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Max Boltman (1:37)
This is the athletic hockey show prospect series. Hey everybody. Max Boltman here alongside the Athletics, Scott Wheeler and Corey Promen and Flo Hockey's Chris Peters for another episode of the Athletic Hockey Show Prospect series. The World U18 Championships are more than underway. They're nearing their conclusion and they have been a week of chaos. Guys. Scott and Corey are on the ground in Bratislava and they have witnessed the heavyweights go down. Canada out. USA out. Both before the semis. Finland out before the semis. Corey, how do you kind of sum up what has happened over the last week in Bratislava and Trenchin?
Corey Pronman (2:26)
It's been a very unique world's tournament. We definitely knew that this wasn't the strongest NTDP team. I mean I think they were dead last in the USHL in the Eastern Conference this season. It was a, you know, Canada had some intriguing players on their team but it's also, we knew it wasn't, you know, you know, this incredible team Canada full of high end talent but you still thought like that Canadian team could at least Go to the medal round, never mind contend for a gold medal. There was never really one team throughout the course of the tournament that really took over and, and showed consistent dominance. Everyone had like a bad game or in the, in the preliminary round or so so game. I mean us had, you know, tremendous effort against Sweden. They beat him, I think 91 in the preliminary round and then they struggled to beat Denmark. And then the, the Swedish team obviously said that a really poor loss against the U.S. finnish team just get, just got destroyed by Canada and their preliminary round game. And even though Slovakia won their groove, they never did it with this dazzle of high end skill that made you think they've got a ton of premier NHL prospects. So, you know, was it the most enthralling tournament to watch it? Be perfectly honest. Still playing NHL talent generous, probably. What's been a theme now from the U18s for the last few years is more interest in the underage talent than there is in the current draft year talent. This has become more of an underage tournament to be perfectly honest, the last couple of years. But there was still some players of note. Like I think the two guys that generated the most interest was Wyatt Cullen. We're recording this on the off day between the quarterfinals and the semifinals and he's still second in scoring. Actually I think seven of the top 11 scorers right now in the tournament are on eliminated teams. Make of that as, as you will, but it's a call. It had a really inspiring tournament for the U.S. and Malte Gossas in on Sweden has been probably the best defenseman here. And after kind of an up and down year in Sweden, I think he's inserted himself firmly in the lottery range of the draft. If he wasn't already there in the eyes of some, he had a very big tournament for Sweden. Playing big minutes, all situations. Six, four, mobile defenseman. There's a lot to like there.
