U23's add Gostisbehere, Parayko, Trouba (D) Drouin, Matthews, Nugent-Hopkins and Scheifele.
Canada adds Burns, Muzzin, Pietrangelo (D) Duchene, Giroux, Marchand, Thornton.
Having watched Weber quite a bit over the last half a dozen seasons or so, he definitely has stepped up his play in both of the last two Winter Olympics. I agree he should probably be, talent-wise, behind the 5 posted by Yougo. I may be a little biased, however he has been too good for Canada not to be chosen and he deserves to be there until he shows he shouldn't be.
When he has been paired with Doughty, they have dominated the game more than I have seen a pair of defencemen do in a long time.
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U23's add Gostisbehere, Parayko, Trouba (D) Drouin, Matthews, Nugent-Hopkins and Scheifele.
Canada adds Burns, Muzzin, Pietrangelo (D) Duchene, Giroux, Marchand, Thornton.
24 Team H2H Pts Cap Dyn
4C 4LW 4RW 6D 1G 4B 27M
G (1) A (1) +/- (.25) PIM (.05) SOG (.05) PPP (.5) HIT (.05) BLK (.05) FOW (.01)
W (1.75) GA (-1) SV (.1) SO (3)
C: Seguin, Kuznetsov, Trocheck, Johansen, Kostin
LW: Benn, Lindblom, Dickinson, Kubalik
RW: Tuch, Fabbri, Bjorkstrand, Terry
D: Klingberg, Chabot, Girard, Spurgeon, C Miller, Theodore, Marino
G: Hellebuyck, Berdin
C: Elvenes, Vorobyev, Spacek, Jones, Eyssimont, Daviddson, Shvyrev
LW: Dorofyev, Koivula, Shalagin, Dugan, Cates, Ranta
RW: Volkov, Fortier, Evans, Blichfeld, Legare, Tieksola
D: Laaksonen, Gilbert, Pilut
G: Samsonov, Sorokin, Knight, Zagidulin
So Canada chooses to go with 4RHD and 3LHD.
Also - no PK Subban, Letang or Perry.
And Price said today he isn't healthy yet. That has to concern Team Canada brass!
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19 Active / 6 Reserve / 15 Minors
3C/3LW/3RW/3F/6D/1G
Skaters: G/ A/ +/- /PIM/SOG/PPP/Hit/Blk/FOW-C
Goalies: GS/W/OL/GAA/SV%/SV/SHO/ShL/A
Wouldn't be being those other 5 be the proof that he shouldn't be......?
Ultimately, this is something I don't at all care about. I think most pundits assumptions that this will replace the Olympics and the NHL will stop going to the Olympics is true. Which is unfortunate. Because you'll never get me to care about this tournament like I would about the worlds. That said.
Muzzin over Brodie/Giordano is lolz
Abdelkader, Callahan, and both Johnsons over Kessel, Faulk, and Shattenkirk is just incredibly hilarious.
USA contains to fail again at international roster selections. they just bombed the WJC and now this.
God i hope Kessel wins conne smythe, how hilarious would that be. MVP of the stanley cup playoffs somehow isn't good enough for his national team.
Yes, Team USA is once again less than optimum. Starting with Tortorella as head coach. Definitely a heavy defensive flavor to this roster, two-way players galore.
No idea why Jack Johnson was selected. Torts must have seen enough of him this year to know he sucks.
Kessel, T. Johnson, Okposo, Faulk and Shatty all passed over. With Kane and Wheeler already on board Kessel could have been considered superfluous. I would have taken TJ over Stepan all day.
Quick Bishop and Schneider in goal gives them a prayer. It's not a horrible team so we will see what happens.
Honestly as an American guys this tournament is a waste of time and absolutely no one in this country cares at all about it. I'm saying this as a hockey junkie myself and outside of the "young guns" team I doubt I watch a minute of it
16 Team Dynasty Weekly H2H Fantrax (starters in bold)
G A P +/- PIM SOG PPP H+B FOW --- W SV SV% GAA SO
(C) Krejci, Spezza, Koivo, Statsny Faksa
(LW) Zetterberg, Duclair, Ehlers, M Domi Belesky, M Martin
(RW) Pastrnak, Oshie, Larkin, Toffoli S Reinhart, Brouwer
(D) J Honka, Seabrook, Goligoski, D DeKeyser, Vatanen, Parayko L Schenn, S Johns
(G) Ward, Lack
Prospects- W Nylander, C Dvorak, I Barbashev, C White, T Rattie, M Dal Colle, A Mantha, R Barber, L Crouse, M Barzal, C Keller, L Brown, C Fischer, B Point, J Forsbacka-Karlsson
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There could be one useful thing accomplished......maybe the Blue Jackets will fire torts before the season even begins after the gauranteed hack job he will display at this tournament! Lol
As far as a label of Olympics changing things I guess that's fair, but come on this is just like the winter classic.....let's take something special and rare and unique and over do it.......it waters everything down in my eyes and I don't like it....
16 Team Dynasty Weekly H2H Fantrax (starters in bold)
G A P +/- PIM SOG PPP H+B FOW --- W SV SV% GAA SO
(C) Krejci, Spezza, Koivo, Statsny Faksa
(LW) Zetterberg, Duclair, Ehlers, M Domi Belesky, M Martin
(RW) Pastrnak, Oshie, Larkin, Toffoli S Reinhart, Brouwer
(D) J Honka, Seabrook, Goligoski, D DeKeyser, Vatanen, Parayko L Schenn, S Johns
(G) Ward, Lack
Prospects- W Nylander, C Dvorak, I Barbashev, C White, T Rattie, M Dal Colle, A Mantha, R Barber, L Crouse, M Barzal, C Keller, L Brown, C Fischer, B Point, J Forsbacka-Karlsson
NHL players shouldn't even play at the Olympics.
Just like the best soccer players don't play in the Olympics. Soccer has their world tourney every four years. Just like this tourney is trying to do.
It's taking over and this is year 1. I'd recommend everyone to watch it. It's going to be an awesome tourney.
What I just found out is this.
There are also plans for a spin-off event beginning in 2018, which would pit a European all-star team against a North American all-star team in a five or seven-game series. This event would also occur every four years, alternating biannually with the World Cup of Hockey. These moves are intended, primarily, to help expand the international prominence of the NHL.[4]
How amazing would that be. euro all star team vs NA all star team? I a best of 5 or 7. That sounds awesome. Who wouldn't want to see that?