This reminds me of the Mens 1998 team Canada for the Olympics when they loaded the team with role players instead of the best players out there and they got no medals because of it. I always lean on going with best players out there instead of role players.
Actually it was just the opposite. 1998 they had nothing but stars + Rob Zamuner. Gretzky, Sakic, Yzerman, Nieuwendyk, Primeau, Lindros, Fleury, Linden, Brind'amour, Shanahan, Recchi, Corson, Zamuner. MacInnis, Blake, Bourque, Foote, Desjardins, Pronger, Stevens. Roy, Joseph, Brodeur Who is are the role players there, and who are the stars?
Not picking the best talent and trying to pick a "team" is what has resulted in the main losses Canada has suffered. When the limited super talents get hurt of you need an extraordinary play in an important time you end up with too many role players. Canada learned its lesson in the late 90s and went against this idea - now we are going back to anticipating a team instead of getting loaded with talent first and letting the team learn to play together
Don't get me wrong, I like Parayko but I fell there were better D's then him and Jarvis is a weird add when you think of all the forwards that were not picked.
Parayko is probably their best penalty killer in tje group though , and with the lack of face offs we r gonna win we need that...crosby is only guy that can win a draw more times then not
My guess is incase of injuries, they have enough players who are actually natural C's on their team playing the wing with Canada so they picked a winger in Jarvis for the extra. Still pretty audacious considering he's only 22 and inferior to a lot of guys out there. Gotta be a favor pick
@@hockeyguy533 Agreed every Team is littered with Pro Players... who have won all kinds of Championships besides SCs.... its going to be a very hard fought high scoring Tourney... Canada will not be able to lock it down defensively... defense has never won a single hockey game.... Games are won by goals always have and always will be.
There’s little chance these guys will be trying their hardest, they won’t want to get injured and screw their NHL teams over. The only time I’d expect them to give 100% outside of the NHL is for the Olympics.
Arguably the 3 best players in the world are on team Canada (McDavid, MacKinnon & Makar) so no one will walk over them… my question is in goal though, the best goalies in the world right now are definitely not Canadian ☹️
Seems like Canada is having to relearn lessons we already went through. You dont pick role players to be on a team when you have better options these guys are all amazing players if they need to they can play any role you want them to.
@@CdnElJefe Not really , everyone they picked was a top pair defensman or a top line player on their team. Lindros played 4th line center with Owen Nolan and Ryan smyth on his wings.
@@CdnElJefe Argued by who someone looking back at how they ended their careers. Their job on their nhl teams was to be a first line or top pair defensemen. They were asked to be 3rd and 4th liners for Canada. Whereas in 2006 they took players like Kris Draper over 100 point players like Eric staal , Sidney Crosby , and Jason spezza because they wanted role players. The lesson learned then was the better player should always be taken and they will be able to do whatever role you need.
Evan Bouchard should be absolutely embarrassed he didn't make this team, and it was his own undoing. Last year he was amazing, and then in the playoffs he was even better. He broke the all time points record for a defenseman, was also very sound on the defensive side of the puck, by far the best d-man when it counted, in the SPRING. Yet somehow to start this year, he was absolutely AWFUL, and that alone left him off team Canada. He has nobody to blame but himself. And with Hyman? He needs to learn how to see the ice and actually pass the puck, one of the most one dimensional selfish blinders on players I've ever seen.
I think his value is inflated because he plays on a power play with McDavid and Draisaitl. Cale Makar is a better power play option so he has no place on the team
@@Sam-2468 Nonsense, Makar's NOT playing the full 2 minutes on the pp...Bouchard's gotta make the team over guys like Parayko and Sanheim... Ditto Tanev and maybe Weegar... Could have put Shieffle on the top line with McD and Marner and moved Sam Reinhart further down the lineup... Hell, even JT for his versatility, his defense zone face-off prowess, his ability to move up and down the lineup, and to play all 3 forward positions, was a MUCH better choice than Seth Jarvis... I would have rolled the dice and picked 3 up and coming goalies, not just Montembault, Logan Thompson and Daccord too (Get that guy a Canadian passport already, his father's Canadian)... Somewhere here, the answer to our goaltending woes is staring Hockey Canada in the face and they don't see it!?! Good thing USA Hockey did no better in picking Trochek and Kreider over younger, more skilled guys... Neither Team Canada, or Team USA, are as good as they could, and rightfully should be, IMO With so much talent to choose from, and such obvious super-stars, it's almost impossible for our 'Brain-trust' to screw this up... Still, all things considered, I'd give them a B, B+ tops
I wouldn't call Hyman selfish. His job is mostly to hang around the net and deflect or rebound. He's not exactly in position to pass or create plays. He hasn't done his job very well this year though.
