2018 Roster Predictions

[zombie kopitar]

Kieth-Weber
Vlasic-Doughty
(??)-Pietrangelo
Subban

After the display they've put on, they should stick with the elite balanced core that's still in their prime.

USA will be better just by addition from subtraction with a couple guys. Will be interesting to see if the junior development more or less stays on par with Canada.

The Czechs have brought in alot more young NHL talent the last few years then Russia and maybe even Finland, they're gonna be alot better.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Canada

Tavares Crosby Stamkos
Hall Toews Bergeron
Benn Getzlaf Perry
Duchene MacKinon Giroux
Couture Seguin

Doughty Weber
Keith Pieterangelo
Vlasic Subban
Murray
Seabrook

Price
Bernier
Crawford

 

[BlueDream]

Forward

The forward group for this team is also very young. None of these guys will be so old by 2018 as to immediately knock them out of the running.

Brown, Backes, Kesler, Parise, Pavelski (34)
Callahan Stastny (33)
Oshie, Wheeler (32)
Kessel (31
Kane, Pacioretty (30)
Van Riemsdyk (29)
Stepan (28)




Defense

Unlike from 2010 basically the entire 2014 defense can probably be counted on to return.

Fowler (26)-Carlson (28)
McDonaugh (28)-Faulk (26)
Suter(32)- Shattenkirk (28)

Jack Johnson will be 31, Erik Johnson 32 and Keith Yandle 31






Goalie

Quick (31) Should still be in the prime of his career assuming these recent injuries are just a fluke and not chronic.
Gibson (24) Should push Quick for the starting spot.
Schneider (31) hopefully he's finally a starter
Bishop (32)

You aren't good at math are you?

 

[Tutu to]

tavares-crosby-mackinon
drouin-mcdavid-stamkos
reinhardt-toews-giroux
benn-getzlaf-perry
duchene,seguin

keith-webber
vlasic-doughty
murray-pietrangelo
subban,ekblad

price
bernier
luongo

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I'm excited for what the US defense could look like:

McDonagh - Jones
Fowler - Trouba
Suter (only 33) - Shattenkirk/Carlson
Hanafin

Money.

 

[Zetterberg4Captain]

for canada you would have to think these 11 forwards are "locks"
-crosby
-stamkos
-bergeron
-tavares
-toews
-duchene
-perry
-benn
-getzlaf
-giroux
-hall

and these 6 dmen
-weber
-keith
-doughty
-vlassic
-subban
-pieterangelo

as well as
-price

their really isnt alot of room for too many new faces maybe,
-mackinnon
-seguin
-RNH
-mcdavid
-drouin
-murray

either way its potentially an even more sick lineup then in 2014

hall-crosby-stamkos
duchene-tavares-giroux
benn-getzlaf-perry
mackinnon-toews-bergeron
mcdavid

 

[leafsfuture]

My team Canada:
John Tavares -- Sidney Crosby -- Jordan Eberle
Evander Kane -- Claude Giroux -- Steven Stamkos
Logan Couture -- Jonathan Toews -- Nate Mackinnon
Jamie Benn -- Tyler Seguin -- Patrice Bergeron
Jonathan Drouin
Mark Schiefele

Ryan Murray -- Drew Doughty
Duncan Kieth -- Alex Pietrangelo
Calvin De Haan -- PK Subban
Shea Weber
Morgan Rielly

Carey Price
Jonathan Bernier
Martin Jones

Watch list:
- Connor McDavid (how fast can he progress??)
- Jonathan Huberdeau (so much skill and a winger, but similar players down the middle may hold him back)
- Milan Lucic (I think he can do well on big ice with his skating, will he get faster in 4 years?)
- Jaden Schwartz (Just a solid, solid hockey player. Again issue is size, can he be Patrick marleau?)
- Ryan Johansen (will be good enough in 4 years, but would probably have to make team as winger)
- Travis Hamonic (cannon shot, improved defensively, a candidate if a Weber or Pietro regresses)
- Michael Del Zotto (he has the puck skills, and we have seen defensive ability in past, new start in Nashville may revive him)

 

[dan1el]

