Your top 10 skaters/pairs in 2016-17?

[rain]

Sui/Han
Iliushechkina/Moscovitch

Virtue/Moir
Papadakis/Cizeron
Gilles/Poirier

Patrick Chan
Javier Fernandez
Jason Brown (I've never liked him at all until this year, so I surprised myself by loving his LP at 4CC)

Kaetlyn Osmond
Anna Pogorilaya

CHN 1
CAN 5
RUS 1
USA 1
FRA 1
SPN 1

And of course there are many, many others I also enjoy.

 

[ralucutzagy]

Pairs
Tarasova/Morozov (love the SP)
Savchenco/Massot (LP )

Dance
The Shibs
Virtue/Moir (slay all)

Ladies
Medvedeva (her SP and her dress for SP )
Satoko (Princess Leia)
Mai Mihara (freshness)

Men
YUZURU (uber fan so...pretty much everything he does)
Shoma (his LP is the best of this season IMO)
Nathan (his jumps are breathtaking)

There.

 

[skylark]

Ladies: Ashley Wagner

Men: Nathan Chen
Javi
Shoma
Jason
Adam Rippon

Pairs: Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier
Cheng Peng / Yang Jin

Dance: Kaitlyn Hawayek/ Jean-Luc Baker :luv17:
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

Tally:
China 1
France 1
Japan 1
Spain 1
USA 6

Well, it's a real challenge to hold it down to 10, in a way it's fun to decide within that limitation.

My break-through choices: Ashley Cain / Timothy Leduc:yay:, Gabrielle Daleman, Mai Mihara
Honorable Mention: Isabella Tobias / Ilya Tkachenko
Tally: 1 Canada, 1 Israel, 1 Japan, 1 USA

 

[cathlen]

I could name 10 Pairs teams alone

Ok, so since it's not all-time, and just this season, then it will go something like this:

PAIRS
Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (always!)
Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (always!)
Anna Duskova/Martin Bidar

ICE DANCE
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje
Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte

MEN
Michal Brezina (always!)
Han Yan (always!)

LADIES
Anna Pogorilaya (always!)
Mai Mihara

Normally a list wouldn't be complete without Julia Lipnitskaya, but I really dislike how this season went for her. Same with Vivian Le :sad21: The list is very incomplete of course, I love both Yuzu and Javi, but they're getting generally more love, so I chose the other guys. And Mika Kolyada's my favourite, but I prefered him last season, when he skated Nightmare before Christams Also Ilinykh/Zhiganshin, I love, but this season is just not good. Mai Mihara made the list because this season she is just shiny!! So this season favourites so far looks like that Last seaosn it would look different though. An Honorary Mention for Peng/Jin, their SP is simply awesome Generally I tend to like headcases :hopelessness: Only Pairs are saving my soul.

Geography:
Russia - 2
China - 2
Czech Republic - 2
Canada - 2
Italy -1
Japan -1

 

[hanca]

Pairs is my favourite discipline so I will concentrate on pairs.

James/Cipres (they really have the wow factor when they manage to be clean.)
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot (programs very good this year, great expression.)
Tarasova/Morosov (suddely became consistent)
Peng/Jin (not only good elements, but I love even the transitions. Great expression.)

And from junior pairs
Duskova/Bidar (good breakout season)
Atakhanova/Spiridonov (there is something in their basic skating that I love)
Kvartalova/Sviatchenko (great progress this season)
Kudriavtseva/Simenenko (great progress considering they have been together just a few months)
Alexandrovskaya/Windsor (they have potential)
I am sorry that in juniors there is three out of five Russian teams, but to be fair, other countries don't have as strong junior pairs, so my choices were quite limited.

 

[cathlen]

Pairs is my favourite discipline so I will concentrate on pairs.


Yu/Jin (not only good elements, but I love even the transitions. Great expression.)

Yu/Jin is no more. It's either Yu/Zhang or Peng/Jin this season

Btw. I'm huge Pairs fan too! And I think Duskova/Bidar could be considered senior now. They ditch Junior Worlds to concentrate on senior ones and getting qualification to Olympics. I guess that means JGPF was the last Junior event they did.

