Let’s be honest, Parehk alone wouldn’t save this team.
The team was selected poorly, I was going to go through each player 1 by 1 but honestly I can’t be bothered to waste my time on a team that was horribly selected by a corrupt group of executivesc coached by a guy who’s talking to the media about how he doesn’t even care to be there and downplaying the importance of this tournament to Canadians… Listen to his post game interview after the US game, the guy looks like a deer in headlights, in way over his head it’s embarrassing.
I do appreciate Bobby Margherita calling this team and coach decisions out though. I also loved how Duthie on the panel said this tournament is up to Canadas best players now and unfortunately Canada didn’t bring those this year
Scoring is at a historic low, almost 2 decades low. Just 10 goals in 4 games with the worst powerplay in history.
Akey - Said to be one of the best offensive threats while defensively elite before the tournament. Has been absolutely invisible, with no impact.
Dickinson - Has been lights out in junior and should have made the team no doubt. Easily an elite 2 way defender but he’s not looked anything like himself in this tournament. No impact on either side of the puck and has struggled almost every game so far. Most disappointing player on the backend for me, but Coach dip#### has also not given him any PP time so it’s not all on him.
Mynio - Substitute, did well at taking bad penalty against the US. When Canada had their last strike to make a change with the unfortunate injury they still found a way to mess it up.
Bonk - Not much to say here, basically chosen because he was on the team last year. Not at all one of the best defenseman available for Canada this year and yet Cameron has put him in the #1 spot getting the most PP time on the backend which he doesn’t even get on his junior team because that’s not him. An absolute travesty.
Price - Elite defensively and has played pretty good so far. Every year they select at least 2 strong defensive guys to hopefully shut down other teams top guys so I understand this pick.
Molendyk - He’s 19 and he’s normally an elite skater.. that about sums up his selection qualities over a plethora of other kids who could and should have been selected. I’d say his play can be summarized as “meh” with nothing standing out at all for the most part.
Schaefer - Should be there, looked good and yet Cameron wasn’t playing him as much as he should have. Sad and unfortunate injury as he was our only hope for backend offense.
Not selected but should have been there or at least given a real shot (no particular order)
Yakemchuk
Parekh
Mews
Morin
Marrelli
Dragicevic
We’ve beat this to death, myself probably the most (sorry!) and that’s because we’re just passionate fans who love to see our country win. That starts and ends with the best team being selected.