Olympics: Your Country's 2022 Roster? (Assuming NHL participation)

[Sayba]

Not on the team.

Would easily put above Pionk, Fox and Marino for consideration.

 

[William H Bonney]

Would easily put above Pionk, Fox and Marino for consideration.

You could add him as a young player to watch, sure. My players to watch list wasn't meant to be exhaustive. I could make a much longer list. But DeAngelo is a penalty prone, one dimensional player. To be fair, he may be developing into an elite offensive player, but he's well below average defensively. So unless his game changes, his consideration largely hinders on whether Team USA feels they need a PP specialist or more offense from the back end and whether they think they can shelter him (i.e. pair with Slavin) if they expect him to play a regular shift.

 

[Number 57]

For Canada it will be interesting to see if some of the older players make the team... Weber, Price, Burns, Toews, Giroux, Marchand, Bergeron, etc

Hall - McDavid - Stamkos
Marchand - Crosby - MacKinnon
Huberdeau - Scheifele - Stone
O'Reilly - Bergeron - Couturier
Point
out: Tavares, Toews, Giroux, Benn, Seguin, Dubois, Couture, Marner, Monahan

Chabot - Doughty
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Makar - Weber
Ekblad
out: Hamilton, Subban, Parayko, Sanheim, Theodore, Nurse, Morrissey, Dumba, Ellis

Price - Hart - Binnington - Holtby

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Kyle Connor - Jack Eichel - Patrick Kane
Johnny Gaudreau - Auston Matthews - Blake Wheeler
Matthew Tkachuk - Jack Hughes - Jake Guentzel
Max Pacioretty - J.T. Miller - Brock Boeser

Extra: Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Larkin

Zach Werenski - Seth Jones
Jacob Slavin - John Carlson
Quinn Hughes - Charlie McAvoy

Extra: Torey Krug, Nate Schmidt

Connor Hellebyuck
John Gibson
Ben Bishop

Hughes and Miller at center, and no Larkin?

He's our clear third best center right now. It could obviously change in the next year and a half, but it seems unlikely that he won't be a top 4 center for us by the 2022 Olympics. I'm more hoping one guy emerges, which can make him the 4th line center. I don't think we have anywhere near the luxury of centers for him to not be in the lineup come the 2022 Olympics.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

You could add him as a young player to watch, sure. My players to watch list wasn't meant to be exhaustive. I could make a much longer list. But DeAngelo is a penalty prone, one dimensional player. To be fair, he may be developing into an elite offensive player, but he's well below average defensively. So unless his game changes, his consideration largely hinders on whether Team USA feels they need a PP specialist or more offense from the back end and whether they think they can shelter him (i.e. pair with Slavin) if they expect him to play a regular shift.

DeAngelo actually isn't that bad defensively. He's improved a lot defensively. I know it'll take non-Ranger fans a lot of time to catch up on this, but this is a big reason why he's doing as well offensively as he is. He now isn't such a liability defensively that will get himself benched, scratched or sent to the minors for his play in the defensive end. His improved defensive play gives him a much longer leash offensively. I'm not suggesting he's even average defensively or he should be on the team, but he's really not that far below average defensively. Nowhere near bad enough that if the offensive side of his game justified it that he couldn't take a regular shift and would have to be sheltered.

 

[jfc64]

Gabriel Landeskog (29) – Nicklas Bäckström (34) – William Nylander (25)
Rickard Rakell (28) – Mika Zibanejad (28) – Elias Pettersson (23)
Filip Forsberg (27) – Adrian Kempe (25) – Viktor Arvidsson (28)
Joel Eriksson Ek (25) – Alexander Wennberg (27) – Elias Lindholm (27)
Oskar Lindblom (25) – Oskar Sundqvist (27) – Robert Burakovsky (27)


Rasmus Dahlin (21) – Erik Karlsson (31)
Victor Hedman (31) – Jonas Brodin (28)
Oliver Ekman Larsson (30) – Adam Larsson (29)
Hampus Lindholm (28) – John Klingberg (29)


Jacob Markström (32)
Robin Lehner (30)
Linus Ullmark (28)​

 

[TorontoTrades]

Huberdeau - Crosby - MacKinnon
Barzal - McDavid - Marner
Marchand - Bergeron - Point
Couturier - O'Reilly - Scheifele


Stamkos, Seguin, Tavares, Stone


Chabot - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Doughty
Makar - Parayko

Theodore, Hamilton, Burns


Price - Binnington

Holtby​

 

[Pandaman11]

Canada and USA vs China will be fun with NHLers

(btw yes, the groups are confirmed)

 

[alko]

Tatar (A) - Hrivik - Panik
Cehlarik - Hudacek - Lantosi
K.Pospisil - Kristof - Studenic
M. Pospisil - Ruzicka - Dano

Chara (C) - Sekera (A)
Cernak - Fehervary
Marincin - Cajkovsky
Jaros - Gernat

Halak
Tomek

Good one. But lets make some adjustments.

