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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team [message #850305 is a reply to message #850303 ]	Mon, 23 February 2026 10:09

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Kr55 wrote on Mon, 23 February 2026 09:15

So in the end Binnington didn't end up an issue at all IMO. He still seems to be on his game when they matter, but St Louis these days provides no situations where games matter. He isn't Hellebuyck, but no Canadian goalie is like that right now. Carey Price was the last one. Maybe Jet Greaves can be the next guy :)

Issue was building a team with lots of roster spots given to guys meant to defend leads, but we didn't have enough speed and skill to actually get leads in the elimination games, outside of 30 seconds left in the Finland game. Cooper ended up looking like an oilers coach, depending on 1 line and 1 D pair to do anything. Even had to split up McDavid's line and the Makar pair in the gold medal game trying to get something from other forward lines, but this also handicapped his top line with the Parayko pair.

Really need to stop outsmarting ourselves with these teams.

It's pretty crazy to me that you build an all-star team, have a game where there was VERY little special teams and still end up playing the top 3 forwards 25 minutes and you have defencement with under 10 minutes of game time.

That's a flat out admission of the roster flaws. I think it makes sense to play a lot of the very best players in the world for sure - but the other guys are ALL first line NHL players and all-stars. You should be able to give a breather to the top guys at some points.

I'm curious what the 2010 Finals numbers looked like for TOI. Was Crosby playing that much more than everyone else?

"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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