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PDO
10-19-05, 7:39 PM
Goaltenders

Ed Belfour, Toronto; Martin Brodeur, New Jersey; Dan Cloutier, Vancouver; Curtis Joseph, Phoenix Coyotes; Roberto Luongo, Florida; Andrew Raycroft, Boston Bruins; Jose Theodore, Montreal; Marty Turco, Dallas; Cam Ward, Carolina.

Defencemen

Adrian Aucoin, Chicago; Rob Blake, Colorado; Jay Bouwmeester, Florida; Dan Boyle, Tampa Bay; Nick Boynton, Boston; Eric Brewer, St. Louis; Eric Desjardins, Philadelphia; Adam Foote, Columbus; Scott Hannan, San Jose, Barret Jackman, St. Louis; Ed Jovanovski, Vancouver; Bryan McCabe, Toronto; Kyle McLaren, San Jose Sharks; Derek Morris, Phoenix; Scott Niedermayer, Anaheim; Dion Phaneuf, Calgary; Chris Phillips, Ottawa; Chris Pronger, Edmonton; Wade Redden, Ottawa; Robyn Regehr, Calgary; Sheldon Souray, Montreal; Steve Staios, Edmonton; Brad Stuart, San Jose.

Forwards

Jason Allison, Toronto; Jason Arnott, Dallas; Patrice Bergeron, Boston; Todd Bertuzzi, Vancouver; Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Minnesota; Daniel Briere, Buffalo; Jeff Carter, Philadelphia; Marc Chouinard, Minnesota; Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh; Shane Doan, Phoenix; Kris Draper, Detroit; Simon Gagne, Philadelphia; Dany Heatley, Ottawa; Shawn Horcoff, Edmonton; Jarome Iginla, Calgary; Paul Kariya, Nashville; Vincent Lecavalier, Tampa Bay; Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh; Eric Lindros, Toronto; Joffrey Lupul, Anaheim; John Madden, New Jersey; Kirk Maltby, Detroit; Patrick Marleau, San Jose; Brendan Morrison, Vancouver; Brenden Morrow, Dallas; Glen Murray, Boston; Rick Nash, Columbus; Rob Niedermayer, Anaheim; Joe Nieuwendyk, Florida; Jeff O'Neill, Toronto; Michael Peca, Edmonton; Keith Primeau, Philadelphia; Mark Recchi, Pittsburgh; Brad Richards, Tampa Bay; Michael Richards, Philadelphia; Michael Ryder, Montreal; Joe Sakic, Colorado; Marc Savard, Atlanta; Brendan Shanahan, Brendan, Detroit; Ryan Smyth, Edmonton; Jason Spezza, Ottawa; Eric Staal, Carolina; Martin St. Louis, Tampa Bay; Steve Sullivan, Nashville; Alex Tanguay, Colorado; Joe Thornton, Boston; Scott Walker, Nashville; Wes Walz, Minnesota; Steve Yzerman, Detroit.

Obviously quite a few players there are listed just beacuse they've played for Canada in the past... for example Steve Staios.

My 23 man roster from this team (assuming 13 F, 7 D and 3 tenders)

Nash - Thornton - Bertuzzi
Smyth - Spezza - Heatley
Gagne - Sakic - Iginila
Kariya - Lecavalier - Lemieux

Doan

Pronger - Blake
Niedermayer - Bouwmeester
Foote - Brewer

Redden (Boyton very close..)

Luongo
Brodeur
Theodore

I'd personally like to go with 2 goalies and bring a bit more youth with us... choose one of Crosby/Phaneuf/Staal/Bergeron
TimmyTabasco
10-19-05, 8:14 PM
Joseph might get that No.3 spot

Remember that it was given to Belfour the last time around. Also, check out his early SP%, GAA..and Gretzky connection ;)

Also, Theo didn't want to go to the Worlds as a 3rd string..so I don't think he will be there
PDO
10-19-05, 8:17 PM
Agree with all your points.. though I'd be moderately surprised if Joesph is still 100% by the time the olympics roll around. Theodore might think a bit different for the Olympics.. a lot more prestigous.
J.R.
10-19-05, 8:47 PM
Anyone know the total number of Canadians that play in the NHL?

Bob McKenzie said that Hockey Canada was considering putting all of them on this list and submitting that to the IIHF, since there is no limit on the number of players.

Not a bad idea, because it gives the selection committee all options when it comes time to select the 23 man roster. If some really obscure player all of a sudden starts to tear it up, then he would be available for Team Canada. Maybe paper printing costs deterred them from doing that.
Newfie John
10-19-05, 8:49 PM
Anyone know the total number of Canadians that play in the NHL?

Bob McKenzie said that Hockey Canada was considering putting all of them on this list and submitting that to the IIHF, since there is no limit on the number of players.

Not a bad idea, because it gives the selection committee all options when it comes time to select the 23 man roster. If some really obscure player all of a sudden starts to tear it up, then he would be available for Team Canada. Maybe paper printing costs deterred them from doing that.

The reason they didn't do it is because they thougth that it could be construed as making a mockery of the system.
PDO
10-20-05, 8:22 PM
The reason they didn't do it is because they thougth that it could be construed as making a mockery of the system.

Yeah.. should've anyway.

I find it strange that Staios is listed and Smith isn't.
slapshot™
10-21-05, 9:37 AM
Anyone know the total number of Canadians that play in the NHL?

All here according to country origin -> Player Stats (http://www.nhl.com/nhlstats/stats?service=direct&context=Stats/changeSortColumnAction&fetchKey=20062ALLAAS&sort=player.birthCountryAbbrev&viewName=bios)

(I didn't do the tally)
J.R.
10-21-05, 8:18 PM
All here according to country origin -> Player Stats (http://www.nhl.com/nhlstats/stats?service=direct&context=Stats/changeSortColumnAction&fetchKey=20062ALLAAS&sort=player.birthCountryAbbrev&viewName=bios)

(I didn't do the tally)
Thanks.

So there are 10 pages of 30 players, the first page had 27 and the last had 18, so that's 345 NHL players that were born in Canada.

More than I would have guessed.
butterfly_style
10-24-05, 8:50 AM
Thanks.

. . .345 NHL players that were born in Canada.

Yep, roughly half.