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Junior players not loaned to the WJCs by their NHL team.

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I hope when the CHL-NHL agreement changes in the future, allowing junior age players to go to the AHL, that it will be part of all Entry Level contracts, all players of junior age in the AHL must be released to their junior NTs. Players do not get to decide. This is what's best for your development. End of story.
 
Mr Writer said:
I hope when the CHL-NHL agreement changes in the future, allowing junior age players to go to the AHL, that it will be part of all Entry Level contracts, all players of junior age in the AHL must be released to their junior NTs. Players do not get to decide. This is what's best for your development. End of story.
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I don't see that happening
 
ResilientBeast said:
I don't see that happening
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currently all junior age players in the AHL (European) are released to their NTs. It is more common for them to be released than not be released. It should be the same for Canadian junior age players in the AHL. (should the CHL-NHL agreement be changed.) you are not going to argue that 10 AHL games is more critical for their development than 7 games for their National Team. Surely you are not suggesting that. Simply it should be part of the ELC. you go, shut up and go play.
 
Statsy said:
Yes, but there's a fine line between being held back by the team and saying you'd rather stay with the team. It's really difficult to know where the truth lies sometimes, and we'd also have to take some other players off the list if you don't count Mueller. Best to just leave him on there and make the list "Eligible players who won't be there". That also includes guys that are lost due to injury. Which reminds me, we should also throw Sam Bennett on the list. If he were healthy, he would probably be there.
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Good points. I guess some of them might be in position to chose but opts to stay. I'm not sure if I can change the thread title without help from a moderator, so I'll just make some adjustments in the OP to start with.

Edit: we don't know for sure if Bennett would have been on the Flames and I want to keep this list strictly to players in the NHL for now.
 
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Hockey Canada compiled a list of eligibles players at the beginning of the season here: http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/22-2015-wjc-eligible-make-nhl-rosters

Here's a cut&paste of that list dated mid-October:

CANADA
Nick Bapitiste – Buffalo Sabres (injured list)
Sam Bennett – Calgary Flames (injured list)
Jonathan Drouin – Tampa Bay Lightning (injured list)
Anthony Duclair – New York Rangers
Aaron Ekblad – Florida Panthers
Jérémy Grégoire – Montreal Canadiens (injured list)
Bo Horvat – Vancouver Canucks (injured list)
Curtis Lazar – Ottawa Senators
Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado Avalanche
Sean Monahan – Calgary Flames
Darnell Nurse – Edmonton Oilers
Sam Reinhart – Buffalo Sabres
Shea Theodore – Anaheim Ducks (injured list)

FINLAND
Aleksander Barkov – Florida Panthers
Kasperi Kapanen – Pittsburgh Penguins

GERMANY
Leon Draisaitl – Edmonton Oilers

RUSSIA
Nikita Zadorov – Buffalo Sabres
Valeri Nichushkin – Dallas Stars

SWEDEN
André Burakovsky – Washington Capitals

SWITZERLAND
Mirco Mueller – San Jose Sharks

UNITED STATES
Michael McCarron – Montreal Canadiens
Sonny Milano – Columbus Blue Jackets
 
van22 said:
Hockey Canada compiled a list of eligibles players at the beginning of the season here: http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/22-2015-wjc-eligible-make-nhl-rosters

Here's a cut&paste of that list dated mid-October:

CANADA
Nick Bapitiste – Buffalo Sabres (injured list)
Sam Bennett – Calgary Flames (injured list)
Jonathan Drouin – Tampa Bay Lightning (injured list)
Anthony Duclair – New York Rangers
Aaron Ekblad – Florida Panthers
Jérémy Grégoire – Montreal Canadiens (injured list)
Bo Horvat – Vancouver Canucks (injured list)
Curtis Lazar – Ottawa Senators
Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado Avalanche
Sean Monahan – Calgary Flames
Darnell Nurse – Edmonton Oilers
Sam Reinhart – Buffalo Sabres
Shea Theodore – Anaheim Ducks (injured list)

FINLAND
Aleksander Barkov – Florida Panthers
Kasperi Kapanen – Pittsburgh Penguins

GERMANY
Leon Draisaitl – Edmonton Oilers

RUSSIA
Nikita Zadorov – Buffalo Sabres
Valeri Nichushkin – Dallas Stars

SWEDEN
André Burakovsky – Washington Capitals

SWITZERLAND
Mirco Mueller – San Jose Sharks

UNITED STATES
Michael McCarron – Montreal Canadiens
Sonny Milano – Columbus Blue Jackets
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Thanks dude! That list is very helpful. Some of those guys were sent to juniors so they won't get listed, as I'm only intereseted in NHL regulars. I should have made that clearer in my OP..
 
van22 said:
Hockey Canada compiled a list of eligibles players at the beginning of the season here: http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/22-2015-wjc-eligible-make-nhl-rosters

Here's a cut&paste of that list dated mid-October:

