Adam wrote on Fri, 27 February 2026 11:19

Skookum Jim wrote on Thu, 26 February 2026 20:21 Matt Schaeffer just scored another two goals tonight.. Wudda shudda cudda 16G for the year.. same as Bouchard .. on a crap team.. Should also have had Schiefle instead of at least 4 other forwards.. Reinhart, Jarvis, Horvat, Hagel, Adding Bouchard, Schaeffer and Dobson and deleting Parayko, Sanheim and Doughty would have improved that team significantly. May not have made a difference, as Canada still had a great game in the finals and the goaltending was very good from Hellebuyck, but probably at least makes the quarter and semi final games a little less of a struggle. Morrissey's injury definitely played some havoc with the team's plans - but when you only take two good puck-movers, then you're really at risk if either goes down. Also - I wonder what it is about Shea Theodore that Cooper doesn't like? He was really the guy they seemed to use least and yet it was Parayko that looked worst to me.

Yeah Paryko looked the worst for me as well.. Theodore is much better, should have taken some of Parayko's minutes

After watching Doughty last night as a reference point, I'm pretty convinced Schaeffer would have been a big upgrade over Parayko, Doughty.. TC need another elite skating puck carrier to take the load off Makar.. you can tell they planned it to be Morrissy but should have had Schaeffer in the back pocket in case of injury.

IMHO Schiefle, Wyatt Johnson at forward over some of those other plugs would have helped net a few more goals in the tight checking games.

Biggest dissappointment was Reinhart.. brought nada

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