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Originally Posted by RockChalk
You said "maybe D", but I believe our D-line pairings are superior to anything Canada can throw out there. USA is catching up in terms of overall skill and ability.
Hope they win so we can play them again.
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Without Makar and Pietrangelo, you're probably right.
But with those two guys, the Canadian D is extremely formidable. And I do think they should've brought Bouchard with them but I guess they decided that the games are probably going to be tight enough that a defensive lapse could be enough to lose them a game so they went with more defensively oriented blue-liners.
I mean Makar, Pietro, Morrissey and Bouchard is a pretty incredible top 2 pairs.
But to your larger point -- yeah, the gap is closing. And will probably continue to close. But I do think it's pretty likely that Canada continues to be better at the very top end of their rosters going forward. Where they McDavid and MacKinnon as their top forwards, we have Matthews and Hughes. Ours top end is very good but theirs is simply better.
Thank God for the Hughes and Tkachuk families, man. I mean its easy to joke about, but take Jack, Quinn, Brady and Matthew off this team and man that's a ton of talent lost. Quinn Hughes being better than Jack (IMO) was NOT on my bingo card. But both of those guys are outstanding.