With the 23 man roster now selected, Mike Babcock and the rest of the coaching staff take the burden from Steve Yzerman. Stevie Y has picked the ingredients, now it's up to Babcock to come up with a recipe for gold.
In the next couple of days, we'll start to look at some of the various line combinations available to Babcock, beginning today with the defence pairings.
One of the three defence pairings comes ready made. The Keith/Seabrook tandem has been a force in Chicago and will look to carry that chemistry over to the Olympic games.
The top four is another story. Pronger and Niedermayer have a past together in Anaheim and could be an option for the Team Canada staff. In the end I think it would be best if those two played on separate pairings.
Here is how I would line them up...
Niedermayer-Weber
Pronger-Boyle
Keith-Seabrook
As the 7th guy, LA Kings star Drew Doughty can hopefully slide in anywhere into the top four, ideally on a pair with Chris Pronger. If Seabrook struggles early in the tournament I wouldn't be surprised to see Doughty move up the depth chart and become the 6th guy.
How would you set up the Canadian defence?
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I think that it will play out with Niedermayer essentially seeing 7th man minutes...
ReplyDeleteKeith - Seabrook
Pronger - Weber
Boyle - Doughty
Niedermayer
theres no way Niedermayer will be the seventh man hes the captain althought i would like to see Doughty play instead of Boyle i doubt it will happen
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