What is the best lineup you can dress for you country right now in 2020 ? (Not 2022)

[Eye of Ra]

Rakell - Zibanejad - Pettersson
Landeskog - Sundqvist - Lindholm
Forsberg - Bäckström - Nylander

Hedman - Karlsson
Lindholm - Klingberg
Ekman Larsson - Dahlin

Markström
Lehner

Sundqvist...2c....nice joke.

 

[Bear12Good]

Sundqvist...2c....nice joke.

and where 4f line?

 

[Pandaman11]

Due to Corona, I am a little bored at home, so I have time to do every big team. Current injuries are not taken into consideration. Teams as of 17 March 2020.
It's okay if you say it sucks, I am not an expert on all teams.


Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall - McDavid - MacKinnon
Huberdeau - Tavares - Scheifele
Stamkos - Point - Stone
O'Reilly

Giordano - Doughty
Chabot - Pietrangelo
Morrissey - Burns
Letang

Price (yes he's past his prime, but which Canadian goalie has been consistently good??)
Binnington
Kuemper


Gaudreau - Matthews - Kane
Guentzel - Eichel - M.Tkachuk
Connor - Wheeler - Kessel
Pac - Larkin - Oshie
JT Miller

Suter - Carlson
Werenski - Jones
Slavin - McDonagh
Krug

Bishop
Gibson
Hellebuyck


Pettersson - Zibanejad - E.Lindholm
Landeskog - Backstrom - W.Nylander
Forsberg - W.Karlsson - Arvidsson
Silfverberg - Backlund - Hornqvist
Rakell

Hedman - H.Lindholm
Ekholm - E.Karlsson
Edler - Klingberg
OEL

Lehner
Markstrom
Lundqvist


Laine - Barkov - Rantanen
Teravainen - Aho - Mi.Granlund
Haula - Hintz - Donskoi
Komarov - Koivu - Kapanen (is "the KKK Line" inappropriate?)
Armia

Heiskanen - Risto
Lindell - Vatanen
Maatta - Nutivaara
Jokiharju

The three Rs


Voracek - Hertl - Pastrnak
Palat - Krejci - Vrana
Kubalik - Necas - O.Kase
Zacha - Faksa - Simon
Zadina

Kempny - Hronek
Gudas - Rutta
Simek - Polak
Jerabek

Francouz
Rittich
Mrazek


Ovi - Kuzy - Kuch
Panarin - Malkin - Tarasenko
Dadonov - Anisimov - A.Svechnikov
Buchnevich - Barbashyov - Radulov
Gusev or Kaprizov
Note: I am aware that this group may be too skill-loaded (like Russia always is), but I don't know the KHL well enough to put a 4th line role guy in here. Maybe a Telegin?

Orlov - Provorov
Zadorov - Sergachyov
Gavrikov - Zaitsev
A RHD from the KHL

Vasi
Bob
Varlamov

 

[jfc64]

Sundqvist...2c....nice joke.

A lock, Sporty!

Burakovsky...

 

[JabbaJabba]

Laine - Barkov - Rantanen
Teravainen - Aho - Mi.Granlund
Haula - Hintz - Donskoi
Komarov - Koivu - Kapanen (is "the KKK Line" inappropriate?)
Armia

Heiskanen - Risto
Lindell - Vatanen
Maatta - Nutivaara
Jokiharju

The three Rs

Overall very good job, but one thing with Finland's roster is that Armia would definitely be in the lineup over Komarov. Just no question about it.

 

[Czechboy]

For CZE:

Palat - Hertl - Pastrnak
Vrana - Krejci - Voracek
Kubalik - Faksa - Kase
Chytil - Necas - Zadina

Hronek - Kempny
Gudas - Simek
Rutta - Hajek

Rittich
Francouz

Some decent talent on the front end, solid goalkeeping, but the D... as usual. Hronek may grow into a 1D one day, but that's about it.

That bottom 6 has a real good chance of being a top 6 that is quite competitive one day. Add Kaut to that growing group as well.

 

[Lambo]

Overall very good job, but one thing with Finland's roster is that Armia would definitely be in the lineup over Komarov. Just no question about it.

And Mikko Lehtonen instead of Maata or Nutivaara?

 

[Pandaman11]

Overall very good job, but one thing with Finland's roster is that Armia would definitely be in the lineup over Komarov. Just no question about it.

I know but I liked having the Ks together

And Mikko Lehtonen instead of Maata or Nutivaara?

