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As of right now what would you like for your countries Olympic hockey team to look like? I know a lot will change within the next year but it's always a great discussion especially with the Canadian team that has so many options.

My Team Canada:

G Roberto Luongo
G Martin Brodeur
G Cam Ward

D Chris Pronger
D Scott Niedermayer
D Dion Phaneuf
D Shea Weber
D Mike Green
D Jay Bouwmeeter
D Duncan Keith

F Sydney Crosby
F Eric Staal
F Ryan Getzlaf
F Vincent Lecavalier
F Jarome Iginla
F Mike Richards
F Rick Nash
F Dany Heatley
F Jonathon Toews
F Martin St. Louis
F Jeff Carter
F Simon Gagne
F Shane Doan

So the lineup would be something like:

Luongo
Brodeur
Ward

Niedermayer Pronger
Phaneuf Weber
Bouwmeester Green
Keith

Nash Crosby Iginla
Heatley Getzlaf Staal
Gagne Lecavalier St. Louis
Carter Richards Doan
Toews

Others Considered:

G Steve Mason
G Marc-Andre Fleury
G Carey Price

D Dan Boyle
D Brent Burns
D Drew Doughty
D Braydon Coburn
D Brent Seabrook

F Marc Savard
F Joe Thornton
F Patrick Marleau
F Joe Sakic
F Jason Spezza
F Mike Cammilleri
F Corey Perry

Go Shea Weber!

I don't want Crosby playing with those guys because I don't want to see what he could do with wingers like that.

Looks good to me! I even like your line combinations. I think it would be hard to keep Dan Boyle off the team, and I would probably have him there over Duncan Keith. It is also hard not to have Marc Savard on the squad, but it's really hard to find a spot for a guy who's skill become redundant on a team that is so stacked offensively. Mike Richards as the 4th line center, you couldn't find a better player in the world to fill that roll.

Thank you very much for not putting Joe Thornton on the team!

All-in-all I think that is exactly, or very close, to the team Yzerman will come up with. Either way, Gold Metal here we come!

For comparison sake, let's take a look at Team Russia

Team Russia:

Forwards
Ovechkin Datsyuk Semin
Kovalchuk Malkin Kovalev
Frolov Yashin Radulov
Moroslov Federov Zherdev

Defense
Gonchar Markov
Zubov Tyutin
Volchenkov Atyushov

Goalies
Nabokov
Bryzgalov
Varlamov

Extra: Slava Kozlov

Their top 2 lines are equal to or greater than Team Canada's top 2 lines. That's a lot of fire power. All 3 Hart trophy finalists this year are Russian. They have the best goal scorers in the world in Ovechkin and Kovalchuk. They arn't as deep, or as tough, and they certainly arn't as good on the blue line or in net. But when it comes to talent and ability to take home gold, Russia is as good as it gets.

Team Sweden

Zetterberg Backstrom Alfreddson
Sedin Sedin Franzen
Huselius Sundin Eriksson
Naslund Forsberg Holmstrom

Lidstrom Ohlund
Kronwall Edler
Enstrom Hedman

Lundqvist
Tellqvist

Team USA

Parise Stastny Kessel
Backes Gomez Ryan
Malone Drury Gionta
Langenbrunner Connolly Modano

Rafalski Komesarek
Whitney Suter
Johnson Martin

Tim Thomas
Ryan Miller
Rick DiPietro

trwi7 wrote:Go Shea Weber!

Quit trying to spread Predators love, goon.

WEFFPIM wrote:

trwi7 wrote:Go Shea Weber!

Quit trying to spread Predators love, goon.

Come on, I have to bring something other than Blackhawks, Penguins, Bruins, Capitals and the Canada teams.

trwi7 wrote:

WEFFPIM wrote:

trwi7 wrote:Go Shea Weber!

Quit trying to spread Predators love, goon.

Come on, I have to bring something other than Blackhawks, Penguins, Bruins, Capitals and the Canada teams.

Why, you're a homer, for the Pens!

timd1218 wrote:
Why, you're a homer, for the Pens!

True.

Green and J-Bo will be a minus 20 in the tournament. Watching Green offensivly is magic, defensivly. . .there is a lot to be desired.

The only way i see him getting substancial minutes is if Kieth is on the ice 2 seconds longer on each shift

I would rank the teams in this order

1. Canada
2. Russia

3. Sweden
4. USA


5. Czech Republic
6. Slovakia

Team Canada

G Martin Brodeur
G Roberto Luongo
G Steve Mason (experience)

D Chris Pronger
D Scott Niedermayer
D Dion Phaneuf
D Mike Green
D Jay Bouwmeeter
D Dan Boyle

F Sydney Crosby
F Jonathon Toews
F Martin St. Louis
F Ryan Getzlaf
F Vincent Lecavalier
F Jarome Iginla
F Joe Sakic
F Rick Nash
F Marc Savard
F Joe Thornton
F Patrick Marleau
F Shane Doan

I would rank the teams:

Canada
Sweden
Russia
USA
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Jack and Eric Johnson will both be on team USA.

^ Agreed.

Team USA is starting to look really talented for now and in the future.

Team Canada
G Brodeur, Luongo, Mason

D Nidermeyer/Phaneuf
Weber/Boyle
Bouwmeester/Keith
extra Doughty

F Crosby/Thorton/Getzlaf
Nash/E. Staal/Iginla
Gagne/Lecavelier/Heatley
Richards/Toews/Morrow
extra Perry

Team USA
G Thomas, Miller, Quick

D Rafalski/Komisarek
Martin/Suter
Scuderi/Johnson (whichever one starts the year off better)
extra Johnson (other Johnson)

F Kessel/Drury/Kane
Parise/Stasney/Ryan
Booth/Gomez/Langenbrunner
Pavelski/Brown/Oshie
extra Okposo

Lecavlier Crosby Iginla
Nash Getzlaf Heatley
Staal Thornton Perry
Lucic Richards Doan


Pronger Weber
Phanuef Niedermayer
Bouwmeester Boyle


Luongo
Brodeur
Ward

My Team as of November


Rick Nash Sidney Crosby Jarome Iginla
Corey Perry Ryan Getzlaf Steven Stamkos
Patrick Marleau Joe Thornton Dany Heatley
Brendan Morrow Mike Richards Shane Doan


Chris Pronger Dan Boyle
Scott Niedermayer Shea Weber
Jay Bouwmeester Duncan Keith
(Drew Doughty #7)


Martin Brodeur
Roberto Luongo
Marc Andre Fleury

Team Canada #1

Nash/Crosby/Iginla
Lecavalier/Getzlaf/Perry
Heatley/Thornton/St. Louis
Morrow/Richards/Doan
Toews

Pronger/Niedermayer
Bouwmeester/Weber
Keith/Seabrook
Boyle

Brodeur
Luongo
Fleury

Team Canada #2

Marleau/Stamkos/Carter
E.Staal/B.Richards/Stastny
Sharp/Spezza/Camalleri
Neal/Fisher/Penner
Versteeg

Phaneuf/Regehr
Coburn/Green
Doughty/Burns
Hannan

Ward
Price
C.Mason

And I'm still leaving off some great players like Steve Mason, Turco, Emery, Del Zotto, Robidas, Campbell, Jovanoski, M.Staal, J. Staal, Smyth, Peverley, Laich, Tavares, Horton, Ribeiro, Briere, Roy, O'Reilly, Versteeg, Lucic, etc....

It's all going to be about getting the chemistry for Canada. I don't know what direction they're going to go. Are they going to take guys like Morrow, Doan, and Regehr or are they going to pick all the best skill players they have.