Terry? I’d rather have Keller, Guenztel or Debrincat
I really haven't looked into it too closely as to who will be running the teams ect but this is an all star game replacement and my bet is that Bouchard would be more likely to go than Nurse as it's a showcase event not an IIHF sanctioned one as far as I know.
That's fair and frankly I haven't given a ton of thought to the rosters although I do wonder about how serious an in season tournament will be after all it is replacing the all Star game.
I think that's the experience? From 1996 - 2016 there were 8 Best on Best tournaments and e.g. The "mighty" USA actually didn't do much better than Finland. Everyone has a very difficult time against a well-oiled Finnish team. History shows that!
This isn't going to be a "well-oiled team" though, but a bunch of guys with little prior experience playing with one another.
Yes, perhaps I expressed myself a bit unhappily. In any case, Finnish teams find each other quite quickly. Hopefully in this tournament too!
Where’s Bedard? Would rather have him over someone like Zach Hyman
I mean you point out valid things. Bedard is making the roster though. There's no way he's not on the team. You can keep Hyman, I just don't know who else you would take out. Maybe McTavish? I also think Byfield is worth a look:
There are reasons to have Hyman ahead of Bedard on the team but using scoring shouldn't be one of them.
I mean anything is possible in a tournament, but to say Canada is lacking at defence is not really true. Canada’s blueline is easily the most dangerous at creating offence with Makar, Morrisey, Dobson and Theodore. USA and Sweden may have better two-way guys in their primes. Canada still has Toews, Weegar, Doughty, Power and Pelech to rely on. I would say that the 3 countries are EVEN on defence, you can give a slight edge to the USA if you want.
Yeah most people absolutely, that’s just my prediction. I could see Canada choking a bit in net and while Dobson, Morrisey and Theodore are great Dmen they’ve never really been at say Norris level. Swedes look stronger there. And off course, my opinion is colored a bit by the fact that’s it’s more fun to cheer for the underdogs (both Sweden and USA are traditionally underdogs towards Canada).