1-0 final in Sochi? Do your homework Johhny... We beat Sweden 3-0 in the gold medal game in 2014. It was 1-0 vs the U.S. in the semis and yes... it was a tight game.
Yeah, very tight game and, if memory serves, Kessel was 1 on 1 vs Price, and almost scored, in the first... Yanks didn't get many quality chances after that... What did TC give up... Something like 7 goals in the entire tourney???
@berryscott3590 memory does serve correctly sir! That Canadian team was one of the best "structured" team I have probably seen, besides the Canada Cup'76 -I was 9 y.o. back then-. I also remember that Sweden hit the post when the score was 0-0... But there was no way Canada wasn't bringing home the gold medal... Truth be told, any of us could've coached that team eh... Fourth line was Benn-Getzlaf-Perry...😉🇨🇦
@@moimolina7919 I'm older than you... a grandfather and great-grandfather (albeit a comparatively young one) I remember our 1976 Canada Cup team quite well... On paper, one of the, if not the best team Canada ever... although they did lose a round-robin game to Czechosslovakia
Outside of crosby we are horrible in the faceoff circle , ryan o riely , jamie benn , john taveras , bo horvat , peyton krebs , sean coutireir , robert thomas all over 55% and some closer to 60% on the draws ...in a tournament like this you need more then just crosby that can win a draw when you need to absolutly win 1
Would be nice to see us win our fourth best on best tournament in a row, but having said that, it might serve us well to lose this tournament heading into the Olympics just to humble us a bit. We walked into the 2006 Olympic tournament thinking gold was just going to be handed to us and we all know how that worked out.
USA team is good enough that it could be anyone’s game between them and Canada. Teams are fairly equal and some would even say USA is better because of defense and goalies.
Must admit I don't really care about this tournament, no Russia, no Germany, no Czech Republic. 4 nations when there are so many left out, not a true tournamnet.
I think you are missing the point they can ice a team they will not be all NHL players, so I don't get the laughing face. Trying to make the sport world wide this doesn't help. Those countries have no problem icing a team in the Olympics
@@vinnymac5863 It's not the olympics, it's link to the NHL who has the best players, so this is the best on best you are going to get. Players from KHL or other leagues can't play in this tournament because of their contracts with their respective leagues. And with Russia being banned from every sporting events, there's only 4 possible teams available.
This isn't the freaking 90's. Look at that talent and speed up front, you need D who can move the puck. Leaving Bouch, and Hyman off this team is a joke. Don Sweeney can't even get a handle on his Bruins. Had to fire the coach because of his own failings of a GM.
@ I guess to that if simply ask - so what? You could play McDavid with anyone on the team Canada roster and he’d make them look better - McDavid makes all players look better it shouldn’t remove them from contention. It’s not that simple either. McDavid has had a lot of wingers in his career, how many other than drai have scored 50 plus goals ? Hymen is good in his own right. Bouchard broke long standing records in the playoffs - and he’s 1 half of the pair that has had the best Corsi for percentage since 2008. All of the players on team Canada play with players who make them look better. Hymen is currently making the selectors look like fools. Boneheaded decisions on that team Canada roster. They’ll probably get away with it too because Canada is stacked almost no matter what you do.
@ Can’t take a favourite. Wouldn’t be favourable to do so. Like the three dogs. One of ‘em will bark! Many fans on Canada. I travel the path of most resistance. Gets me through things. Here makes the situation internationally interesting…
I don't understand 2 picks. Marchand and Cirelli. I do understand not taking Bedard because i have said that the dude is overrated for years now. He will always be a good player, but not McDavid-level.
Explain? Matthews is coming off an injury. So who is the X factor? Eichel? Hughes? Against McDavid, MacKinnon, Marner, Point, Hagel...better D core. Maybe US has an edge in goaltending.
Button clearly hasn’t watched much of Jarvis, kid kills penalties and takes draws for the canes on top of being able to pot 30 plus goals while moving up and down the lineup
Hockey is not different from other sports. Russia is banned from Olympics, from football World Cup and Euro's, FIBA basketball, volleyball... everything. That is what you get when invading another nation and killing civilians.