US:

van Riemsdyk - Pavelski - Kessel
Saad - Kesler (A) - Parise (C)
Pacioretty - Galchenyuk - Kane
Kreider - Stepan - Ryan
Bjugstad - Oshie

McDonagh - Jones
Suter (A)- Trouba
Fowler -Carlson
Shattenkirk
Faulk

Quick
Bishop

Sweden:

Forsberg - Backstrom - Landeskog
D. Sedin (A)- H. Sedin (A) - Eriksson
Zetterberg (C) - Wennberg - Zibanejad
Nyquist - Kruger - Steen
Silfverberg-Hagelin/E. Lindholm

Ekman-Larsson - Karlsson
Hjalmarsson - Brodin
Larsson - Hedman
Kronwall (A)
H. Lindholm

Lehner
Lundqvist

Canada:

Hall - Crosby (C) - Stamkos
Benn - Getzlaf - Perry
Duchene - Tavares - Mackinnon
Giroux - Toews (A) - Bergeron
Couture-McDavid

Keith - Weber (A)
Vlasic-Doughty (A)
Murray-Pietrangelo
Subban
Ekblad

Price
Luongo

 

[Coaster]

Teräväinen (24) - Barkov (23) - Kapanen (22)
Granlund (26) - Filppula (34) - Korpikoski (32)
Lehkonen (23) - Koivu (35) - Komarov (31)
Salomäki (25) - Haula (27) - Hartikainen (28)
Pulkkinen (26)
Saarela (21)

Määttä (24) - Vatanen (27)
Pokka (24) - Ristolainen (24)
Järvinen (29) - Honka (23)
Jokipakka (27) - Melart (29)

Rask (31)
Ortio (27)
Raanta (29)

There are 4 years between the olympics, not 5.

 

[JackSlater]

To kill time before the 2014 gold game:

Couture Crosby Stamkos
Benn Tavares Seguin
Hall Toews Schwartz
O'Reilly Duchene MacKinnon
Bergeron
Nugent Hopkins

Vlasic Doughty
Keith Pietrangelo
Murray Subban
Weber
Hamilton

Price
?
?

Canada's forward group is much better than any other country. Cutting players like Kane, Skinner, Johansen, Eberle, Giroux is tough. This team is designed for speed more than anything else. I noticed that Canada doesn't have as many strong defensive wingers, but I guess that is a consequence of having young players. Inevitably there is going to be a lot of turnover from 2010 and 2014 to 2018 as a new cycle emerges.

Canada's defence should remain mostly the same. Keith and Weber shouldn't be too old to perform well in somewhat reduced roles. Murray looks like an elite defensive defenceman on the left side and would look great next to Subban. Hamilton is just a wild guess as 8th defenceman. Canada needs to improve its production of young defencemen.

Price is the goaltender, then who knows.

 

[StepansLabyrinth]

United State's defense is looking like it has the possibility to start rivaling Canada (when you add in player development of guys like Seth Jones, Justin Faulk, etc). Potential representatives and their 2018 ages:

Ryan Suter: 33
Ryan McDonagh: 28
John Carlson: 28
Shattenkirk: 28
Cam Fowler: 26
Justin Faulk: 25
Torey Krug: 26
Erik Johnson: 29
Danny DeKeyser: 27
Seth Jones: 23
Jacob Trouba: 23
Nick Leddy: 26
Keith Yandle: 31
Zach Bogosian: 27
Connor Murphy: 24
Jarred Tinordi: 26
Noah Hanifin: 21

van Riemsdyk (28)-Stastny (32)-Kessel (30)
Saad (25)-Stepan (27)-Kane (29)
Pacioretty (29)-Bjugstad (25)-Oshie (31)
Kreider (26)-Galchenyuk (24)- JT Miller (24)
Brock Nelson (26) - Charlie Coyle (25) - Emerson Etem (25)

McDonagh-Seth Jones
Suter-Trouba
Fowler-Carlson
Hanifin-Faulk

 

[Cbh23]

Noah Hanifin pick anywhere? Can't be too obscure with the amout of Eichel im seeing. Even though the US d is solid.

