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Originally Posted by moon
I had Staal on my team but doubt that both he and Bouwmeester are there over Letang. I would replace one of them with Letang.
I think it is interesting to look at all the stats but the easiest way for me is to look at the pools and see who you would take on a team:
Keith-Seabrook
Weber-Suter
Doughty-Pietrangelo
Letang
If you combine the two countries that is my roster with Bouw or Staal possibly replacing Letang. I don't see another American outside of Suter close to making a combined roster. Even the next six would be light on Americans:
Bouw-Boyle
Staal-McDonagh
Girardi/Hamhuis-Subban
Yandle
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When I say I prefer the US roster that was a bit of a stretch, I'd still favor Canada. But the point I'm trying to make is people who are saying it's not even close and making it sound like the defense is going be a major weakness for the US team are incorrect. The defensive corp they will ice will be very serviceable and will play hard productive minutes, even if they don't have all the sexy names that Team Canada has.
Now forwards is a completely different story. They are going to struggle up front and will need to rely on their defense and goaltending if they are going to have any success.