Whoever decided this team needs to be FIRED immediately for not watching any of this years games..!! It already isn’t a BEST on BEST tourney anyway,, cuz the BEST players aren’t from only 4 countries obviously.. But it would have been nice to have the very best team possible..
"Weak goaltending" 2 of the 3 goalies have won Stanley cups in net lol ... tell me about those vezna calibar goalies on team USA who can barely get passed thr 2nd round every single year in the playoffs
Cant believe marchand there, hyman would be better pick. Im ok with our goalies cause they've all won a big game. Bruce cassidy also a good pick for coach. I think sweden more dangerous then USA. Should be a fun tourney but without russia it just doesn't feel right. 😊
Why are people surprised with Seth , he’s from Detroit red wings, who is the gm of that franchise? Who also owes a favour for a shot they were given from that said gm ? lol suspect for sure politics over hockey over here
Yeah I agree this tournament is pointless, it’s not even best on best, you could make a better team than any team in the tournament with the guys not even able to play in it… Kucherov, panarin, kaprizov, draisaitl, kopitar, ovechkin Necas, sutzle, hichier, Svechnikov, malkin, hertl Meier Josi, sergachev Orlov, gavrikov Seider, cernak Zadorov Shesterkin, vasilevsky, sorokin THIS TEAM WOULD BEAT ANY TEAM IN THE TOURNAMENT and they don’t even get to play haha I don’t even see the point in this at all I’d rather just watch regular season and not risk anyone getting injured for playoffs
@@westernmac5944 I don’t see the point either just let them play regular season, I’d honestly rather the all star game than this garbage because at least it’s only a three day break.
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What a bunch of BS! WHERES MONTOUR???? HE PRACTICALLY WON IT FOR FLORIDA!!!! OYA I FORGOT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THEIR CANADA !!!! NO CANT HAVE A FIRST NATION ON THEIR TEAM!!! OR ANY NHL TEAM IN CANADA !!!! SICKENING!!!!!
It's highly hypocritical for the league to omit Russian players because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. How many events were players from the good old USA omitted from because of America's invasion of Afghanistan that was based on a lie and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people? One has to wonder if Israel had players in the league and enough to form a team if they would be omitted based on their ongoing genocide in Gaza, an atrocity that couldn't carried out without the support of the USA and most of the other Western nations including Canada. I think most of us know the answer to that. The NHL is a joke but I guess like all major sporting events it provides a distraction from what is actually going on in the world.
wel Mr Button doesnt know hockey as much as i thought. Bouchard plays terrible in his own end. "Cough up king" ! He is very weak defensively. Dangerous passes out his end and gets pushed around in front of his own net. He is also scared to go into the corners. All he does is crosscheck from behind. Hes a coward.
@@christiangehl2975 he absolutley is plus he is a very good forechecker and can play both wings...im not sayin jarvis is a better player then suzuki , its not even a question but jarvis is a better winger ...its not about best players its about best built team
Marchessault et Huberdeau ne sont pas assez bons, objectivement. Fleury est un back up. On va arrêter ça la pour lui. Savard? Denis ou Marc? Pas David en tk..... Giguère? Le gars qui a pris sa retraite en 2014? Si tu crois que tous les Anglais sont moins intelligents et passionnés que les Québécois, et bien il est maintenant inutile de continuer cette conversation. Bonne journée dans la bigoterie!
This reminds me of the Mens 1998 team Canada for the Olympics when they loaded the team with role players instead of the best players out there and they got no medals because of it. I always lean on going with best players out there instead of role players.
Actually it was just the opposite. 1998 they had nothing but stars + Rob Zamuner.
Gretzky, Sakic, Yzerman, Nieuwendyk, Primeau, Lindros, Fleury, Linden, Brind'amour, Shanahan, Recchi, Corson, Zamuner.
MacInnis, Blake, Bourque, Foote, Desjardins, Pronger, Stevens.
Roy, Joseph, Brodeur
Who is are the role players there, and who are the stars?
That team was too slow.
