Olympics: Your Country's 2022 Roster? (Assuming NHL participation)

[Cowumbus]

Denmark

N.Ehlers - L.Eller - O.Bjorkstrand
N.Jensen - P.Regin - M.Boedker
N.Olesen - F.Nielsen - J.Blichfeld
F.Storm - A.True - P.Russel

J.B.Jensen - P.Larsen
M.Lauridsen - O.Lauridsen
M.Setkov - M.Lassen

F.Andersen
S.Dahm

Think they can beat Norway and get in? I do.

 

[JabbaJabba]

I wouldn't say that their defense sucks. Sure, it pales in comparison to the offense but they are still alright SHL (and KHL in Philip Larsen's case) defensemen. The problem however is that while the ideal team is quite decent, they can't really afford any injuries without it significantly affecting the roster quality.

That defence doesn't compare well with other countries in the Olympics. It is clearly their weakness and it just pales in comparison to others. That's why it in my opinion sucks. Good thing for Denmark is that a lot of those guys have played together in National team and I think they always find chemistry and do better than expected. But if they had like two guys who played 20 minutes in the NHL they would be so much better.

 

[Halla]

LOL, Canada defense sucks.

USA
Sweden

Canada

USA? lol. the perennial losers will either finish 5th/6th or lose to canada in the gold medal game

 

[Halla]

Huberdeau-McDavid-Mackinnon
Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Stamkos - Tavares -Marner
O'Rielly - Point -Stone
*Schiefele

Theodore - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Makar
Chabot - Hamilton
*Girard - Parayko

Price
Binnington
*Hart

Tavares getting severely underrated here. 78g/162pts in 160 games as a leaf ( a 40g/83pt full season pace), but he is getting left off? nah
people are gifting Lafreniere a spot based on potential? Canada doesnt do that. If the kid isn't getting 85-90pts already he aint making it

 

[Boonk]

Huberdeau-McDavid-Mackinnon
Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Stamkos - Tavares -Marner
O'Rielly - Point -Stone
*Schiefele

Theodore - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Makar
Chabot - Hamilton
*Girard - Parayko

Price
Binnington
*Hart

Tavares getting severely underrated here. 78g/162pts in 160 games as a leaf ( a 40g/83pt full season pace), but he is getting left off? nah
people are gifting Lafreniere a spot based on potential? Canada doesnt do that. If the kid isn't getting 85-90pts already he aint making it

Tavares has been ass so far at 5v5 but odds of making TC are pretty high to begin with.

 

[Hulide]

Think they can beat Norway and get in? I do.

With that 1. line Ehlers - Eller - Bjorkstrand... yeah i believe we can beat Norway

 

[um]

Think they can beat Norway and get in? I do.

They'll need their NHLers to play.

 

[DOCHockeyGuy]

CaNaDuHs D sUcKs

yep sure.

I think it is fair to say that a team like the US COULD exploit Canada's defense, as that's going to the weak spot of that roster.

To say they suck is idiotic and stupid.

 

[Mathieukferland]

Huberdeau-McDavid-Mackinnon
Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Stamkos - Tavares -Marner
O'Rielly - Point -Stone
*Schiefele

Theodore - Pietrangelo
Rielly - Makar
Chabot - Hamilton
*Girard - Parayko

Price
Binnington
*Hart

Tavares getting severely underrated here. 78g/162pts in 160 games as a leaf ( a 40g/83pt full season pace), but he is getting left off? nah
people are gifting Lafreniere a spot based on potential? Canada doesnt do that. If the kid isn't getting 85-90pts already he aint making it

He’s too slow. Have watched 4 of his games this year and he’s not defensively good enough to be on the 4th line, and doesn’t have enough talent to be in Canada’s ridiculously stacked top 6

 

[Mathieukferland]

I think it is fair to say that a team like the US COULD exploit Canada's defense, as that's going to the weak spot of that roster.

To say they suck is idiotic and stupid.

