bergeron is 100000% on this team

Hes obviously going to be there, but this is who i think the best team will be, I have doubts about his effectiveness at age 37-38, if he can stay as effective as he is now than he’s 100% a lock with Crosby and Marchand on that elite line

Mostly good, but I barely have Gallagher, Suzuki, Cirelli and Dunn on our B team let alone A team. That's how fricken stacked Canada is at FW lol.

Also at minimum 1 of Chabot or Reilly will be on the team as a LHS.

You couldn’t find one LD for the team?


I also still think hockey canada finds room for doughty.

Having McJesus 2nd line is CRIMINAL!!!
McDavid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Crosby

I’m not putting doughty on the team even if you put a gun to my head, he’s not even good anymore, kinda a liability

Well of course McDavid is better than Crosby but he will never have the value that Marchand Crosby and MacKinnon have together, the chemistry there is insane and the line will be unstoppable

Nah but that guy in a competitive situation like an international competition and he’s the best d man on the roster. Crazy, i know, but that’s my opinion.

Seriously, find a LD.

I did value chabot and rielly but they are both inconsistent and are not near as valuable as some of the other right handed d like makar and ekblad, reilly had one of the best seasons by a dmen in the last decade and a half but he isn't nearly as good in the surrounding seasons

that's just not how it works, last time we saw him play on an international stage was 2016, and that's back when he was a good player, he just isn't anymore

Another thing is cirelli dunn and Gallagher are really underrated, cirelli is a top two way forward in the league and he can play both special teams, and has some of the best penalty plus/minus in the league, drawing penalties on a team this stacked will be great, and he's also a fantastic skater with solid passing and shooting, he can do pretty much everything, you can place him anywhere on the ice and he will do good. Dunn is just amazing all around and likely hasn't reached his prime yet as he seems to be following the same route as other franchise dmen, he's an elite puck mover, great defensively and offensively, solid penalty plus/minus, great shot, takes tons of shots, and plays both special teams, he can play with anyone, which is why I have him as an extra, and Gallagher is one of if not the best playdriver in the league, he brings consistent effort with an aggressive physicality which I really like, he has an above average defensive impact and is a fringe elite offensive player, he takes tons of shots and plays in the lower slot very well, which is why I have him with huberdeau and mcdavid who are cycle players and could use their elite shooting talent to score on a screen or use their passing ability to give it to Gallagher to take tons of shots, he's also a pretty damn good exiter, so he can win battles, and make a pass to mcdavid or exit himself.

Out of curiosity, have you ever seen a good player, perhaps aging, playing for a really bad team get moved at the deadline to a contender and start playing more like them old selves?

I can’t think of anything at the moment, doughty has terrible everything, has terrible box stats, bad underlying stats, not too at even strength at any zone

Lol, seriously? You can’t think of any time a guy got moved from a bad team to a good team and started playing better? Is this your first year watching hockey or something? If so, welcome! It’s a heck of a league.

Doughty’s fine.

I can think of several players who had great underlying stats and blossomed in a newer system because they were primed for a breakout, it happens all the time, they had great xGF stats and good GF stats and when they got traded their points took off, but rarely any player goes from terrible underlying and terrible box stats, too a top end player. Also do you see the major issue with your argument? It is entirely based on “what if”, you have no proof that doughty will be good, you only have this scenario that he happens to do good, implying that he needs better players to be good, I don’t want that, I want players who can do good on their own, every single player of which I have listed, can play on their own.

1. I don’t care about underlying stats for d men. Not one bit. They’re a crutch for those that can’t form their own opinion.
2. One of the reasons why i couldn’t care less, is anyone that plays 26 minutes a night for a horrible team is going to look horrible on paper. Watch the game.

That’s just a lazy way of saying you don’t understand them, how the **** can defensive stats not matter for dmen, and art you a ****ing water head?? I can form an opinion yet you are just saying “no he’ll do good, he doesn’t look good and hasn’t been good but he’ll be good”
Literally watching his dumb ass I could tell he was bad, terrible defensively, fails on plays so much, I’ve seen him fail so many passes and turnovers, stop being biased

Lazy? The guy relying on a website over watching is calling someone else lazy?

Pathetic.

You know literally nothing about underlying stats, the best way to analyze a player is by both watching them and using their stats which is what they’re doing on the ice, come back to me when you form an actually justified opinion instead of him just being a player you like because he hasn’t been good and won’t change when put in a different scenario