HFBoards Team Canada 2020: 3rd Forward

Who should be Team Canada’s 3C?

  • Seguin

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Duchene

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Giroux

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Monahan

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Couture

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Stamkos

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Johansen

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Strome

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dubois

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Barzal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Domi

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Horvat

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    109
  • Poll closed .

Dominance

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No surprise on the last one. Now it gets interesting. Interested to see the votes for this one.

This series of polls is an exercise to collectively put together the best roster Canada could field if they were to play an international game on New Year’s Day.

The process for filling out the team as follows:

1. Fill the four centre positions.
2. Fill the wings, jumping from wing to wing, with remaining centres also eligible. A guy like MacKinnon or Giroux might be best deployed higher up in the lineup on the wing; it is up to the voters to decide.
3. Fill the defense. All defenders will be available for each side. Up to the voters to determine the importance of correct handed-ness.
4. Fill the goaltenders.

If we receive a good amount of participation, I may continue to make a 2020 Team Canada B, Team USA, Team Scandinavia, Team Rest of World, and so on as demanded.

Here is the pool of players I will be working with. Open to suggestions (i.e. shifting Giroux to a winger group).

C: Crosby, McDavid, MacKinnon, Bergeron, Tavares, Seguin, Duchene, O’Rielly, Point, Scheifele, Couturier, Giroux, Monahan, Couture, Stamkos, Johansen, Toews, Strome, Dubois, Barzal, Domi, Horvat, Nugent-Hopkins, Kadri, Schenn, Getzlaf, Athanasiou, E. Staal

LW: Marchand, Hall, Huberdeau, Benn, Skinner, Debrusk, Hoffman, Drouin, Kane, Schwartz

RW: Stone, Marner, Reinhart, Marchesseault, Mantha, Anderson, Gallagher, Bailey, Konecny, Smith, Wilson

LD: Giordano, Chabot, Morrissey, Keith, Girard, Theodore, Murray, Nurse, Matheson, Vlasic, Brodie, Chychrun, Sanheim, Dunn, Muzzin

RD: Burns, Doughty, Rielly, Spurgeon, Dumba, Letang, Pietrangelo, Pulock, Parayko, Weber, Subban, Ellis, Barrie, Ekblad, Hamilton, Montour, Makar, Savard, Severson

G: Price, Fleury, Murray, Holtby, Dubnyk, Hart, Binnington, Jones, Smith, Crawford, Blackwood

With that out of the way...who should be Canada’s third forward?

x - McDavid - x
x - Crosby - x
x - x - x
x - x - x

x - x
x - x
x - x

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GlassesJacketShirt

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I'm going with Tavares, my reasoning: MacKinnon can play wing, and I actually prefer keeping Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron together as long as they're playing at a high level. While Couturier and Toews feel like ideal 4th line centers, I think Tavares is skilled enough and responsible enough to man the third line, putting him with Marner to help exploit matchups against opponents. My runner-ups are Point and Schiefele, and I think Point deserves a spot on the team regardless.
 
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Trap Jesus

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This is where it gets difficult because Bergeron and MacKinnon are probably going to be on the wing. Votes will be all over the place.
 

Yackiberg8

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I'm going with Tavares, my reasoning: MacKinnon can play wing, and I actually prefer keeping Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron together as long as they're playing at a high level. While Couturier and Toews feel like ideal 4th line centers, I think Tavares is skilled enough and responsible enough to man the third line, putting him with Marner to help exploit matchups against opponents. My runner-ups are Point and Schiefele, and I think Point deserves a spot on the team regardless.
Although it's hard to argue with a proven line like Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron it would be pretty cool to have MacKinnon on the RW instead of Bergeron.
 

Dominance

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You should go line by line instead of position by position.

A lot of natural centers will have to be converted to the wing, the obvious two being the first two options in this poll.
I strongly considered that. I tried to specify the purpose so that people wouldn’t just vote for the best player necessarily. Oh well, it’s not like this poll is deciding the lineup for an actual game. It is what it, the people have spoken. Still hoping Tavares will pass MacK.
 

JackSlater

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Yeah things kind of fall apart here. I would have MacKinnon and Bergeron on the wing. I voted for Tavares.
 
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Deadly Dogma

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Can we include any centers not picked in the wing options? If yes than I vote J.T, if no than I gotta go with BPA and Mack
 
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Voight

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Toews is almost guaranteed to be on the team and I wouldn't be shocked if he was made the 3 or 4th C, they'd just have someone slide over.
 

Dominance

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Can we include any centers not picked in the wing options? If yes than I vote J.T, if no than I gotta go with BPA and Mack
Yes, this is specified in the OP. Centres will be available for the wings. Wish more people had read it, as I feel people would’ve held out to put MacK on the wing. Maybe I should have been even more clear, but I didn’t want to influence anyone.
Toews is almost guaranteed to be on the team and I wouldn't be shocked if he was made the 3 or 4th C, they'd just have someone slide over.
Again, I tried to specify that this poll is SHOULD, not WOULD. Vote for who you think will best fit there, not necessarily who the TC brass would select. :)
 
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Dominance

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To address the dozen comments above...

I don’t want to influence your vote, but to the people listed below who voted for MacKinnon, I want to once again declare that centremen will be available to be voted onto the wings, and that this poll is not about who is the best centreman, but who you believe should play 3C. If that’s MacK, that’s fine.

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I hope this doesn’t qualify as corrupting the integrity of this poll :oops:
 

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