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1999 World Junior Hockey Championships

Henry's Very Accurate Pre-Tournament Predictions:
TeamHenry's Notables and Notes
#28 LW Maxim Balmochnykh, #29 RW Maxim Afinogenov, #9 C Denis Shvidki, #30 G Alexei Volkov, #5 D Vitali Vishnevsky
Balmochnykh, Afinogenov, and Shvidki are sure-fire All-Stars
#10 RW Daniel Tkaczuk, #12 RW Simon Gagné, #7 D Brad Stuart, #1 G Roberto Luongo, #9 LW Rico Fata
Will bounce back but no superstars here to carry team
#12 LW Daniel Sedin, #20 C Henrik Sedin, #19 RW Christian Berglund, #3 D Christian Backman, #26 C Mattias Karlin
The Sedins will tare it up for the big but inexperienced team
#27 C Ladislav Nagy, #17 RW Martin Cibak, #10 LW Marian Gaborik, #15 RW Zoltan Batovsky, #4 RW Miroslav Zalesak
Good team with many CHL players but missing Hossa and Dome
#26 C Michal Sivek, #17 C Frantisek Mrazek, #9 D Jan Horacek, #3 D Petr Svoboda, #29 D Karel Rachunek
Patrik Stefan, Martin Skoula, Jiri Fischer, Brendl all not here
#9 C David Legwand, #8 C Tim Connolly, #2 D Paul Mara, #3 D Nikos Tselios, #11 C Scott Gomez
Will the solid squad with stars Legwand and Connelly be enough?
Sorry, Not Available #30 G Mika Noronen, #15 RW Eero Somervuori, #22 LW Jani Rita, #20 RW Tomek Valtonen, #2 D Juha Gustafsson
Defending Champs may be victims of The Group of Death
#29 RW Michel Riesen, #22 D Julien Vauclair, #16 C Adrian Wichser, #17 RW Bjorn Christen, #7 C Luca Cereda
Smallish team has only Riesen will fall back from last dream year
#19 RW Nikolai Antropov only recognizable name!
Antropov, Antropov, Antropov five times better than anyone else here!
#18 C Maksim Slysh, #5 D Vadzim Navitski, #2 G Vitali Aristau, #28 C Kanstantin Kaltso, #22 RW Ilya Bubenshchikau
Junost team and 15-year-old Vitali Aristau heading back to Pool B