Olympics: PyeongChang 2018 Olympic rosters' predictions

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What you think about USA defense and goalies to?

I'm sure there will be people with more accurate opinion possible than mine on the US team - but I do think that Quick will be on the roster, and I would be surprised if Schneider wasn't too, but it seems like Howard might - or might not - get in, Gibson definitely could, and then there is Bishop, who was selected for the World Cup.


In terms of defense, I'm not really sure how's the situation there.

 

[marbsarebad]

U.S.A roster

Gaudreau-Pavelski-Kane

Pacioretty-Matthews-Eichel

JVR-Stepan-Kessel

Tkachuk-Kesler-Wheeler

Parise, Galchenyuk

The reason I put Tkachuk on LW instead of Galchenyuk is because of how pissed off that line would make other teams. Absolutely perfect grinder/agitator line, lots of drawn penalties I'd assume and almost impossible to strip off the puck. I'd swap Galchenyuk with JVR throughout the tournament (never been a fan of JVRs play)

Suter-Big Buff

McDonaugh-Shattenkirk

Faulk-Carlson

Werenski, Jones

If we could have a 4th D pairing we'd be ****ing unstoppable, but we don't so Werenski and Jones will have to prove they're better than the six above them.

Bishop, Schneider, Quick are the obvious goalies (Schneider probably takes it in 2018)

I'm really liking how hard it is to pick this team now. Couple years ago it would have been cut-and-dry, but there's so much talent coming from the States now that you actually have to think about who to take. The fact that Ghost Bear, Trouba, Fowler, Krug, Carlo, Leddy, and Hanifin are all passed shows how deep our defense is getting. I think this team can compete with Canada next olympics, and may actually be the favorite by 2022.

 

[Bear12Good]

Gaudreau-Pavelski-Kane
Pacioretty-Matthews-Kessel
Saad-Galchenyuk-Atkinson
Kreider-Kesler-Wheeler
Stepan
Oshie



Suter-John Carlson
BYFUGLIEN-Werenski
McDonaugh-Shattenkirk

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Boy is it fun to look back at some of these predictions. Yakupov on Russia's top line, Fucale and Subban as Canada's backup and third string, Selanne still playing.

Totally just for fun obviously, I just had a laugh looking back.

 

[SportsFan94]

Slovakia 2018 Roster Prediction

This wont be easy but ill try
Forwards:
Hossa-Dano-Gaborik
Tatar-Reway-Jurco
Surovy-Viedensky-Panik
Cehlarik-Hudacek-Marcinko

Defense:
Chara-Sekera
Meszaros-Jaros
Mikus-Marincin
Fehervary

I think Hossa, Gaborik and Chara will be back for one more run.

Goalies:
Halak
Budaj
Godla

 

[Eye of Ra]

Germany

Tom Kühnhackl - Leon Draisaitl - Tobias Rieder
Dominik Kahun - Felix Schütz - Leo Pföderl
Marcel Müller - Marcel Goc - Michael Wolf
David Wolf - Markus Eisenschmid - Matthias Plachta

Dennis Seidenberg - Korbinian Holzer
Justin Krueger - Konrad Abeltshauser
Sinan Akdag - Patrick Köppchen

Thomas Greiss
Philipp Grubauer

 

[jfc64]

Team Sweden

Steen (33) - Bäckström (30) - Rakell (24)
Forsberg (24) - Rask (24) - Wennberg (23)
Johansson (27) - Backlund (28) - Silfverberg (27)
Landeskog (25) - Söderberg (31) - Arvidsson (24)
Hagelin (28) - Zetterberg (37)

Lindholm (24) - Karlsson (27)
Hedman (27) - Hjalmarsson (30)
Ekman-Larsson (26) - Larsson (25)
Klefbom (24) - Brodin (24)

Lundqvist (35)
Markström (28)
Lehner (27)


Swedish B-team, because it's the olympic's!

