Nash Getzlaf Heatley Thornton Smyth Iginla Doan Lecavalier St Louis Morrow Crosby Richards Spare Forwards: Carter, Staal, Toews, Roy, Sharp, Spezza
I would like to think that instead of bringing teams like Slovenia, Italy and France, they should be replaced by a second, third or fourth team from two better hockey nations... I mean, Canada could hypothetically field 3-4 competitive teams....
?? 3-4 competitive teams?? try like 6-7 teams.. 65%(or something close) of the nhl is canadian it wouldnt be hard at all for them to put together a bunch of great teams
i'm not denying that canada could field 6-7 teams, i'm just saying that if they were allowed, the 3-4 teams could be medal contenders while the others would be equal to the strength of finland's 1st team
if canada wanted to field competitive teams i would have each team have a top goalie, two top defensemen, and a top line before assigning the rest of the team.... tried to have each team have a mix of size and speed as well as youth and vets....
Team 1: Roberto Luongo Marc-Andre Fleury Mathieu Garon Chris Pronger (A) Scott Niedermayer (C) Dan Hamhuis Braydon Coburn Scott Hannan Kevin Bieksa Marc Staal Rick Nash Andrew Brunette Antoine Vermette Simon Gagne Dany Heatley Shane Doan (A) Brad Boyes Patrick Eaves Sidney Crosby Ryan Getzlaf Derek Roy John Madden Jarret Stoll
Team 2: Martin Brodeur Carey Price Martin Biron Dion Phaneuf Robyn Regehr Wade Redden (A) Craig Rivet Shea Weber Sheldon Souray Duncan Keith Brendan Morrow Paul Kariya Mike Fisher Colby Armstrong Jarome Iginla (C) Jonathan Cheechoo Joffrey Lupul Steve Bernier Joe Thornton Mike Richards Jeff Carter Patrick Marleau Joe Sakic (A)
Team 3: Marty Turco Cam Ward Chris Osgood Brent Burns Jay Bouwmeester Dan Boyle (A) Brad Stuart Chris Phillips Willie Mitchell Ryan Smyth (C) Scott Hartnell Raffi Torres Patrick Sharp Martin St Louis Corey Perry Justin Williams Brendan Shanahan (A) Vincent Lecavalier Jason Spezza Jason Arnott Kris Draper Mathieu Lombardi
Team 4: J-S Giguere Pascal Leclaire Josh Harding Mike Green Brian Campbell Ed Jovanovski (A) Eric Brewer Bryan McCabe Jason Smith (C) Alex Tanguay Chris Kunitz Ethan Moreau Matt Cooke Nathan Horton J-P Dumont Chuck Kobasew Jamal Mayers Eric Staal (A) Paul Stastny Brad Richards Jordan Staal Jonathan Toews
do you think in future years... the staal brothers could all possibly play on the same line for an international tournament... like in 5 yrs time when they all have matured... i think thats possible.. only problem is jordan and eric play the center position... jared is a right winger.. so someone could have to move to the left. and marc staal on the backend the staal parents forgot to give birth to one or two more ppl lol.
what im saying is how are smyth-simon gagne on your list of possible's but then u sy only toews or mike richards have game to make the team not mentioning horton.. i think its pretty obvious in 2 years he will be better than smyth
I just copy/pasted my previous post from several months ago...
Horton made the list of potential forwards that could make the team.. perhaps you werent paying attention...
but if you think horton is gonna make the team we could definitely put some money on it...
and if smyth has a good season 2 years from now he would easily make the team over horton if thewre numbers were similar based on years of service to Team Canada... maybe you havent been paying attention to how canada does international comp's...
must be too busy watching Nick Cannon DVD's while listening to your new Mariah CD
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are u serious rex?? years of service?? why not field the best team possible???
ps i love how ur back to the music smack now that your flyers folded like girls in our series and lost 3 straight to bow out of the playoffs pure loungo style...
lol, yeah luongo is a fag because he's a canuck...
YOU DONT THINK YEARS OF SERVICE COUNT FOR ANYTHING???
The Team Canada decision makers would beg to differ...
I cant remember who the player was that started this whole mentality back before the '02 Olympics, but I seem to remember some player not having served on any of the world championship teams for Canada even though they had several opportunities to do so.... so they were left off the squad...
Does anyone else remember this story??
Please post here if you can remember.. im drawing a blank..
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