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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

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

My picks:

Crosby-McKinnon-Bedard
Celebrini-McDavid-Marner
Suzuki-Bennett-Reinhart
Hagel-Point-Barzal

Scheifele, Jarvis

Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Theodore
Harley-Parayko

Schaefer, Dobson

Thompson

Binnington, Kuemper