I don't know him, so I can't judge. I trust your assessment

 

[Erikfromfin]

Update


Teuvo Teräväinen - Sebastian Aho - Mikko Rantanen
Patrik Laine - Aleksander Barkov - Kaapo Kakko
Roope Hintz - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Mikael Granlund
Kasperi Kapanen - Erik Haula - Joel Armia
Artturi Lehkonen
Joonas Donskoi

Miro Heiskanen - Rasmus Ristolainen
Esa Lindell - Sami Vatanen
Mikko Lehtonen - Henri Jokiharju
Olli Määttä - Jani Hakanpää

Tuukka Rask
Joonas Korpisalo
Juuse Saros



The 14 best forwards are easy decicion but choosing who plays on which line and where is not. Kapanen over Lehkonen and Kakko over Donskoi were close calls. Next in line would be guys like Aleksi Saarela who played well for Florida before Covid and was on upswing trajectory but did nothing in the qualifying round. Jesse Puljujärvi is always interesting option and Juho Lammikko and Joel Kiviranta would be solid depth pieces. I think the veterans Mikko Koivu, Valtteri Filppula, Leo Komarov and Pekka Rinne are past it but some coaches out there might see value in their experience/character/leadership or whatever.

Again on defence the best 7 was easy decicion and opted Hakanpää for 8th, I like his size and physicality on 4th pairing. Nutivaara, Riikola, Mikkola and maybe Juuso Hietanen would be next in line as injury replacements. Youngsters Juolevi, Välimäki, Vaakanainen, Niku and Heinola are not there yet.

Joonas Korpisalo is obviously on hot streak right now but Rask is the best goalie by default. 3rd choice goalie could have easily been aswell Antti Raanta or Mikko Koskinen or some young wild card like Kevin Lankinen or Kaapo Kähkönen

 

[Lambo]

Update


Teuvo Teräväinen - Sebastian Aho - Mikko Rantanen
Patrik Laine - Aleksander Barkov - Kaapo Kakko
Roope Hintz - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Mikael Granlund
Kasperi Kapanen - Erik Haula - Joel Armia
Artturi Lehkonen
Joonas Donskoi

Miro Heiskanen - Rasmus Ristolainen
Esa Lindell - Sami Vatanen
Mikko Lehtonen - Henri Jokiharju
Olli Määttä - Jani Hakanpää

Tuukka Rask
Joonas Korpisalo
Juuse Saros



The 14 best forwards are easy decicion but choosing who plays on which line and where is not. Kapanen over Lehkonen and Kakko over Donskoi were close calls. Next in line would be guys like Aleksi Saarela who played well for Florida before Covid and was on upswing trajectory but did nothing in the qualifying round. Jesse Puljujärvi is always interesting option and Juho Lammikko and Joel Kiviranta would be solid depth pieces. I think the veterans Mikko Koivu, Valtteri Filppula, Leo Komarov and Pekka Rinne are past it but some coaches out there might see value in their experience/character/leadership or whatever.

Again on defence the best 7 was easy decicion and opted Hakanpää for 8th, I like his size and physicality on 4th pairing. Nutivaara, Riikola, Mikkola and maybe Juuso Hietanen would be next in line as injury replacements. Youngsters Juolevi, Välimäki, Vaakanainen, Niku and Heinola are not there yet.

Joonas Korpisalo is obviously on hot streak right now but Rask is the best goalie by default. 3rd choice goalie could have easily been aswell Antti Raanta or Mikko Koskinen or some young wild card like Kevin Lankinen or Kaapo Kähkönen

Kakko in 2nd line?

 

[Jahara]

Sweden at this moment.

Forwards
1. 9. Filip Forsberg – 93. Mika Zibanejad – 92. Gabriel Landeskog
2. 28. Elias Lindholm – 40. Elias Pettersson – 29. William Nylander
3. 71. William Karlsson – 19. Nicklas Bäckström – 67. Rickard Rakell
4. 33. Viktor Arvidsson – 11. Mikael Backlund – 18. Jakob Silfverberg
5. 90. Marcus Johansson – 70. Oskar Sundqvist

Defense
1. 5. Erik Karlsson – 2. Victor Hedman
2. 3. John Klingberg – 7. Hampus Lindholm
3. 23. Oliver Ekman-Larsson – 8. Rasmus Dahlin
4. 14. Mattias Ekholm – 25. Jonas Brodin

Goalies
1: 40. Robin Lehner
2. 1. Jacob Markström
3. 35. Linus Ullmark

 

[Gold Standard]

some interesting and tough decisions to be made if I were taking a Team Canada into a tournament today. I was looking for a reason to drop Bergeron for Horvat. I would love to see cousins Horvat and Konecny get in some Team Canada time soon on the same line...but for now Bergeron maintains his spot on a line with Sid and Marchand. so, these would be my 25 with Trotz as the coach.

