Button made some dumb choices. Hyman isn’t going to be on the team.
But Team Canada isn’t going to just throw all the most skilled players on the roster. Even in best-on-best tournaments, you need guys to play roles. And the 4-Nations showed that if a player can’t check or play reliably against elite opposition without the puck (like Fox), he’ll be exposed.
There will also be a strong bias towards guys who were on the 4-Nations team - they did win the thing. Coaches have a big say in the roster, and Cooper will want the guys he won with back.
I expect the roster will look something like:
Crosby-McKinnon-Reinhart
Celebrini-McDavid-Jarvis
Hagel-Suzuki-Marner
Marchand-Point-Stone
Scheifele, Bennett
Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Theodore
Sanheim-Parayko
Harley, Doughty
Thompson
Binnington, Kuemper
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Originally Posted by fotze
If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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