Problem with Team Canada is that it picks some of it's players based on who they used to be.
After the fiasco in Turin Hockey Canada said that they wouldn't do that any more.

Look what we did this time around
Ignla - Having perhaps his worse season ever in the NHL
Marty B - perhaps the greatest goalie of all time but he had a brutal play-off last year and hasn't played well this year
Pronger - has been brutal for most of this NHL season
Neidemier - another one that has just been brutal this NHL season

Marty lost us the game verse the US and almost lost us the game against the Swiss
Except for the game against the Russians Pronger and Neidemier have looked old and slow
Ignla has not performed at all except against the lower level team

Unlike most nations Canada has enough top level players that we could easily make two Olympic teams so there is no reason for us to keep making the same mistakes and putting players on our team that are having bad seasons simply because they used to be great


The stripes of a tiger don't wash away. Be a man of steel not clay JYD #102