This is the Canada team if the NHL agreed that the players go to the 2018 Pyongyang Olympic Games
A - McDavid
A - Toews
A - Stamkos
A - Weber
C- Crosby
and no P.K -
Ceci est l'équipe du Canada si la LNH a décidé que les joueurs vont aux Jeux Olympiques Pyongyang 2018 A - McDavid A - Toews A - Stamkos A - Weber C Crosby et pas P.K
Your bang on. Maybe even Giroux makes it. and agree, PK wont make it
Giroux would definitely make it. He's 4th in the league in points.
Good team, btw. I agree with all the choices (though I think Couturier might be 13th forward instead of Stone)
Besides, I do not think P.K will succeed in becoming a part of Canada's team.
He did not have a good Olympic Games in Sochi (2014)
coaches dont appreciate his flashy and risky plays. fans love it, but coaches and gm's hate it. it costs you games. and olympics being a small tournament, u cant have risky plays coming from d men
since theres so many centremen for canada i would try to have at least 1 right handed centre (RHC) and 1 left handed centre (LHC) on each line so that no matter which line is on the ice, and no matter where the faceoff is, they can have a centre winning a faceoff on his strong side. also tried to keep the lines balanced rather than just putting the best players on the top lines
keith - doughty
vlasic - burns
reilly - pietrangelo/weber
letang
i dont really have much reasoning for the D lines except that i prefer to have left handed D play on the left and right handed D play on the right. i kept valsic and burns together since they play on the same team (idk if they play on the same line in san jose - i dont watch many sharks games but i assume they play together). also i think letang is the odd man out on the right side (canada has too many amazing right handed D - if he shot left he would be a lock)