Your currently best national team?

Kuracmugger

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Our next group of goalies is semi promising.. Dostal, Skarek and Korenar could all become NHL calibre. Maybe Vanecek and Vladar as well.

I'm not sure if the Czechs are currently better than the Swiss? Every game at every level seems very even to me. If we did a best on best 7 game series I'm thinking it goes 7 games. Plus the Swiss got to the finals of the World Championships (maybe won it?) a few times in the last 4 years. Took out the Swedes at the World Junior's as well. Czech's really need Chytil, Necas, Zadina, Kaut and Hajek to be successful NHL players to remain relevant. Also, all our limited first round picks seem to be wingers. We need a few good Centre's and desperately need more NHL Dmen.
Yeah we had more succes than you the past years but i think at the moment you are a little bit stronger then us but if players like siegenthaler hischier fiala meier malgin start to develop we could get better than you guys but i dont no much about the czech prospects maybe you got some top players too
 

Eye of Ra

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Yes, thank you! Someone with some logic!!! Also, apparently Markstrom, Ullmark, Lehner are not average (mediocre) goalies. :help: Definitely just as good as Rask, Rinne :)

lehner turned into a monster last season.
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illone84

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lehner turned into a monster last season.
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I'll take Rask 10 times over Lehner or any Swedish goalie. And I'd take Rask, Rinne, Koskinen, Korpisalo, Saros over Ullmark, Lehner, Markstrom, Nilsson, Lundqvist.
 

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Team Sweden:

Gabriel Landeskog – Nicklas Bäckström – William Nylander

Rickard Rakell – Mika Zibanejad – Jakob Silfverberg

Filip Forsberg – William Karlsson – Viktor Arvidsson

Marcus Johansson – Elias Pettersson – Elias Lindholm


Victor Hedman - Hampus Lindholm

Rasmus Dahlin – Erik Karlsson

Oliver Ekman-Larsson – Adam Larsson


Henrik Lundqvist

Robin Lehner
 
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Eye of Ra

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I'll take Rask 10 times over Lehner or any Swedish goalie. And I'd take Rask, Rinne, Koskinen, Korpisalo, Saros over Ullmark, Lehner, Markstrom, Nilsson, Lundqvist.

how is koskinen and korpisalo better than lehner?

You can probably put Lankinen there.

yeah sure, a average ahl goalie is better than a good nhl goalie like lehner. you gotta be kidding.
 

Eye of Ra

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Team Sweden:

Gabriel Landeskog – Nicklas Bäckström – William Nylander

Rickard Rakell – Mika Zibanejad – Jakob Silfverberg

Filip Forsberg – William Karlsson – Viktor Arvidsson

Marcus Johansson – Elias Pettersson – Elias Lindholm


Victor Hedman - Hampus Lindholm

Rasmus Dahlin – Erik Karlsson

Oliver Ekman-Larsson – Adam Larsson


Henrik Lundqvist

Robin Lehner



And our second team (below) whose forwards have scored more goals than Finlands:

André Burakovsky - Mikael Backlund - Patric Hörnqvist
Oskar Lindblom - Alexander Wennberg - Gustav Nyquist
Andreas Johnsson - Carl Söderberg - Jesper Fast
Adrian Kempe - Oskar Sundqvist - Alexander Steen

Oscar Klefbom - Anton Strålman
Mattias Ekholm - Alexander Edler
Jonas Brodin - John Klingberg

Jacob Markström
Linus Ullmark

Lundqvist is not good enough anymore. we got 5 better goalies than him.
 

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Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
McDavid - Tavares - MacKinnon
Stone - O'Reilly - scheifele
Stamkos - Toews - Seguin
Couturier, Marner

Reilly - doughty
Pietrengelo - Burns
Morrissey - Weber
Parayko, Chabot

Price
Holtby
Murray

If Geo didn't make the 2016 team, he wouldn't make Canada now and there's a reason for that. Taylor Hall I could see making the team but I can't see anyone who he would replace. Hate to say, but the Canadian defense is no longer the best and will no longer be dominant.
 

nucks88

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Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
McDavid - Tavares - MacKinnon
Stone - O'Reilly - scheifele
Stamkos - Toews - Seguin
Couturier, Marner

Reilly - doughty
Pietrengelo - Burns
Morrissey - Weber
Parayko, Chabot

Price
Holtby
Murray

If Geo didn't make the 2016 team, he wouldn't make Canada now and there's a reason for that. Taylor Hall I could see making the team but I can't see anyone who he would replace. Hate to say, but the Canadian defense is no longer the best and will no longer be dominant.
Well not with Reilly and Doughty as your first pairing...do you even watch hockey?
 

