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I made up some nations' potential Olympic rosters before the NHL backed out. What do your rosters look like if the NHL was still participating?

I found Canada the hardest because there's so many players to consider and you'll see a lot of forwards are playing off position, but how can you justify leaving them off. Russia was pretty easy because everyone slotted into position unless I left out someone obvious. edit, btw Matthews is a lock for the U.S. but I think I made the list before the season got off. But yes he should be there.

USA

Gaudreau - Eichel - P. Kane

Pacioretty - Pavelski - Kessel

Parise - T. Johnson - Wheeler

Van Riemsdyk - Kesler - Oshie

McDonagh - Suter

Byfuglien - Shattenkirk

Carlson - Jones

Faulk

Quick, Bishop, Schneider

N. Foligno LW, Stepan C, Atkinson RW (forgot to update for Matthews lol. slot in for Johnson- bump Stepan?)

CANADA

Marchand - Crosby - Carter

Benn - McDavid - Seguin

Stamkos- Toews - Tavares

Getzlaf - Bergeron - Perry

Doughty - Burns

Keith - Weber

Letang - Giordano

Subban

Price, Holtby, Crawford

Hall LW, Giroux C/RW, Scheifele C

RUSSIA

Panarin - Malkin - Ovechkin

Kovalchuk - Datsyuk - Kucherov

Radulov - Kuznetsov - Tarasenko

Kulemin - Anisimov - Namestnikov

Markov - Orlov

Kulikov - Voynov

Tyutin- Emelin

Provorov

Bobrovsky, Vasilevski, Varlamov

Burmistrov C, Semin RW, Zaitsev D

SWEDEN

Forsberg - Backstrom - Hornqvist

Zetterberg - Wennberg - Steen

D. Sedin - H. Sedin - Nyquist

Landeskog - Nylander - Arvidsson

Karlsson - Hedman

Ekman Larsson - Klingberg

Stralman - Kronwall

Larsson

Lundqvist, Lehner, Lack

Eriksson LW, Rakell C, Zibanejad C

Posted Jul 16, 2017, 10:35 PM UTC · edited

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