World Cup: 4 Nations Tournament- Team USA (2025)

[mphmiles]

Was just listening to a finnish podcast where Kimmo Timonen came up with a line of Tkachuk - Matthews - Tkachuk and instantly thought that Eichel would sound better with the brothers, seems like im not alone.

Strongly agree with you that Jack Hughes should play wing, and strongly disagree with you that Kyle Connor is 13th forward, just swap jack to RW and replace Boeser or Keller with Connor. To me it's very obvious that Connor is the best out of Connor/Keller/Boeser.

On D: I would pick Pesce or Sanderson over Carlson.

Edit:

Hughes - Matthews - Connor
Tkachuk - Eichel - Tkachuk
Guentzel - Larkin - Keller
Robertson - Trocheck - Boldy

Replaced Miller with Larkin because not sure if hes available, any good?

Larkin at wing solves some deployment issues IMO. Of the projected wingers here, none of them PK more than a little here and there, so Larkin at wing gives you one. (And the team would likely still need someone else like Miller, Kreider, or Tuch who also PK's) With the forwards projected here, you're looking at 3 C's all playing PK along with one winger who doesn't really have any experience there, which would be a bit of a mess.

If we're worried about Hughes and face-offs, you could pair him with Miller or Larkin, have Hughes play C, and just have one of them take the face-offs.

 

[gritdash60]

Larkin at wing solves some deployment issues IMO. Of the projected wingers here, none of them PK more than a little here and there, so Larkin at wing gives you one. (And the team would likely still need someone else like Miller, Kreider, or Tuch who also PK's) With the forwards projected here, you're looking at 3 C's all playing PK along with one winger who doesn't really have any experience there, which would be a bit of a mess.

If we're worried about Hughes and face-offs, you could pair him with Miller or Larkin, have Hughes play C, and just have one of them take the face-offs.

Yeah well i did put Larkin as 3C, also if lets say Hughes and Larkin were on the same line i think Larkin would do better as C than Hughes and also i think Hughes would be a better winger than Larkin. Playing Larkin on the wing is something i would love to see if he doesn't get a C spot, but somehow i feel like hes either 3C or 4C or not on the team (and im a Wings fanboy).

Miller will be a big loss if isn't available, which is the reason i edited the roster to have Larkin in the first place to the roster posted by MarkT. Now that you mentioned Tuch he might be a better replacement for Miller than Larkin. Good point about the PK.