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Would Team Canada win without Crosby?

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Canada just won with Benn, Seguin and Keith out injured and not even bothering to pick Subban, Letang, etc.

Would easily win without Crosby.
 
NHLsnipers said:
Serious question. Yes they still would have the best team on paper, but Crosby has been the only factor in nearly every game for the Canadians.
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Im sorry, what? :laugh:

To answer the question, yes, they would still win.
 
Canada has won before without Crosby. It's not like their national team suddenly became awesome once Crosby arrived. Basically, Canada has always had the best players.

Now, would the Czechs have won in '98 without Hasek? That's a more legitimate question. How about USA '96 without Brett Hull?
Soviet Union '81 without Tretiak?
 
Yes, we would have found a way to dig deep and come away with victory.
 
Lari said:
Canada has won before without Crosby. It's not like their national team suddenly became awesome once Crosby arrived. Basically, Canada has always had the best players.

Now, would the Czechs have won in '98 without Hasek? That's a more legitimate question. How about USA '96 without Brett Hull?
Soviet Union '81 without Tretiak?
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The Soviets won 8-1 in 81. Yes I think Myshkin, probably the 2nd best Soviet goalie ever and the winner of the deciding game in the 79 Challenge Cup, could have pulled that one off.
 
Harv said:
Exactly. Without Crosby I think Canada doesn't go undefeated.
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I don't think so. Canada has the depth and if one player didn't step up, the other would. But that doesn't mean Crosby wasn't important. He was, and the MVP belongs to him.

Come on. This team was without Keith. Without Benn and Seguin, arguably the best duo in the whole NHL, an Art Ross trophy winner, a player who finished 1st and 2nd in scoring last two seasons. And without Carter.

This team could lose another 6 players and it wouldn't change much because there would be Giroux, there would be Letang, there would be Giordano, there would be Hall, or there would be Nash. Nothing would change really.
 
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The 1 player that would have the biggest impact on their roster if lost is Price. Holtby and Crawford are both top goalies but you never know - they could have a bad game or 2. Price has been like a rock for Canada - never a bad game
Even Lundqvist was said to have a poor performance at the semis this year which cost his team the game.

But remove crosby, Toews, Doughty....don't matter others step in. They have so much depth. They did just win gold without 2 of their top 3 defensemen (Subban and keith). As well as without Benn and Seguin.
 
Tripod said:
Well Giroux was in the top 10 in C scoring. Is it so wrong to say he is a top 10 C?

Hell, if Stamkos could have finished a bunch of a Giroux's nice passes, he would be playing.
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He would have been 11th if Malkin ever manages to stay healthy for a season.

You want to talk about people not finishing? Crosby carried two corpses with him for a majority of the season. Exhibit A: Kris Kunitz.


In any event, of course Canada still wins without Sid. Maybe not as convincingly, but they still win because no other country can match the talent top to bottom, and it isn't close.
 
bobholly39 said:
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The 1 player that would have the biggest impact on their roster if lost is Price. Holtby and Crawford are both top goalies but you never know - they could have a bad game or 2. Price has been like a rock for Canada - never a bad game
Even Lundqvist was said to have a poor performance at the semis this year which cost his team the game.

But remove crosby, Toews, Doughty....don't matter others step in. They have so much depth. They did just win gold without 2 of their top 3 defensemen (Subban and keith). As well as without Benn and Seguin.
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I don't agree that Price have been a rock. He looked a bit shaky early in the tournament.
 
Of course they would, as long a sthey have their three best guys on the ice, no problem for Candada.
 
In this tournament? I don't think so. That line clicked from the get go and carried the offense for Canada. Everyone keeps saying that someone else would've stepped up but they all had chances too throughout the tournament and it seemed only one line stepped it up when the team need them to.
 
TedLundy said:
I don't agree that Price have been a rock. He looked a bit shaky early in the tournament.
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In the exhibition games? He hasn't since the competition started. He's 16-0 in his last 16 games representing Canada internationally, that's insane.


Halak just had the game of his life last night, was about to shut out canada with 3mins to go to tie the series 1-1...Europe had 30+ shots on net. It would have been so easy to Price to let in 2-3 goals, and then we'd be looking at game 3. Instead? He let in one goal early, then stopped everything, to give his team a chance to come back and win.

He's always doing that. Giving his team the needed confidence to win games. He never makes mistakes, he never lets in a lot of goals. He's been solid as a rock. Maybe he's not shutout the opponents as much as he did in Sochi 2014, but he's still been absolute rock solid.

You swap Price out for holtby or crawford - very possible Canada still wins. But it's also very possible they do not - it's very possible Holtby or Crawford can have a bad game and it ends up costing Canada.
 
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