Tatar (A) - Hrivik - Panik
Cehlarik - Hudacek - Lantosi
K.Pospisil - Kristof - Jurco
M. Pospisil - Ruzicka - Dano

Chara - Cajkovsky
Cernak - Fehervary
Ceresnak - Marincin
Jaros - Gernat

Halak
Rybar
Huska

 

[shadow1]

Hughes and Miller at center, and no Larkin?

He's our clear third best center right now. It could obviously change in the next year and a half, but it seems unlikely that he won't be a top 4 center for us by the 2022 Olympics. I'm more hoping one guy emerges, which can make him the 4th line center. I don't think we have anywhere near the luxury of centers for him to not be in the lineup come the 2022 Olympics.

With Hughes I'm basically projecting he breaks out between now and 2022. I'm not guaranteeing it happens, I'm just playing the percentages.

With Miller, he can play all three forward positions, but as you noted the USA has weak center depth. Miller is 59.2% in the faceoff circle this year (718 faceoffs). I kinda like him more in a 4C role than Larkin due to his grittier play style and versatility, though if I were starting an NHL franchise I'd rather have Larkin.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

This USA team is shaping up to be their best in awhile. They have the best defense. And possibly the best goaltending.

It'll be interesting to see what Canada's defense looks like, how much of the old guard can still go in 2022. Canada still has the best offense, but not the best defense like 2014.

 

[jcs0218]

Who is going to be on Team China?

In their last game on the world stage, they beat Belgium 4-0. The attendance for the game was 26 people.

2019 IIHF World Championship Division II - Wikipedia

 

[MNRube]

Connor-Matthews-M.Tkachuk
Guentzel-Eichel-Kane
Gaudreau-Larkin-Boeser
B.Tkachuk-Coyle/Hughes-JT Miller/Zucker

Hughes-McAvoy
Werenski-S.Jones
Slavic-J.Carlson

Hellebyuck
Gibson

Coyle if they want a more rugged 4th line. J.Hughes deserves a spot but I don’t like having all 3 of him, Gaudreau & Kane in your Top 9. Too soft or a team IMO. The Swedes & Canadians will have their way with them. I think Wheeler and Pacioretty are beat out by younger options by 2022.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Who is going to be on Team China?

In their last game on the world stage, they beat Belgium 4-0. The attendance for the game was 26 people.

2019 IIHF World Championship Division II - Wikipedia

Andong Song?

 

[alko]

The attendance for the game was 26 people.

Played in Belgrade, Serbia. Not so surprising.

 

[teravaineSAROS]

Team Sweden (25 skaters to be found among the players below): [age in february 2022 in parenthesis]

Some older players sacrificed for developing younger ones. Backlund, Silfverberg and Fast of forwards. Edler on defense etc.

Rickard Rakell (28) – Mika Zibanejad (28) – Elias Pettersson (23)
Gabriel Landeskog (29) – Alexander Wennberg (27) – Elias Lindholm (27)
Filip Forsberg (27) – Nicklas Bäckström (34) – William Nylander (25)
Oskar Lindblom (25) – Adrian Kempe (25) – Oskar Sundqvist (27)
Robert Burakovsky (27) – William Karlsson (29) – Viktor Arvidsson (28)
Victor Olofsson (26) – Joel Eriksson Ek (25) – Samuel Fagemo (21)

Rasmus Dahlin (21) – Erik Karlsson (31)
Victor Hedman (31) – Jonas Brodin (28)
Hampus Lindholm (28) – John Klingberg (29)
Oliver Ekman Larsson (30) – Adam Larsson (29)
Mattias Ekholm (31) – Rasmus Andersson (25)

Jacob Markström (32)
Robin Lehner (30)
Linus Ullmark (28)
Hugo Alnefelt (20)

What's the argument for Wennberg?

 

[jfc64]

What's the argument for Wennberg?

Good question! First he had great chemistry with Landeskog and Nylander last WC. A bit heavier than William Karlsson he and Landeskog provided some physicality which Nylander benefitted from (room). More comfortable assisting than scoring he`s also good defensively. He also belong to this crew since junior and JWC tournaments where he always was a top player. Here he has cred.