 

[cathlen]

PAIRS >>> Duhammel / Radford
James / Cipress

DANCE >>> Muramoto / Reed
Virtue / Moir

MEN >>> Yuzuru Hanyu
Jason Brown
Misha Ge

LADIES >>> Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Gabrielle Daleman
Anna Pogorilaya

Japan >>> 3
CANADA >>> 2
CHINA >>> 2
USA >>> 2
RUSSIS >>> 1

Your geography is completely wrong!

It should be:
Canada >>> 3 (D/R, V/M, Gabby)
Japan >>> 2 (M/R, Yuzuru)
USA >>> 1 (Jason)
Uzbekistan >>> 1 (Misha GE)
Kazakhstan >>> 1 (Elizabet)
Russia >>> 1 (Anna)
France >>> 1 (J/C)

 

[hanca]

Yu/Jin is no more. It's either Yu/Zhang or Peng/Jin this season

Btw. I'm huge Pairs fan too! And I think Duskova/Bidar could be considered senior now. They ditch Junior Worlds to concentrate on senior ones and getting qualification to Olympics. I guess that means JGPF was the last Junior event they did.

Ups, I meant Peng/Jin! I corrected it.

I didn't count Duskova/Bidar into seniors because I don't think this season they are quite there yet. They are outstanding juniors, but if I was looking at them as seniors, they would be just slighly above average pair. They started the season as juniors and I think they switched to seniors only because Europeans took place in Ostrava. I think we need to be realistic what we can expect from them at this stage. Next season my expectations will grow, but at this stage I prefer to see them as very, very good juniors who are making their first steps in the seniors, rather than as full seniors.

 

[cathlen]

Ups, I meant Peng/Jin! I corrected it.

I didn't count Duskova/Bidar into seniors because I don't think this season they are quite there yet. They are outstanding juniors, but if I was looking at them as seniors, they would be just slighly above average pair. They started the season as juniors and I think they switched to seniors only because Europeans were in Ostrava. I think we need to be realistic what we can expect from them at this stage. Next season my expectations will grow, but at this stage I prefer to see them as very, very good juniors who are making their first steps in the seniors, rather than as full seniors.

I get yout point They are also very young for a senior Pairs team, so looking juniorish is kind of given. For their age they are extremaly good team though

 

[Starsfan84]

Pairs:
Savchenko/Masset
Duhamel/Radford
Sui/Han

Men:
Patrick Chan
Maxim Kovtun

Dance:
Virtue/Moir
Chock/Bates
Gilles/Poirier

Ladies:
Kaetlyn Osmond
Anna Pogorilaya

Canada - 5
Russia - 2
China - 1
Germany - 1
USA - 1

 

[maya1985]

Dance:
Papadakis/Cizeron
Gilles/Poirier
Hubbell/Donohue

Pairs:
Savchenko/Massot
Sui/Han
James/Cipres
Duskova/Bidar

Ladies
Kostner
Lecavelier

Men
Fernandez

France 3
Canada 1
USA 1
Germany 1
Italy 1
Czech Republic 1
Spain 1
China 1

 

[newyn]

Ladies:

Carolina Kostner
Mao Asada
Anna Pogorilaya
Emmi Peltonen

Men:
Yuzuru Hanyu
Takahito Mura

Pairs:
Tarasova/Morozov
Sui/Han
Peng/Jin

Dance:
Bobrova/Soloviev

Japan 3
Russia 3
China 2
Italy 1
Finland 1

This was surprisingly difficult. I would give honorable mentions to Patrick Chan, Weaver/Poje, Ashley Wagner (I like her as a skater but not so much her programs this season), Stellato/Bartholomay and Alexander Petrov.

 

[Sugiady]

Ladies
Ashley Wagner
Zijun Li
Evgenia Medvedeva

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Patrick Chan
Boyang Jin

Pairs
Wenjing Sui / Cong Han
Cheng Peng / Yang Jin

Ice Dance
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Shibsibs


Japan - 1
China - 4
Canada - 2
USA - 2
Russia - 1


It's so glad to see so many people like Peng/Jin, I am going to cry.

