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WJC: 2025 Team Canada Roster Talk

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wickedwitch said:
A reminder of what happened the last time Canada had all of their best juniors available: 2013 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships - Wikipedia

Also, it's a single elimination tournament. Even if Canada genuinely always had the most talent, it would still very much be a competition. The discrepancy just isn't that big.
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That team was still missing guys. Yes there would be comp still, but not last year and this year, they would have walked to gold with everyone.
 
Mathieukferland said:
Leaving him off considering his size, goal scoring, and chemistry with Ritchie is one of the worst decisions I can remember hockey Canada making in the past decade
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Yeah I can atleast see the logic behind Iginla and Parekh and even Yak to a lesser extent(though he should have been there) but Sennecke to me just should have been on the team.
 
Petes2424 said:
There’s gonna be a lot of upset fans this year, as always. People also shouldn’t count out someone like Emmitt Finnie making the roster in place of someone like Iginla either. He’s so well respected by coaches, has played some in the AHL already, and plays the game the right way. Doesn’t hurt he’s also among WHL scoring leaders. Ahead of guys like Iginla and Yager.

There’s always someone like Finnie who ends up on the team.
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This was a prescient comment haha people being upset is an understatement this year, holy cow. That’s the issue with Canadian teams drafting Canadian kids, they’ll lose their minds if their prospect isn’t invited.
 
Mathieukferland said:
Useless to quable about it now and I don’t know how the internal politics at hockey Canada work but someone like Gardiner MacDougall should have been handed the reins to this team. I loved the way his team played in Finland (downhill, lethal in transition, good special teams), Moncton is off to a great start this year, and contrary to many Hockey Canada coaches in the past year, road his best players hard when they needed them. But we will see with Cameron, his teams always play physical but the gold medal game issues do concern me
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100% agree, I hope he’s named HC for next years team. He’s an awesome coach and an amazing person it seems.
 
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landy92mack29 said:
The usual idiotic decisions by HC. Not even inviting Yakemchuk, Iginla, Parehk or Sennecke should get people fired. If they have a bad camp and get cut fine but not even a invite(also that small of a camp roster) is beyond stupid. There's other guys who also should've had invites over some of these picks but those 4 along with no Misa isn't a justifiable thing
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Mathieukferland said:
Because there are already better players offensively on the back end that can drive play and quarterback a power player without being as much of a risk as Parekh. The Akey and (especially) Allen invites are pretty head scratching, but I doubt either of them make the team…. I’m puzzled by a lot of snubs, but Parekh is not one of them
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Anybody who’s watched barrie play this season would not say Akey being picked is a head scratcher. He’s an elite D man, smooth skater and elite rush defender. Can make stretch passes or clever outlets, and he can jump into the rush. He’s been easily a top 10 D in all of the CHL this season, and I have watched all the good teams multiple times now. I’m with ya on Allen to a degree though, although I have liked him more this season than anytime in the past while. But still, he wouldn’t be close to my list.
 
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novisor said:
Is Rehkopf not going to make this team? Based on how good he looked last year, that would be a shock. TSN doesn't have him on it and the Athletic does but said he could be cut.
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Would be a mistake to cut him imo.

TheDoldrums said:
Yes thanks I watched the games. He was probably the most dangerous forward and still had an uphill battle for ice time. Which probably indicates that overall they are not as high on him as most people. Bob not having him on the team is pretty telling of that as well.
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Bob might be a little butthurt that he asked for a trade out of Kitchener after last season lol
 
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JackSlater said:
Even though Yakemchuk should be at the camp, Staios looks like a fan rather than a general manager in his quote. He changes nothing by publicly complaining rather than making himself look somewhat less professional. Losing leads to changes.
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Especially since Yakemchuk was stinky at the Summer showcase. Didn’t look good at all, I was hoping then he would be left off this team. Good they saw it too. He flourishes when the pace isn’t intense. Bad pick for Ottawa imo.

SannywithoutCompy said:
Again, you wouldn't make Jake Evans the 4th line C of Canada's Olympic team
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Who’s the Jake Evans in this scenario? Nobody invited is a 4th line C with their club team.
 
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Leviathan899 said:
This was a prescient comment haha people being upset is an understatement this year, holy cow. That’s the issue with Canadian teams drafting Canadian kids, they’ll lose their minds if their prospect isn’t invited.
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I was hoping Finnie would get a shot this year but was realistic about it. But as a Canadian hockey fan, I'm not upset about him being left off. I'm upset they big brained these selections wayyyyy too much and its super arrogant of them.

