Biggest national team snubs ever?

[EK47]

We all remember being furious or flabbergasted at some of them, so which are the biggest national team snubs of all time?

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[The Macho King]

Tallinder over Hedman.

 

[JoVel]

Jussi Jokinen, who scored 30 goals and 65 points that year, not being selected to the 2010 Finnish Olympic team was pretty ridiculous when guys like Jarkko Ruutu, Ville Peltonen and Jarkko Immonen were in.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Kris Draper over (insert much better Canadian player here).

 

[Sky04]

Kris Draper over (insert much better Canadian player here).

Draper was a Selke winner the last season and performed well at the World Cup, it's hardly an outcry... at least he had some merit. No 2006 Canadian pick is as bad as leaving Kessel or Hedman off.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Phil Kessel in the 2016.

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[GreatSaveEssensa]

Letting Bourque take a chance in the shootout while Gretzky sat on the bench in Nagano 98 still bafffles me.

 

[ICanMotteBelieveIt]

Kunitz, didn't they leave way better players at home?

 

[McFlash97]

Hall Team Canada.

 

[NJGoalie]

Kunitz, didn't they leave way better players at home?

They left Giroux off of that team which is questionable, but I understand why they did it.

 

[tom leafers]

Phil is awesome

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Kessel being snubbed over a laundry list of mediocrities who 'play the right way' has made the ensuing couple years absurdly satisfying.

 

[Nick Hansen]

Rob Zamuner was on the 1998 OG team for Canada.

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Draper was a Selke winner the last season and performed well at the World Cup, it's hardly an outcry... at least he had some merit. No 2006 Canadian pick is as bad as leaving Kessel or Hedman off.

I don't remember John Madden ever being in the running for a spot on the 2002 team that won the gold, and he was as good a defensive forward as there was back then. Draper was a nice player, but his selection was the highlight of a series of bizarre picks designed to build a "balanced" team that year. It's the same thing the U.S. did in '14, to disastrous results. Canada subsequently performed horribly that tournament, learned its lesson, and has predominantly selected BPAs from that point on.

 

[MaxV]

Radulov and Kovalchuk not making the World Cup roster was strange. Telegin and Kulemin were there instead.

 

[JETZZZ]

2014-Giroux
2010-Stamkos/St.Louis
2006-Crosby/Staal
1998- Most NHL players not named "Rob Zamuner"

 

[JackSlater]

I don't remember John Madden ever being in the running for a spot on the 2002 team that won the gold, and he was as good a defensive forward as there was back then. Draper was a nice player, but his selection was the highlight of a series of bizarre picks designed to build a "balanced" team that year. It's the same thing the U.S. did in '14, to disastrous results. Canada subsequently performed horribly that tournament, learned its lesson, and has predominantly selected BPAs from that point on.

Draper wasn't the problem on that team, and he wasn't even the worst pick among just the forwards.

I'm very confident that Steve Yzerman at the 1991 Canada Cup was the biggest international snub ever. I don't recall any player with a higher profile ever being cut. This was basically the second or third best available forward in the world and he got cut.

 

[kaiser matias]

2014-Giroux
2010-Stamkos/St.Louis
2006-Crosby/Staal
1998- Most NHL players not named "Rob Zamuner"

Staal was named to the taxi squad, so it was like a half-snub.

 

[tony d]

Zamuner being on that 1998 team was highly ? Mark Messier would have been a better fit. Here's that team's roster: Canadian Olympic roster

 

[DDRhockey]

SHL scoring leader left off Olympic Roster full of scrubs.

 

[Love]

SHL scoring leader left off Olympic Roster full of scrubs.

Haha exactly what I was going to say. Elias Pettersson this year for those who don't know.

 

[Moose Head]

Bobby Hull in 72

 

[SpoolCat]

I remember being quite upset that Mike Green didn't make the 2010 Olympic team. As I recall he was the best offensive dman in the NHL at the time and he'd even played quite well at the 2008 world championships.
Also still can't believe they gave Todd Bertuzzi a spot over Sidney Crosby.

 

[86Habs]

Draper wasn't the problem on that team, and he wasn't even the worst pick among just the forwards.

I'm very confident that Steve Yzerman at the 1991 Canada Cup was the biggest international snub ever. I don't recall any player with a higher profile ever being cut. This was basically the second or third best available forward in the world and he got cut.

Came here to say Yzerman in 1991. That is the correct answer.