Olympic 2018 Possible Rosters (25 man) if nhl players going

[PunkRockLocke]

Yeah, Morgan Rielly is going to be playing over the reigning Norris trophy winner who was voted by his peers as one of the 3 best players in the league last year.

It's all about handedness. Obviously Burns is the better player. Based of the current management/coaching staff of Canada's National Team, they would take four LHD and four RHD (which I agree with). I did not want to put Reilly on my team. Or Giordano really. But there aren't many LHD that could beat them out. Maybe Muzzin.

I took Doughty, Pietrangelo, Subban, and Weber over Burns on RHD. Borderline, I know. Tough to leave Burns off.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Lots of good responses here. Except for Reilly and Letang.

Letang is such a dumpster fire now.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Benn - McDavid - Seguin
Tavares - Stamkos - Scheifele
Hall - Giroux - Stone
Mackinnon
Monahan
yes no Toews

Keith - Doughty
Vlasic - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Subban
Burns
Giordano

Price
Holtby

In no universe ever would Reilly have been picked over either of Weber and Letang this year

Also Toews makes it over Monahan whether you like it or not he has been Canada's shut down man for years now

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

In no universe ever would Reilly have been picked over either of Weber and Letang this year

Also Toews makes it over Monahan whether you like it or not he has been Canada's shut down man for years now

Toews only has 1 more point than Rielly lol. Monahan is way better than him this year and if they want to pick players on merit rather than reputation they'll go with him

and as I've already said, Weber and Letang (and Burns) play the right and Rielly plays the left. You may as well be arguing that Getzlaf should make it over Rielly

 

[TheBradyBunch]

Marchand- Crosby - Bergeron
Benn - McDavid - Stamkos
Hall - Tavares - Scheifele
Toews - Bergeron - Stone
fringe: Mackinnon, Monahan, Bailey, Giroux

Keith - Doughty
Brodie - Pietrangelo
Vlasic - Burns
Giordano - Weber
fringe: Subban, Parayko, Muzzin, Letang

Holtby
Crawford
Smith/Dubnyk

 

[Jetsetter]

I think Josh Morrissey is a surprise candidate.

 

[A91]

To all the posters with Hall on their roster ... Hall wouldnt have made it.

Hockey Canada just doesnt like him for some reason.
In 2014 with the shortage of LW (Benn, Sharp, Marleau, Kunitz...) he wasnt even selected, and that was his best season ever coming off of his 2nd best season. He played in WHC every year as well. You could tell his main goal was to get to the Olympics, he wanted to win. Wouldve been dynamite but alas they won without him so you cant argue much.

 

[A91]

I think Josh Morrissey is a surprise candidate.

For team Canada D maybe, no way hes a top 15 Canadian dman
Not yet anyways!

 

[PunkRockLocke]

I think Josh Morrissey is a surprise candidate.

He does seem to he a player that has improved and is on the rise...

With the lack of LHD depth (which has been discussed at length here - and some people still can't grasp that it would be 4 LHD and 4 RHD) he could get consideration for sure. Other guys like him that would get looks are Edmundson and Matheson.

For LHD, Keith and Vlasic would be locks, and in the mix for the other two would be Giordano, Reilly, Muzzin, Edmundson, Morrisey, Matheson, Brodie.

Not good depth really, and would lead to some good RHD not making it - Doughty and Pietrangelo locks, leaving only two spots for Subban, Weber, Burns, Letang, Parayko, etc

LHD is the only position really up for debate I think. Maybe goaltending. And, to Getzlaf or not to Getzlaf...

 

[Jetsetter]

For team Canada D maybe, no way hes a top 15 Canadian dman
Not yet anyways!

He plays on the 1st d-pairing on one of the best defense in the NHL. He's the most underrated d-man around.

 

[A91]

He plays on the 1st d-pairing on one of the best defense in the NHL. He's the most underrated d-man around.