The weak spot is goaltending IMO, it’s early but as of now I think 3 of the top 5 Norris front runners are from Canada

 

[Mestaruus]

Laine-Barkov-Kapanen
Teräväinen-Aho-Rantanen
Donskoi-Hintz-Mi.Granlund
Armia-Kotkaniemi-Lehkonen

Lindell-Heiskanen
Vatanen-Ristolainen
Hakanpää-Lehtonen

Rask
Korpisalo
Lankinen/Saros/Raanta

It's very close calls with some defenders but could select only 6.

Lehkonen would've been the first forward to be replaced by Kakko, Puljujärvi, Haula or by the joker card Hartikainen (KHL) but Lehkonen is a good defensive forward and with some Montreal connection with Kotkaniemi and Armia.

 

[Backcheckmonster3]

Kind of hard to predict many teams 1 year in advance. So i'll pick a Finnish team based on recency and personal bias for if the Olympics was played now.

Teräväinen-Barkov-Rantanen
Laine-Aho-Puljujärvi
Kiviranta-Hintz-Kapanen
Granlund-Kotkaniemi-Armia

Lindell-Heiskanen
Lehtonen-Ristolainen
Välimäki-Hakanpää

Lankinen
Rask

 

[DoingItCoolKiwi]

Didnt expect this to happen, but based on what I've seen lately I am expecting both Kakko and Puljujärvi to make team Finland next year. Puljujärvi in a bottom 6 role and, Im shocked to say this after his last seasons play, but if Kakko keeps improving with this rate I think he'll be Aho's RW on 2nd line

Laine - Barkov - Rantanen
Teräväinen - Aho - Kakko
Granlund - Hintz - Puljujärvi
Donskoi - Kotkaniemi - Kapanen
Lundell, Armia

Lindell - Heiskanen
Välimäki - Ristolainen
Vatanen - Jokihaju
Lehtonen

Rask
Korpisalo
Lankinen

 

[Lambo]

Didnt expect this to happen, but based on what I've seen lately I am expecting both Kakko and Puljujärvi to make team Finland next year. Puljujärvi in a bottom 6 role and, Im shocked to say this after his last seasons play, but if Kakko keeps improving with this rate I think he'll be Aho's RW on 2nd line

Laine - Barkov - Rantanen
Teräväinen - Aho - Kakko
Granlund - Hintz - Puljujärvi
Donskoi - Kotkaniemi - Kapanen
Lundell, Armia

Lindell - Heiskanen
Välimäki - Ristolainen
Vatanen - Jokihaju
Lehtonen

Rask
Korpisalo
Lankinen

So I'm very strict about this. Near the current status, Kakko and Pulju are out or replaced.

 

[DoingItCoolKiwi]

So I'm very strict about this. Near the current status, Kakko and Pulju are out or replaced.

Based on today's status Kakko is the captain and GM. Dude looked like Mark Stone out there with the takeaways. But yeah looking at whole season and previous one he'd be out

Pulju would is a close one. Great xG numbers and hustle all year but no finish, so depending on what metrics theyre deciding by, he could make it.

 

[Lambo]

Laine-Barkov-Kapanen
Teräväinen-Aho-Rantanen
Donskoi-Hintz-Mi.Granlund
Armia-Kotkaniemi-Lehkonen

Lindell-Heiskanen
Vatanen-Ristolainen
Hakanpää-Lehtonen

Rask
Korpisalo
Lankinen/Saros/Raanta

It's very close calls with some defenders but could select only 6.

Lehkonen would've been the first forward to be replaced by Kakko, Puljujärvi, Haula or by the joker card Hartikainen (KHL) but Lehkonen is a good defensive forward and with some Montreal connection with Kotkaniemi and Armia.

That suit my taste! Only Hakanpää is questionable.

 

[CupSeeker]

Can you imagine Couturier, Toews and O'Reilly on a line together? The other team might as well play catch in their own end for a minute and change.

Not these teams; the talent on these top teams is ridiculous. I could see Eichel, Kane and Connor skating circles around them; sorry.

 

[Boonk]

Not these teams; the talent on these top teams is ridiculous. I could see Eichel, Kane and Connor skating circles around them; sorry.

Yeah no, those are the last two Selke winners in Couturier and O'Reilly. They'll have their work cut out for them against a Connor-Eichel-Kane line, but they won't get embarrassed easily I'll tell you that.