 

[Mc Hael Productions]

Who is going to be on Team China?

In their last game on the world stage, they beat Belgium 4-0. The attendance for the game was 26 people.

2019 IIHF World Championship Division II - Wikipedia

They could get Spencer Foo, Tyler Wong, Victor Bartley and Brandon Yip as imports as they are with Kunlun Red Star right now.

Some of their top domestic players appear to be Rudi Ying, Zehao Sun, Zesen Zhang and Mingxi Yang. They have all had some VHL experience.

2001-born Jing Wang appeares to be one of their promising youngsters with five goals and eight assists for 13 points in 33 games for ORG Junior Beijing in the MHL.

 

[PanniniClaus]

They could get Spencer Foo, Tyler Wong, Victor Bartley and Brandon Yip as imports as they are with Kunlun Red Star right now.

Some of their top domestic players appear to be Rudi Ying, Zehao Sun, Zesen Zhang and Mingxi Yang. They have all had some VHL experience.

2001-born Jing Wang appeares to be one of their promising youngsters with five goals and eight assists for 13 points in 33 games for ORG Junior Beijing in the MHL.

Going to be a truly awful team. Worse than the other Asian hosts we have had by quite some distance.

 

[Juniorhockeyguru]

Huberdeau - Crosby - MacKinnon
Barzal - McDavid - Marner
Marchand - Bergeron - Point
Couturier - O'Reilly - Scheifele


Stamkos, Seguin, Tavares, Stone


Chabot - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Doughty
Makar - Parayko

Theodore, Hamilton, Burns


Price - Binnington

Holtby​

Not sure why you are splitting up the Bergeron-Crosby-Marchand line. Stamkos will be apart of the top 12.

 

[Halla]

For Canada it will be interesting to see if some of the older players make the team... Weber, Price, Burns, Toews, Giroux, Marchand, Bergeron, etc

Hall - McDavid - Stamkos
Marchand - Crosby - MacKinnon
Huberdeau - Scheifele - Stone
O'Reilly - Bergeron - Couturier
Point
out: Tavares, Toews, Giroux, Benn, Seguin, Dubois, Couture, Marner, Monahan

Chabot - Doughty
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Makar - Weber
Ekblad
out: Hamilton, Subban, Parayko, Sanheim, Theodore, Nurse, Morrissey, Dumba, Ellis

Price - Hart - Binnington - Holtby

So Marner outscores the nearest canadian RW by 21pts last year but doesnt make it? lol.

Drew Doughty on the #1 pair..Ekblad making the team ? Do i even see Holtbys name?

awful

 

[Halla]

Huberdeau - Crosby - MacKinnon
Barzal - McDavid - Marner
Marchand - Bergeron - Point
Couturier - O'Reilly - Scheifele


Stamkos, Seguin, Tavares, Stone


Chabot - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Doughty
Makar - Parayko

Theodore, Hamilton, Burns


Price - Binnington

Holtby​

Insert Tavares and Stamkos over Barzal and Couturier
Holtby is terrible and needs to be replaced with a young guy for the future like Carter Hart. also brent burns wont sniff this team

 

[Jahara]

Sweden at the moment.

Forwards
1. 9. Filip Forsberg – 93. Mika Zibanejad – 92. Gabriel Landeskog
2. 28. Elias Lindholm – 40. Elias Pettersson – 29. William Nylander
3. 71. William Karlsson – 19. Nicklas Bäckström – 67. Rickard Rakell
4. 33. Viktor Arvidsson – 11. Mikael Backlund – 18. Jakob Silfverberg
5. 90. Marcus Johansson – 70. Oskar Sundqvist

Defense
1. 5. Erik Karlsson – 2. Victor Hedman
2. 3. John Klingberg – 7. Hampus Lindholm
3. 23. Oliver Ekman-Larsson – 8. Rasmus Dahlin
4. 14. Mattias Ekholm – 25. Jonas Brodin

Goalies
1: 40. Robin Lehner
2. 1. Jacob Markström
3. 35. Linus Ullmark

 

[Elvs]

Silfverberg is incredibly underrated among Swedish fans. He's been the Ducks best forward the last couple of seasons. One of the best defensive wingers in the game, capable of 50 points and is money in the shootout and in the clutch. Yet I see a lot of teams in this thread where he's not there.

 

[Elvs]

I personally think Slovakia should be building towards 2026. They have some prospects on the way who hopefully will have progressed nicely by then. In the meanwhile, I'd focus on giving the 96-99 born players valuable experience.