Canada's captain went down in last night's exhibition and won't be playing.
 
Split-N said:
Your guess is as good as anybody's. Usual training and preparations disrupted by COVID factors, especially on the other side of the pond. Germany still has some players in quarantine and will play its first game with a reduced roster. USA and Canada appear to have had the smoothest workups but Canada's captain went down in last night's exhibition and won't be playing.
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Other than the USA winning it my other hope is for our three D to return to our team 100% healthy!
 
FWIW, USA has a much tougher draw: vs Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, and Austria; Canada gets it much easier: vs Finland, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Germany. IMO, only Finland has a chance to get past the Canadians. US will be in a dogfight against all except the Austrians.
 
NCAA players/commits on non-US teams:

Canada - Dylan Holloway (UW), Alex Newhook (BC), Devon Levi (NU)
Germany - Tommy Pasanen (Clarkson), Luca Münzenberger (UVM commit, literally just committed today)
Switzerland - Cedric Fiedler (WMU), Ray Fust (Omaha commit)
Russia - Vladislav Firstov, Yan Kuznetsov (both UConn)

LMK if i'm missing any.
 
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Which team is favored to win Gold?
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Canada.

Even with the loss of Dach. They are loaded.

USA/Russia/Sweden/Finland next tier.

USA going to need better goaltending if they are going to have any prayer. Spencer Knight’s WJC struggles continue.
 
Canada continuing to pound a depleted German squad. 11-1 after 2.

Feel so bad for Germany. Never had a chance tonight against a completely rested Canadian team and playing it’s 2nd game short 7 or 8 skaters in 24 hours.

Canada probably keeps the gas pedal on in the 3rd with goal differential.
 
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Canada.

Even with the loss of Dach. They are loaded.
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Dach had surgery today. Out 4-6 months. As a lifelong Blackhawks fan, I'm not happy. Add to that the fact that Toews is out with some mystery illness (apparently not covid, because he says it's something he's had for a couple of months) and a team that likely wasn't going to be all that good to begin with is really in trouble.
 
Nice shut out and on to the quarterfinals for the US who are now the number 1 seed in their group. Big win for seeding purposes.
 
Ditto for Canada but it may have come at a cost with Alex Newhook (BC) leaving the game with an "upper body injury" and not returning.
 
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Ditto for Canada but it may have come at a cost with Alex Newhook (BC) leaving the game with an "upper body injury" and not returning.
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I think they'll be okay they have 12 forwards left and all 12 are first round picks...

The question is if the injury will cost BC.
 
No Beanpot this year but Devon Levi (NU) vs Spencer Knight (BC) in the Gold Medal game tonight might be the next best thing.
 
Apparently, nobody on this board knows (or cares?) that that the US upset Canada 2-0 last night to win the World Junior Championship. Aside from the medals, banners, and stats, the most compelling subtext was the fact that this game was a showdown between NCAA and Canadian major junior hockey, what with all but four US players and the entire coaching staff coming from college hockey while all but three Canadian players and the entire coaching staff came from major junior.
 
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