Olympics: Olympics Start Tomorrow Make Your Team

[GodEmperor]

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Skinner-McDavid-Marner
Point-Scheifle-Stone
Giroux-Tavares-Stamkos

Extra: Seguin, Benn

Giordano-Doughty
Rielly-Burns
Chabot-Letang

Extra: Subban

Price-Holtby-Fleury

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[SomeDude]

Bunch of NHL washouts and junior standouts seeing as NHL players wouldn't be going.

 

[BoxOfChocolates]

MacKinnon.


Other than that looks pretty solid. Chabot is risky, but I like it

 

[The Kingslayer]

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Skinner-McDavid-Marner
Point-Scheifle-Stone
Giroux-Tavares-Stamkos

Extra: Seguin, Benn

Giordano-Doughty
Rielly-Burns
Chabot-Letang

Extra: Subban

Price-Holtby-Fleury

Yah sure lets just not have the second leading point getter in the NHL on the team.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Your defence scares the living daylights out of me, both in a good and a bad way. That would be some reeeeallyyy high event hockey.

 

[NeverForget06]

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Skinner-McDavid-Marner
Point-Scheifle-Stone
Giroux-Tavares-Stamkos

Extra: Seguin, Benn

Giordano-Doughty
Rielly-Burns
Chabot-Letang

Extra: Subban

Price-Holtby-Fleury

I like it overall. My adjustments would be:
- Subban in for Letang/Chabot
- Mack in for.... hmm tough, maybe Point? He should probably be there, but Team Canada usually gives preference to vets.
- Also would probably have Hall in over Stone/Skinner. He did win the MVP last year and is still putting up good numbers.

 

[solidprospect]

Benn-Crosby-Stone
Marner-Tavares Mackinnon
Bergeron-Mcdavid Seguin
Marchand-Duchene Giroux

Chabot-Ekblad
Reilly Parayko
Murray-Burns
Doughty

Price

bubble: point, monahan,toews

Mostly based on this seasons performance. A few players playing out of position.

 

[A1LeafNation]

Tavares and Marner would be linemates.

 

[Newusername]

Mackinnon - Scheifle - Mcdavid
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall - Tavares - Marner
Giroux - Seguin - Stamkos

Reilly - Doughty
Giordano - Burns
Barrie - Weber

Holtby
Fleury

 

[JeffreyLFC]

My team:

McDavid - Crosby - Mackinnon
Marchand - Tavares - Point
Benn - Scheifele - Stone
Toews - Bergeron - Marner
ex: Giroux, Stamkos

Giordano - Weber
Reilly - Doughty
Vlasic - Letang
ex: Burns, Chabot

Goalie: Price, Fleury, Jones

 

[StroShow]

Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall -McDavid - MacKinnon
Duchene - Scheifele - Point
Benn - Tavares - Marner

Extra's: Seguin, Giroux

Reilly - Doughty
Chabot - Pietrangelo
Giordano - Burns

Extra's: Letang, Subban

Holtby
Price
Fleury

Captain: Sidney Crosby
Alternate: Patrice Bergeron
Alternate: Drew Doughty


There are so many other forward options like Stamkos/Monahan/Stone that could easily make the team but will end up getting snubbed.

 

[BannedFromCDC]

Giroux-McDavid-MacKinnon
Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Duchene-Scheifele-Point
Hall-Monahan-Stone

Extras: Marner & Tavares

Giordano-Burns
Rielly-Doughty
Chabot-Pietrangelo

Extras: Barrie & Morrissey

Holtby
Hutton
Dubnyk

 

[somebody]

Team Finland:

Granlund-Barkov-Laine
Teräväinen-Aho-Rantanen
Kapanen-Koivu-Lehkonen
Komarov-Filppula-Donskoi
Kotkaniemi

Lindell-Heiskanen
Määttä-Vatanen
Nutivaara-Ristolainen
Jokiharju

Rinne-Koskinen-Rask

IR: Haula, Armia, Raanta

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Gaudreau – Matthews – Wheeler
Tkachuk – Eichel – Kane
Kreider – Larkin – Kessel
Parise – Pavelski – Atkinson
Tuch, Hayes

McDonagh – Jones
Suter – Carlson
Slavin – Byfuglien
Werenski, Trouba

Gibson
Hellebuyck
Bishop

Kreider sticks out, but he'd be such a perfect 3rd wheel for that Larkin – Kessel speed line. That would be the most skilled Team USA roster maybe ever.

