Reply To: World Jr’s – Speed of the Game

I'm in the US, without the NHL Network or satellite tv. Anyone know where to view recordings of these games?

Sounds like the US has a really good group of kids right now. I wonder if the growth of junior hockey has helped at all? It goes against the theory of more skill practice & fewer games, but I'm willing to bet 90% of the players on the US roster played some junior hockey before going to college. Even the NTDP team playes a junior schedule.

When I graduated from high school here in the states (late 80's) no one played junior hockey….it was high school & straight to college mainly because there were no other options unless you lived close to Canada. Now there's a junior league of some sort in every region, some good and some not so good. As an organisation though USA Hockey and their new LTADM plan seems to be really moving in the direction of the European model of more practices to games.

Any thoughts on this?