Canada takes the best natural centres available, and fills out the roster with remaining elite wingers.
2010 - Canada selects five natural wingers. (Iginla, Heatley, Morrow, Perry, Nash)
2014 - Canada selects six natural wingers. (Perry, St Louis, Nash, Sharp, Benn, Kunitz)
2016 - Canada selects two natural wingers. (Marchand, Perry)
Andrew Mangiapane isn’t making this team. He shouldn’t be anywhere near it. It doesn’t mean he’s not a good player.
He’s inarguably not one of the 14 best forwards in the country, and he’s not an injury or two away from being there either.
Kunitz made the team because he was Sid’s linemate and Babcock had trouble in 2010 finding the right guys to play with him. That’s all.
He might make Finland. He’s not making Canada.
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