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2019-2020 NHL Thread

MacKinnon also followed up that contract extension with just a 53-point season. I bet Avs management was getting pretty worried about him meeting his draft hype after that one (and then he of course did).
 
Random factoid while I was looking into that: It took MacKinnon 5 seasons and 374 games to score 114 goals. Matthews has 111 in 3 seasons and 212 games.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
MacKinnon also followed up that contract extension with just a 53-point season. I bet Avs management was getting pretty worried about him meeting his draft hype after that one (and then he of course did).
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I'm really hoping we look back at the Nylander deal in 2 years and comment on it being an absolute steal of deal.  He has the talent to far outperform that number, I hope he does it.
 
So this is just sort of idle nonsense slow news day thinking but it's been such a long time since we've had a real best-on-best tournament I couldn't help but think about what a current Team Canada roster would look like. Here's my best guess:

Marchand-McDavid-Mackinnon
Bergeron-Crosby-Point
Scheifele-Tavares-Marner
Benn-Toews-Seguin
Couturier
Monahan

Burns-Giordano
Parayko-Pietrangelo
Doughty-Keith
Rielly

Price
Holtby
Fleury/Murray

Man, we really need a good international tournament again. That team would be bananas fun to watch.
 
Nik the Trik said:
So this is just sort of idle nonsense slow news day thinking but it's been such a long time since we've had a real best-on-best tournament I couldn't help but think about what a current Team Canada roster would look like. Here's my best guess:

Marchand-McDavid-Mackinnon
Bergeron-Crosby-Point
Scheifele-Tavares-Marner
Benn-Toews-Seguin
Couturier
Monahan

Burns-Giordano
Parayko-Pietrangelo
Doughty-Keith
Rielly

Price
Holtby
Fleury/Murray

Man, we really need a good international tournament again. That team would be bananas fun to watch.
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Pretty ridiculous depth when a player like Taylor Hall, one year removed from a Hart and still in his prime, doesn't make the cut and I'm struggling to pick a player to take of your team to include him.
 
Deebo said:
Pretty ridiculous depth when a player like Taylor Hall, one year removed from a Hart and still in his prime, doesn't make the cut and I'm struggling to pick a player to take of your team to include him.
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To top that off, I forgot Stamkos. So he probably takes Monahan's spot there and bumps Marner or Point or someone.
 
Here's my team, while trying to keep a L-R split on the wings and defence since it's something the coaching staff has found important in the past:

Point-McDavid-MacKinnon
Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Benn-Tavares-Marner
Toews-Scheifele-Stone
Stamkos-Giroux

Giordano-Doughty
Keith-Pietrangelo
Vlasic-Burns
Rielly-Parakyo

Price
Holtby
Fleury

Pretty similar for the most part, mostly line shuffling changes. I doubt the Crosby line gets broken up, although it's crazy to think that they might/wouldn't be the top line this time around.
 
The Sochi team was arguably the most dominant hockey team ever and it still had some questionable players on the roster like Marleau, Kunitz, Sharp, Hamhuis, and Bouwmeester. Plus some good but slower/older players like Carter, Perry, Getzlaf, and Nash. The rosters here don't have/need any of those players, but there's still a good amount of veteran and defensive presence. It'd be a slaughter.
 
herman said:
Now do Team Canada with a Team North America in the picture.
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I think the only guys affected on my roster would be Point and Marner. So take them off and replace them with O'Reilly and Stone.
 
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
Now do Team Canada with a Team North America in the picture.
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I think the only guys affected on my roster would be Point and Marner. So take them off and replace them with O'Reilly and Stone.
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And McDavid. But yeah Team Canada will be fine.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Deebo said:
Pretty ridiculous depth when a player like Taylor Hall, one year removed from a Hart and still in his prime, doesn't make the cut and I'm struggling to pick a player to take of your team to include him.
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To top that off, I forgot Stamkos. So he probably takes Monahan's spot there and bumps Marner or Point or someone.
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For some reason I had thought that Stamkos had dropped off a bit in recent years, but 98 points last year and 86 the year before.
 
herman said:
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
Now do Team Canada with a Team North America in the picture.
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I think the only guys affected on my roster would be Point and Marner. So take them off and replace them with O'Reilly and Stone.
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And McDavid. But yeah Team Canada will be fine.
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Yikes. McDavid is still only 22. That's...pretty ridiculous.
 
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
Now do Team Canada with a Team North America in the picture.
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I think the only guys affected on my roster would be Point and Marner. So take them off and replace them with O'Reilly and Stone.
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And McDavid. But yeah Team Canada will be fine.
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Yikes. McDavid is still only 22. That's...pretty ridiculous.
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And MacKinnon is turning 24 this year. I thought he was older.
 
Team North America

Matthews - McDavid - Marner
Dubois - Point - MacKinnon
Hughes - Eichel - Barzal
M. Tkachuk - Larkin - Boeser
Tuch

Werenski - Jones
Chabot - McAvoy
Girard - Ekblad
Dermott - Deangelo

Hart
Blackwood

The only weakness is goaltending.
 
I did like Team North America, it was a fun thing in the tournament but on reflection it was sort of one of the things that kind of held it back from being a tournament that I took seriously. So long as Canada and the US are forced to play at 85-90% strength it makes any other winner but those two teams illegitimate.
 
herman said:
Team North America

Matthews - McDavid - Marner
Dubois - Point - MacKinnon
Hughes - Eichel - Barzal
M. Tkachuk - Larkin - Boeser
Tuch

Werenski - Jones
Chabot - McAvoy
Girard - Ekblad
Dermott - Deangelo

Hart
Blackwood

The only weakness is goaltending.
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*Googles Deangelo...
 
Here's my crack at the US, who also might have the best roster they could ever put together:

Tkachuk-Matthews-Kane
Gaudreau-Eichel-Wheeler
Atkinson-Larkin-Pavelski
Guentzel-Trocheck-Oshie
Kessel-Lee

Werenski-Jones
Suter-Carlson
Slavin-Byfuglien
McDonagh-Trouba

Bishop
Gibson
Hellebuyck

I mostly just did this by looking at Americans based off points. Still a pretty good roster. Their bottom 6 forwards don't have as many elite players as Canada but they aren't taking actual bottom-6 players anymore either. Also have a hell of a defence while their goaltending is pretty much even with ours. And I ended up leaving off a number of pretty good players that could fit (Kreider, Boeser, DeBrincat, McAvoy, Pesce, Yandle, Krug).
 
Here's Sweden for good measure:

Forsberg-Backstrom-Arvidsson
Landeskog-Lindholm-Pettersson
Nyquist-Zibanejad-Nylander
Johnsson-W.Karlsson-Silfverberg
Soderberg
Backlund

Hedman-E. Karlsson
OEL-Ekholm
Dahlin-Lindholm
Klingberg
Edler

Lundqvist
Lehner
Markstrom

No top of the league scorers but man alive is that a good defense.
 
Kadri wants the Avs to do this.  Agree anyone?

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