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Post by Score on Feb 22, 2023 20:56:51 GMT -4
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Post by Reesor on Feb 24, 2023 18:53:56 GMT -4
I always enjoy reading about a new phenom or somebody taking something by storm - but the success of McKenna at these Canada Games is a bit of a mirage. Not at all meaning to disagree with Score or anything - just looking at the standings and results (link below). For instance, there is no explanation of why the C Division is made up of the very weakest teams - Yukon; Nunavut; NWT; PEI and NL. It makes no mention of blowout wins over Nunavut (11-6) or NWT (9-2). When they (Yukon) play even a minimal opponent like NL or NB - they in turn get blown out. Meanwhile, McKenna shows an amazing 28 points to lead all scorers. Actually, every single player with 10 points or more so far comes from the weakest division. An argument could be made that if Quebec and Ontario players were playing in the C Division - there would be a few in the 20 point range as well - or higher. I'm not saying that McKenna isn't the real deal. Just more wondering - is this what they usually do at the Canada Games with hockey - with two competitive divisions and a type of second division? Or is this a new initiative meant to make everybody look fairly competitive? Whatever it is - IMO - a player like Zachary Wheeler has it much harder to put up points against the likes of Quebec - while PEI and NL players fill the net against NWT and Nunavut. As always - just an opinion. 2023 Canada Games hockeyI don't remember the exact playoff structure but I remember when the Canada Winter Games were in Halifax they did the same thing with hockey. 12 teams divided into three divisions. The top 4 ranked teams, the next 4 and the next 4. The playoffs favored the top ranked teams. Like all four from the top division would make it but only the top from the worst division would make it. I think that was to prevent ridiculous blowouts. Every team plays every other team once in their own division. There may be blowouts in the playoffs. |
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Post by scotiahockey on Feb 24, 2023 22:12:33 GMT -4
I always enjoy reading about a new phenom or somebody taking something by storm - but the success of McKenna at these Canada Games is a bit of a mirage. Not at all meaning to disagree with Score or anything - just looking at the standings and results (link below). For instance, there is no explanation of why the C Division is made up of the very weakest teams - Yukon; Nunavut; NWT; PEI and NL. It makes no mention of blowout wins over Nunavut (11-6) or NWT (9-2). When they (Yukon) play even a minimal opponent like NL or NB - they in turn get blown out. Meanwhile, McKenna shows an amazing 28 points to lead all scorers. Actually, every single player with 10 points or more so far comes from the weakest division. An argument could be made that if Quebec and Ontario players were playing in the C Division - there would be a few in the 20 point range as well - or higher. I'm not saying that McKenna isn't the real deal. Just more wondering - is this what they usually do at the Canada Games with hockey - with two competitive divisions and a type of second division? Or is this a new initiative meant to make everybody look fairly competitive? Whatever it is - IMO - a player like Zachary Wheeler has it much harder to put up points against the likes of Quebec - while PEI and NL players fill the net against NWT and Nunavut. As always - just an opinion. 2023 Canada Games hockeyThey always do this or have recently. It honestly just makes sense, there’s no reason for Ontario or Quebec to play PEI/NL/NWT because they’re no where near their level. You can have these blowout games and let the big provinces beat up on the small ones or you can let the 4 clearly weaker provinces, have games against teams they can be competitive with because if they don’t play each other, they may as well stay home. I’ll say this about McKenna though, I don’t care what he did at the Canada games or the competition he played. He could have had 0 points, my opinion of him wouldn’t change. The kid led the CSSHL U18 in scoring as a 14 year old, which if you look at the guys to lead the league in points in the past, it’s a who’s who of top young prospects/young NHLers. Since he isn’t old enough to play in the WHL full-time, he’s doing it again this year and in the 11 games he’s played in the dub this season he has 8 points as a 15 year old with a really late birthday, so he doesn’t have an advantage with his birthday either. He’s one of the top 2/3 2007 born players in Canada right now and there’s only 1 kid in the tournament near his level. He’s on a completely different level then Zach Wheeler, so we can discredit his 28 points because of the caliber of competition, which is fair because there isn’t many CHL guys on the teams he’s playing but there isn’t many if any players that would have his production if they got to play the same schedule. |
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Post by hal on Mar 3, 2023 16:03:48 GMT -4
So this guy is Connor Bedard's Cousin ?
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