euro. one reason, ASKAROV

Middle:

Offensively Matthews can kind of keep up with the other two (and Matthews isn't terrible defensively).
Makar vs Hughes vs Dahlin is a wash, but Dahlin has much more experience and resume. On the flipside, the other two have just as much potential and ability.
Knight > Bust (jk) > Levi

Canadian

I can't even really answer this to be honest. Yeah Levi had a great tournament but it was also in front of 19 first round picks, and his performances preceding the tournament got him drafted in the 7th round. The Canadian core is probably the best outside of goaltending, but right now Levi is too unpredictable.

I think Matthews is (failing that will be for the future) better than Draisaitl (as he is much better defensively), and I think Hughes is better than Dahlin. Again, goalies you never know, I wasn't impressed with Askarov in the WJC and I was impressed by Knight, but who knows. I guess I will go USA then because Knight is the most predictable goalie.

During the WJC Askarov made far too many mistakes for a first round goaltender
Plus his glove hand is weak and he cant hold his stick for more than 15 minutes without losing it

hes also 18

I just hope Askarov finds his stick

All of the goalies in the tourny were 18 or 19
thats not a good defence

im saying he syoung and he was fine

his play was perfectly fien

umm
ok
Did you actually watch any of his games?

He was "fine" in the Bronze Medal game.
He was "yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes" in the rest of the tourney.

I choose the Sens core

yes i did and thought he was ok all things considered

idk what games you were watching i though askarov played well

ooookkkkk

idk if yikes even does it justice, he was straight-up bad in a lot of those games. Soft goals and poor decisions were the norm, he looked like he was scrambling the whole tournament

"idk what games you were watching"
Clearly you didnt watch him and probably just the scores.

I watched the goalie himself, he was not good. Doesn't mean his future is ruined, just means he had a bad tourney.



Sums it up pretty well. He never looked in control of the game - I'd call it chasing the game, which is not what you want from your starter.

ya sure
whatever you say


*cough 5-0 cough*

3 of 5 wasnt his fault

ya ok

he dropped his stick in the canada game more times than i have ever seen any other goalie drop their stick ever

i also watched askarov INTENCELY he played good enough to win, very focused on the puck, came up big on numours occations cocky but did play the puck too much and didnt hold onto his stick

He dropped his stick more times than Trumps contradicted himself

again this is what i saw