If Quebec Became Their Own Country (MOD WARNING POST #7)

[QJL]

They'd lose to Team Minnesota

Parise - Stepan - Wheeler
Backes - Bjugstad - Boeser
Lee - Nelson - Okposo
Hendricks - Cullen - R. Carter
JT Brown

McDonagh - Faulk
Leddy - Byfuglien
Niskanen - E. Johnson
Gardiner - Braun

Stalock
Lindgren

 

[arrbez]

A 90's version of this team would be sick though.

Luc Robitaille-Mario Lemieux-Kevin Dineen
Stephan Matteau-Denis Savard-Stephen Richer
Joe Juno-Pierre Turgeon-Scott Mellanby
Martin Gelinas-Vincent Damphousse-Claude Lemieux

Ray Bourque-Kevin Lowe
Eric Desjardins-Garry Galley
Sylvain Côte-Steve Duchesne

Patrick Roy
Martin Brodeur
Felix Potvin

Really illustrates how far it's fallen off in Quebec...

Making a Team Canada today, the only players I'd look at would be Bergeron, Crawford, probably Vlasic.

 

[JackSlater]

Really illustrates how far it's fallen off in Quebec...

Making a Team Canada today, the only players I'd look at would be Bergeron and Crawford. Maybe Vlasic, but I don't think I could find the space on the blueline now.

Letang is elite. Probably wouldn't make team Canada at the highest level, but he's worthy of consideration.

The fall off of quality players from Quebec is pretty stark. In the 1950s there are tons of elite players - Richard(s), Beliveau, Geoffrion, Harvey, Plante etc. The 60s had the great Montreal players plus Keon, Pilote and so on. The 70s had some superstars and good forward depth, 80s had incredible high end talent. Things start to slow down significantly in the 90s though, at least when it comes to new players coming from Quebec. 00s are extremely ugly, with Bergeron probably the best player from Quebec to begin his NHL career that decade. Pretty disappointing.

 

[The Examiner]

Why don't they create an off-season tournament between provinces like the Brier Cup in Curling? Call it Canada Cup and get provinces try and ice the best teams to compete for it.

They did that during the 1994-95 lockout. It was a 4-on-4 challenge. They had 4 teams. Ontario, Western Canada, Quebec and USA. It was at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. I believe Ontario won.

I went to one of the games. They played for 30 or 40 minutes. I can't remember. Your ticket got you 2 games. Mine were Western Canada vs Quebec and Ontario vs USA. They played back to back. It was fun hockey to watch, definitely entertaining. Fast paced and the players weren't really dogging it. I remember Mark Reechi and Jeremy Roenick, standing out the most.

 

[iCanada]

My guess is that the ones who has already represented Canada but would end up with Quebec citizenship would be able to represent Quebec. I doubt that they would need to play 2 years in Quebec to be able to represent "their own" national team.

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Also, remember that Quebec would need to start in the World Championship D3, so it would take at least six years until they were to play in the top division.

I'd bet you could argue that the NHL is an international league, regardless. The best players everywhere play in the NHL.

 

[MMANumminen]

About as strong as FIN, CZE and USA. Would be contender. Really cool thought

 

[Nevins]

uebec Roster:
Huberdeau - Dereck Brassard - Patrice Bergeron
Drouin - Mike Ribeiro - Jason Pominville
David Perron - Perrault- Anthony Duclair
Charles Hudon - Pierre Luc Dubois - Anthony Mantha
Danault-Mitchell-Nicholas Deslauriers

Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Kristopher Letang
Francois Beauchemin - Jason Demers
Marco Scandella - David Savard
Simon Despres

Roberto Luongo
Corey Crawford
Marc-Adnre Fleury

 

[Revo]

If I'm not mistaken, Alex Killorn grew up in Québec, would he be eligible?

 

[arrbez]

If I'm not mistaken, Alex Killorn grew up in Québec, would he be eligible?

Yeah, I think that's the best way to do it in these hypotheticals. If a guy grew up and became a hockey player there, then that's who he belongs to.

 

[cleveland408]

With veterans like Couturier, Giroux, Bergeron and young players like Chabot, Drouin, and Lafrienere I think a Quebec team could be really competitive.

It seems like Quebec is starting to get back on track with producing more top tier elite talents again, with maybe the exception of the goalie position still lagging in producing new high end talent.

 

[Jumptheshark]

what about say Alberta and Saskabush form their own country? What would their team look like