J HUBERDEAU	C MCDAVID	M SCHEIFELE
A BEAUVILLIER	N MACKINNON	B POINT
B MARCHAND	S CROSBY	P BERGERON
R O’REILLY	S COUTURIER	M STONE

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

M BARZAL T KONECNY

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

T CHABOT	A PIETRANGELO
S THEODORE	C MAKAR
M RIELLY	C PARAYKO
J MORRISSEY	D HAMILTON

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

C HART

C PRICE

J BINNINGTON

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

 

[JackSlater]

some interesting and tough decisions to be made if I were taking a Team Canada into a tournament today. I was looking for a reason to drop Bergeron for Horvat. I would love to see cousins Horvat and Konecny get in some Team Canada time soon on the same line...but for now Bergeron maintains his spot on a line with Sid and Marchand. so, these would be my 25 with Trotz as the coach.

J HUBERDEAU	C MCDAVID	M SCHEIFELE
A BEAUVILLIER	N MACKINNON	B POINT
B MARCHAND	S CROSBY	P BERGERON
R O’REILLY	S COUTURIER	M STONE

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

M BARZAL T KONECNY

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

T CHABOT	A PIETRANGELO
S THEODORE	C MAKAR
M RIELLY	C PARAYKO
J MORRISSEY	D HAMILTON

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

C HART

C PRICE

J BINNINGTON

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

You're very high on Beauvillier. I've liked his game since he was a rookie and he's probably been better than his numbers in general. I wouldn't put him on the big team yet but I'm curious to see how his development continues.

 

[Gold Standard]

You're very high on Beauvillier. I've liked his game since he was a rookie and he's probably been better than his numbers in general. I wouldn't put him on the big team yet but I'm curious to see how his development continues.

a bold choice for sure. easy to make in the abstract, but if it were real life I'd probably play it a little more conservatively just like Hockey Canada does. Hopefully in two years time he'll be in the convo. smart player, versatile. can skate. but both he and Barzal still got some work to do, otherwise I'd be more inclined to revert back to Tavares and Marner. move Nate up with McDavid and have a Tavares Scheifele Marner 3rd. line. Sid's line moving up to 2nd.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Forsberg - Zibanejad - Arvidsson
Landeskog - Pettersson - Nylander
Olofsson - Bäckström - Burakowsky
Rakell - W.Karlsson - Lindholm
Silfverberg, Backlund

Hedman- Dahlin
Karlsson-Ekholm
OEL-Klingberg
Lindholm

Lehner, Markstrom, Nilsson

 

[jfc64]

Sundqvist...2c....nice joke.

Swedish meatball. Joel Eriksson Ek might be closer to the team, though.

 

[jfc64]

1234

 

[Elvs]

Peter Cehlarik - Marek Hrivik - Richard Panik
Tomas Tatar - Libor Hudacek - Robert Lantosi
Tomas Jurco - Michal Kristof - Martin Bakos
Kristian Pospisil - Adam Ruzicka - Marian Studenic

Andrej Sekera - Erik Cernak
Zdeno Chara - Martin Fehervary
Martin Marincin - Christian Jaros

Jaroslav Halak
Patrik Rybar​

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Brady Tkachuk-Auston Mathews-Kane
Kyle Connor-Jack Eichel-Boeser
Johnny Gaudreau-Dylan Larkin-Matthew Tkachuk
Jake Guentzel-Blake Wheeler-Alex Debrincat

Clayton Keller, kreider, atkinson, trocheck, j hughes, jt miller

Zach Werenski	Seth Jones	John Gibson
Jacob Slavin	John Carlson	Connor Hellebuyck
Quinn Hughes	Jacob Trouba	Ben Bishop
Noah Hanifin	Charlie McAvoy

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Idk but i like spreading the tkachuks out to give the lines some spark and those guys can do the dirty work down low.

What has Hughes done to be there? The younger Tkachuk hasn't proven enough yet to grab a spot.
Having Boeser over JT Miller in top 12?


JT Miller, Kreider, Hayes, Coyle, Nelson, Pacioretty, Lee all deserve 100% more consideration than Hughes and
Tkachuk.

Wheeler goes to RW and bumps DeBrincat out of the top
12 F.

No to Hanifin and put McDonough or Suter in.

 

[flyerslducks]

What has Hughes done to be there? The younger Tkachuk hasn't proven enough yet to grab a spot.
Having Boeser over JT Miller in top 12?


