2025 World Junior Championships

[blue_gold_84]

I thought it was the best game Canada played in the tournament. Unfortunately a late penalty did them in.

I still think their opening game vs. Finland was their best performance. It all seemed to go downhill from there, even with them beating Germany.

Discipline was nowhere to be found.

This should serve as a wake-up call to Hockey Canada, IMO.

[blue_gold_84]

https://thehockeynews.com/news/world-juniors-2025-canadas-kids-lost-but-the-adults-were-largely-to-blame

...it's hard not to notice that Peter Anholt and Brent Seabrook are two of the common denominators between last year's failure and this one.

For a country that used to physically dominate this tournament, Canada's 2025 roster was not very big overall. And that was certainly a factor in what will go down as one of the country's worst offensive performances ever: in five games, they scored only two more goals than Kazakhstan - the team that got relegated.

Discipline, preparation - that's on the coaches. It is rare for a Canadian coach to inspire as much venom as Dave Cameron has during this tournament, but the decisions made by him and his staff were baffling, over and over again.

Pretty scathing - but rightfully so.

[Jesse]

I still think their opening game vs. Finland was their best performance. It all seemed to go downhill from there, even with them beating Germany.

Discipline was nowhere to be found.

This should serve as a wake-up call to Hockey Canada, IMO.

Same problems against Finland though. Just couldn't get the puck in the net.

It was a weak showing from start to finish.

[Pigskin]

Finland with an upset win over Sweden.

[dd]

A REAL big wake up call for Hockey Canada. Back to back years out of the medals and this year was an embarassment, an out and out embarassment. And to have the Hockey Canada management team arrogantly defend what happened was the most sickening thing about the whole ordeal. You need to cast the talent net outside the OHL and you need to play with discipline and be smart, especially in the last minutes of a tie game.

No doubt changes are forthcoming, as this performance by players, coaches and management was a disgrace.

[Jockitch]

Yes it was a surprise and full of disappointment
The variety of decisions needed, on and off the ice, were certainly damning and the poor result occurred.

Meanwhile I do believe the best team, USA, did what it took and the victory was the crowning piece

[Jesse]

At the end of the day, we're never going to dominate like we used to, the rest of the world has picked up their development to be at the same level or better than Canada's.

But this was a pretty embarrassing couple of years that we should hope to never experience consecutively like this.

[dd]

Sad to say, but the USA team played like we used to play-- physical, fast and skilled and disciplined---no stupid penalties by team USA during tournament and they deservedly took home the gold. Canada now has to get its collective act together.

[Pigskin]

Sad to say, but the USA team played like we used to play-- physical, fast and skilled and disciplined---no stupid penalties by team USA during tournament and they deservedly took home the gold. Canada now has to get its collective act together.

Oh, they took there fair share of stupid penalties, just not as many as Canada did.

[dd]

Oh, they took there fair share of stupid penalties, just not as many as Canada did.

Nothing as stupid as Canada's tripping penalty 4 seconds into a power play in the offensive zone. That was brutal. So was the open ice kneeing penalty with a couple of minutes left in a tie game. Zero situational awareness. Zero. That was the difference in the game right there. We give up a PP and then turn around and give them one with 2 minutes left.