A guy like Sennecke not getting even a camp invite is absolutely pathetic on Team Canada's part. A 6'4, top 3 pick that is absolutely shredding the league he's playing in isn't good enough to even get a try out? They could win gold this year and I would still think this is a pathetic way to make a team
 
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As a Canadian who has watched this tournament for the past 20 years I'm not surprised at the terrible picks/omissions.

Many players they've missed out In the past. Nothing new. Makes no sense. We just get used to it unfortunately. No better with the national teams either.
 
Do we even know who is responsible for selecting these teams at this point? It used to be the coach back in the day. Now, I'm not sure. We have Anholt and Seabrook as "management", and we have Cameron and the rest of the coaching staff. Where does the buck stop? Who is accountable? Or is the system setup in a way that allows for the same group of individuals to each point their finger at someone else, but never at the individual truly responsible?

Maybe once Musk/Ramaswamy are done with DOGE they can tackle Hockey Canada's byzantine reporting and accountability structure. After last year's debacle I would have though the stables would have been thoroughly cleaned.

Sennecke torched the 67s for 1+4=5 last night for a win in Oshawa. As a 67s fan, I need to separate myself from being a fan of the team (and an implicit supporter of Luca Pinelli and Dave Cameron) and a Canadian hockey fan. Honestly, passing on Sennecke, even to extend an invite to the selection camp, was a mistake by Anhold/Cameron, or whoever is responsible for selecting this team.

I have a lot of respect for Pinelli, he's a great player that brings a lot to his teams, good in the community, and a nice kid, but honestly he's nowhere near the level of someone like Sennecke. He's already being raked over the coals in the OHL community unfortunately as a nepo pick because someone (who? Bueller? Bueller?) saw fit to extend an invite to him for selection camp while leaving superior players like Misa, Greentree and Sennecke at home.

If anything I'd like for someone to step up and say - "I picked Pinelli, but not Sennecke (or Misa or Greentree). It was a tough decision, but here's why I made that decision.". All the better if that message comes from Cameron.
 
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NordiquesForeva said:
Do we even know who is responsible for selecting these teams at this point? It used to be the coach back in the day. Now, I'm not sure. We have Anholt and Seabrook as "management", and we have Cameron and the rest of the coaching staff. Where does the buck stop? Who is accountable? Or is the system setup in a way that allows for the same group of individuals to each point their finger at someone else, but never at the individual truly responsible?

Maybe once Musk/Ramaswamy are done with DOGE they can tackle Hockey Canada's byzantine reporting and accountability structure. After last year's debacle I would have though the stables would have been thoroughly cleaned.

Sennecke torched the 67s for 1+4=5 last night for a win in Oshawa. As a 67s fan, I need to separate myself from being a fan of the team (and an implicit supporter of Luca Pinelli and Dave Cameron) and a Canadian hockey fan. Honestly, passing on Sennecke, even to extend an invite to the selection camp, was a mistake by Anhold/Cameron, or whoever is responsible for selecting this team.

I have a lot of respect for Pinelli, he's a great player that brings a lot to his teams, good in the community, and a nice kid, but honestly he's nowhere near the level of someone like Sennecke. He's already being raked over the coals in the OHL community unfortunately as a nepo pick because someone (who? Bueller? Bueller?) saw fit to extend an invite to him for selection camp while leaving superior players like Misa, Greentree and Sennecke at home.

If anything I'd like for someone to step up and say - "I picked Pinelli, but not Sennecke (or Misa or Greentree). It was a tough decision, but here's why I made that decision.". All the better if that message comes from Cameron.
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With regards to the organisational structure; I think the GM should have been changed from last year as I’ve stated many times , but I think the root cause is probably Salmond. He has taken over the WJC programme after the 5 peat and achieved…. Mixed results.

Based on the talent available, 5 golds in a 14 year period is the bare minimum, when I would say that, apart from maybe 2018, 2019 and 2024, Canada had the most talent available to them vis à vis the other nations.

He is the one that I think ultimately needs to step aside and have a more qualified "sélectionneur" take a permanent job as part of the WJC programme head. I’ve suggested permanently naming the Hunters to run the WJC programme, i really liked what they did in 2020. I think that would be a better and more transparent way to run the programme rather than some stop gap GM with the murky figure of Salmond making shadow decisions in the background. Because I find it hard to believe that he is not somewhat responsible for the philosophical change in the Hockey Canada youth programmes in the last 15 years
 
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