Reply With QuoteFaulk, Nugent-Hopkins, Couturier, Huberdeau, Strome, Landeskog, Murray, and Gibson will all be ineligible come September 2016.
What the World Cup Under 23 Team might look like
Re: What the World Cup Under 23 Team might look like
Faulk, Nugent-Hopkins, Couturier, Huberdeau, Strome, Landeskog, Murray, and Gibson will all be ineligible come September 2016.
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Re: What the World Cup Under 23 Team might look like
It's 23 and under though, and I believe the cutoff is September 1st. So I think they're all good? Or most of them are. I think it'd be easier to say anyone born in '93 or later, however if they let late 92 participate as U-23 even thought they're almost 24 then the team would stand to benefit.Originally Posted by Joe13
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F: Nicklas Backstrom, Joe Thornton, Henrik Zetterberg, Zach Parise, Logan Couture
D: Erik Karlsson, Alex Pietrangelo, Oliver Ekman-Larsson
G: Sergei Bobrovsky
Re: What the World Cup Under 23 Team might look like
Well, the title said under-23, and that's what I previously believed. In that case, only Faulk doesn't make it. Sorry about that.
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I think they should just go with anyone born in '93 or later is on the young guns, if they start adding in the late '92 born players then it gets a harder.
Straight Points keeper league. Keep 5 Forwards,3 defence,1 goalie.
F: Nicklas Backstrom, Joe Thornton, Henrik Zetterberg, Zach Parise, Logan Couture
D: Erik Karlsson, Alex Pietrangelo, Oliver Ekman-Larsson
G: Sergei Bobrovsky
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Personally, not a fan of the young guns team, solely for patriotic reasons. I don't want to cheer against guys on the young guns team, which of the majority are Canadian, but I'm sure not cheering against Canada. What if the young guns win? Where does the trophy go? What if the Europe team wins? Then what? A world cup should compromise of solely countries. Hell, why not throw in Slovakia and have a 7-team round robin? That would be awesome.
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I agree that it should be countries only, but since it isn't going to be that way I think watching the Young Guns could be interesting. I compiled a team of guys born in 93 or later that could do well, they wouldn't win but they could compete with teams.
Johnny Gaudreau- Connor McDavid- Nathan MacKinnon
Alex Galchenyuk- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins- Ryan Strome
Jonathan Drouin- Sean Monahan- Mark Scheifele
Jonathan Huberdeau- Boone Jenner- Jack Eichel
Auston Matthews
Aaron Ekblad- Dougie Hamilton
Seth Jones- Jacob Trouba
Ryan Murray- Damon Severson
Morgan Rielly
John Gibson
Connor Hellebuyck
Malcolm Subban
The lines are just for fun obviously, but a top 4 defence of Hamilton, Ekblad, Trouba, Jones wouldn't be a lot of fun to play against that's for sure.
Straight Points keeper league. Keep 5 Forwards,3 defence,1 goalie.
F: Nicklas Backstrom, Joe Thornton, Henrik Zetterberg, Zach Parise, Logan Couture
D: Erik Karlsson, Alex Pietrangelo, Oliver Ekman-Larsson
G: Sergei Bobrovsky
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Interesting. I'd put Vasilevskiy in there, though. But that's a pretty damn good team. I doubt they can compete with Canada, Russia, Sweden, etc. Those teams are stacked, top to bottom.
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The under 23 team will be from Canada/USA only, so Vasilevskiy wouldn't be eligible for that team.
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Why? I'm just asking, why do you think they made it only Canada/USA and not a "world junior team"? Is it because the league only wants to showcase talents in North America, and not give the KHL or other leagues any sort of publicity in the event? I think Vas is the best goalie under 23, period.
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Who knows what the hell the NHL is EVER thinking!? My understanding is that players under 23 had to come from North America and were ineligible from playing on their "National" team in this tournament. Why? Who knows, it's the NHL and it's crap. Seriously, who is going to be the goalie for the under 23's? I'll have to dig to answer that one.
Vas might be on the Russian team anyway. They've got Bob and Varlamov and not much else.
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The under 23 team is comprised of North Americans only, otherwise I would have Vasilevsky on the team. The goalie will easily be Gibson, given their isn't a lot of other options at this point in time.
Straight Points keeper league. Keep 5 Forwards,3 defence,1 goalie.
F: Nicklas Backstrom, Joe Thornton, Henrik Zetterberg, Zach Parise, Logan Couture
D: Erik Karlsson, Alex Pietrangelo, Oliver Ekman-Larsson
G: Sergei Bobrovsky
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Very good point, must have slipped my mind.
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A wishbone.
A backbone.
And a funny bone.
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Re: What the World Cup Under 23 Team might look like
First off, only the NHL has confirmed it will send players (edit: apparently all players are eligible but the KHL and others have yet to say if they'll make players available for the tournament)(that's another issue I have with the tournament's legitimacy).
As to why the NHL decided the young-guns team is limited to North American players I would guess the following:
- since it's NHL players only some countries are going to struggle to produce a half-decent team period.
Examples: Russia has 6 NHL goalies: Bobrovsky, Varlamov, Khubodin, Vasilevskiy , Nabokob, Bryzgalov- Vasilevskiy fights for the 3rd spot with Khubodin I'd say.
Czech Republic has 4 goalies and 33 skaters total (including Dominik Uher who has 2 GP for the Penguins). Had the NHL made the young-gun rule World Wide Russia/Czech probably couldn't fill out a roster;
other lesser reasons:
- most of the top under-23 players are North American both due to high number of NA players generally and due to entering league sooner relative to European players; and
- marketing. Most viewers will be North American, they want to see North American players.
12 team H-2-H 1 year league, daily roster changes, 3 goalie start minimum/week
2xC, 2xRW, 2xLW, 4xD, 3xUtil, 2xG, 5 Bench
G, A, P, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA, SVs
C: C. Keller, C. Mittelstadt, B. Nelson, R. Strome,
LW: K. Connor, B. Tkachuk, J. Gaudreau, J. Marchessault, E. Rodrigues, A. Lafreniere
RW: K. Fiala, J. Bratt, T. Jeannot V. Arvidsson
D: R. Josi, J. Trouba, E. Gustafsson,
G: L. Thompson, F. Gustavsson, V. Vanecek
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