Defence by Country
Was just looking over Sweden's up and coming dmen and there is some huge potential there. I wanted to see how they compare to Canada and USA.
Heres the top 10 imo for each country playing in the NHL. Not in order
Canada:
Shea Weber
Drew Doughty
Alex Pietrangelo
Kris Letang
Duncan Keith
Marc Staal
Brent Seabrook
Dan Girardi
P.K. Subban
Micheal Del Zotto
Sweden:
Erik Karlsson
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Tobias Enstrom
Alex Edler
Victor Hedman
Niklas Kronwall
Jonas Brodin
Adam Larsson
Johny Oduya
Niklas Hjalmarsson
USA:
Dustin Byfuglien
Ryan Suter
Keith Yandle
Kevin Shattenkirk
Jack Johnson
Erik Johnson
Ryan McDonagh
John Carlson
Zach Bogosian
Mathieu Carle
They all look good to me. By far the best defence will be from these 3 teams in Sochi.
For me its hard to even rank these groups from 1-3. The top 7 talent of all is equal.
Canada
Weber-Doughty
Pietrangelo-Staal
Seabrook-Keith
Letang
Sweden
Karlsson-Kronwall
Enstrom-Ekman-Larsson
Edler-Hedman
Larsson
USA
Byfuglien-Suter
Yandle-Mcdonagh
Shattenkirk-E.Johnson
Bogosian
Sweden is pumping out some real good dmen, idolizing Lidstrom.
How would you rank the three? or Am I missing some obvious ones from any of the three teams?
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