Justin Schultz played top minutes for repeat cup winners but you dont see him anywhere near here. Just sayin

 

[CH]

Here is my team

Goaltenders
Corey Crawford
Braden Holtby
Carey Price

Defenceman
Brent Burns
Drew Doughty
Duncan Keith
Alex Pietrangelo
PK Subban
Marc Edouard Vlasic
Shea Weber

Forwards
Jamie Benn
Patrice Bergeron
Sidney Crosby
Ryan Getzlaf
Claude Giroux
Brad Marchand
Connor McDavid
Mark Schiefele
Tyler Seguin
Steve Stamkos
Mark Stone
John Tavares
Jonathan Toews

 

[JKG33]

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Benn-McDavid-Seguin
Tavares-Toews-Stamkos
Giroux-Getzlaf-Carter*
Scheifele, Stone, Mackinnon

Keith-Doughty
Vlasic-Pietrangelo
Giordano-Weber
Burns

Price
Holtby
Fleury

*an additional extra forward is listed to replace the injured Jeff Carter

 

[nickdawg95]

Where did I say over risto? Contrary to popular belief, Finland is able to bring more than 1 defenseman

risto is finland's best d man

 

[tony d]

12-6-2

Marchand-Crosby-Stamkos
Benn-Mcdavid-Seguin
Bergeron-Toews-Giroux
Hall-Schiefele-MacKinnon

Keith-Doughty
Vlasic-Subban
Weber-Pietragelo

Price
Holtby

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Benn - McDavid - Seguin
Tavares - Stamkos - Scheifele
Hall - Giroux - Stone
Mackinnon
Monahan
yes no Toews

Keith - Doughty
Vlasic - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Subban
Burns
Giordano

Price
Holtby

Burns over Rielly.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Burns over Rielly.

in terms of talent, absolutely. But in a tournament where you lose and you're out, I wouldn't trust Burns on his weak side in his own end. it's probably not worth the risk

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

in terms of talent, absolutely. But in a tournament where you lose and you're out, I wouldn't trust Burns on his weak side in his own end. it's probably not worth the risk

He literally just won the Norris.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

He literally just won the Norris.

Subban won the Norris and then was a healthy scratch so that Hamhuis and bouwmeester could play

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Subban won the Norris and then was a healthy scratch so that Hamhuis and bouwmeester could play

They preferred more defensively responsible dman. I don't think Burns and Subban are the same type of players though. And if that's the case, put in Tanev instead, not Rielly.

 

[wintersej]

Marchand/Crosby/Bergeron (insane possession and scoring line)
Benn/Tavares/Stamkos (hodge podge offense line)
McDavid/Toews/MacKinnon (SPEED with Toews keeping it safe)
Hall/Couturier/Stone (checking line)

Keith/Doughty
Giordano/Pietrangelo
Vlasic/Burns

Canada's RD is so deep. Hard to leave Subban and Weber.

Its a shame we will miss this.

 

[Boonk]

Team Canada

Forwards:
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Benn - McDavid - Seguin
Tavares - Stamkos - Scheifele
Couture - Getzlaf - Stone

Extras: MacKinnon, Toews
On the bubble: Carter (injured), Giroux, Hall, Monahan, O'Reilly, Schwartz

Defensemen:
Keith - Weber
Vlasic - Doughty
Pietrangelo - Burns

Pietro is the most versatile d-man in the Canadian core and can play both sides, Babcock utilized him on the left side instead of Muzzin at the Gimmick Cup of Hockey tournament and he did pretty well. He'll take up that last spot on the left to stabilize the weaker left side.

Extras: Giordano, Subban
On the bubble: Brodie, Muzzin, Parayko, Rielly

Goalies:
Price
Crawford
Holtby

On the bubble: Jones, Murray, Smith

 

[Elias Pettersson]

My stab at an USA roster:

Gaudreau-Matthews-Boeser
Wheeler-Pavelski-Kane
Lee-Eichel-Kessel
Johnson-Trocheck-Oshie

Suter-Jones
Werenski-Shattenkirk
McDonagh-Gostisbehere

Quick
Schneider

 

[Eye of Ra]

Switzerland.

Sven Bärtschi - Nico Hischier - Kevin Fiala
Sven Andrighetto - Denis Malgin - Nino Niederreiter
Timo Meier - Pius Suter - Tanner Richard
Roman Wick - Andres Ambuhl - Denis Hollenstein

Roman Josi - Luca Sbisa
Yannick Weber - Mirco Muller
Dean Kukan - Raphael Diaz

Reto Berra
Leonardo Genoni

 

[Eye of Ra]

Filip Forsberg - Nicklas Bäckström - William Nylander
Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Loui Eriksson
Viktor Arvidsson - Mika Zibanejad - Rickard Rakell
Gabriel Landeskog - Henrik Zetterberg - Patric Hörnqvist

Victor Hedman - Anton Strålman
Erik Karlsson - Mattias Ekholm
Hampus Lindholm - John Klingberg

Henrik Lundqvist
Robin Lehner
Jacob Markström