 

[Altie]

Can I play too ? I'm still new to figure skating, but that makes me particularly passionate about my favs

Men :
Yuzuru Hanyu
Shoma Uno
Javier Fernandez

Pairs
Morgan/Cipres
Sui/Han

Ice Dance
Papadakis/Cizeron
Virtue/Moir
Shibutani/Shibutani

Ladies
honestly, my least favourite category at the moment... I like quite a lot of them, but none of them make my heart beat with anxiety about their performance... Yet ?
anyway,
Anna Pogorilaya
Evgenia Medvedeva

Japan - 2
France - 2
Spain - 1
China - 1
Russia - 2
Canada - 1
USA - 1

 

[Princessroja]

Dance:

Virtue/Moir
Hubbell/Donahue
Pogrebinsky/Benoit

Pairs:

Alexandrovska/Windsor
Peng/Jin

Ladies:
Carolina Kostner
Nicole Rajicova
Gabby Daleman
Mariah Bell

Men:
Grant Hochstein

(Honorary mention to Caroline and Gordon Green in novice ice dance and Sean Rabbitt)

USA: 4
Canada: 2
Italy: 1
Slovakia: 1
China: 1
Australia: 1

 

[Hannah555]

Dance:

Shibs
Virtue/Moir

Pair:

Tarasova/Morozov
Savchenko/Massot

Men:

Yuzuru Hanyu
Javier Fernández
Maxim Kovtun
Lord Samarin )))

Ladies:

Evgeniya Medvedeva
Satoko Miyahara
Anna Pogorilaya

Russia: 4
Japan: 2
Canada: 1
Usa : 1
Spain: 1
Germany: 1

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

Men:
Nathan Chen
Yuzuru Hanyu
Patrick Chan

Women:
Kaetlyn Osmond
Rika Kihira

Pairs:
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot
James/Cipres

Dance:
Virtue/Moir
Stepanova/Bukin

Canada - 3
Japan - 2
USA - 1
Germany - 1
France - 1
Russia - 1
China - 1

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

Dance:

Shibs
Virtue/Moir

Pair:

Tarasova/Morozov
Savchenko/Massot

Men:

Yuzuru Hanyu
Javier Fernández
Maxim Kovtun
Lord Samarin )))

Ladies:

Evgeniya Medvedeva
Satoko Miyahara
Anna Pogorilaya

Russia: 4
Japan: 2
Canada: 1
Usa : 1
Spain: 1
Germany: 1

That's 5 Russian entries... I'm guessing you might have swapped an American man with a Russian man?

 

[Hannah555]

That's 5 Russian entries... I'm guessing you might have swapped an American man with a Russian man?

I was just kidding with lord Samarin. He's still in juniors. I like Nathan Chen actually a lot this season but as I needed to write only 10 entries so I didn't mention him.

 

[TGee]

Pairs is my favourite discipline so I will concentrate on pairs.

James/Cipres (they really have the wow factor when they manage to be clean.)
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot (programs very good this year, great expression.)
Tarasova/Morosov (suddely became consistent)
Peng/Jin (not only good elements, but I love even the transitions. Great expression.)

And from junior pairs
Duskova/Bidar (good breakout season)
Atakhanova/Spiridonov (there is something in their basic skating that I love)
Kvartalova/Sviatchenko (great progress this season)
Kudriavtseva/Simenenko (great progress considering they have been together just a few months)
Alexandrovskaya/Windsor (they have potential)
I am sorry that in juniors there is three out of five Russian teams, but to be fair, other countries don't have as strong junior pairs, so my choices were quite limited.

You may be in for a surprise from the Canadian juniors....they are still progressing strongly this season, with some big leaps in tech and program components since JGP season.

If you haven't caught the Barvarian Open Junior Pairs event and results, you might enjoy it...

Canadians Walsh/Michaud and Matte/Ferland took silver and gold respectively with big jumps in their SBs..to 155.2 and 151.85. Both teams are pushing up the tech and the quality.

Other Canadian junior paris to watch for next season:Justine Brasseur [niece of Isabelle, and possibly seeking a new partner...], and the Boys-Eddy siblings. They've been competing as juniors domestically for a couple of years, but Olivia won't meet the ISU age minimum until this fall.....look out for their 3Tw3 and lifts.