WJC: 2025 Team Canada Roster Talk

[Statsy]

Not having Yakemchuk and Cristall on this roster is criminal. Schaefer has great potential but I'm not bringing a 17 yr old dman except for very rare exceptions.

This is a rare exception. Schaefer is pretty awesome.

 

[TheYardMachine]

Not having Yakemchuk and Cristall on this roster is criminal. Schaefer has great potential but I'm not bringing a 17 yr old dman except for very rare exceptions.

Schaefer is looking pretty special so far imo

 

[JackSlater]

Call me crazy, but these PP units seem awful.

They just seem random, or lazy in that one unit is their initial first line. The second posted unit makes some sense at least.

Second hardest loss of my life. We freakin' had it!

I was in the arena for that one. What a time to be alive. I am 2/2 in world junior gold medal games where Canada blows a lead to Russia in the third period.

Is Easton Cowan this years recepaient of the Fraser Minten over utilisation award? I get he had a good year in London last year but he had a pretty anonymous tournament and has done nothing internationally to show he deserves first line minutes, first PP

TSN definitely seems to be overhyping him but there are a number of issues with those units. I could see Nadeau being over-utilized as well, as he plays PROFESSIONAL hockey... as we will be reminded many times. And of course Howe. Who knows though, they may be great. I'm also not sure that Minten deserves to be the namesake for that prestigious title over Joe Hicketts.

 

[DuklaNation]

This is a rare exception. Schaefer is pretty awesome.

He isn't a top PP QB at this stage, good 5 on 5.

 

[Statsy]

He isn't a top PP QB at this stage, good 5 on 5.

That's my one concern about him. This comes back to the Parekh situation in as much as when you REALLY need a powerplay goal, it's best to have an elite PP pointman.

 

[DuklaNation]

That's my one concern about him. This comes back to the Parekh situation in as much as when you REALLY need a powerplay goal, it's best to have an elite PP pointman.

Yakemchuk was carving up NHL guys in preseason plus has NHL caliber point shot. You take him for that reason.