Ever since the NHL started sending its players to the Winter Olympics in 1998, a popular holiday tradition in Canada was forecasting just which players would actually make the cut on the deep and talented team. Just about everyone will agree: Canada’s player pool is so vast at the highest level of hockey that even a team of leftovers – effectively Canada’s B team – would be a medal contender in any best-on-best international hockey competition.



Sadly, the NHL decided not to participate in the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea for a lot of political, logistical and economic reasons that left a lot of players and fans unhappy.



But what if they had? What would Canada’s team look like?



Can you imagine the debate, given there would have been a major changing of the guard from 2014, when Canada went undefeated in Sochi and under coach Mike Babcock had become so efficient defensively that it really drained a lot of the...