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After heavy deliberation, Bobby Sharp has decided to start looking for a new IIHF home to play with starting in next season’s tournament. Sharp has had a wonderful experience in the team USA locker room and looks back fondly at the time he has had wearing the red white and blue. Sharp’s WJC medal will continue to hang proudly in his trophy case as one of the first entries to it. 

Looking towards the future, Sharp wants to immediately begin the hunt for IIHF gold by being an integral part of a teams roster. 

And to keep this all draft related, here is a break down of this most recent SHL and SMJHL draft picks by IIHF country. For this I looked at the country listed in the player page for most players, so this doesn’t include any changes not reflected there, but I think still sort of illustrates ultimately why there may need to be some kind of change to address the bloated rosters of a couple teams.

SHL Draftees 

Canada 
3 Bo Kane
12 Anthony Archer
14 Knox Booth
20 Leonid Kofix
21 Jake Primeau
22 Delver Fudgeson
23 Jean-Paul Boivin
30 Jared Lammi
32 Conor Tanner

Czech Republic
8 Jan Zacha

Finland
24 Jukka Jokinen

Germany
31 Henry Morris IV
36 Nicklaus Engel

Ireland
9 Prince Devitt
19 Denver Wolfe

Lithuania
11 Mikas Bieksa

Mexico
1 Elijah Jones

Russia
7 Khabib Nurmagomedov
10 Skao Anazibf
15 Artem Mozgov
17 Jakub Bruchevski
26 Jagger Fourquette

Switzerland
4 Finn Rhys
16 Noah Andros
18 Nolan McMahon

Sweden
5 Ricky Spanish

USA
2 Noah Brusky
6 Cody
13 Derek Bohne Jr.
27 Heat Siecker
35 Cal Clucker
37 Gavin Hughes
44 Raquel Castillo Gutierrez

SHL Totals by Country
9
7
5
3
2
2
Lithuania 1
Mexico 1
1
1
1

Canada and USA lead the pack with Russia bridging the gap between the high end and low end here. Now let’s look at the SMJHL draft broken down by country:

Australia
54 Alec Sullivan

Austria
17 Marcus Weiser
32 Andre Barbashev II

Bosnia
46 Alex Ranch

Canada
1 Ryan Shepard
14 Augustus Wang
18 Adam Barron
24 Rob Blake
30 Colton Strudwick
33 Ian Venables
43 Stacy Jefferson Jr.
48 Johnny Patey
55 Rhet Ward
58 First-Name Last-Name
60 Nikitnory McCrosbov
65 Viel Veelio
69 Jose Miguel Pereira Ferreira
99 Angle Vladimir
129 Mister Clean
149 James Hendricks

Czech Republic
20 Aron Hernadivic
23 Jakob Hamr
39 Sasha Dangelchek

Estonia
31 Kalevolaripaavo Kaspertommevisnapuu

Finland
27 Bjorn Leppanen
76 Antti Halonen

Germany
42 Adam Foley
51 Ben Collins
53 Karl Krashwagen
84 Jiddy Jimbo
114 Mathias Strange

Ireland
124 Jack Wilson

Japan
3 Akira Ren
5 Disisde Dayudie
16 Yamamoto Mitsuhara
56 Suzuki Namokato

Mexico
45 Jay Reeves

Norway
11 Berg Svensson

:poland: Poland
19 Zbigniew Pokrywka

Russia
9 Ivan Maximus
36 Shiqa Vitalievich
50 Alexei Rykov
62 Georgy Gorbachenko

South Africa
44 Niklas Fuhrberg

Sweden
10 Marcus Ohlsson
21 Gylfi Eriksson
52 Henrik Lekberg Osterman
72 Axel Caderoth

Switzerland
6 Luca Veccelli
29 Ursin Zimmermann
35 Daniel Bischoff
41 Daniel Kuster

United Kingdom
2 Vorian Atreides
74 Pekka Grande
94 Khal Valhalla

USA
4 Bobby Lane
7 Joseph Weston
8 James Ronlain
12 Lee Samson
13 Phineas Gold
15 Samuel Michaud
22 Patrick Miller
25 Partario Scarangella
26 Mitchell Maverick
28 Nathanial Voltguin
34 Tom Fiddler
37 Ricky Bobby
38 Capp Hatter
40 Face of the Franchise
47 Justin Womack
49 Kevin Robinson
57 Francois Breton
59 Justin Roy
61 Landon Flynn
63 Monty Montgomery
64 Jake Miller
66 Ryan Daly
68 Daren Loop
70 Richard Hurtz
79 Rath McLeod
80 Blake Phoenix
89 Tommy Parker
90 Tucker Centennial
104 Manboobs Harden
109 John Hawke
119 Jacob Riley
134 Dick Trickle
139 Spanky Lugnuts
144 Grey Butkus

SMJHL Totals By Country
34
16
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
1
1
Australia 1
Bosnia 1
Estonia 1
Mexico 1
Poland 1
South Africa 1

USA and Canada lead this pack in a giant way again which isn’t very surprising. I do believe without either incentive to join other countries or a required 2 team roster for these countries with bloated rosters, IIHF engagement is going to continue to not be as good as it could be. 

(another reminder that I got this data from player pages so there may be a few people miscategorized)

Bobby Sharp   ||   Update Thread

      

Aleister Cain - S42-S57
HOF GOALIE- CLASS OF S60- SECOND BALLOT
S54 CHALLENGE CUP
S54 RAZOV

Ville Kurri - S57-S70
BEST SMJHL DEFENSIVE FORWARD S60
That's pretty much it

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