@@RoyalMela maybe role players is the wrong chose of words. There were better players available that Canada left of the 98 roster and it cost them
I do remember though that in 1998, Canada was walking over the competition until Sakic got hurt and they ran into Hasek ☹️
Unreal there’s no Scheif
I actually think he’s injured
@@Zaktan23 in actuality though, he sucks
Unreal no strome
He's not good lol
@@Mitch-ui8ps he bot snubbed by his name is dylan
Not picking the best talent and trying to pick a "team" is what has resulted in the main losses Canada has suffered. When the limited super talents get hurt of you need an extraordinary play in an important time you end up with too many role players. Canada learned its lesson in the late 90s and went against this idea - now we are going back to anticipating a team instead of getting loaded with talent first and letting the team learn to play together
Don't get me wrong, I like Parayko but I fell there were better D's then him and Jarvis is a weird add when you think of all the forwards that were not picked.
Parayko is probably their best penalty killer in tje group though , and with the lack of face offs we r gonna win we need that...crosby is only guy that can win a draw more times then not
My guess is incase of injuries, they have enough players who are actually natural C's on their team playing the wing with Canada so they picked a winger in Jarvis for the extra. Still pretty audacious considering he's only 22 and inferior to a lot of guys out there. Gotta be a favor pick
Did anyone check to see if Carey Price was answering his phone? I don't think any of our goalies has a save% over .900
Hill and Binnington have a ring though.
sCarey who? 🍷 🍺 😵
monthebeault is over .900 with first place in shutout... with the last position team...
Canadas Forwards better not try to be Pass-Clowns they better shoot to score at every OPTIMAL moment. .
Most of them are Stanley cup winning players so they should know what it has to take to win it all
@@hockeyguy533 Agreed every Team is littered with Pro Players... who have won all kinds of Championships besides SCs.... its going to be a very hard fought high scoring Tourney... Canada will not be able to lock it down defensively... defense has never won a single hockey game.... Games are won by goals always have and always will be.
@BobsUrunclesMoma2 atta boy Bob, let em have it Blithe!
Mitchell would like a word with you
There’s little chance these guys will be trying their hardest, they won’t want to get injured and screw their NHL teams over. The only time I’d expect them to give 100% outside of the NHL is for the Olympics.
Usa vs canada is gonna be absolutely RICH
Canada picked a terrible roster 😂 USA is going to walk all over Canada
I don't think so
...put the Bennet line of against Tkachuk line can shut them down and score and the ur dealing with McDavid crosby and Mackinnon
@@geraldmcintee9776 😂
Arguably the 3 best players in the world are on team Canada (McDavid, MacKinnon & Makar) so no one will walk over them… my question is in goal though, the best goalies in the world right now are definitely not Canadian ☹️
Did cooper know they could pick outside of his dressing room
Seems like Canada is having to relearn lessons we already went through. You dont pick role players to be on a team when you have better options these guys are all amazing players if they need to they can play any role you want them to.
They picked role players in 2002 and that worked out pretty well…
@@CdnElJefe
Not really , everyone they picked was a top pair defensman or a top line player on their team.
Lindros played 4th line center with Owen Nolan and Ryan smyth on his wings.
@
It could be argued that Smyth, Nolan, Peca, Foote, Brewer were more role players at that stage of their careers.
@@CdnElJefe
Argued by who someone looking back at how they ended their careers.
Their job on their nhl teams was to be a first line or top pair defensemen.
They were asked to be 3rd and 4th liners for Canada.
Whereas in 2006 they took players like Kris Draper over 100 point players like Eric staal , Sidney Crosby , and Jason spezza because they wanted role players.
The lesson learned then was the better player should always be taken and they will be able to do whatever role you need.
Evan Bouchard should be absolutely embarrassed he didn't make this team, and it was his own undoing. Last year he was amazing, and then in the playoffs he was even better. He broke the all time points record for a defenseman, was also very sound on the defensive side of the puck, by far the best d-man when it counted, in the SPRING. Yet somehow to start this year, he was absolutely AWFUL, and that alone left him off team Canada. He has nobody to blame but himself. And with Hyman? He needs to learn how to see the ice and actually pass the puck, one of the most one dimensional selfish blinders on players I've ever seen.
That just might motivate him.
I think his value is inflated because he plays on a power play with McDavid and Draisaitl. Cale Makar is a better power play option so he has no place on the team
Dudes a turnover machine..
@@Sam-2468 Nonsense, Makar's NOT playing the full 2 minutes on the pp...Bouchard's gotta make the team over guys like Parayko and Sanheim... Ditto Tanev and maybe Weegar...
Could have put Shieffle on the top line with McD and Marner and moved Sam Reinhart further down the lineup... Hell, even JT for his versatility, his defense zone face-off prowess, his ability to move up and down the lineup, and to play all 3 forward positions, was a MUCH better choice than Seth Jarvis...
