Canada's 2010 Hockey Team

If you could select Canada's 2010 Olympic Team, who would you choose - and in some cases, why?

Heatley - Getzlaf - Nash (duh)
Perry - Crosby - Iginla
M.Richards - Thornton - Lecavalier
Doan - Sakic - Carter

extra forward:Toews

Weber - Phaneuf
Boyle - Burns
Bouwmeester - Pronger

extra D-man: Duncan Keith

Goal:

Luongo
Brodeur

extra G: Giguere

Agree with you completely, Heater, holy crimminy, what a team on paper. no one stands a chance!

garanteed Heatley will be on that team

beedub wrote:Agree with you completely, Heater, holy crimminy, what a team on paper. no one stands a chance!

Kovalchuk - Malkin - Ovechkin
Kovalev - Datsyuk - Semin
Zherdev - Fedorov - Frolov
Kozlov - Kozlov - Filatov
Afinogenov, Samsonov, Kabanov who will be very young but is Ovechkin 2.0

Markov - Volchenkov
Gonchar - Zubov
Tyutin - Kalinin
Kulikov, Goncharov

Nabokov
Bryzgalov
Khabibulin, Varlamov




:pale:

Also, I'm pretty sure we've been over most of these teams already in another thread. Canada will have a good team, but there will be some competition.

504Heater wrote:Heatley - Getzlaf - Nash (duh)
Perry - Crosby - Iginla
M.Richards - Thornton - Lecavalier
Doan - Sakic - Carter

extra forward:Toews

Weber - Phaneuf
Boyle - Burns
Bouwmeester - Pronger

extra D-man: Duncan Keith

Goal:

Luongo
Brodeur

extra G: Giguere

Sakic won't be on the team...he just had sergery on his back for the 2nd time in 1 year and his had isn't recovering as well as hoped. It sounds like he's not even going to play next year. Toews will be on the team but I think a checker/faceoff guy will be there as well.

As for goalies, expect to see price, bernier...one of on the team. They won't go with 3 old guys, they will want the 3rd one to be a young guy in case the 2014 olympics have nhlers as well.

Team USA:
Kane – Stastny – Parise
Kessel – Gomez – Mueller
Pominville – O’Sullivan – Brown
Drury – Kesler – Tkachuk
Booth, Malone, Pavelski, Schroeder, Modano, Wheeler, van Riemsdyk, Guerin, Weight etc.

Rafalski – Komisarek
Suter – Erik Johnson
Ballard – Martin
J Johnson, Whitney, Gilbert, Carle, Yandle, Liles, Leopold, Niskanen, Bogosian

DiPietro
Miller

Not quite as impressive, but Team Czech:

Jagr - Krejci - Hemsky
Elias - Plekanec - Havlat
Hudler - Hanzal - Hejduk
Erat - Frolik - Michalek
others: Voracek, Prospal, Sykora, Lang, Prospal, Tlusty, Vincour, Vrbata and potentially checkers like Holik or Bonk.

Kaberle - Kuba
Kubina - Michalek
Hamrlik - Zidlicky
others: Rozsival, Spacek, Smid

Vokoun
Pavelec

Slovakia:
Hossa - Demitra - Gaborik
Satan - Handzus - Svatos
Zednik - Panik - Tatar
not sure - Kopecky - not sure

Visnovsky - Chara
Meszaros - Valabik
Sekera - Mihalek
Jurcina

Halak
Budaj
Janus

Pretty poor depth there, but solid up-front.

Definitely a transition period for the Swedes from the old regime, but they're still pretty solid.

Sweden:
Naslund - Zetterberg - Alfredsson
Sedin - Sedin - Franzen
Eriksson - Backstrom - Holmstrom
Brunnstrom - Berglund - Huselius
also potentially available: Sundin, Forsberg, MSP, Moller, Modin, Nylander, Hornqvist, Josefson, Backlund, and checkers like Axelsson and Pahlsson

Lidstrom - Kronwall
Edler - Ohlund
Hedman - Enstrom
Stralman, Tallinder, Karlsson

Lundqvist
Ersberg

Finland:

Selanne - Jokinen - Miettinen
T Ruutu - M Koivu - Hagman
Jokinen - S Koivu - Bergenheim
Lehtinen - Filpulla - Osala
Up and coming superstars Pulkkinen and Granlund will still be very young but the Finns may be looking for offensive kick

Timmonen - Pitkanen
Salo - Lydman
Koistinen - Lepisto
Numminen if still around

Kiprusoff
Backstrom
Lehtonen
Toskala
Rinne

beedub wrote:Agree with you completely, Heater, holy crimminy, what a team on paper. no one stands a chance!

Hot damn. I care 1000 times more about winning a Cup, but this is a fun team. I must have left guys off though.

asq2 wrote:

beedub wrote:Agree with you completely, Heater, holy crimminy, what a team on paper. no one stands a chance!

Kovalchuk - Malkin - Ovechkin
Kovalev - Datsyuk - Semin
Zherdev - Fedorov - Frolov
Kozlov - Kozlov - Filatov
Afinogenov, Samsonov, Kabanov who will be very young but is Ovechkin 2.0

Markov - Volchenkov
Gonchar - Zubov
Tyutin - Kalinin
Kulikov, Goncharov

Nabokov
Bryzgalov
Khabibulin, Varlamov




:pale:

That defense is the Dung man.

Dawg's Wife wrote:

Sakic won't be on the team...he just had sergery on his back for the 2nd time in 1 year and his had isn't recovering as well as hoped. It sounds like he's not even going to play next year. Toews will be on the team but I think a checker/faceoff guy will be there as well.

As for goalies, expect to see price, bernier...one of on the team. They won't go with 3 old guys, they will want the 3rd one to be a young guy in case the 2014 olympics have nhlers as well.

I tried to get Morrow in there, but it was really hard. They have some tough choices coming up.

Yeah...I'll admit, I put Giguere in there because I hate the Habs. Price should probably go.