Sedin - Sedin - Eriksson
Nyquist - Berglund - Hörnqvist
Burakovsky - Zibanejad - Lindholm
de la Rose - Sundqvist - Fast
Krüger - Nylander

Edler - Klingberg
Ekholm - Strålman
Forsling - Gunnarsson
Ahnelöv - Oduya

Nilsson
Forsberg
Ullmark

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Comparison Butch 26 or jfc64 ? (Butch26, see further down on this page)

Sedin H or Backlund
Sedin D or Johansson
Nyquist or Silfverberg
Zibajaned or Söderberg
Nylander or Arvidsson

Klingberg or Lindholm
Ekholm or Klefbom

 

[Eye of Ra]

Switzerland

Bärtschi - Bykov - Niederreiter
Fiala - Malgin - Andrighetto
Hollenstein - Moser - Sprunger
Wick - Ambuhl - Martschini
Brunner, M.Wieser

Streit - Josi
Sbisa - Weber
Benzina - Diaz
Mueller - Kukan

Goalies i have no idea.

 

[Xokkeu]

U.S. team would be interesting to project as there are several guys between the ages of 28-32 that would still be a possibility. Here's my stab (no really pairings or lines):

Goaltenders (x3):

Jonathan Quick
Cory Schneider
John Gibson

Defensemen (x8):

Ryan Suter/Justin Faulk
Ryan McDonagh/Cam Fowler
Erik Johnson/Seth Jones
John Carlson/Kevin Shattenkirk

Forwards (x14):

Kane-Stepan-Saad
Parise-Galchenyuk-Ryan
Kessel-Backes-JVR
Callahan-Pavelski-Oshie
Pacioretty-Bjugstad

I can't really disagree except to say Charlie Coyle, Jake Trouba and maybe, just possibly, Chris Kreider.

Actually this is pretty close to what I would do four years later.

Goalies same, Schneider or Bishop are toss ups so whatevs.

Defense: Suter, Faulk, McDonaugh, Fowler, Carlson, yes. Jones probably. Erik Johnson, Shattenkirk probably no. Trouba no. Probably just add in Werenski to the conversation.

Wings: Kane, Kessel, JVR, Oshie, Saad, yes. Pacioretty maybe. Parise no. Callahan... lol. Bobby Ryan... LOLOLOLOL. Backes probably not. Coyle looks like a great call. Kreider has been good but edged out by wing depth. Obviously missed the Johnny Gaudreau train.

Centers: Pavelski locked. Galchenyuk if healthy locked. Bjugstad no. Stepan maybe. MIssed the Kesler rejuvenation and the meteoric rise of Auston Matthews.

Lines not really designed for chemistry

Kane- Pavelski - Kessel
Gaudreau-Matthews-JVR
Saad-Eichel-Foligno
Atkinson-Kesler-Wheeler
Galchenyuk-T. Johnson


Suter-McDonaugh
Fowler-Carlson
Werenski-Faulk
Jones

Gibson
Quick
Schneider

 

[Eye of Ra]

Norway.

Patrick Thoresen - Michael Haga - Mats Zuccarello
Mats Rosseli Olsen - Mathis Olimb - Ken Andre Olimb
Sondre Olden - Anders Bastiansen - Martin Røymark
Martin Laumann Ylven - Andreas Martinsen - Tommy Kristiansen

Mattias Nørstebø - Jonas Holøs
Ole-Kristian Tollefsen - Alexander Bonsaksen
Stefan Espeland - Nicolai Bryhnisveen

Lars Haugen
Henrik Haukeland

 

[marbsarebad]

Actually this is pretty close to what I would do four years later.

Goalies same, Schneider or Bishop are toss ups so whatevs.

Defense: Suter, Faulk, McDonaugh, Fowler, Carlson, yes. Jones probably. Erik Johnson, Shattenkirk probably no. Trouba no. Probably just add in Werenski to the conversation.

Wings: Kane, Kessel, JVR, Oshie, Saad, yes. Pacioretty maybe. Parise no. Callahan... lol. Bobby Ryan... LOLOLOLOL. Backes probably not. Coyle looks like a great call. Kreider has been good but edged out by wing depth. Obviously missed the Johnny Gaudreau train.

