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Regardless of the exact pairings, it’s definitely going to be scary. Lots of already good players smack in the middle of their primes.
Jonesy, Trouba, Poink, Karlsson , Pesce Pete, Carlo. Good mix of youth and experience good size and gritty. Championship caliber
I agree. I can't really picture an Olympic team passing up on a guy that will still probably be very effective in 2 years (Carlson will be like 32), who has the best offensive pedigree of all USA players (so far). Especially not for someone with only a few years of NHL experience.Lol at anyone not voting for Carlson.
I agree. I can't really picture an Olympic team passing up on a guy that will still probably be very effective in 2 years (Carlson will be like 32), who has the best offensive pedigree of all USA players (so far). Especially not for someone with only a few years of NHL experience.
In terms of RHD I would rather have any of Jones/McAvoy/Fox over a 32 year old Carlson.Lol at anyone not voting for Carlson.
Good point. I guess I would use the same logic if I was picking for my own country (Canada): I would much rather have Hall or Tavares over Marner. They are all relatively similar regarding how good they actually are, but I'd rather have someone with 2-3x as much experience.I can't imagine USA not taking him either, but the thread is for who posters would take and more posters here seem willing to go with youth over experience. Carlson has also been a bit of a polarizing player due to his underlying numbers, though interestingly, Jones doesn't get the same criticism for his.
Lol at anyone not voting for Carlson.
Carlson has also been a bit of a polarizing player due to his underlying numbers, though interestingly, Jones doesn't get the same criticism for his.
Tonnes of great young American d-men.
One option I haven't seen raised though is that they could take the Krug-Carlo pairing. Sometimes it's helpful to take guys whom have chemistry already. Better defencemen out there but I'd consider it.
The issue is that among the better D-men, there are also better pairings to choose from. Slavin-Pesce and obviously Werenski-Jones.
‘Throw Jones in?”. Jones is a better all around d man than anyone you namedI would 100% want Hughes Slavin McAvoy and Fox there. I'll throw Jones in there as well, 6 is hard to pick.
Looks like my opinion is pretty basic: Jones, Slavin, Hughes, McAvoy, Werenski and Carlson.
Suter is no slouch - the guys still a great defenseman playing tons of minutes, hes top-6 imoSame. Werenski was my last pick and appears to have been validated.
You could arguably put Suter in there for veteran experience, though.