World Cup: Four Nations Tournament-Team Canada

[Pavel Buchnevich]

That is a good one.

Autocorrect is a big Bruins fan, what can I say?

 

[jj cale]

Autocorrect is a big Bruins fan, what can I say?

 

[Voight]

I think this is fair. If you look up and down the Canadian lineup you see players that have elevated their games at crunch time and are winners. The U.S. lacks that, which is why I think they may include a guy like Patrick Kane even though his best days are behind him. Talent-wise, the U.S. is right there though.

Kane's also still a good offensive player even at his age, plus I think they wanna give him the chance to captain Team USA before his careers over.

 

[Dominance]

Seeing names like Barzal, Marchand, Stamkos - much less Nurse, what the f*** is that? - is sickening. There will be zero chemistry or wind-down going into this tournament from regular games, so the brass had better not f*** this up by doing anything other than taking the hot hand.

Hagel-McDavid-Reinhart
Point-MacKinnon-Marner
Scheifele-Crosby-Stone
Bennett-Suzuki-Konecny
Thomas/Lafreniere/Bedard

Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Pietrangelo
Theodore-Dobson
Power/Bouchard, Parayko/Weegar

Binnington
Hofer
Talbot

A ton of Americans are significantly underperforming to date this season - guys like Matthews, Hughes, Robertson. That helps too as the Swedes and Finns look weak.

 

[JackSlater]

Seeing names like Barzal, Marchand, Stamkos - much less Nurse, what the f*** is that? - is sickening. There will be zero chemistry or wind-down going into this tournament from regular games, so the brass had better not f*** this up by doing anything other than taking the hot hand.

Hagel-McDavid-Reinhart
Point-MacKinnon-Marner
Scheifele-Crosby-Stone
Bennett-Suzuki-Konecny
Thomas/Lafreniere/Bedard

Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Pietrangelo
Theodore-Dobson
Power/Bouchard, Parayko/Weegar

Binnington
Hofer
Talbot

A ton of Americans are significantly underperforming to date this season - guys like Matthews, Hughes, Robertson. That helps too as the Swedes and Finns look weak.

Marchand is already on the team. Stamkos shouldn't have been a consideration for a long time.

 

[JackSlater]

Lebrun put out an article about a sit down he had with Sweeney, mainly focused on team Canada but also Boston.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5903390/2024/11/07/don-sweeney-bruins-canada-4-nations/

This must have been announce but I didn't realize that Sweeney is running this team while Armstrong takes the 2026 Olympic team. Each of them is involved with each team though. Sweeney brought up an interesting issue as well, namely that they name the team in early December and then need to wait two months. A lot can happen ad they will need reserve players in case of injury. You'd have to think that most players are going to have vacation plans lined up for that break, so you need some guys who are willing to potentially hold off until a few days before this event.