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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

Yeah you actually don't know what you're talking about at all. Hamhuis is far more reliable defensively than Kris Letang as well as Subban, and is better than Bouw and Doughty in his own end. Not only that, but he has an excellent breakout pass - search youtube for his 150 foot lob breakway pass to Stamkos in the WHC last year for an overtime game winner for an international example. He won't give you much in the offensive zone because he won't gamble, but he will hold the puck in, make smart passes to continue the zone time, and if there's an opportunity get the puck on net (albeit not with a ton of velocity).

I am not sure why you are bringing up Subban and Letang as I don't think either guy should be used 5 on 5 and only had Subban listed as my 7th guy/PP specialist.

There is no way Hamhuis is better in his own zone than Bouwmeester and Doughty but I guess we will have to disagree about that fact.

I am sure I can get plenty of nice plays from other guys that are comparable, especially Doughty from last Olympics where he was the best defenseman for Team Canada. Good for him for making a nice play top level defenders should make great plays every once and while, if not more often.

Yeah it would, but again you're not making any sense. Those three guys are locks and all three play the right side, and are on my roster in post 1. The question is whether adding Hamhuis instead of an out-of-position Letang makes the team worse, and the answer is no, it doesn't.

Again with Letang which makes no sense because I have never included him on my roster. So what if he is a better option than an out of place Letang if that is not who he is competing with?

I included those 3 because Keith and Seabrook should be a lock pairing based on how they have played these past 4 years together as well as their individual skill. Bouwmeester is a LH defenseman already and better than Hamhuis so doesn't make sense to replace him. That leaves Doughty, Weber and Pietrangelo as the last 3 guys on my team in the top 6 and they are all RH so if you are so concerned with having no RH guys playing on the left then one of them goes.

We don't need the guy on our third pairing rushing the puck up the ice to create offense, we have Crosby, Getzlaf, Doughty, Perry, Toews, Duchene, Tavares and a bunch of other guys to do that.

No but we don't need the third pairing guys to be lesser defenders with less offense than guys we leave at home.

Anyway people are going to disagree with this and try to just make their HUT roster from NHL 14, but I'm comforted by the fact that at least Mike Babcock apparently agrees with me.

I am not sure what the HUT roster from NHL 14 means but I want the roster that best gives Canada a chance at winning a Gold medal and bringing lesser talent isn't the way to go. I am also not sure how you can say Mike Babcock agrees with you since we haven't seen the roster or pairings yet. Especially when last year they went with 4 right handed guys and two left handed defensemen.