 

[Mathieukferland]

Not these teams; the talent on these top teams is ridiculous. I could see Eichel, Kane and Connor skating circles around them; sorry.

Yeah no, you put them out against either Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron or an all Selke Line of Stone-Couturier-O’Reilly and even a line comprised of Ovechkin-Matthews-Kucherov would have difficulty. The lines that will have McDavid and MacKinnon won’t be as good defensively though.

 

[jcs0218]

Not these teams; the talent on these top teams is ridiculous. I could see Eichel, Kane and Connor skating circles around them; sorry.

People thought Ovechkin, Malkin, Datsyuk, and Kovalchuk would skate circles around Toews, Richards, and Nash checking line during 2010 Olympics too.

 

[loudis]

Laine-Barkov-Kapanen
Teräväinen-Aho-Rantanen
X -Hintz-Granlund
Lehkonen-Haula-Armia

Contending for last 3 spots, not exactly in order: C Kotkaniemi, Lundell, Luostarinen, Filppula, Lammikko, W Donskoi, Kiviranta, Puljujärvi, Kakko, Kuokkanen, Tolvanen, Komarov

Välimäki-Heiskanen
Lindell-Ristolainen Lindell covering for Risto's weaknesses at own end
X-Vatanen/Jokiharju

Contending for 2 D spots, not in order: Määttä, Nutivaara, Lehtonen, Hakanpää, Mikkola, Riikola, Heinola

Rask
Korpisalo
Lankinen/Saros/Raanta

 

[Mestaruus]

That suit my taste! Only Hakanpää is questionable.

It could very well be Välimäki instead, true. Maybe we are smarter after this season about which one of them is more important for the team. Currently both Välimäki and Hakanpää häve played 16 games each this season and we have Hakanpää with +/- +4 and Välimäki at -4. If the trend continues that way, perhaps Hakanpää should take that spot. Hakanpää is also leading with TOI 18 min versus 17 min.

Next tier after them are probably Juolevi and Nutivaara. I'm not used to being this spoiled with defenders. Finland has finally started to develop more of them and I'm glad about that. I remember the times when we would take any NHL defenders that we could get but now we actually have to leave 8 of them out. For example, in the World Cup roster of Marjamäki we had Pokka who was a pure AHL guy back then. Since then Pokka became a little bit better but that's how the selections used to be.

Finnish D-Men stats from this season:
NHL Stats

Also Lankinen is raising his stocks game by game. He seems like one of the Calder trophy candidates right now. That won't be enough to dethrone Rask from #1 goalie spot but perhaps he will challenge Korpisalo for the first backup slot. Will have to see after the season on that.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Think they can beat Norway and get in? I do.

no doubt. even without any nhlers. norway have declined alot.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Sweden

Forsberg - Pettersson - E.Lindholm
Landeskog - Karlsson - Zibanejad
Burakovsky - Bäckström - Nylander
Backlund - Eriksson Ek - Hörnqvist
Arvidsson, Olofsson

Hedman - Klingberg
Brodin - OEL
H.Lindholm - Andersson
Ekholm, Klefbom

Markström
Lehner
Ullmark

L2 is a shutdown line, L3 pure offense, L4 checking. Elias Lindholm takes the faceoffs on L1.

Dahlin will be there and will also deserve to be there. I think people are overreacting too much right now, like they did early last season.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Laine-Barkov-Kapanen
Teräväinen-Aho-Rantanen
Donskoi-Hintz-Mi.Granlund
Armia-Kotkaniemi-Lehkonen

Lindell-Heiskanen
Vatanen-Ristolainen
Hakanpää-Lehtonen

Rask
Korpisalo
Lankinen/Saros/Raanta

It's very close calls with some defenders but could select only 6.

Lehkonen would've been the first forward to be replaced by Kakko, Puljujärvi, Haula or by the joker card Hartikainen (KHL) but Lehkonen is a good defensive forward and with some Montreal connection with Kotkaniemi and Armia.

Give it two months, and people won't even be suggesting Kakko doesn't deserve a spot on the team.