Edit: right above me

 

[Reindl87]

I'd say there are only 2 people that are a 100% lock to be in Pjöngchang, Jagr and Selänne

 

[B Boarding]

My take on Sweden right now. Might have forgot someone…
Forwards are OK and so are the goalies. But the skill AND depth of D is quite amazing for a small country like Sweden.



Landeskog (25) - Bäckström (30) - W. Nylander (21)

Steen (33) - Lindholm (23) - Forsberg (23)

Söderberg (32) - Wennberg (23) - Nyquist (28)

Hagelin (29) - Krüger (27) - Zibanejad (24)

Backlund (28)
L. Eriksson (32)
——
Silfverberg (27)
Berglund (29)
Järnkrok (26)
Pääjärvi (26)
Josefson (26)
Hörnqvist (31)
W. Karlsson (25)
J. Larsson (25)
Rakell (24)
Burakovsky (23)
N. Sörensen (23)



Hjalmarsson (30) - E. Karlsson (27)

OEL (26) - A. Larsson (25)

Hedman (27) - Brodin (24)

Edler (31)
Grossmann (33)
——
Rundblad (27)
H. Lindholm (24)
Klefbom (24)
Enström (33)
Ekholm (27)
E. Gustafsson (29)
Strålman (31)
Gunnarsson (31)
N. Kronwall (37)
J. Ericsson (33)
Kylington (20)
T. Erixon (26)
Hägg (23)



Lundqvist (35)
Lehner (26)
Markström (28)
——
Dansk (23)
Läck (30)
Fasth (35)
Enroth (29)
Lindbäck (29)
Gustavsson (33)
J. Eriksson (27)

 

[nobuddy]

James van Riemsdyk - Alex Galchenyuk - Phil Kessel
Chris Kreider - Jack Eichel - Patrick Kane
Zach Parise - Ryan Kesler - Joe Pavelski
Max Pacioretty - Derek Stepan - Bobby Ryan
Brandon Saad - Nick Bjugstad

Ryan McDonagh - Justin Faulk
Seth Jones - Jacob Trouba
Ryan Suter - Cam Fowler
Kevin Shattenkirk - John Carlson

Jonathan Quick
Cory Schneider
John Gibson

Dat scoring depth.
Dat left side defense.
Dat goaltending.

 

[SPMaximus]

Finland:
Puljujärvi (19) - Barkov (22) - Kapanen (21)
Granlund (25) - Terävainen (23) - Laine (19)
Lehkonen (22) - Filppula (33) - Armia(please dont bust) (24)
Salomäki (24) - Koivu (34) - Komarov (30)

Määttä (23) - Ristolainen (23)
Pokka (23) - Vatanen (26)
Järvinen (28) - Honka (22)

Rask (30)
Raanta (28)
Saros (22)

decided to go with some youth
average age 24.8
im also assuming that Laine/Puljujärvi will enter the NHL the year they are drafted and do okay

 

[redgrant]

If they are going to again use Subban as the 7th dman in 2018 he should tell them to go to hell and pull a Roy like in 2002.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Im going young...


Marcus Johansson - Nicklas Backstrom - Gustav Nyqvist
Mika Zibanejad - Patrik Berglund - Gabriel Landeskog
Filip Forsberg - Elias Lindholm - Mikael Backlund
Rickard Rakell - Marcus Kruger - Carl Hagelin

Oel - Hedman
Karlsson - Larsson
Lindholm - Brodin


Hardworking team.

 

[JJTT]

Granlund(25)-Barkov(22)-Pulkkinen(26)
Teräväinen(24)-Koivu(34)-Laine(19)
Filppula(33)-Lehterä(30)-Armia(24)
Salomäki(24)-Haula(26)-Komarov(31)
Kontiola(33),Jokinen(34)

Jokipakka(26)-Vatanen(26)
Määttä(23)-Ristolainen(23)
Melart(29)-Pokka(23)
Järvinen(29)-Honka(22)

Rask(30)
Lehtonen(34)
Aittokallio(25)

 

[FofH]

After 2010 I was little a bit worried about the future. But now seeing all these roster predictions... wholy... so many good players to chooce from. We should have a bright future ahead of us

 

[Jesus Christ Horburn]

Sidney Crosby
Steven Stamkos
John Tavares
Jonathan Toews
Taylor Hall
Matt Duchene
Claude Giroux
Jamie Benn
Tyler Seguin
Logan Couture
Jeff Skinner
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Nathan MacKinnon
Evander Kane

That forward group is just unfair.

