I think America is closing the gap on Canada, just need to keep pumping out talent like we have the past four years and we might win a gold medal if the nhl ever let’s pros in the Olympics
Lafrenier and Byfield are eligible for the 2020 NHL draft, so they're two years behind Dahlin. And Byfield still needs to prove himself at the OHL level before we can really put him in that same group.
Dahlin has the upside to become the best defenseman of this generation (the generation that started when Lidstrom retired) but I still don't like using the generational tag on him because of how special players like Crosby and McDavid are.
I think America is closing the gap on Canada, just need to keep pumping out talent like we have the past four years and we might win a gold medal if the nhl ever let’s pros in the Olympics
16 Team H2H Dynasty
G A Pt PIM SoG PPP H+B FOW DZS
W Svs GAA Sv%
C Scheifele Tavares Dvorack Eller
LW Domi Aho Ritchie Vrana
RW Tarasenko J Williams Laine Sheary
D Klefbom M Rielly Spurgeon Provorov Ellis Dahlin
R White Kase Schmaltz Thomas Anston-Reese Lindell Theodore
G McEhlinney C Anderson
R Kuemper
M Bjork Raddysh Kravtsov Ylonen Soderstorm Gilles Gustavsson Point Khakonen Delia Hill
It's a discussion worth having but why is this centered around Jack Hughes?
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A lot of prospects and a lot of good stuff coming out of USA. The best of the best are still produced elsewhere. There's no American Crosby/McDavid, no American Lidstrom, no American Price/Lundqvist. You can go on. When there's an American "face of the NHL" then this argument will carry more weight.
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Just to clarify Mathews' situation, he had to wait until he was 18 due to Swiss laws about work visas issued to foreigners. Nothing to do with rules in the NLA, as Hishier played for SC Bern in the same year Matthews played for ZSC. I don't know whether Sweden and Finland have similar laws or not, so Hughes may or may not be able to play there next year.