CANADA
Nick Bapitiste – Buffalo Sabres (injured list)
Sam Bennett – Calgary Flames (injured list)
Jonathan Drouin – Tampa Bay Lightning (injured list)
Anthony Duclair – New York Rangers
Aaron Ekblad – Florida Panthers
Jérémy Grégoire – Montreal Canadiens (injured list)
Bo Horvat – Vancouver Canucks (injured list)
Curtis Lazar – Ottawa Senators
Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado Avalanche
Sean Monahan – Calgary Flames
Darnell Nurse – Edmonton Oilers
Sam Reinhart – Buffalo Sabres
Shea Theodore – Anaheim Ducks (injured list)

FINLAND
Aleksander Barkov – Florida Panthers
Kasperi Kapanen – Pittsburgh Penguins

GERMANY
Leon Draisaitl – Edmonton Oilers

RUSSIA
Nikita Zadorov – Buffalo Sabres
Valeri Nichushkin – Dallas Stars

SWEDEN
André Burakovsky – Washington Capitals

SWITZERLAND
Mirco Mueller – San Jose Sharks

UNITED STATES
Michael McCarron – Montreal Canadiens
Sonny Milano – Columbus Blue Jackets
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Add Pastrnak for the Czech Republic.
 
van22 said:
Not my list but Hockey Canada's.
They got it wrong?

Some players are no longer with their NHL team (Kapanen, Nurse,...) but it's a starting point to know who is eligible.
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If you are born in 1995, 1996, etc, you are eligible.
 
Zadorov has been confirmed to not be going by Sabres coach Ted Nolan, so you can put him in your list. No surprise as his presence gives Buffalo an actual top 4 on defense (Gorges-Myers, Zadorov-Ristolainen) for the first time in a while. Hell, now with Gorges dinged up Zadorov played the last game on the top pair with Myers, though that was after they already decided not to loan him. Personally I wish they would have, but it's probably the right call to leave him where he is.

dangleman said:
Didnt he get injured @olympics
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Yes, but he still got a medal because he played in the tournament. It's not like Stamkos getting a medal for nothing.
 
It sounded like they were sending him...and then Weber got hurt with other guys already down and that ended any chance.
 
I was bored, so I decided to make a full strength Canada...

Drouin - MacKinnon - Reinhart
Fabbri - McDavid - Lazar
Domi - Horvat - Duclair
Dal Colle - Bennett - Virtanen
Point, Petan

Morrissey - Ekblad
Nurse - Theodore
Fleury - Bowey
Hicketts

Fucale
Comrie

So many centres - MacKinnon, Drouin, McDavid, Reinhart, Horvat, Lazar, Bennett, Point, Petan
 
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DanrikCarter said:
I was bored, so I decided to make a full strength Canada...

Drouin - MacKinnon - Reinhart
Fabbri - McDavid - Lazar
Domi - Horvat - Duclair
Dal Colle - Bennett - Virtanen
Point, Petan

Morrissey - Ekblad
Nurse - Theodore
Fleury - Bowey
Hicketts

Fucale
Comrie
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Four first lines. :nod:
 
DanrikCarter said:
I was bored, so I decided to make a full strength Canada...

Drouin - MacKinnon - Reinhart
Fabbri - McDavid - Lazar
Domi - Horvat - Duclair
Dal Colle - Bennett - Virtanen
Point, Petan

Morrissey - Ekblad
Nurse - Theodore
Fleury - Bowey
Hicketts

Fucale
Comrie

So many centres - MacKinnon, Drouin, McDavid, Reinhart, Horvat, Lazar, Bennett, Point, Petan
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I've been saying it for years, the 1995 group is more talented than our 1985 group that went through the 2005 tournament like a hot knife through butter.

remains to be seen if this group of players can come together as a team and perform when it matters most...
 
Phenomenon13 said:
RNH was the best player in that entire tournament by far.
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by far? I'd say no way. and it's debatable if he was the best forward. Ya, he led the tourney in scoring, but had zero impact when it mattered most.

I'd take Trouba and Gibson as the best players in that tournament.

and an Hon. mention to Jones for having the balls to say, "we are the best team here and we expect to win gold."

I think all players should have the same confidence and say it... There were a few Canadians on that 2013 team that needed to drink whatever Kool-Aid Jones was drinking. Although HF would erupt into a major ****storm if that ever happened...
 
Rob Paxon said:
Zadorov has been confirmed to not be going by Sabres coach Ted Nolan, so you can put him in your list. No surprise as his presence gives Buffalo an actual top 4 on defense (Gorges-Myers, Zadorov-Ristolainen) for the first time in a while. Hell, now with Gorges dinged up Zadorov played the last game on the top pair with Myers, though that was after they already decided not to loan him. Personally I wish they would have, but it's probably the right call to leave him where he is.



Yes, but he still got a medal because he played in the tournament. It's not like Stamkos getting a medal for nothing.
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He didn't get a medal.

Stamkos was surprised with a ring presented to members of Canada's gold-medal-winning team at Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The Lightning forward was originally selected for the team but was unable to make the trip after breaking his leg last November.

"That was pretty classy. I didn't expect that, especially after everything that went on," Stamkos told Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times. "They said I was named to the team and worked hard, tried to get there. I didn't get to play, but it's still something I'll keep pretty near and dear to my heart."

It's a far cry from an actual gold medal, but a nice move by Scott Salmond, Hockey Canada's vice president of hockey operations.
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http://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/614034
 
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