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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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Yeah, not having Makar makes a huge difference and I was speaking specifically to the rosters as currently constructed (injuries included). But even moving forward, the level that Faber plays at already considering his age, is incredible. And at a minimum, I think we match up pretty well, Defensively, against Canada even if they were at full-strength.
I think I'm just mainly excited that we can even talk about being on even-footing with them in some areas.