People are gonna lose it when they see Gallagher over Couturier, ROR, Barzal

Jeez... wont be many goals against that 4th line

Man I don't understand why everyone thinks Rielly is so amazing. Here's a list of Canadian D who are better:

Chychrun
Girard (WAY better)
Ellis
Chabot
Nurse

I'm just glad to see Bergeron getting the respect he still deserves by being included on just about every ACGM Team Canada. Unfortunately in a league where points are the only thing that matter to the awards voters I am saddened the guy will never get his well earned Hart Trophy. Most complete Center in the game for a decade and counting.

Elite puck moving defenseman who plays a lot of minutes. If you've watched him play you will know that there is no player out their that can hold the puck in better on the offensive blue line. In his own end he is average.

More like he's a really bad defensively. Honestly, I think it will be one of Rielly/Chabot. I don't think they know how good Ellis is and Girard/Chychrun will probably get considered in the best-case scenario.

Couturier is on the team ahead of Gallagher. ROR and Barzal play the same game as a bunch of guys ahead of them on the roster. Gallagher has a unique style and ability that only Marchand can really beat him at...

I know and I've put Gallagher on my Team Canada's before and I tried to explain the exact same thing lol. My bad I confused Giroux and Couturier because of the Flyers logo.

Honestly, I could go into a whole rant as to why I picked Rielly but the truth is that I am splitting hairs between him and guys like Ellis.

Chycrun, Chabot and Girard are still very young so when you pick your bubble players you typically take the older guy. Nurse has had a good year, but is benefiting from playing on the Oilers without Klefbom this year. He has no business on this team.

Ellis is the closest comparable to Rielly and I contemplated putting him on this team. Looking at the stats (and the eye test) Rielly is much better on the breakout when making the first pass. That will be very important as the strategy should be to get the puck to the forwards and sit back. Ellis also averages more defensive zone giveaways, but it is close..

Ellis plays a little more PK than Rielly, but Rielly still plays the PK and at the end of the day this would be about 3% of the game at best..

A cool stat I also found was that rielly averages a +10 PIM differential per 82 games over the last three seasons where as Ellis averages -9 meaning he is taking 9 more penalties than he draws...

Like I said, at the end of the day we are really splitting hairs..