If I have to take a guess, they don’t like where his defensive game is at. Obviously very good offensively, but it might not overpower his defensive game, and considering he’s a defensemen, that’s not a good early sign
What is Team Canada doing here???
8 Team Keeper League
Keep 35 at the end of the year+5 JR slots(can be kept for 3 yrs after draft or less than 10 NHL games)
Points(4) PIM(0.5) +\-(0.5) Wins(5) SO(5) GA(-0.5) Save(0.1)
Roster:
17F
8D
3G
12Farm
5 JR spots
F: Landeskog Mackinnon Kaprizov Panarin Rantanen Bratt Buchnevich Hintz
Kreider Svechnikov Marner T. Wilson Guentzel Rust Fiala Aho Meier
D: Carlson Toews Theodore Krug Klingberg Barrie Ekblad Weegar
G: Bobrovsky Saros Vasilevskiy
Farm: Hagel, Petersen, Yamamoto, R. Strome, Addison Bjorkstrand ,JEEK, Duchene, Hartman, Severson, Burakovsky ,Nicushkin, Barbashev
JRs: Bourgault L. Cormier Lambos Olausson Zellweger
IR: Couturier/Ellis
If I have to take a guess, they don’t like where his defensive game is at. Obviously very good offensively, but it might not overpower his defensive game, and considering he’s a defensemen, that’s not a good early sign
To be fair, a lot of big names we expect to make Team Canada come up short. To not even be invited is eye popping for sure but I'm sure the management team knows what they're doing and will eventually answer the reasons why.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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Or maybe, they made a bad decision and we don't always immediately need to appeal to authority.