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WC: 2016 Team Canada

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habsrule4eva3089 said:
Hamhuis is an interesting case, I don't mean for Worlds, but as a player, he might even be in contention for another spot in 2018.

He is a completely different player on the larger surface. He's dominating, his gap control, outlets, patience, he does it all. He was 7th defenseman in Sochi. He was number 1 in Prague and he with Burns just had the time of their lives.

He was born for that big sheet.
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Hamhuis is ridiculously good on the international ice, like you said, and I was one of the few on here in 2013/2014 advocating for, and defending, his selection to the Sochi team on the back of his performances at his five World Championships appearances before then. Having said that, his time as an upper tier defensive defenceman appears to be over, unfortunately, and he's unlikely in my opinion to be an option for Team Canada going forward. The same can be said for Jay Bouwmeester. We should have several LHed D options ahead of those guys in time for 2018, or at least have a few of our elite RHed defencemen demonstrate an ability to play the left side.

On that topic, what the hell is wrong with Brodie?
 
86Habs said:
Hamhuis is ridiculously good on the international ice, like you said, and I was one of the few on here in 2013/2014 advocating for, and defending, his selection to the Sochi team on the back of his performances at his five World Championships appearances before then. Having said that, his time as an upper tier defensive defenceman appears to be over, unfortunately, and he's unlikely in my opinion to be an option for Team Canada going forward. The same can be said for Jay Bouwmeester. We should have several LHed D options ahead of those guys in time for 2018, or at least have a few of our elite RHed defencemen demonstrate an ability to play the left side.

On that topic, what the hell is wrong with Brodie?
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Maybe Brodie not patriot?:)
 
Hutton is gonna open a few eyes.

Tanev was a lock. Guy is a #1 pairing shut down dman
 
Bear12Good said:
Maybe Brodie not patriot?:)
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stop making the he's not a patriot joke. It's getting a little tiresome. A person's patriotism is not measured by whether or not they play a hockey tournament in Europe.

A young player i.e. Brodie should play in this tournament for the sake of his own professional development and a chance to prove he belongs in a true best on best tournament, in a tournament that matters to Canadians, i.e. an NHL Olympics. That's all this WHC is to us.
 
Fun fact: (and nothing more than that, but still interesting)

Last year's TOP9 (Crosby, Hall, Eberle, Seguin, Spezza, Giroux, O'Reilly, MacKinnon, Duchene) VS this year's (McDavid, Duchene, Hall, Scheifele, Jenner, Gallagher, Stone, O'Reilly, Marchand) - their total point production in their respective NHL seasons:

2015 - 547 points together; all players missed 63 games together (Hall 29, MacKinnon 18, Seguin 11)

2016 - 504 points together; all players missed 106 games together (McDavid 37, Gallagher 29, O'Reilly 11, Scheifele 11, Marchand+Duchene+Stone 18 together)

Quite impressive, considering that we don't have someone like Tavares or Giroux yet, this year's group of players seems to already be as successful or better, in getting points, as the one last year.
 
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You guys have an amazing team so far.

Diffrent story with your brothers, USA. Nobody wants to play for them.
 
Unless those Calgary players have a really good excuse other than they just don't want to go. drop them to the bottom of the list next time. No wonder that team sucked this year. Prima donnas.
 
Monahan has nagging injuries, he even missed a few games toward the end of the year.

Not pleased that Brodie isn't going. He never gave a reason from what I heard. He did say in a unrelated part of the interview that his body doesn't feel 100% but he also doesn't have the recent missed games to back that up like Monahan does.

Hamiltom, meh, I don't think his game will translate to international ice too well until he has another year or two's worth of development. Would have been nice to see him play, but don't think him declining hurts the team much
 
Nice. So there's 7 sposts opened (1/3/3), at least 3 players will be definitely added from the playoffs.
 
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/first-18-players-named-for-2016-worlds

Forwards
McDavid
Hall
Duchene
O'Reilly
Marchand
Gallagher
Jenner
Reinhart
Scheifele
Stone
Domi

Defencemen
Murray
Rielly
Tanev
Hutton
Ceci

Goaltenders
Talbot
Pickard

Somewhat disappointing, but really that's the norm for this tournament. I'm glad that some young players will get some experience. For such a young team, this group could end up being very solid defensively.
 
JackSlater said:
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/first-18-players-named-for-2016-worlds

Forwards
McDavid
Hall
Duchene
O'Reilly
Marchand
Gallagher
Jenner
Reinhart
Scheifele
Stone
Domi

Defencemen
Murray
Rielly
Tanev
Hutton
Ceci

Goaltenders
Talbot
Pickard

Somewhat disappointing, but really that's the norm for this tournament. I'm glad that some young players will get some experience. For such a young team, this group could end up being very solid defensively.
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Forwards are great. Defense and the goaltenders are not that great.

If team Canada loses, it will be because of goaltending and defense, not because of our offense.
 
Can anyone hlep me out with something.

Apparently Hoffman said he hasn't been asked to go to the worlds being that there may be a insurance issue since he is currently a rfa.

My question is why can Ceci play then being that he is also an rfa right now and currently has no new contract for next season?
 
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JackSlater said:
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/first-18-players-named-for-2016-worlds

Somewhat disappointing, but really that's the norm for this tournament. I'm glad that some young players will get some experience. For such a young team, this group could end up being very solid defensively.
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there's still a potential to add some big pieces from the playoffs though. That could change the picture a lot. Tavares alone would do a lot because he could center his own line. Anything more would be awesome. On defence, there is a big potential in those two western series - STL x CHI and SJO x LAK. I would be surprised if no one showed up. I'm pretty confident we will be getting one or two good defenders from here.
 
Taylor Hall Connor McDavid Mark Stone
Brad Marchand Matt Duchene Ryan O'Reilly
Mark Scheifele J T Tavares Brendan Gallaher
Boone Jenner Cloude Giroux Tyler Toffolli
Max Domi
Sam Reinart


Drew Doughty Jake Muzzin
Codi ceci Alex Pietrangelo
Ryan Murray
Ben Hutton Chris Tanev
Morgan Rielly
 
Duclair injured? Would have been fun to see if our top line from world Jr's a few years ago dominate again
 
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