Also didn’t care for McKenzie’s take on the roster. He was defending the roster saying that there was no guarantee the players others thought should be there would have produced in this tournament. He argued that Ritchie and Cowan dominate the OHL and they didn’t produce so there’s no guarantee the players that were omitted (he used Sennecke as an example) would have produced.
Of course it’s not a guarantee. There are lots of prolific scorers in Junior that do not produce much at the World Juniors. But if you bring as many of these skilled players as possible to the tournament, you give yourself the best chance of at least a few of them producing.
Canada really needed players like Misa, Sennecke, Parekh and Yakemchuk at this tournament. Who knows which one of them (or any of them) would have produced or created chemistry in the roster but it would have at least maximized the chances of having some top end elite offensive talent break out in this tournament.
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