EDIT: Trochek slipped my mind, but they still might want Hayes there for defensive value. It is Team USA.

 

[DownGoesMcDavid]

Tavares and Marner would be linemates.

Not sure Tavares makes it. Marner definitely not making it.

 

[DownGoesMcDavid]

Gaudreau – Matthews – Wheeler
Tkachuk – Eichel – Kane
Kreider – Larkin – Kessel
Parise – Pavelski – Atkinson
Tuch, Hayes

McDonagh – Jones
Suter – Carlson
Slavin – Byfuglien
Werenski, Trouba

Gibson
Hellebuyck
Bishop

Kreider sticks out, but he'd be such a perfect 3rd wheel for that Larkin – Kessel speed line. That would be the most skilled Team USA roster maybe ever.

You would leave out Boeser who is scoring at a 40 goal per year clip?

In a short tournament like the olympics you need as many game breakers as possible. This isnt a 7 game series where you need grinders like Kreider or Tuch to break down the other team.

 

[Machinehead]

Gaudreau – Matthews – Wheeler
Tkachuk – Eichel – Kane
Kreider – Larkin – Kessel
Parise – Pavelski – Atkinson
Tuch, Hayes

McDonagh – Jones
Suter – Carlson
Slavin – Byfuglien
Werenski, Trouba

Gibson
Hellebuyck
Bishop

Kreider sticks out, but he'd be such a perfect 3rd wheel for that Larkin – Kessel speed line. That would be the most skilled Team USA roster maybe ever.

EDIT: Trochek slipped my mind, but they still might want Hayes there for defensive value. It is Team USA.

Jesus, we're loaded.

Not much I would change here except Boeser in for Tuch.

I really want to work Yandle in somehow, but spots are tight on LD.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

You would leave out Boeser who is scoring at a 40 goal per year clip?

In a short tournament like the olympics you need as many game breakers as possible. This isnt a 7 game series where you need grinders like Kreider or Tuch to break down the other team.

Kreider and Tuch aren't there to break down the defense. They're there to open space with their speed and use their size to get to the front of the net.

Team Canada is too good defensively for Team USA to bring pure skill. They would have to have the personnel to score dirty goals. That might be the only type of opportunity available.

Boeser was an omission, though. That's fair. Just his shooting from distance on the PP would be beneficial.

 

[solidprospect]

USA is pretty stacked, when I look at many of the top players at least half of them are American these days.

 

[Machinehead]

The omissions tell you far USA has come.

Yandle, Trocheck, Stepan, Oshie, Shattenkirk, Gostisbehere, E. Johnson, T. Johnson, Okposo, Galcehnyuk, Sheary, Fowler.

Solid, solid group of players that I would have a real hard time finding a spot for.

We're getting pretty close to the US having a watchable B team. (Still not as good as Canada whose B team is an A team)

 

[LarKing]

Team Canada is too good defensively for Team USA to bring pure skill. They would have to have the personnel to score dirty goals. That might be the only type of opportunity available.

Pretty sure USA tried that the last Olympic with nhlers with guys like Brown, Callahan, etc. and it went terribly. I’d rather we go all skill. We finally have the talent to match Canada decently well at forward.

 

[flamesforcup]

Mackinnon - Scheifle - Mcdavid
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall - Tavares - Marner
Giroux - Seguin - Stamkos

Reilly - Doughty
Giordano - Burns
Barrie - Weber

Holtby
Fleury

Highly doubt they move Mcdavid to his off-wing

 

[ColbyChaos]

No they dont the Olympics are a few years away still

 

[Machinehead]

Pretty sure USA tried that the last Olympic with nhlers with guys like Brown, Callahan, etc. and it went terribly. I’d rather we go all skill. We finally have the talent to match Canada decently well at forward.

Yeah but that's Brown and Callahan.

Kreider and Tuch know what a puck is.

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Point - Mcdavid-Mackinnon
Tavares - Chef- Marner
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Benn- Seguin - Giroux

Stammer and Hall extras (obviously tons of possible combos /stars left out)

Rielly-Doughty
Gio-Petro
Morrissey-Subban

Parayko/Burns , Chabot "extras" (team Canada goes vets if it's close however he could easily bust up any of these pairs)

Holtby
Jones