Team Socks (International).

[biturbo19]

How would a team comprised entirely of players who do that most classy sock style, aka the "full tuck" or the "no tuck" depending on how you look at it - tucking both the tongue and the tendon guard under the sock...fare as an international best-on-best squad?

Hypothetical team:

Sebastian Aho - Auston Matthews - Nikita Kucherov
Elias Pettersson - Jack Eichel - Leon Draisaitl
Filip Forsberg - Evgeni Malkin - Vladimir Tarasenko
Mika Zibanejad - Jonathan Toews - Patrick Kane

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Spares: Matt Duchene/Elias Lindholm/Jamie Benn/Viktor Arvidsson/Mikael Granlund/David Krejci/Max Pacioretty/Clayton Keller/Bryan Little/Mikko Koivu/Bill Karlsson.

Victor Hedman - Erik Karlsson
Hampus Lindholm - John Klingberg
Ekman-Larsson - Ryan Ellis
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Spares: Esa Lindell/Rasmus Dahlin/Miro Heiskanen/Adam Larsson.



*Assuming this new "nation" would be "cloning" players from their respective nations identically, so the national team doesn't lose them.

*I don't know how to figure goaltending into this, so assume average (but extremely stylish) goaltending.


How would this team do on the international stage?

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[Machinehead]

These nerds would lose every game. Tongues out all the way.

<------- Donnie knows

 

[biturbo19]

These nerds would lose every game. Tongues out all the way.

<------- Donnie knows

Donnie rocking the showoff Flop. Gross.

 

[biturbo19]

It's also kind of hilarious to me, that the defence for this team is basically just Sweden's defence. Had to actually swap Ellis in over Dahlin just to break that up.

Is that like...a thing with Swedish defencemen?

 

[Trap Jesus]

Am I the only one amazed that OP rattled off 30+ names based on their sock tuck? I'd barely be able to tell you anyone on my own team.

 

[biturbo19]

Am I the only one amazed that OP rattled off 30+ names based on their sock tuck? I'd barely be able to tell you anyone on my own team.

What can i say, i've got a talent. It's not a good, or useful one...but by golly i've got it.

 

[Bob Barker]

This is the type of content I come to HF for. Well done OP.

 

[jetsforever]

Took me a while to figure out what this bizarre poll was for
I'll go with silver, but those guys would be contenders

 

[A4T1L6]

You need flop to be good so last

 

[Mr. Met]

Feels like a summer thread

 

[SotasicA]

I think Top 10 at the very least. How many teams even participate in best-on-best tournaments? I doubt there's relegation in World Cup / Olympics.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Yo @biturbo19 help a brother complete and/or correct Team Flop/Tongues Out if you can.

Ovechkin-Barkov-Pastrnak
Panarin-Schiefele-Kessel
Connor-O'Reilly-Ehlers
Bertuzzi-Thornton-xxxxx
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McDonagh-Doughty
xxxxx-Weber
xxxxx-xxxxx
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