JT Miller, Kreider, Hayes, Coyle, Nelson, Pacioretty, Lee all deserve 100% more consideration than Hughes and
Tkachuk.

Wheeler goes to RW and bumps DeBrincat out of the top
12 F.

No to Hanifin and put McDonough or Suter in.

jack hughes isn't on the roster i have lol. No way coyle, patcioretty, hayes, kreider make it over some of those guys (they will be older). Tkachuks are needed for their grit and play...by the time the tournments happen they should prove they belong. I would be fine with nelson, lee, or jt miller for their size and defense but i aint' taking boeser out. Maybe wheeler out for nelson so we can have a checking center.

Mcdonagh and suter are old and they won't even play. Thats the 4th pair. I think I would swap mcavoy for trouba

 

[KillerMillerTime]

jack hughes isn't on the roster i have lol. No way coyle, patcioretty, hayes, kreider make it over some of those guys (they will be older). Tkachuks are needed for their grit and play...by the time the tournments happen they should prove they belong. I would be fine with nelson, lee, or jt miller for their size and defense but i aint' taking boeser out. Maybe wheeler out for nelson so we can have a checking center.

Mcdonagh and suter are old and they won't even play. Thats the 4th pair. I think I would swap mcavoy for trouba

Do you realize your are in the 2020 thread
not 2022?

 

[KillerMillerTime]

jack hughes isn't on the roster i have lol. No way coyle, patcioretty, hayes, kreider make it over some of those guys (they will be older). Tkachuks are needed for their grit and play...by the time the tournments happen they should prove they belong. I would be fine with nelson, lee, or jt miller for their size and defense but i aint' taking boeser out. Maybe wheeler out for nelson so we can have a checking center.

Mcdonagh and suter are old and they won't even play. Thats the 4th pair. I think I would swap mcavoy for trouba

1) This is a 2020 thread, not 2022 right?

2) you have Hughes listed as a potential extra F
in 2020 he literally doesn't break into the top 12
of US C in 2020.

3) Ryan McDonagh us OLD? He is 31, come on man
thats ridiculous. Hasn't looked old against NYI,
in fact has looked really good. Suter can fall anywhere
from #4 LD to #6LD on USA depth chart, so he is
still borderline US A Team material.

4) Brady Tkachuk has a better argument than Hughes, but in 2020 Pacioretty and Kreider are clear upgrades
on him. Maybe in 2022 Pacioretty declines and Tkachuk
moves up.

5) You have Wheeler at C, he is a RW on Team USA,
so you fill that 4C spot with one of Nelson, Coyle, Hayes,
Trocheck, Schmaltz, Bonino or Johnson in 2020.

Also, for the 13 F I would pick one Coyle, Nelson
or Johnson as they give you 5C with the ability
to slide into a W position.

Your team isn't horrible but you clearly overrate
Hughes and Tkachuk in 2020 and under value
McDonagh, Kreider, Pacioretty, Coyle and Nelson.

 

[flyerslducks]

1) This is a 2020 thread, not 2022 right?

2) you have Hughes listed as a potential extra F
in 2020 he literally doesn't break into the top 12
of US C in 2020.

3) Ryan McDonagh us OLD? He is 31, come on man
thats ridiculous. Hasn't looked old against NYI,
in fact has looked really good. Suter can fall anywhere
from #4 LD to #6LD on USA depth chart, so he is
still borderline US A Team material.

4) Brady Tkachuk has a better argument than Hughes, but in 2020 Pacioretty and Kreider are clear upgrades
on him. Maybe in 2022 Pacioretty declines and Tkachuk
moves up.

5) You have Wheeler at C, he is a RW on Team USA,
so you fill that 4C spot with one of Nelson, Coyle, Hayes,
Trocheck, Schmaltz, Bonino or Johnson in 2020.

Also, for the 13 F I would pick one Coyle, Nelson
or Johnson as they give you 5C with the ability
to slide into a W position.

Your team isn't horrible but you clearly overrate
Hughes and Tkachuk in 2020 and under value
McDonagh, Kreider, Pacioretty, Coyle and Nelson.

lol i just assumed 2022 lmao. So yes, in 2022 mcdonagh, wheeler, patch, suter are all probably not on the team.

 

[jfc64]

Sweden at this moment.