Centers: Pavelski locked. Galchenyuk if healthy locked. Bjugstad no. Stepan maybe. MIssed the Kesler rejuvenation and the meteoric rise of Auston Matthews.

Lines not really designed for chemistry

Kane- Pavelski - Kessel
Gaudreau-Matthews-JVR
Saad-Eichel-Foligno
Atkinson-Kesler-Wheeler
Galchenyuk-T. Johnson


Suter-McDonaugh
Fowler-Carlson
Werenski-Faulk
Jones

Gibson
Quick
Schneider

No Big Buff? I'd have him easily ahead of any of the RHD you have listed. Pair him with a defense-first guy like Suter and you have a perfect Olympic top-pairing.

 

[Xokkeu]

No Big Buff? I'd have him easily ahead of any of the RHD you have listed. Pair him with a defense-first guy like Suter and you have a perfect Olympic top-pairing.

Just not a huge fan of him but I won't complain if he's on the team

 

[SportsFan94]

Switzerland 2018 Roster Prediction

Forwards:
Baertschi-Malgin-Niederreiter
Fiala-Bykov-Meier
Andrighetto-Hischier-Sprunger
Hollenstein-Ambuhl-Martschini
Wick/Vermin/Bertschy/Moser/Wieser

Defense:
Streit-Josi
Sbisa-Weber
Mueller-Diaz
Bezina/Blindenbacher

Goalies:
Berra
Hiller
Stephan

 

[Eye of Ra]

Slovakia.

Halak
Budaj
Hudacek

Gaborik - Hudacek - Hossa
Tatar - Dano - Panik
Reway - Viedensky - Cehlarik
Jurco - Marcinko - Hrivik
Bakos/Nagy/Zaborsky

Sekera - Chara
Marincin - Jaros
Meszaros - Svarny
Daloga - Jurcina

 

[SportsFan94]

Germany 2018 Roster Prediction

Forwards:
Kahun-Draisaitl-Rieder
Schutz-Goc-Kuhnhackl
Olver-Muller-Reimer
Gogulla-Eisenschmid-Pietta
Pfoderl/Hager/Noebels

Defense:
Seidenberg-Ehrhoff
Akdag-Holzer
Abelthauser-Krueger
Zerressen/Nowak

Goalies:
Greiss
Grubauer
Bruckmann

 

[Anthony5967]

Actually this is pretty close to what I would do four years later.

Goalies same, Schneider or Bishop are toss ups so whatevs.

Defense: Suter, Faulk, McDonaugh, Fowler, Carlson, yes. Jones probably. Erik Johnson, Shattenkirk probably no. Trouba no. Probably just add in Werenski to the conversation.

Wings: Kane, Kessel, JVR, Oshie, Saad, yes. Pacioretty maybe. Parise no. Callahan... lol. Bobby Ryan... LOLOLOLOL. Backes probably not. Coyle looks like a great call. Kreider has been good but edged out by wing depth. Obviously missed the Johnny Gaudreau train.

Centers: Pavelski locked. Galchenyuk if healthy locked. Bjugstad no. Stepan maybe. MIssed the Kesler rejuvenation and the meteoric rise of Auston Matthews.

Lines not really designed for chemistry

Kane- Pavelski - Kessel
Gaudreau-Matthews-JVR
Saad-Eichel-Foligno
Atkinson-Kesler-Wheeler
Galchenyuk-T. Johnson


Suter-McDonaugh
Fowler-Carlson
Werenski-Faulk
Jones

Gibson
Quick
Schneider

no way Johnson over Stepan

 

[Anthony5967]

Pacioretty-Pavelski-Kane
Gaudreau-Matthews-Eichel
Kreider-Stepan-Kessel
Saad-Galchenyuk-Wheeler
Atkinson/Tkachuk
T. Johnson

Suter-McDonagh
Werenski-Carlson
Fowler-Faulk/Hanifin
Carlo/Trouba/Shattenkirk

Schneider
Gibson
Quick

 

