I was reminded today that the 2014 Olympics are only a year away and a short list of potential team members will probably be made by the end of this compressed season. As a Canadian hockey fan I'm slightly concerned when I consider our options for goal. Reviewing the list right now I'd say 3 of Luongo, Fleury, Price and Ward make the team with Mike Smith and Holtby as dark horses.

I wouldn't feel overly confident starting anyone of these guys especially since the Americans (Quick, Miller, Schneider, Thomas(?)) Swedes (Lundqvist) and Finns (Rinne, Rask) all have at least 1 guy superior to any of these (in my mind).

I know its early but I hope at least one (ideally 2) of these guys can have a great year that says "I'm your guy". How does everyone see Canada's goaltending shaping up for 2014 Sochi?

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2xC, 2xRW, 2xLW, 4xD, 3xUtil, 2xG, 5 Bench
G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA
C: Stamkos,Thornton, Riberio, Stepan, Desharnais, Clune
LW: Moulson, Dupuis, Prust,
RW: Kessel, P. Kane, Wheeler, Stempniak
D: Hamonic, Zidlicky, Franson, Muzzin
G: Bryzgalov, Hiller, Fasth

Unless Luongo gets on as a starter and proves he still has it I think it will be Price as starter and MAF and Ward backups

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NHL cap + 20 million
Scoring Cats - G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG
Goalie Cats - W, SV%, SO, GAA, SVS Made
Start - 3 C, RW, LW, F, 4 D, 2 UTIL, 2 G

C - Getzlaf, E Staal, Marleau, Elias, Eller
LW - Pacioretty, Vanek, Dubinsky, Raymond, Glencross
RW - Perry, Kane, Pominville, Simmonds, Clarkson, Stewart, Dupuis
D - Chara, Muzzin, Gardiner, Irwin
G - Lundqvist, Schneider, Biron

Martin Brodeur.

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Agreed on Price and MAF.
It's a bit of a concern, but it's not terribly different than the last Olympics. Canada didn't win because of the goaltending, but Lou ended up being good enough. I might argue with the addition of guys like Stamkos, Giroux, JT, and Eberle to the established core of Crosby, Toews, etc... that the 2014 team might be even better than the last. The line combos are going to be a ton of fun to play with.

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D: Karlsson, Subban,doughty, Pronger, Pitkanen
G: Schneider, Hiller, Dubnyk /A-1 pt Win-2pts Shutouts- 5pts(2+3) PIM- .25pts
Keep 10
Top 13 count in scoring(4 d, 1 g, 7 fwd and next highest scoring skater or G)

I think it's Price or Ward starting with MAF as the 3rd option. I honestly see Price as the starter due to his mentality alone

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14 Team Keeper League
Start 9F, 6D, 1G, 10 Bench - Keep 16
G-1, A-1, PIM-0.2, GWG-1 W-2, SO-3, OTL-1

Starters
F: H Sedin, Backstrom, Kovalchuk, Perry, Callahan, Parise, M Koivu, M Richards, St. Louis

D: Byfuglien, Subban, Shattenkirk, OEL, Robidas, J. Johnson

G: Lundqvist

IR: Ward, Pitkanen

Bench:
F: Dupuis, Zajac, Brassard, Zuccarello, Shore, Backlund, Killorn
D: Hillen
G: Fasth, Emery, Bryzgalov, Nabokov

Price
Ward
MAF

Crawford, Elliot, Harding

BAM!

You guys will look back on this thread and be like... "that dude... was SO right!"

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G(3),A(2),+/-(1),PIM(0.2),GWG(1),W(5),SO(3)

3C-Stamkos/Kane (RW)/Shaw
3LW-Ovechkin/Lucic/Pacioretty/Ryan (RW)/Hagelin
3RW-Sharp (C)/St. Louis/Stewart/Brunner/Neil/Gallagher
4D-Pietrangelo/Goligoski/Ekman-Larsson/Leddy/Phaneuf/Beauchemin/Corvo
1G-Rinne/Ward/Anderson/Bishop
+1 Util

Ryan miller



After he gets his Canadian citizenship

I could see Canada shaping up something like this (mind you this is a shot in the dark, you really dont know)

Steven Stamkos-Sidney Crosby-Corey Perry
John Tavares-Jonathan Toews-Claude Giroux
Eric Staal-Ryan Getzlaf-Rick Nash
Mike Richards-Patrice Bergeron-Jarome Iginla
Jordan Eberle

Marc Staal-Shea Weber
Duncan Keith-Brent Seabrook
Drew Doughty-Alex Pietrangelo
Kris Letang

Carey Price
Marc-Andre Fleury
Cam Ward

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F: Nicklas Backstrom*, Zach Parise*, Joe Thornton*, Mikko Koivu*, Jason Pominville*, Blake Wheeler, Joe Pavelski, Stephen Weiss, Derek Roy, Jakub Voracek, David Perron, David Krejci, Ryan Kesler

D: Mike Green*, Erik Karlsson*, Alex Pietrangelo*, Alex Goligoski, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Dion Phaneuf

G: Ryan Miller*, Tuukka Rask

I think it's Price's time to shine on the olympic stage.

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G, A, +/-, PIM, SOG, Hits, PPP, SHP
W, GAA, Sv%, Svs, SO

C: B.Richards, J.Pavelski, D.Roy, A.Killorn
LW: I.Kovalchuk, D.Heatley, R.Clowe, B.Dubinsky
RW: C.Perry, M.Gaborik, B.Wheeler, B.Boyes
D: A.Pietrangelo, P.K Subban, N.Kronwall, C.Franson
G: R.Miller, S.Varlamov, A.Khudobin, B.Elliott
IR: J.Spezza, E.Karlsson

Prospects: Galchenyuk, Johansen, Kuznetsov, Teravainen, Dumba, M.Foligno, Orlov, Pickard, Ramo