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For best on best Canada! Unfortunetly I'm not to sure when were getting another true best on best tournament anytime soon :(
 

illone84

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how is koskinen and korpisalo better than lehner?



yeah sure, a average ahl goalie is better than a good nhl goalie like lehner. you gotta be kidding.

Nope, I mean the tandem of the finnish goalies. I prefer them over the Swedish ones. Agreed, Lankinen is overrated. One tournie means zip. If he was that good, he'd be playing in the NHL. Also, let's redebate Koskinen vs Lehner after this season ends.
 

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Latvia

Balcers-Bļugers-Indrašis
Dārziņš-Girgensons-Daugaviņš
Karsums-Ābols-Ķēniņš
Ri.Bukarts-Džeriņš-Ro.Bukarts

Extra: Dzierkals, Jevpalovs, Meija

A.Kulda-Sotnieks
Galviņš-Cibuļskis
Freibergs-Rubīns

Extra: Balinskis, Jaks, Čukste

Merzļikins
Gudļevskis
Kivlenieks
Kalniņš
 
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Czechboy

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Balcers-Bļugers-Indrašis
Dārziņš-Girgensons-Daugaviņš
Karsums-Ābols-Ķēniņš
Ri.Bukarts-Džeriņš-Ro.Bukarts

Extra: Dzierkals, Jevpalovs, Meija

A.Kulda-Sotnieks
Galviņš-Cibuļskis
Freibergs-Rubīns

Extra: Balinskis, Jaks, Čukste

Merzļikins
Gudļevskis
Kivlenieks
Kalniņš
I was happy to see Elvis has gotten 2 starts arleady... good for him. Jumping to the NHL as a goalie is damn near impossible.
 

Czechboy

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Nope, I mean the tandem of the finnish goalies. I prefer them over the Swedish ones. Agreed, Lankinen is overrated. One tournie means zip. If he was that good, he'd be playing in the NHL. Also, let's redebate Koskinen vs Lehner after this season ends.
Lehner has a 918 average after well over 250 NHL games. That's pretty established.
Koskinen remains to be seen as they say you don't know what you have till at least 100 NHL games played. .906 so far after 64 games.

I do know Mikko has the better agent!lol
 

illone84

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Lehner has a 918 average after well over 250 NHL games. That's pretty established.
Koskinen remains to be seen as they say you don't know what you have till at least 100 NHL games played. .906 so far after 64 games.

I do know Mikko has the better agent!lol
Will be interesting to see what happens.
 

Eye of Ra

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Murray
Fleury

Giordano - Burns
Rielly - Hamilton
Doughty - Ellis

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall - McDavid - MacKinnon
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Stone
Point - Couturier - Marner

Ryan Ellis and Dougie Hamilton is flying under the rader, i would have both of them right now instead of Chabot, Morrisey, Parayko, Subban, Weber, Letang and Pietroangelo.
 

Czechboy

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Giordano - Burns
Rielly - Hamilton
Doughty - Ellis

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall - McDavid - MacKinnon
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Stone
Point - Couturier - Marner

Ryan Ellis and Dougie Hamilton is flying under the rader, i would have both of them right now instead of Chabot, Morrisey, Parayko, Subban, Weber, Letang and Pietroangelo.
How good is a team when Marner is your 4th line winger and Doughty is a 3rd pair D? That's roughly 20 million in players that are now secondary.lol

The fun part about Canada teams is all the omissions... Price, Weber, Binnington, RNH, Giroux, Stamkos... whoever you want. No matter what time you pick, the omission list is always world class.
 

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Rask
Rinne

Heiskanen - Lindell
Vatanen - Ristolainen
Nutivaara - Määttä

Laine - Barkov - Rantanen
Granlund - Aho - Teräväinen
Hintz - Haula - Armia
Kapanen - Koivu - Donskoi
 
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torero

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I love how good the Swiss are now and have really changed their game to a beautiful brand of hockey. I think you could beat any team at a best on best tournament but I don't think you could sustain the winning for an entire win due to the lack of NHL star goalies and a below Top 5 level D. I also don't think any game would be a blowout. You'd basically be a tremendous dark horse!

I believe that the Swiss are the best when not all NHL players are in.

Nice team ... but vs Big country teams ... it's another story.
We have our advantage when only some NHL players are free.
NOt with all. Obviously the other teams also have ALL their stars.
And we are not there yet.
 

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