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    Team USA shocks with Alex DeBrincat cut for world juniors

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    Team USA shocks with Alex DeBrincat cut for world juniors Empty Team USA shocks with Alex DeBrincat cut for world juniors

    Post by jedi17 Mon 26 Dec 2016, 5:10 am

    Team USA shocks with Alex DeBrincat cut for world juniors

    On Thursday morning, USA Hockey announced their latest cuts from world junior selection camp. The biggest name sent home, forward Alex DeBrincat, was a shock.
    For starters, the Erie Otters star is the leading goal-scorer in the Ontario Hockey League with 30 goals — and he also has 30 assists for 60 points — in 28 games. He trails his Otters teammate and Team Canada forward Taylor Raddysh by one point for the league’s scoring lead.
    The 19-year-old also has experience. The second-round pick of the Chicago Blackhawks (39th overall in 2016), was on the bronze-winning team last year in Helsinki, Finland. His tournament, however, was cut short first by an ejection in his first game for spearing and second by a shoulder injury that limited him to five games in the tournament (in which he scored one goal).
    Usually, the elite, high-scoring forwards with experience are the ones you want to take to the world juniors, where every game is critical in a short tournament format. Apparently USA Hockey has other ideas.
    The news took a lot of people by surprise, including Erie Otters GM Dave Brown:

    In hindsight, this shouldn’t really come as shock when you look at some of the questionable decisions general manager Jim Johannson and his staff made last year.
    They didn’t even invite Alex Tuch — a first-round pick of the Minnesota Wild — to their December camp after he had played on the 2015 world junior team and was having a good season (12 points in 15 games) with Boston College.
    Ditto for Kyle Connor — a first-round pick of the Winnipeg Jets — who was a stunning omission considering he had just turned 19 and was the leading scorer at Michigan at the time of the camp. Connor, who wasn’t good enough for the world juniors, went on to play for Team USA at the 2016 world championship and was a Hobey Baker nominee.
    Two of the other snubs from last year — Kitchener Rangers forward Jeremey Bracco and Manitoba Moose (AHL) forward Jack Roslovic — were given invites this year and are locks to make the team.
    And yes, the team won bronze in 2016, but could they have done better if they had taken their most skilled team?
    The always excellent Chris Dilks sums up the issue with USA Hockey’s mindset perfectly:
    The story of this World Juniors for me was always going to be the battle between the immense offensive talent Team USA could have potentially had versus some old USA Hockey salary cap mentality it insists on using in picking their rosters because it works once every four or so tournaments.
    What once looked like one of the most exciting groups of forwards Team USA had put together in a long time now looks like a pretty pedestrian group by World Juniors standards.
    USA Hockey’s other cut on Thursday, Logan Brown, made a little more sense considering the Windsor Spitfires forward is coming off a wrist injury suffered a month ago.

    Don't shoot messenger, just forwarding rationale on Team USA cuts: Brown was rusty/lacked pace. Hadn't played game (wrist) since Nov. 12.

    Team USA will open their tournament on Dec. 26 against Latvia at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.
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