Your "all-omissions" team?

[The Nemesis]

Ideally I'd wait for the Russian roster announcement (by which I mean a confirmed one, not the rumored one in that other topic), but why not get started now. I thought it might be fun to make your own "all-omissions" team to mirror the type of tournament all-star team that gets made at the end.

The idea is simple:

pick a squad of 1 goalie, 2 defencemen, and 3 forwards who you feel deserved a chance to be on their countries' olympic rosters. You can pick an all-omissions 2nd team if you feel you have enough players in mind to do so.

Just to make things interesting, I'm going to stipulate that you can't choose more than 2 players from any one nation, and that any single group of 6 players has to represent at least 4 countries. That way we don't end up with everyone putting in all-canadian and/or all-american teams. You can use guys who pulled out or refused to play if you want, but it's more interesting to pick people who just weren't chosen.

You can nominate guys on a nation's taxi squad to your all-omissions team if you want.

One last thing, please don't pick on other people for their choices. This isn't a "pick the 6 most glaring omissions" contest, it's just a fun little diversion for people to make their own judgement calls. If you don't like, for example, that I put in Ludemann from Germany over someone else, don't get mad, just put that someone else on your squad.

My team:

Goal
-----
-Ryan Miller (USA)

Defence
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-Mirkko Ludemann (Germany) *he sort of left on his own, but was also in a way pushed out because he didn't like former coach Greg Poss*

-Roman Hamrlik (Czech Republic)

Forwards
----------
-Patrick Marleau (Canada)

-Tim Connolly (USA)

-Jussi Jokinen (Finland)

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[Winger98]

Shanahan (CAN) - Brylin (RUS) - Langenbrunner (USA)
Klesla (CZE) - Mara (USA)
Joseph (CAN)

 

[Slitty]

Shannahan (CAN)-Marleau (CAN)-Morozov(RUS)
Hamerlik(CZE)-Tverdosvky(RUS)
Miller(USA)​

 

[The Bob Cole]

Linden - Morrison - Cooke
McCarthy - Baumgartner
Cloutier




Hey, someone had to

 

[Corto]

Holmstrom - Connolly - Morozov
Hamrlik - Phaneuf
Miller



Marleau, CuJo, Brylin.... You could make a Cup-candidate 23 man roster of the guys left out.

 

[Kasparov*]

Linden - Morrison - Cooke
McCarthy - Baumgartner
Cloutier

 

[Psycho Papa Joe]

Health notwithstanding, I'll do a Canadian one:

Lemieux Stall Crosby
Shanahan Spezza Murray
Ryder Marleau Tanguay
Peca Savard Primeau
Yzerman

McCabe Boyle
Phillips Phaneuf
Desjardins Jackman
Boynton

Joseph
Theodore
Belfour
That's a pretty fine team if you ask me.

 

[Slitty]

Purely Russia:

Samsonov-Brylin-Morozov
Semin-Zvinovjev-Korolyuk
Zherdev-Federov-Slava Kozlov
Antipov-Taratukhin-Mogilny
Vorobiev

Zubov-Tverdosvky
Kyluash-Vishnevsky
Kalinin-Zyuzin
Vyshedkevich

Sokolov
Zvyagin
Barulin (Koshechkin)



I bet this team would beat Slovakia!

 

[Vic Rattlehead*]

Health notwithstanding, I'll do a Canadian one:

Lemieux Stall Crosby
Shanahan Spezza Murray
Ryder Marleau Tanguay
Peca Savard Primeau
Yzerman

McCabe Boyle
Phillips Phaneuf
Desjardins Jackman
Boynton

Joseph
Theodore
Belfour
That's a pretty fine team if you ask me.

Brad Stuart should be on the team over Desjardins, Jackman, and Boynton.

EDIT---Also, replace Murray with Bergeron. Murray is a shadow of his former self, while Bergeron can be counted on to fill a two-way role.

 

[Canuck21t]

Health notwithstanding, I'll do a Canadian one:

Lemieux Stall Crosby
Shanahan Spezza Murray
Ryder Marleau Tanguay
Peca Savard Primeau
Yzerman

McCabe Boyle
Phillips Phaneuf
Desjardins Jackman
Boynton

Joseph
Theodore
Belfour
That's a pretty fine team if you ask me.

No Kariya?

 

[insider]

Kotalik-Kotalik-Kotalik
MAB-Meszaros

Joseph

 

[Psycho Papa Joe]

Brad Stuart should be on the team over Desjardins, Jackman, and Boynton.

EDIT---Also, replace Murray with Bergeron. Murray is a shadow of his former self, while Bergeron can be counted on to fill a two-way role.

No Kariya?

I agree, Bergeron, Stuart, Kariya along with Sullivan, J.Smith, Brewer and Briere should have been included. In my haste I didn't think through the list as much as I should have. Here's a revised team and this time I'll drop players with health questions:

Kariya Stall Crosby
Shanahan Spezza Sullivan
Ryder Savard Tanguay
Briere Marleau Bergeron
Peca

McCabe Boyle
Phillips Phaneuf
Stuart Brewer
J.Smith

Joseph
Theodore
Belfour

Taxi Squad: Boynton, Murray, Madden

In all honest, I think this team would be a medal contender. That defense is just amazing.

 

[senskickass12]

Kotalik-Kotalik-Kotalik
MAB-Meszaros

Joseph

Meszaros was named to Slovakia's roster

As for my team I'd go with

LW Holmstrom (SWE)
C Staal (CAN)
RW Kotalik (CZE)
D Leetch (USA)
Zubov (RUS)
G Nittymaki (FIN)