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Old 03-12-2015, 03:51 PM   #1
Da_Chief
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Default Speculation: NA U23 team - 2016 World Cup

This will be a bigger topic as we get closer to it but let's start looking at who might make the team.

Most likely the team gets announced in the summer of 2016. So Eligible players would have to be born in 1993. Pretty much 2011 draft and on.

So lets see. Some eligible players:

Centers:
C - Connor McDavid
C - Jake Eichel
C - Ryan Nugent Hopkins
C - Ryan Strome
C - Mark Scheifele
C - Sean Couturier
C - Alex Galchenyuk
C - Nathan MacKinnon
C - Sean Monahan
C - Bo Horvat
C - Max Domi
C - Sam Reinhart
C - Sam Bennett

Wing:
LW - Jonathan Drouin
LW - Jonathan Huberdeau
LW - Brandon Saad
LW - Johnny Gaudreau
LW - Scott Laughton
LW - Tanner Pearson
LW - Anthony Duclair
LW - Michael Dal Colle
RW - Brett Ritchie
RW - Tom Wilson
RW - Anthony Mantha
RW - Jake Virtanen

Defence:
D - Seth Jones
D - Morgan Rielly
D - Jacob Trouba
D - Dougie Hamilton
D - Cody Ceci
D - Damon Severson
D - Darnell Nurse
D - Josh Morrissey
D - Ryan Pulock
D - Aaron Ekblad

Goaltenders:
G - John Gibson
G - Zach Fucale
G - Mason Macdonald
G - Malcolm Subban
G - Eric Comrie
G - Jon Gillies


A lot of C obviously and some good LW depth but really struggling on the RW and G for this team. Defence should be ok. So a few C's will have to switch positions.

My team:

Drouin-Mackinnon-Eichel
Gaudreau-Monahan-McDavid
Saad-Nugent Hopkins-Strome
Huberdeau-Galchenyuk-Ritchie
Horvat, Pearson extras

Hamilton-Jones
Reilly-Trouba
Ceci-Ekblad
Severson-Nurse

Gibson
2 x Whoever I guess

Am I missing someone? Of course I put in bunch of potential guys cuz we still have all of 2015-2016 to play as well. What's your team?
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