I would have rolled the dice and picked 3 up and coming goalies, not just Montembault, Logan Thompson and Daccord too (Get that guy a Canadian passport already, his father's Canadian)... Somewhere here, the answer to our goaltending woes is staring Hockey Canada in the face and they don't see it!?!
Good thing USA Hockey did no better in picking Trochek and Kreider over younger, more skilled guys...
Neither Team Canada, or Team USA, are as good as they could, and rightfully should be, IMO
With so much talent to choose from, and such obvious super-stars, it's almost impossible for our 'Brain-trust' to screw this up...
Still, all things considered, I'd give them a B, B+ tops
I wouldn't call Hyman selfish. His job is mostly to hang around the net and deflect or rebound. He's not exactly in position to pass or create plays. He hasn't done his job very well this year though.
1-0 final in Sochi? Do your homework Johhny... We beat Sweden 3-0 in the gold medal game in 2014. It was 1-0 vs the U.S. in the semis and yes... it was a tight game.
Yeah, very tight game and, if memory serves, Kessel was 1 on 1 vs Price, and almost scored, in the first... Yanks didn't get many quality chances after that... What did TC give up... Something like 7 goals in the entire tourney???
@berryscott3590 memory does serve correctly sir! That Canadian team was one of the best "structured" team I have probably seen, besides the Canada Cup'76 -I was 9 y.o. back then-. I also remember that Sweden hit the post when the score was 0-0... But there was no way Canada wasn't bringing home the gold medal... Truth be told, any of us could've coached that team eh... Fourth line was Benn-Getzlaf-Perry...😉🇨🇦
@@moimolina7919 I'm older than you... a grandfather and great-grandfather (albeit a comparatively young one)
I remember our 1976 Canada Cup team quite well... On paper, one of the, if not the best team Canada ever... although they did lose a round-robin game to Czechosslovakia
@berryscott3590 much respect Sir! Thanks for answering back. That's very nice of you!
A few surprises at the forward positions quests they needed a checking line
Good thing Button wasn’t the GM
Let's Go Team Canada!
Let’s go Canada
No sheifele but we got a slow Marchand and stone should be on injured reserve by February. Sorry but feel like an opportunity was missed.
Sheif is hurt
It's a joke Marchand is 5 years past his prime and he sucks cock now.
It appears that you know very little about hockey,,,,
@@warrenburns101 know apparently he’s been hiding an injury it is what I have heard
Weegar would’ve been a good addition, tough one.
Speed demons mackinnnon mcdavid glad I’m not a opposing defender lol
The nuge is slept on so hard . He rarely makes mistakes, although not the strongest
They could have had a pylon in net in Sochi, they would have still won on their defense
Leaving Bedard off the team is a big mistake. It's very reminiscent of when they left Crosby off the 2006 olympic team.
@@protestadventures you need to be having my baby 🫃🏻
Bedard cant skate , thats the difference Celebrini if anyone of the young kids
@@CanadianBiPolarBear glaze connor is so much better
@@TheEpicEndermanTV not this year he aint not even closw
They had the opportunity to make an A+ all time team and decided to make a B- because Team Canada still thinks it's 2003.
Here come the rick robitaille comments😂
Where’s Scheif’s? Popularity contest
Defense matters, especially when it comes to playing center. Scheif is a one dimensional player with a poor attitude and terrible leadership
@@AthwalJag he's bum. Taylor Hall is better.
Love this sport 😁🇨🇦🇺🇸✔🥊🌐
2:52 Seth Jarvis can you be a cheerleader 😭😭
No Bouchard? Wowza.
If Binnington is the best we can do in net then we're cooked.
With Makar on the PP Bouchard is not needed. Especially when hes awful defensively. Hyman obviously should never have been in consideraton.
You obviously don't watch the oilers given your dopey comment.
Outside of crosby we are horrible in the faceoff circle , ryan o riely , jamie benn , john taveras , bo horvat , peyton krebs , sean coutireir , robert thomas all over 55% and some closer to 60% on the draws ...in a tournament like this you need more then just crosby that can win a draw when you need to absolutly win 1
On the opposite side, Finland has the best faceoffs player in Barkov, and three others in top 50. Hintz, Aho and Haula.