 

[Big Phil]

It's a bit of a crapshoot right now. Remember when we thought Rico Fata would be on Team Canada in 2002? I will say one thing, I remember calling Eric Brewer to be on the 2002 team back in 1998. Just a hunch. But here is goes:

Price
Fleury
Crawford

Keith-Weber
Vlasic-Doughty
Bouwmeester-Pietrangelo
Letang-Subban

Crosby
Stamkos
Tavares
Toews
Mackinnon
McDavid
Hall
Seguin
Eberle
Bergeron
Getzlaf
Perry
Duchene
Giroux

Yikes! What a team.

The oldest on that forward corps would be Getzlaf, Perry and Bergeron who would all be turning 33 in 2018. Our defense would have Keith and J-Bo and the oldies at 34. Fleury is just a hunch, he's 33 by then.

Then again things can change too. Perry and Getzlaf may not age well. 4 years is a long ways away.

If there is a World Cup in 2016 I pick much of the same team but a little bit more grit and size. Maybe Nash or Eric Staal will still be good enough by then, who knows. They'd be a good fit. Carter can go on either team, and he'll be 33 in 2018. But I like him on either team.

 

[JayKing]

Probably going to cringe hard once this thread gets bumped

Tavares - Crosby - Stamkos
Benn - Toews - Giroux
Hall - Duchene - Seguin
Huberdeau - Mackinnon - Drouin
Couture
McDavid
(Huberdeau & Drouin will most likely not make it and they'll probably be replaced with more defensive minded forwards. ex. RyJo or RNH)

Keith - Doughty
Alzner - Subban
Vlasic - Pietrangelo
Letang
Murray

Price
Bernier
Crawford


Pacioretty - Galchenyuk - Kane
JvR - Stepan - Kessel
Kreider - Paveksi - Coyle
Saad - Bjugstad - Kesler
Eichel
Parise/Backes

McDonagh - Jones
Suter- Trouba
Fowler - Carlson
Faulk
Hanifin/Shattenkirk

Quick
Gibson
Schneider

 

[jgoud*]

2014 isn't even over and i'm excited for 2018. I'm sure we'll have the fastest team.

I'm positive that Marleau, Nash, Kunitz, St. Louis and Carter will all be left off the team for 2018. The guys i'm unsure of will be Getzlaf, Bergeron and Perry. So there will be lots of spots open at forward(5-8) and JBo and Hamhuis will be gone on the backend as well.

I see Stamkos, Mackinnon, Hall, Seguin, Johansen, Couture, Drouin, Lucic and Kane all fighting for a spot, with the bolded guys being favoured because of speed.

Duchene | Sidney Crosby | Steven Stamkos
Benn | Giroux | Kane (physical line)
Hall | Tavares | Mackinnon
Couture | Toews | Johansen (shutdown line)
Seguin
Drouin

Murray is already looking like a rounded player in his rookie year, and I'm sure he'll get more attention in the next 4 years for his solid play, which will only get better. Expect PK to be a more rounded player as well. I think both of them will push Vlasic out of the top 6. And I'm sure a prospect of some sort will emerge in the next 4 years (Ekblad, Nurse, Sean Day). I know Sean Day is a reach but he'll have 1.5 years in the NHL under his belt at the time of the selection.

Pietrangelo | Doughty
Keith | Weber
Subban| Murray
Vlasic
Ekblad/Nurse/Sean Day

Goaltending depth is our weak spot, but even if nobody emerges in the next 4 years, as long as Price stays healthy we should be fine.

Price
-
-

 

[KittysGotClaws]

I keep seeing Stepan ahead of Bjugstad on the depth chart. I have a good feeling that may not be the case in four years, and mostly because of Bjugstad.