watching u23 interviews is so funny like the giro next gen interviewer asking jørgen nordhagen how he prepared for the race and he's like "well actually i've been at home finishing up school and taking final exams"
hot take, heavily penalizing teenagers for causing each other head injuries, even unintentionally, is good, actually, and the nhl could stand to take a page from the iihf book on the way that standard is upheld (for all ages).
“how are you gonna prepare them for the nhl if the rules are different?!” this is not an nhl run event. this is not the george parros department of player safety or the gary bettman league. this is not the ‘nhl prospect practice and preparation tournament’, this is the world junior hockey championship. it is its own entity unto itself and for its own ends, it is not just a stepping stone for your favourite budding superstars to gain prestige and fanfare before they move on to the only “big league” that north american hockey fans consider significant or meaningful. it plays a larger role in the development of not only players, but also of entire hockey training programs in countries where hockey, even men’s hockey, is an under-funded or less established sport.
not all of these kids are going to go on to be nhl players. ALL of them should get the chance to grow up to be adults who don’t have their quality of life degraded by lingering head injuries and cte.
more acknowledgement for immigrant families in the US that are really small because everyone else lives in your home country so you have no real feelings, positive or negative, about thanksgiving as a holiday (politically abhorrent but as HOLIDAY). it's so boring. why do I have to pretend to care about this and why am I considered distasteful for saying so.
Someone needs to look at whether or not it works out to have 1 goalie play every single minute of this tournament
Rousseau has been good for Canada! But whether or not he wants to admit it, there's bound to be some fatigue after playing 5 games in 7 days. And Czechia was obviously watching the Germany game, cause they're more than happy to screen and shoot (which is working very well so far!)