Forwards
1. 9. Filip Forsberg – 93. Mika Zibanejad – 92. Gabriel Landeskog
2. 28. Elias Lindholm – 40. Elias Pettersson – 29. William Nylander
3. 71. William Karlsson – 19. Nicklas Bäckström – 67. Rickard Rakell
4. 33. Viktor Arvidsson – 11. Mikael Backlund – 18. Jakob Silfverberg
5. 90. Marcus Johansson – 70. Oskar Sundqvist

Defense
1. 5. Erik Karlsson – 2. Victor Hedman
2. 3. John Klingberg – 7. Hampus Lindholm
3. 23. Oliver Ekman-Larsson – 8. Rasmus Dahlin
4. 14. Mattias Ekholm – 25. Jonas Brodin

Goalies
1: 40. Robin Lehner
2. 1. Jacob Markström
3. 35. Linus Ullmark

Great lines! A little fine tuning just because I'm interrested... please reply!

- Arvidsson on the left side and not on a line with Forsberg) I guess it has to do with his role as forechecking left wing player?

- Joel Eriksson Ek I may want on the team instead of William Karlsson or Marcus Johansson. William Karlsson has one season as a top player and has not done well internationally (yet). I guess his 42 goals one season will make him a suspect of these lists forever.

Karlsson, Hedman, Klingberg, Lindholm and Dahlin are listed on the opposite side of where they usually play. I guess that may not be an issue for you. One of our problems is that many defenders play LD.

And as Eye Of Ra has pointed out Robert Burakovsky may be a player for Team Sweden. Maybe even truer now after Avs (being better than finalists Dallas Stars) doing ok (did, comes back next year 2.0) in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

I may want Markstrom as our top goalie and Lehner when he's on fire.

So here's my take (after taking into account the NHL playoffs): Emphasis on two good lower lines.

Rickard Rakell – Mika Zibanejad – Elias Pettersson
Filip Forsberg – Nicklas Bäckström – William Nylander
André Burakovsky – Mikael Backlund – Elias Lindholm
Gabriel Landeskog – Joel Eriksson Ek – Viktor Arvidsson
William Karlsson – Jakob Silfverberg

Hampus Lindholm – John Klingberg
Victor Hedman – Jonas Brodin
Mattias Ekholm – Erik Karlsson
Oliver Ekman Larsson – Rasmus Dahlin

Jacob Markström
Robin Lehner
Linus Ullmark

 

[Jahara]

Great lines! A little fine tuning just because I'm interrested... please reply!

- Arvidsson on the left side and not on a line with Forsberg) I guess it has to do with his role as forechecking left wing player?

- Joel Eriksson Ek I may want on the team instead of William Karlsson or Marcus Johansson. William Karlsson has one season as a top player and has not done well internationally (yet). I guess his 42 goals one season will make him a suspect of these lists forever.

Karlsson, Hedman, Klingberg, Lindholm and Dahlin are listed on the opposite side of where they usually play. I guess that may not be an issue for you. One of our problems is that many defenders play LD.

And as Eye Of Ra has pointed out Robert Burakovsky may be a player for Team Sweden. Maybe even truer now after Avs (being better than finalists Dallas Stars) doing ok (did, comes back next year 2.0) in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

I may want Markstrom as our top goalie and Lehner when he's on fire.

So here's my take (after taking into account the NHL playoffs): Emphasis on two good lower lines.

Rickard Rakell – Mika Zibanejad – Elias Pettersson
Filip Forsberg – Nicklas Bäckström – William Nylander
André Burakovsky – Mikael Backlund – Elias Lindholm
Gabriel Landeskog – Joel Eriksson Ek – Viktor Arvidsson
William Karlsson – Jakob Silfverberg

Hampus Lindholm – John Klingberg
Victor Hedman – Jonas Brodin
Mattias Ekholm – Erik Karlsson
Oliver Ekman Larsson – Rasmus Dahlin

Jacob Markström
Robin Lehner
Linus Ullmark

Thanks, good input. Arvidsson could maybe shift place with Rakell and having him as a checker along Backlund and Silfverberg. Interesting this thing about LW/RW that seem to be a much bigger thing in North America compared to Sweden. My conception is that wingers in Sweden is don't that bothered about what side they are on. Same thing while some compile dream teams and get a side stacked with quality RW's and some weaker LW's. You could argue that a good winger should be able to play on both sides.

Johansson was one of the last players in the team but Joel Eriksson Ek could replace him, considering his talent.

It is a bit hard placing the defensemen since ut, unlike wingers, is barely listed anywhere if they play on the left or the right side. That is why I usually put the more offensive minded D-man to the left and the more defensive guy to the right. But it is the same thing and they should be able to play on both sides. Or is it any good site where you could get that information?