Merry Christmas Eve.
Just like last year, our Spengler Cup and World Junior previews fall on Christmas. This time, they are going to be spread out so Spengler Cup tonight and World Juniors tomorrow. Oh, and screw you TSN for putting the Spengler Cup on TSN2. Why couldn't Sportsnet retain the TV rights dammit.
Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
Goalies: Daniar Dshunussow, Lukas Lang
Defensemen: Robbie Bina, Marvin Degon, Christopher Fischer, Kevin Hecquefeuille, Benedikt Kohl, Nathan Paetsch, Benedikt Schopper, Armin Wurm
Forwards: Colin Beardsmore, Mike Bishai, Patrick Davis, Matt Dzieduszycki, Sebastian Furchner, Tyler Haskins, Kai Hospelt, Andre Huebscher, Christoph Hohenleitner, David Laliberte, John Laliberte, Vincenz Mayer, Norm Milley, Ilkka Pikkarainen, Patrick Pohl
Top Threat: A top 5 team in the DEL, with the leading scorer and point-getter Kai Hospelt.
Weakness: Spell-checking names for the game sheet.
HC Vitkovice Steel
Goalies: Martin Falter, Roman Malek
Defensemen: Franco Collenberg, Tomas Kudelka, Marek Malik, Ctirad Ovcacik, Petr Puncochar, Gian-Andrea Randegger, Adam Sedlak, Tomas Voracek
Forwards: Jiri Burger, Michal Hlinka, Radim Hruska, Peter Huzevka, Jan Kana, Lukas Klimek, Lukas Pabiska, Petr Pohl, Ondrej Sedivy, Juraj Stefanka, Petr Strapac, Juraj Sykora, Roman Szturc, Nathan Walker
Top Threat: They have Marek Malik, so shootouts are covered.
Weakness: They didn't bring Viktor Ujcik along? They deserve last place.
Dinamo Riga
Goalies: Chris Holt, Maris Jucers
Defensemen: Janis Andersons, Oskars Cibulskis, Guntis Galvins, Rodrigo Lavins, Niclas Lucenius, Sandis Ozolins, Jekabs Redlihs, Krisjanis Redlihs, Arvids Rekis, Kristaps Sotnieks
Forwards: Girts Ankipans, Martins Cipulis, Martin Karsums, Jamie Lundmark, Gints Meija, Ville Nieminen, Aleksandr Nizivijs, Ainars Podzins, Mikelis Redlihs, Janis Spurkts, Juris Stals, Juris Upitis, Fredrik Warg
Top Threat: Basically Latvia's national team.
Weakness: See "Top Threat".
Kolten Flyers
Goalies: Michael Fluckiger, Ronnie Rueger
Defensemen: Sven Berger, Eric Blum, Felicien Du Bois, Micki Dupont, Thomas Mettler, Philippe Schelling, Nicolas Steiner, Duvie Westcott, Benjamin Winkler
Forwards: Matthias Bieber, Simon Bodenmann, Yannick Herren, Denis Hollenstein, Arnaud Jacquemet, Marcel Jenni, Steve Kellenberger, Samuel Keller, Romano Lemm, Michael Linger, Lars Neher, Niklas Nordgren, Michael Nylander, Vojtech Polak, Tommi Santala, Victor Stancescu, Sebastien Sutter, Samuel Walser, Roman Wick
Top Threat: Damn that offense looks good, and their defense and goalies aren't half-bad either.
Weakness: They are below HC Davos in the standings. Seriously, I don't have an actual weakness for them.
HC Davos
Goalies: Reto Berra, Leonardo Genoni
Defensemen: Rene Back, Beat Forster, Robin Grossmann, Janne Niinimaa, Tim Ramholt, Lukas Stoop, Ramon Untersander
Forwards: Jan von Arx, Pavel Brendl, Dario Burgler, Robbie Earl, Peter Guggisberg, Fadri Holinger, Mathias Jorggi, Raphael Kuonen, Josef Marha, Jan Neuenschwander, Anton Ranov, Sandro Rizzi, Gregory Sciaroni, Peter Sejna, Lukas Sieber, Janick Steinmann, Petr Sykora, Petr Taticek, Reto von Arx, Dino Wieser, Lukas Willi
Top Threat: GAH, what's with the Swiss teams having nice-looking rosters?!?!
Weakness: For TSN, they still think that this Petr Sykora was the notable one (psssst, it's really the guy who had a cup of coffee with Washington)
Team Canada
Goalies: Jake Allen, Marty Turco
Defensemen: Shawn Heins, Jordan Hendry, Joel Kwiatkowski, Cory Murphy, Maxim Noreau, Ryan Parent, Travis Roche, Derrick Walser
Forwards: Eric Beaudoin, Blaine Down, Rico Fata, Mark Hartigan, Brett McLean, Kurtis McLean, Glen Metropolit, Pascal Pelletier, Joel Perrault, Brandon Reid, Byron Ritchie, Stacy Roest, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Jeremy Williams
Top Threat: The best collect of ex-NHLers Canada could find.
Weakness: Turco probably will be starting, so fans can't win bets against him.
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