WJC: 2025 Team Canada Roster Talk

[VeteranPresence]

This man is either a master troll or has an IQ of 75

That’s 76 too much IMO.

 

[JackSlater]

"Who's to say all the good players they left off would have performed when the high end guys they did bring didn't perform to expectations"

Had me chuckling. If you bring 5 good players and 15 grinders and the 5 good players struggle good luck scoring. If you bring your 20 best players and 5 of them struggle you've got 15 other high scoring talents that probably won't. There's a really good chance some of the 20 guys don't lag an egg. You figure out who those guys are and then rely on them. But we're supposed to see the 5 guys the stupid coaching staff thought were his go to guys struggle and instead of criticizing them for picking a top 6/bottom 6 style roster or even picking the wrong guys to rely on if you were to go that route what we're actually supposed to take away from it is Cowan, Ritchie and others struggled so that means everyone good Canada has would have struggled and so the coaching staff did nothing wrong

It's such a dumb argument to make. Your best players don't perform well enough? Don't bring the best available players, bring worse players I guess. Can't score? Well I guess bring in worse offensive players. The best way to win tournaments is to have by far the best roster, not to handicap the team as if there were a salary cap. It's a lot harder to defend against four lines that are a threat to score than it is to defend against one or two.

 

[landy92mack29]

This man is either a master troll or has an IQ of 75

75? why so generous?

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Dave Cameron sounds like Biden with his responses. This man is another planet mentally.

 

[NyQuil]

Fun night to hit 100,000 posts.

Well, at least the reactions to this lunacy have made me smile.

Dave Cameron sounds like Biden with his responses. This man is another planet mentally.

Uh, wait until you hear the other guy.

 

[PanniniClaus]

This man is either a master troll or has an IQ of 75

He seems to be right though. There are 3-4 teams.. He neglected to say that his wasn't one of them. I used to think Dave was a cerebral guy but what he comes off as now is an angry, arrogant old man thinking he's doing us all a favor by coaching.

 

[Warden of the North]

Fire everyone at Hockey Canada who makes any sort of important decisions at any level from Jr to the NHL. The regular staff who "keep the lights on" or whatever can obviously stay.

 

[NyQuil]

He seems to be right though. There are 3-4 teams.. He neglected to say that his wasn't one of them. I used to think Dave was a cerebral guy but what he comes off as now is an angry, arrogant old man thinking he's doing us all a favor by coaching.

I think he’s proud for showing the world how competitive teams like Latvia and Czechia are.

 

[Mathieukferland]

Ive been awake 41 hours and travelled 5000KM but after watching that I’ll just do the post-mortem tonight.


At the end of the day, it didn’t take a genius to figure out this was going to happen. When you leave so many players that are able to score at home, well, you will struggle to score.


Jack Slater and the Lethbridge poster sorry I’m forgetting your name have pointed out that Salmond is involved in a curious family relationship with the Hurricanes. Scott Salmond should be fired for failing to fire Anholt after last year. That’s simply inexcusable and is not meritocracy.

The kids, they could have been more disciplined. But this tournament was lost in a boardroom, not on the ice. Canada had the most talent available to them, but eschewed that in favour of some flawed dinosaur philosophy.



Hopefully next year winners are put in place, the player group will be even deeper than this year

 

[TheBeastCoast]

There were plenty of skill players who took a ton of penalties. Easton Cowan spent a TON of time in the box.

Tonight : Ritchie, Catton and McKenna were in the box.

Cowan took one(very bad) penalty the entire tournament. That does not count as a ton of time in the box.

 

[ORRFForever]

Cowan took one(very bad) penalty the entire tournament. That does not count as a ton of time in the box.

I should have said Cowan spent a ton of time in the box against the U.S. - he was in the box for 4 minutes. When you are playing a team as deadly on the PP as the U.S., that seems like a "ton" if time to me.

My point is : The "skill" guys took more than their share of penalties.

 

[Smif]

There were plenty of skill players who took a ton of penalties. Easton Cowan spent a TON of time in the box.

Tonight : Ritchie, Catton and McKenna were in the box.

Lmao, how much time did he spend in the box exactly??

 

[TheBeastCoast]

I should have said Cowan spent a ton of time in the box against the U.S. - he was in the box for 4 minutes. When you are playing a team as deadly on the PP as the U.S., that seems like a "ton" if time to me.

Canada was short handed once from his penalties the entire tournament. Yes he did also have an offsetting minor.....that resulted in 5 on 5 play lol. Cowan didn't have a good tournament....pick things he actually did wrong to critisize him for maybe?

 

[ORRFForever]

Lmao, how much time did he spend in the box exactly??

I will correct my post. I meant to say he spent a ton of time in the box against the U.S.

 

[TonsofPuppies]

I'm going to use two of my favourite clips from my all time favourite television show to sum up this year's team and their performance on the ice.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

I will correct my post. I meant to say he spent a ton of time in the box against the U.S.

It still isn't true lol

 

[ORRFForever]

Canada was short handed once from his penalties the entire tournament. Yes he did also have an offsetting minor.....that resulted in 5 on 5 play lol. Cowan didn't have a good tournament....pick things he actually did wrong to critisize him for maybe?

Okay... His penalty in the 3rd shot us in the foot and killed any chance we had of coming back. Then he gave away the puck in our zone when we had an empty net and that led to the 4th goal.

Better?

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Okay... His penalty in the 3rd shot us in the foot and killed any chance we had of coming back. Then he gave away the puck in our zone when we had an empty net.

Better?

Yes...because that is true lol

 

[DuklaNation]

I don't know the inner workings of selection process but it has the stench of favoritism.

 

[JimmyApples]

Canada could have really used a Carter Yakemchuk, just saying

 

[alphabetical]

I'm standing by the team and not pretending I know better than the people at Hockey Canada so I like to think I'm the exception.

I think the results say you were wrong from your recliner. It seems like hockey Canada was wrong from their offices, too.

Sucks to suck.

 

[ORRFForever]

Yes...because that is true lol

Again, my point is :

The "skill" guys everyone LOVES did more damage than the "grinders" on the 3rd and 4th line and they did not provide any upside.

2 of the 3 goals scored tonight were scored by players many posters did NOT want.

 

[Sens With Benefits]

I’ve never seen so much chatter before the tournament with regards to selection process. Everyone knew this team would fail. There’s no hindsight here. This was a major discussion beforehand.

 

[ORRFForever]

I think the results say you were wrong from your recliner. It seems like hockey Canada was wrong from their offices, too.

Sucks to suck.

I was wrong ("suck") because I stood by the players?

Good to know.

 

[lawrence]

so this Cowan kid in our coach point of view is our best foward on our team, and out of what was available to he could have chosen in Canada.

he wasn't even at the selection camp, good f*** in riddance, Team Canada you deserved the loss the entire management and coaching staff needs to be f***in tossed out! hire an american coach next year! these guys know how approach these best of ones !