This team has Phaneuf Brewer Doan Ward Hamhuis Weber Nash Staal Staal mayve even Cammaleri 9-10 guys potentially from the Vancouver 2010 team. So it's a better team than you people seem to realize. As far as nhl players available at this time it's about the same for every country. But since you have the more depth technically you always have an edge. The great equaliser is that many of the best Russian players are playing in Russia like Morozov-Zinoviev-Kulemin etc...
Listen son its time to settle down.
First off:
Phaneuf has not yet played a single shift in the tournament.
Weber has played 1 shift this tournament.
Jordan Staal is 18 years old and will have another 3 years experience by 2010.
Doan quite likely will not make the team in 2010.
Cammelari almost certainly will not make the team in 2010.
Nash will have 3 more seasons experience by 2010 and he is only what 22 right now?.
Ward would be about Canadas 10th best goaltender at this point in time.
Brewer and Hamhius will likely not be on team Canada in 2010.
Eric Staal is good and will likely be on the team in 2010 with 3 more years experience as hes also only about 22 or 23.
Next lets take a look at some players team Canada could have their this year if most of our best players were not still in the NHL playoffs or chose not to compete.
G Martin Brodeur
G Roberto Luongo
G Marty Turco
G Marc Andre Fleury
G Jean Sebastian Giguere
G Ray Emery
D Scott Niedermayer
D Chris Pronger
D Jay Bouwmeester
D Chris Phillips
D Wade Redden
D Robyn Regehr
D Scott Hannan
D Sheldon Souray
D Dan Boyle
D Brian Campbell
D Bryan Mccabe
D Ed Jovanovski
D Rob Blake
D Francois Beauchemin
C Sidney Crosby
C Joe Thornton
C Jason Spezza
C Patrick Marleau
C Ryan Getzlaf
C Daniele Briere
C Vincent Lecavallier
C Brad Richards
C Joe Sakic
C Marc Savard
C Rod Brindamour
C Nathan Horton
C Patrice Bergeron
C John Madden
W Ryan Smyth
W Martin St Louis
W Dany Heatley
W Jonathan Cheechoo
W Simon Gagne
W Brendan Morrow
W Brendan Shannahan
W Paul Kariya
W Alex Tanguay
W Jarome Iginla
W Justin Williams
W JP Dumont
W PM Bouchard
W Brad Boyes
W Jason Pomminville
W Kris Draper
Shall I go on or is this good enough for you to figure out that we could easily field 2 Championship caliber teams...........oh and dont forget that doesnt include the roster that we are already using in this world championships.