Olympics: Canada lineup in 2030

[De Montreal]

Next lineup at the 2026 Olympics should look fairly similar but what about 2030 in the French Alps?

Crosby will be 42 and probably retired or too old.

MacKinnon would be 34, McDavid 33 and Makar 30.

Forwards

Brandon Hagel - Connor McDavid - Mitch Marner
Alexis Lafrenière - Nathan MacKinnon - Seth Jarvis
Quinton Byfield - Macklin Celebrini - Robert Thomas
Adam Fantilli - Nick Suzuki - Travis Konecny

Extras : Michael Misa, Gavin McKenna

Defenceman

Thomas Harley - Cale Makar
Matthew Shaefer - Evan Bouchard
Bowen Byram - Noah Dobson

Extras : Devon Toews, Travis Sanheim

Goalies

Sebastian Cossa
Devon Levi
Stuart Skinner or Joshua Ravensbergen?

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[RoyIsALegend]

lol

 

[Lukin1978]

Connor Bedard?

 

[De Montreal]

Oops yeah forgot Bedard, would probably slot instead of Lafrenière

 

[1 Team 24 Cups]

Next up, let’s project the Team Canada 2054 Olympic team.

 

[Dominance]

McKenna - MacKinnon - Bedard
Celebrini - McDavid - Sennecke
Misa - Fantilli - Johnson
Point - Johnston - Guenther

In the mix: Marner, Reinhart, Jarvis, Thomas, Suzuki, Konecny, Hagel, Laf, Byfield, McTavish, Wright, Lindstrom, Catton, Martone, Roobroeck, Iginla

Schaefer - Makar
Dickinson - Dupont
Harley - Parekh

In the mix: Morrissey, Dobson, Bouchard, Sanheim, Guhle, Byram, Power, Clarke, Yakemchuk, Mateychuk, Smith, Verhoeff

Cossa
Ravensbergen or someone else on or off the map who unexpectedly becomes elite
Thompson/Binnington/Blackwood/Hill

 

[ORRFForever]

McKenna - MacKinnon - Bedard
Celebrini - McDavid - Sennecke
Misa - Fantilli - Johnson
Point - Johnston - Guenther

In the mix: Marner, Reinhart, Jarvis, Thomas, Suzuki, Konecny, Hagel, Laf, Byfield, McTavish, Wright, Lindstrom, Catton, Martone, Roobroeck, Iginla

Schaefer - Makar
Dickinson - Dupont
Harley - Parekh

In the mix: Morrissey, Dobson, Bouchard, Sanheim, Guhle, Byram, Power, Clarke, Yakemchuk, Mateychuk, Smith, Verhoeff

Cossa
Ravensbergen or someone else on or off the map who unexpectedly becomes elite
Thompson/Binnington/Blackwood/Hill

I flipped Point and Johnson to get them on their correct sides but...

GREAT Line Up, D !!!!

McKenna - MacKinnon - Bedard
Celebrini - McDavid - Sennecke
Misa - Fantilli - Point
Johnson - Johnston - Guenther

I don't know where we are going to put all the forwards. It will just be insane.

 

[The Shadow]

Lots of young talent coming

Misa
Martone
McKenna

To go with Celebrini and Bedard

 

[Dominance]

I flipped Point and Johnson to get them on their correct sides but...

GREAT Line Up, D !!!!

McKenna - MacKinnon - Bedard
Celebrini - McDavid - Sennecke
Misa - Fantilli - Point
Johnson - Johnston - Guenther

I don't know where we are going to put all the forwards. It will just be insane.

Knew you’d appreciate the Johnson and Guenther inclusions. Stellar players already just waiting their turn to really step into the spotlight! Hopefully we can get back to a position where we have so many options that filling out the bottom half of the lineup is a truly painful exercise of cutting out the elite of the elite.

The crazy thing is that if Schaefer, Dupont and Parekh hit on their potential, the defense corps is honestly even more fearsome than the forwards.

 

[Peiskos]

There's going to be some star players on this team that we aren't even aware of yet, it's too far off.

 

[De Montreal]

I agree it’s hard to predict five year down the road but looking back, the exercice has been done before with moderate success

Look at trois thread from 2010 trying to predict 2014 lineups

Olympics: Thread '2014 Mens Olympic Roster Projections'

Feb 14, 2010

I know the current mens 2010 tournament hasn't started yet but it has got me thinking for the 2014 tournament. Now I know that NHL player participation is not a sure thing but lets assume they reach an agreement here. These are for all rosters. Let me give Canada's a go.

Forwards

E.Staal-Crosby-Nash
Toews-Getzlaf-Perry
Richards-J.Staal-Carter
Duchene-Tavares-Stamkos
Hodgson

HM:Gagner, Kane, Spezza

Defence

Bouwmester-Doughty
Green-Myers
Phaneuf-Weber
Pietrangelo

HM: M.Staal, Seabrook, Schenn

Goaltenders

Fleury
Luongo
Mason

HM:Ward, Price, Bernier

• wings5
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OG posted this

Staal-Crosby-Nash
Toews-Getzlaf-Perry
Richards-J.Staal-Carter
Duchene-Tavares-Stamkos
Hodgson

HM:Gagner, Kane, Spezza

Defence

Bouwmester-Doughty
Green-Myers
Phaneuf-Weber
Pietrangelo

HM: M.Staal, Seabrook, Schenn

Goaltenders

Fleury
Luongo
Mason

HM:Ward, Price, Bernier

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Hodgson, Mason and Gagner are the only names standing out like sore thumbs and they are put as extras

And he got right 8 of the top 12 forwards, 4 out of the top 7 dman and 1 goalie (two counting the HM to Price)

Some of the other names were also mentionned

So of course there is some players coming out of no where and some players that will decline fast unexpectedly

But we can still have a good idea of the overall shape of the lineup

 

[Eternal Leaf]

My big prediction is Dupont will be on the team. He's a special talent.

 

[Mathieukferland]

McKenna-Celebrini-Bédard
Johnson-McDavid-Johnston
Guenther-Misa-Marner
Jarvis-Vilardi-McMichael
Fantilli

Harley-Makar
Schaefer-Clarke
Power-Dupont
Verhoeff

Thompson
Cossa
Ravensbergen

 

[dalewood12]

Hodgson, Mason and Gagner are the only names standing out like sore thumbs and they are put as extras

And he got right 8 of the top 12 forwards, 4 out of the top 7 dman and 1 goalie (two counting the HM to Price)

Some of the other names were also mentionned

So of course there is some players coming out of no where and some players that will decline fast unexpectedly

But we can still have a good idea of the overall shape of the lineup

I recall many people predicting Jordan Staal would make the Team Canada lineup at the start of the 2009 season, fresh off the Pens cup win, but Team Canada had so many strong 2-way forward options.