WJC: 2025 Team Canada Roster Talk

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Not bad but I would be surprised if we had 2 of McKenna/Martone/Misa. This years team is so deep that bringing younger players isn’t required.

I would be tempted to put Ivankovic on the team given the year he’s had so far, despite being younger.
 

FourQuarters

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Team Canada is deep, but last year, they didn't get a single medal last year when they thought they were too strong to be sure of winning by picking "rounded" players instead of the league's scoring leader such as Firkus and Cristall
 

Mathieukferland

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Not bad but I would be surprised if we had 2 of McKenna/Martone/Misa. This years team is so deep that bringing younger players isn’t required.

I would be tempted to put Ivankovic on the team given the year he’s had so far, despite being younger.
It’s an embarrassment of riches up front, all those great players that have been drafted and then you have Misa and McKenna who are leading their respective leagues in scoring
 

JackSlater

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Not bad but I would be surprised if we had 2 of McKenna/Martone/Misa. This years team is so deep that bringing younger players isn’t required.

I would be tempted to put Ivankovic on the team given the year he’s had so far, despite being younger.
I agree that Canada likely won't go as young as people think, but I am hoping that Hockey Canada doesn't fall into the trap of sorting players by draft status. It will probably happen though. Martone is in his third year of junior, just like plenty of players who will make this team, and is not even three months younger than Iginla. Spence is barely a month younger than Iginla even though he is draft eligible.

I don't expect to see both McKenna and Misa there. Even if they should both be there, which is quite possible, this is a very deep team at forward. In addition to them you have 19 forwards who were first round selections, plus a returning forward in Rehkopf, Cataford tuning up the QMJHL, and three 2006 forwards who may go top ten in 2025 in Martone, Spence, and McQueen. That's essentially two forward groups of 18/19 year old first rounders plus Rehkopf and Cataford.
 

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