[SportsFan94]

Norway 2018 Roster Prediction

Forwards:
Zuccarello-Martinsen-Thoresen
Rosseli Olsen-K.A Olimb-Roymark
Soberg-M.Olimb-Laumann Ylven
Medby-Bastiansen-Kristiansen
Haga/Forsberg

Defense:
Tollefsen-Holos
Nørstebø-Bonskasen
Espelund-Johannesen
Bryhnisveen/Danielsen

Goalies:
Haugen
Volden
Holm/Haukeland

 

[Slapper]

Mi. Granlund - Koivu - Rantanen
Jokinen - Barkov - Filppula
Laine - Aho - Puljujärvi
Ma. Granlund - Haula - Komarov

Extras: Teräväinen, Lehterä

Ristolainen - Vatanen
Määttä - Nutivaara
Jokipakka - Honka

Extras: Mandatory Lasse Kukkonen & Sami Lepistö

Rask
Rinne
Saros

2013 prediction from JJTT:

Tuukka Rask
Joni Ortio
Juuse Saros

Olli Määttä-Rasmus Ristolainen
Jyrki Jokipakka-Sami Vatanen
Teemu Eronen-Jani Hakanpää
Ilari Melart-Ville Pokka

Mikael Granlund-Mikko Koivu-Teemu Pulkkinen
Teuvo Teräväinen-Alexander Barkov-Joel Armia
Valtteri Filppula-Aleksi Saarela-Artturi Lehkonen
Lauri Korpikoski-Miikka Salomäki-Leo Komarov
Tuomo Ruutu/Jori Lehterä

Headcoach: Lauri Marjamäki
GM: Ville Peltonen

 

[MaxV]

Interesting to see Bykov's son in these lineups.

How is he as a player?

 

[ulvvf]

I would like this lineup

Johansson - Bäckström - Rakell
Nylander - Wennberg - Zibanejad
Forsberg - Backlund - Zetterberg
Sedin - Sedin - Arvidsson
Silfverberg (just outside Landeskog, Rask, Nyquist, Hörnqvist, Burakovsky), please no Kruger, sweden have tons of good 2-way players no need for kruger at all. A player like Backlund is better defensivly, but also offer some offense.

D? Harder, other than, Karlsson, Hedman, Klingberg and OEL that are locks to me, there are many that feels very even. Hjalmarsson, Strålman, Larsson, Lindholm, Brodin, Ekholm fights over 3 spots and they are pretty much all on the same level. The first one to go would probably be Ekholm to me. But still 5 fighting for 3 spots.But today maybe something like this, but leaving Strålman and Brodin out hurts.

Hedman - Karlsson
Hjalmarsson - Klingberg
Lindholm - OEL
Larsson (just outside, Strålman, Brodin, Ekholm)

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I would like this lineup

Johansson - Bäckström - Rakell
Nylander - Wennberg - Zibanejad
Forsberg - Backlund - Zetterberg
Sedin - Sedin - Arvidsson
Silfverberg (just outside Landeskog, Rask, Nyquist, Hörnqvist, Burakovsky), please no Kruger, sweden have tons of good 2-way players no need for kruger at all. A player like Backlund is better defensivly, but also offer some offense.

D? Harder, other than, Karlsson, Hedman, Klingberg and OEL that are locks to me, there are many that feels very even. Hjalmarsson, Strålman, Larsson, Lindholm, Brodin, Ekholm fights over 3 spots and they are pretty much all on the same level. The first one to go would probably be Ekholm to me. But still 5 fighting for 3 spots.But today maybe something like this, but leaving Strålman and Brodin out hurts.

Hedman - Karlsson
Hjalmarsson - Klingberg
Lindholm - OEL
Larsson (just outside, Strålman, Brodin, Ekholm)

Nice spot on where you have Zibanejad. I saw some of these roster projections months ago, and very few people had him on the Swedish roster. And if anyone did, he had one of the last spots. He has played so well this season. I didn't watch him that much with Ottawa, but he's been maybe our best player this season, although he's missed a lot of games, so that title might go to someone else. When he plays though, he's been so good. Dominant offensive center who's pretty decent defensively. Ottawa fans have been saying he was not close to this good when he played in Ottawa. Maybe he needed a change of scenery. I don't blame you for not listing the goalies. For everyone's sake, lets hope Lundqvist can find his game.

