Eye of Ra
Grandmaster General of the International boards
I believe that the Swiss are the best when not all NHL players are in.
You already forgot olympics 2018?
I believe that the Swiss are the best when not all NHL players are in.
How good is a team when Marner is your 4th line winger and Doughty is a 3rd pair D? That's roughly 20 million in players that are now secondary.lol
The fun part about Canada teams is all the omissions... Price, Weber, Binnington, RNH, Giroux, Stamkos... whoever you want. No matter what time you pick, the omission list is always world class.
Always wondered if a canadian second team is better than all other teams:
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
MacKinnon - Stamkos - McDavid
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Marner
Hall - Couturier - Stone
Giordano - Doughty
Chychrun - Weber
Vlasic - Burns
Price
Fleury
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Giroux - Couture - Konecny
Huberdeau - Barzal - Tavares
Point - Seguin - Duchene
Dubois - Toewes - Gallagher
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Chabot - Ellis
Leddy - Letang
Binnington
Hart
Murray
Fleury
Giordano - Burns
Rielly - Hamilton
Doughty - Ellis
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
Hall - McDavid - MacKinnon
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Stone
Point - Couturier - Marner
Ryan Ellis and Dougie Hamilton is flying under the rader, i would have both of them right now instead of Chabot, Morrisey, Parayko, Subban, Weber, Letang and Pietroangelo.
Always wondered if a canadian second team is better than all other teams:
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
MacKinnon - Stamkos - McDavid
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Marner
Hall - Couturier - Stone
Giordano - Doughty
Chychrun - Weber
Vlasic - Burns
Price
Fleury
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Giroux - Couture - Konecny
Huberdeau - Barzal - Tavares
Point - Seguin - Duchene
Dubois - Toewes - Gallagher
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Chabot - Ellis
Leddy - Letang
Binnington
Hart
Always wondered if a canadian second team is better than all other teams:
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Giroux - Couture - Konecny
Huberdeau - Barzal - Tavares
Point - Seguin - Duchene
Dubois - Toewes - Gallagher
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Chabot - Ellis
Leddy - Letang
Binnington
Hart
If you can imagine a scenario where a team other than Team Canada wins gold, you can probably imagine a scenario where the Canada second team wins gold. I think the Canada second team is probably a top-5 team in the world, on par probably with the USA or Finland. Leddy shouldn't even be on the second team anyway.Leddy is American, how the **** do you not know that? And no Canada's second team is not better than all other teams, anyone who thinks that is a ****ing moron.
If you can imagine a scenario where a team other than Team Canada wins gold, you can probably imagine a scenario where the Canada second team wins gold. I think the Canada second team is probably a top-5 team in the world, on par probably with the USA or Finland. Leddy shouldn't even be on the second team anyway.
So the b team has tavares on line 2 and still no Subban. That is some insane depth.
Always wondered if a canadian second team is better than all other teams:
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
MacKinnon - Stamkos - McDavid
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Marner
Hall - Couturier - Stone
Giordano - Doughty
Chychrun - Weber
Vlasic - Burns
Price
Fleury
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Giroux - Couture - Konecny
Huberdeau - Barzal - Tavares
Point - Seguin - Duchene
Dubois - Toewes - Gallagher
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Chabot - Ellis
Muzzin [phew] - Letang
Binnington
Hart
Hey, jfc64!
I took myself the liberty to compare Team Sweden and the canadian second team proposed above. This is what I found when comparing player for player:
Giroux - Couture - Konecny vs Landeskog - Bäckström - Nylander 1.5 - 1.5
Huberdeau - Barzal - Tavares vs Rakell - Zibanejad - Silfverberg 1.5 - 1.5
Point - Seguin - Duchene vs Forsberg - Karlsson - Arvidsson 2 - 1
Dubois - Toewes - Gallagher vs Pettersson - Backlund - Lindholm 2 - 1
Rielly - Pietrangelo vs Lindholm - Karlsson 0.5 - 1.5
Chabot - Ellis vs Hedman - Dahlin 1 - 1
Muzzin - Letang vs Ekman-Larsson - Klingberg 0.5 - 1.5
Binnington vs Lehner 0.5 - 0.5
Hart vs Lundqvist 0.5 - 0.5
Conclusion: =
Jakob Chychrun??Always wondered if a canadian second team is better than all other teams:
Marchand - Crosby - Bergeron
MacKinnon - Stamkos - McDavid
Scheifele - O'Reilly - Marner
Hall - Couturier - Stone
Giordano - Doughty
Chychrun - Weber
Vlasic - Burns
Price
Fleury
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Giroux - Couture - Konecny
Huberdeau - Barzal - Tavares
Point - Seguin - Duchene
Dubois - Toewes - Gallagher
Rielly - Pietrangelo
Chabot - Ellis
Muzzin [phew] - Letang
Binnington
Hart
In a one game affair they could beat them for sure,hell, the Swiss could beat them or any of the best teams in a one off, so yes they would have a shot.You look at the talent on the supposed B team and there is still plenty of talent to beat Sweden in ONE game. In a series though Sweden takes Canadas B team down though they would likely win a game or 2 in a best of seven I think.Well there is no way that canada leaves Rielly Petrangelo off their roster, good chance atleast one of Chabot or Letang are there too. Seguin, Giroux, Point, Dubois, Tavares etc could all be on the main team as well.
Bad argument. No canadas b team would not beat swedends A team no shot.
I don't know why this mythical B team always keeps getting brought up every year here in the first place, everyone knows you can send only one team.The days of Canada's B team being better than some top countries' A teams are gone at this point. Some countries have improved a lot talent wise and Canada's depth isn't as strong as it has been. The second team is still fairly strong, not that it really matters.
No one is beating this team, period. Canada still on top.
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Good but not unbeatable. MacKinnon and Marner in a penalty kill role? Hmm.Scheifele - Mcdavid - Mackinnon
Marchand - Crosby - Stamkos
O'Rielly - Bergeron - Stone
Hall - Tavares - Marner
Extras: Giroux, Point, Couturier
Gio - Burns
Rielly - Doughty
Petro - Parayko
Extras: Chabot, Weber
Price
Fleury
Holtby
No one is beating this team, period. Canada still on top.
Also, we could flex our center depth and move Mackinnon to center his own line. Running the 3 best centers in the world down the middle is something other teams simply wouldn't be able to handle.
Jakob Chychrun??
From the dessert. Wait until the next big tournament. Very good defender. Up and coming. Skipped U20 WCH twice and went directly to the NHL. Joe Sakic of defenders. Currently hiding behind Ekman-Larsson.
Jakob Chychrun at eliteprospects.com
I bet you want Morgan Rielly there...on your first team...
Some did, not many though. Certainly everyone knew 1981 with the soviets was in doubt, 1998 everyone was worried due to losing in 1996, and 2006 people knew it wasn't in the bag either, 1996 people didn't know what to think with the player losses we had going into the tournament.Canadians said the same 1981, 1996, 1998, 2006. And yet Canada got beaten in the end. Team Canada are favorites but some of you guys act like team canada have superpowers.
Bergeron/Stone and O'Rielly/Marchand would be an amazing pk... Don't know why you think those guys would pk.Good but not unbeatable. MacKinnon and Marner in a penalty kill role? Hmm.
The downright creepy obsession continues.