Would be nice to see us win our fourth best on best tournament in a row, but having said that, it might serve us well to lose this tournament heading into the Olympics just to humble us a bit. We walked into the 2006 Olympic tournament thinking gold was just going to be handed to us and we all know how that worked out.
USA team is good enough that it could be anyone’s game between them and Canada. Teams are fairly equal and some would even say USA is better because of defense and goalies.
Disrespect against Finland again… Suits us well
Heck, they may as well have put Fleury on the roster.
Must admit I don't really care about this tournament, no Russia, no Germany, no Czech Republic.
4 nations when there are so many left out, not a true tournamnet.
Me neither...
No Russia or Czech then who cares.......
I still rally want Canada to win but you’re right, many great countries missing!
The Czechs can't ice a full roster with only 4D playing in the NHL and Germany has like 8 active players total... 😂
I think you are missing the point they can ice a team they will not be all NHL players, so I don't get the laughing face.
Trying to make the sport world wide this doesn't help.
Those countries have no problem icing a team in the Olympics
@@vinnymac5863 It's not the olympics, it's link to the NHL who has the best players, so this is the best on best you are going to get. Players from KHL or other leagues can't play in this tournament because of their contracts with their respective leagues. And with Russia being banned from every sporting events, there's only 4 possible teams available.
Just a filthy lineup, bring it on!
Really? I thought it’s pretty bad in comparison to the US.
Win and shut me up but a lot of omission and disappointed with the selections. Suzuki, Schiefele, Bouchard, and Weegar should all be here
Definitely not Bouchard.
Maybe Schiefele, but disagree with the rest.
Bouchard… ahahahahahahha
Suzuki didn't even get a call cause he snubbed the worlds invite previously so he burned that bridge
This isn't the freaking 90's. Look at that talent and speed up front, you need D who can move the puck. Leaving Bouch, and Hyman off this team is a joke. Don Sweeney can't even get a handle on his Bruins. Had to fire the coach because of his own failings of a GM.
Hyman is fucking shit. I'm glad we don't have to watch him stink out the place like he's been doing all season
Hyman is a plug
@@alexwind7123well so is hagel, Jarvis, and cirelli
@@jimbytarnish9698 it’s to early to be so drunk man
Not having any of McDavids teammates is a head scratcher.
Not picking Bouchard is absolute buffoonery.
I honestly think McDavid makes Hyman and Nugent Hopkins look better than they really are, but I can’t believe Bouchard isn’t there!
@ I guess to that if simply
ask - so what? You could play McDavid with anyone on the team Canada roster and he’d make them look better - McDavid makes all players look better it shouldn’t remove them from contention.
It’s not that simple either. McDavid has had a lot of wingers in his career, how many other than drai have scored 50 plus goals ? Hymen is good in his own right.
Bouchard broke long standing records in the playoffs - and he’s 1 half of the pair that has had the best Corsi for percentage since 2008.
All of the players on team Canada play with players who make them look better.
Hymen is currently making the selectors look like fools.
Boneheaded decisions on that team Canada roster. They’ll probably get away with it too because Canada is stacked almost no matter what you do.
No craig button goaltending is not our weakest spot, faceoffs are
Craig button 🇨🇦😁
You can take favourite Canada…I like the field!
Dare you to bet your house on it.
@ don’t let gambling get in the way of politricks…
Already calling foul play before they clean the house eh?
Classic.
@ Can’t take a favourite. Wouldn’t be favourable to do so. Like the three dogs. One of ‘em will bark! Many fans on Canada. I travel the path of most resistance. Gets me through things. Here makes the situation internationally interesting…
Absolutely have a quick question here🔥🥊😁🇨🇦
Harley and power
No way Nathan MacKinnon is on the second line
Cirelli and Jarvis over guys like Suzuki, Scheifele, Tavares 😂
I don't understand 2 picks. Marchand and Cirelli. I do understand not taking Bedard because i have said that the dude is overrated for years now. He will always be a good player, but not McDavid-level.
Marchand was named early to the roster I feel like if he wasn’t included in that original 6 he wouldn’t have made it
Perfect practice 😁🇨🇦✔🌐
U.S is going to win IMO.
Explain? Matthews is coming off an injury. So who is the X factor? Eichel? Hughes? Against McDavid, MacKinnon, Marner, Point, Hagel...better D core. Maybe US has an edge in goaltending.
@@loganmoy5093 Superior goaltending. slightly better Defensemen and their forwards match up well with Canada.