 

[Butch26]

SWE
Forsberg - Backstrom - Rakell
Steen - Wenberg - Nylander
Zetterberg - Rask - Zibajaned
Sedin - Sedin - Nyquist
Hagelin - Landeskog
1.Backlund 2.Silverberg 3.Lindholm

Hedman - Karlsson
OEL - Klingberg
Ekholm - A.Larsson
Brodin - Hjalmarsson
1.Klefboom 2.Lindholm 3.Stralman

Lunqvist
Markstrom
Lehner

CZE
Palat - Krejci - Pasternak
Hertl - Faska - Voracek
Kase - Plekanec - Jarg
Kovar - Hanzal - Frolik
VrBata - Zacha
1.Sekac 2.Vrana

Kempny - Gudas
Kindl - Sustr
Jerebek - Polak
Nakladaal

Mrazek
Neurvirth
Pavelec

RUS
Kovalchuk - Malkin-Tarasenko
Ovechkin - Kuznetsov - Kucherov
Panarin - Anisimov- Radulov
Dadonov - Shipachiov - Buchnevich
Gusev - Namestnikov

Provorov - Zaitsev
Orlov - Emelin
Tryamkin - Marchenko
Markov - Zadorov


Bobvrosky
Vasilevsky
Sorokin

B = LOCK GUYS

 

[Butch26]

Terevainen - Granlund - Laine
Fillipula - Barkov - Aho
Rantanen - Koivu - Puljujarvi
Lekhonen - Haula - Komarov
Donskoi - Lehtera
1.Korpikoski 2.Armia

Maata - Ristolainen
Lindell - Vatanen
Juolevi - Honka
Jokipakka - Nutivaraa

Rask
Rinne
Raanta/Saros

SWI
Niedereiter - Malgin - Bartschi
Fiala - Hischier - Meier
Andrighetto - Richard - Bertschi
Sprunger - Vermin - Martschini
Ambuhl - Sprunger

Streit - Josi
Weber - Diaz
Sbisa - Mueller

USA
(Italia new in my roster)
Galchenyuk - Pavelski - Kane
Gaudreau - Mathews - Wheeler
Saad - Eichel - Kessel
Pacioretty - Kesler - Trocheck
Atkinson - Oshie
1.JVR 2.Coyle 3.Kreider 4.Larkin 5.Tkachuk 5.Parise 6.Hayes 7.Stepan 8.Johnson 9.Vessey 10.Foligno

Suter - Shattenkirk
Mcdonagh - Faulk
Werenski - Jones
Krug - Carlsson
1.Byfuglien 2.Hanifin 3.Gotisbehere 4.Fowler 5.Trouba 6.Niskanen 7.

Schneider
Quick
Bishop

CAN
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Stamkos - McDavid - Tavares
Benn - Toews - Seguin
Hall - Scheifele - Simmonds
Duchene - Getzlaf
1.Mackinnon 2.Carter 3.Marner 4.Stone 5.Perry 6.Couture

Keith - Doughty
Vlasic - Burns
Rielly - Weber
Letang - Subban
1.Parayko 2.Pietrangelo 3.Hamilton 4.Barrie 5.Ekblad 6.Muzzin 7.Giordano

Price
Hotbly
Crawford

 

[sooni]

At this point Finnish roster looks like this:

Laine-Barkov-Rantanen
Lehkonen-Koivu-Granlund
Aho-Filppula-Teräväinen
Komarov-Haula-Jokinen

Lehterä, Armia will fight for fourth line spots and Pulju will fight against Rantanen.

Lindell-Ristolainen
Määttä-Vatanen
Jokipakka-Nutivaara

Juolevi, Honka will fight for roster spots

Rask
Rinne
Saros