Barkov and Aho are pure C's. At least Hintz, Granlund and Lundell have played wing at some point.

The guy with worst defense imo. Elite Cs should be able to defend too.

Possible underagers coming up

Canada - Bedard, Benson, Yager, Danielson, Fantilli, Ritchie, Allen, Wood (holy smokes all these guys probably have a legit chance)
USA - Stramel (shame he was scratched this time), Brzustewicz, Musty
Sweden - Carlsson, Lindstein, Stenberg
Finland - Halttunen, Kiviharju (double underager)
Slovakia - Dvorsky again, Ciernik, Honzek again, Misiak
Czechia - Sale, Hrabal
Latvia - Fenenko again

Aho has played wing too

I was talking about the Dallas guys lol, I could see each one of them maybe being able to play wing.

Has he?

2021 WJC MVP - Trevor Zegras
2022 WJC MVP - Mason McTavish

Would be crazy if they were on the same team



2023 WJC MVP - Luke Hughes

I thought he plays defense?

They all have good defence lol.

My guess is Bourque, because his play style suits the Hintz-Robo duo better than every single guy we have (minus Pavs).

I think it’ll look like:

Robo-Hintz-Bourque
Marchment-Johnston-Stankoven
Peterson-Seguin-Gurianov
Benn-Damiani-Dellandrea

Johnston and Stankoven split centre starts. And that’s like in 2023-2025 ish, not next year, but in between the year after and the year after that.

Agreed.

Iirc he did play in juniors, Liiga and first year in NHL as a left wing/C, before CAR decided to make him a full time C.

Dude's a multi tool.

My guess is Johnston. But who knows.

Man I wish Niemela wasnt signed for another year in Liiga would have loved to see him with the Marlies and potentially push his way into a spot for 2023-2024 heck maybe even this year. Still could happen but probs wont see him till 2025

Booo

Still excited to see

Rielly-Liligren
Sandin-Brodie
Gio-Niemela

I very much doubt that, he’s the most natural centre of them all.

But as you said, you never know.

Also Olen Zellweger from Anaheim

It's a pure guess, but I feel that in terms of talent he would complement both Robo and Hintz quite well. They are all very capable of scoring 30-40 goal and 70-90 point seasons, and given Johnston's a righty that also fits well with those two lefties.

These all apply to Stankoven as well which is why it's a pure guess, but rn I love Stankoven as a C way too much 😂

Dubas trades him plus first for Miller at deadline. Book it.

Well, after clobbering everybody in the prelims, the USA didn't even medal, and then when I get on the Finland bandwagon, they lose in heartbreaking fashion in OT. But still, wow what a gold medal game. So fun to watch. And with that, the 2022 WJC is over.

@BeterChiarelli will now do the same for this thread.

And it also applies to Bourque as well 😂

At this point, there’s no claim that’s wrong or right here, it’s pure guesses.

But why would Van trade if they have a chance of making it to the playoffs this year. As with no Benning and Greene holding them back and with Demko I could see them making it

I feel if Miller was to have been traded it would have been done by the draft we just witnessed.

As to me even if he doesnt extend I got a feeling Van just gonna go for it and if he leaves so be it

Why should we lock it?
We can still talk about it
Let ppl who aren't active today talk about it tomorrow or something
It's not like we are at the page limit

Of course the Miller trade would only happen if VAN is out of playoff picture by the deadline.

I don't trust that team. But we'll see what happens.

And also I got a feeling we would be outbid by a certain USA team (cough Pittsburgh)

Apparently they are heavily interested but dont want the full cap hit so are waiting

OT scorers in the #GoldMedal game of a World Juniors:Kent Johnson (#TeamCanada tonight)Kasperi Kapanen (FIN, 2016)Rasmus Ristolainen (FIN, 2014)Mika Zibanejad (SWE, 2012)John Carlson (USA, 2010)Matt Halischuk (CAN, 2008)Artem Chubarov (RUS, 1999)Niklas Hagman (FIN, 1998) pic.twitter.com/91QBLAhVlP

— StatsCentre (@StatsCentre) August 21, 2022

Olen Zellweger, with a gold medal around his neck, an all-star nod, and 11 points to lead all D, says he’ll use this in December when he COMES BACK.

— Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler) August 21, 2022

Could he become the all-time point producer for Dmen in the Tournament?