U.S is gonna get there hearts broken again by team canada, never count out the country that has the best players in the world!!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I think Canada is going to win imo.
usa goalies dont scare canadian fowards/// canada beats usa 7-2
Who on earth is nick suzuki????
Good luck canada, team usa is going to be a pain to beat. Best of luck!
Parayko over Bouch is a wise choice
Assuming you want to lose.
Very interesting about Suzuki that he didn't even get a call to say he wasn't selected because he declined the worlds invite... bridge burned yikes
Geeayyyyy
Button clearly hasn’t watched much of Jarvis, kid kills penalties and takes draws for the canes on top of being able to pot 30 plus goals while moving up and down the lineup
Really no bedard? ….
He's having a shit year
In a tight tournament, you can never have enough scoring. He was surprisingly average in the Worlds last spring last year. So…Idk.
This tournament is a joke with no russia. Keep politics away from hockey.
Ill just catch the highlights
Yeah I’d rather watch regular season and not risk a guy get injured for playoffs in a pointless non best on best tournament of four random nations.
Hockey is not different from other sports. Russia is banned from Olympics, from football World Cup and Euro's, FIBA basketball, volleyball... everything. That is what you get when invading another nation and killing civilians.
It is a Joke......very annoying
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think standing on his head is a good way for a goalie to keep the puck out.
Whoever decided this team needs to be FIRED immediately for not watching any of this years games..!!
It already isn’t a BEST on BEST tourney anyway,, cuz the BEST players aren’t from only 4 countries obviously..
But it would have been nice to have the very best team possible..
This is a NHL tournament and other nations can not build a team from their NHL players.
A soffty really 😁🇨🇦
no suzuki is unbelieveable
Not at all
he didn't even get a call cause he snubbed the worlds invite previously so he burned that bridge
I’ve watched decades of Hockey have yet to see a goalie physically stand on his head….Probably the most overrated goalie move never seen!
Truth ✔🇨🇦😁
Glass cannons on ice
I'm not watching because Russia and Czhecia aren't there...just doesn't seem right to me.
Tavares over Jarvis
"Weak goaltending" 2 of the 3 goalies have won Stanley cups in net lol ... tell me about those vezna calibar goalies on team USA who can barely get passed thr 2nd round every single year in the playoffs
Exactly, everyone's riding Hellys stick. Yes, he is a Vezina winner, but how deep have the Jets gone in playoffs?
Yea Hellebuyck had .870 save percentage last year in the playoffs
What's Binnington done since he's won the cup? Nothing.
@derekjames8786 n what have those so called "vezna" goalies done??? nothing
It's the weakest link on our team. This is the weakest we've ever been in goal since we've put an NHL Team Canada on ice. I think we're toast.
Never heard of any of ‘em 🇺🇸😉
They have the 3 best players😭 in makinnon Davo and Sid
Scheifele????
Cant believe marchand there, hyman would be better pick. Im ok with our goalies cause they've all won a big game. Bruce cassidy also a good pick for coach. I think sweden more dangerous then USA. Should be a fun tourney but without russia it just doesn't feel right. 😊
@@visionquest520 Of course Marchand is in…Canada needs a Bruin to get a dirty job done…
Don't be surprised if crosby and Marchand put up the most points
...in the past they've played great together in team Canada games
Marchand could take a hike, he's an insult to canadiens
Too slow for the big ice
@@thebigpicture2032they are playing on bigger ice? Games are in Montreal and Boston…
@@alexwind7123 my mistake, still too slow
4 team hockey tournament? haha who cares?
@@RyanSheppard-tq4pg Exactly. Disgraceful. The players who aren’t allowed to play are the team to beat. That’s a killer roster.
Why are people surprised with Seth , he’s from Detroit red wings, who is the gm of that franchise? Who also owes a favour for a shot they were given from that said gm ? lol suspect for sure politics over hockey over here
I Think Seth Jarvis Plays For Carolina But Good Addition
@@casketbrain7697 facts can't beat a good conspiracy theory
Sam Bennett bet on 🇨🇦🇺🇸😁
The dream team
Seth Jarvis????
He’s gross
Stamkos should be on this team. The guy is a pure sniper...
He was but he’s been a ghost this year
No drisitle or nurse or advisor or hyman or nugget 😢
All bums
Leon is German
No Kucherov. No Kaprizov. No Ovi. No Shesterkin. 👎👎👎👎
Yeah I agree this tournament is pointless, it’s not even best on best, you could make a better team than any team in the tournament with the guys not even able to play in it…
Kucherov, panarin, kaprizov, draisaitl, kopitar, ovechkin
Necas, sutzle, hichier,
Svechnikov, malkin, hertl
Meier
Josi, sergachev
Orlov, gavrikov
Seider, cernak
Zadorov
Shesterkin, vasilevsky, sorokin
THIS TEAM WOULD BEAT ANY TEAM IN THE TOURNAMENT and they don’t even get to play haha I don’t even see the point in this at all I’d rather just watch regular season and not risk anyone getting injured for playoffs
@ 👍🔥Yep. A weak move by all involved. Disgusting.
@@westernmac5944 I don’t see the point either just let them play regular season, I’d honestly rather the all star game than this garbage because at least it’s only a three day break.
@@jimbytarnish9698 Russia has been banned from international competition for a while now. Rightly or wrongly, it’s nothing new.
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Hockey 🏒 very best ever sport for the winter season months NHL game
What a bunch of BS!
WHERES MONTOUR????
HE PRACTICALLY WON IT FOR FLORIDA!!!!
OYA I FORGOT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THEIR CANADA !!!!
NO CANT HAVE A FIRST NATION ON THEIR TEAM!!! OR ANY NHL TEAM IN CANADA !!!!
SICKENING!!!!!
I think if there were a Carey Price or Bryan Trottier available, they would be on the team. Methinks, thou doth protest too much.
Bouchard over Parayko
😂🔥😆✔🇨🇦🇺🇸
😂✔🇨🇦✔
It's highly hypocritical for the league to omit Russian players because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. How many events were players from the good old USA omitted from because of America's invasion of Afghanistan that was based on a lie and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people? One has to wonder if Israel had players in the league and enough to form a team if they would be omitted based on their ongoing genocide in Gaza, an atrocity that couldn't carried out without the support of the USA and most of the other Western nations including Canada. I think most of us know the answer to that.
The NHL is a joke but I guess like all major sporting events it provides a distraction from what is actually going on in the world.
No, one doesn’t have to wonder. It’s just hockey.
No John Tavares…
your kidding right?
Most underrated player aswell
I would of considered taveras just cus he can win a face off ...outside of crosby we got no one that can
@ no Johnny “pyjamas” Tavares is a crying shame!
@ Johnny T would do very well at this international skillset…
wel Mr Button doesnt know hockey as much as i thought. Bouchard plays terrible in his own end. "Cough up king" ! He is very weak defensively. Dangerous passes out his end and gets pushed around in front of his own net. He is also scared to go into the corners. All he does is crosscheck from behind. Hes a coward.
False.
Suzuki over Jarvis any day
Suzuki is not a winger
He could also play the wing. He’s more versatile than Jarvis and should definitely have been the 13th forward
@crunchypeanut7554 suzuki play along the boards? Come on man he is weak on the puck and not the type to be in a corner regularly , wake up
@@CanadianBiPolarBear and jarvis is?
@@christiangehl2975 he absolutley is plus he is a very good forechecker and can play both wings...im not sayin jarvis is a better player then suzuki , its not even a question but jarvis is a better winger ...its not about best players its about best built team
Point & Hagel without Stamkos is hilarious
How?
Don’t forget cirelli😂😂😂
Point will be a top six guy. Hagel is more debatable.
Copper is garbage for this roster
Aucun québécois
Montembeault
Bein colise
Dis-moi Jean-Francois, quel québécois mérite une place sur cette équipe et pourquoi?
Essaie au moins d’être objectif dans ta réponse ;)
@jogendron6320
Marcheseault. Huberdeau. Fleury. Savard. Giguère. Équipe Québec surpasserais Canada par leur intelligence et leur passion.
Marchessault et Huberdeau ne sont pas assez bons, objectivement.
Fleury est un back up. On va arrêter ça la pour lui.
Savard? Denis ou Marc?
Pas David en tk.....
Giguère? Le gars qui a pris sa retraite en 2014?
Si tu crois que tous les Anglais sont moins intelligents et passionnés que les Québécois, et bien il est maintenant inutile de continuer cette conversation.
Bonne journée dans la bigoterie!
Équipe Québec battrait Tram Canada
LMFAO!!! that's a good one.
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Huberdeau as your star?
Lol
Trade him for Tkachuk maybe lmao