Hockeyhead’s Team Canada, Final Answer

If we remember back to August, when selecting the 2010 Canadian Men’s Olympic hockey team was in vogue, we set our initial picks here at Hockeyhead.  Looking back, they weren’t too shabby… well except for that Brad Boyes pick.

On the eve of Steve Yzerman and co.’s official selection party we’re revisiting our list from August and tweaking it one last time.  Here in all of its glory is Hockeyhead’s 2010 Olympic hockey team:

Forwards

Rick Nash
Sidney Crosby
Jarome Iginla
Dany Heatley
Vincent Lecavalier
Eric Staal
Ryan Getzlaf
Brenden Morrow
Mike Richards
Joe Thornton
Jonathan Toews
Corey Perry
Brad Richards

Defence

Scott Niedermayer
Chris Pronger
Jay Bouwmeester
Shea Weber
Dan Boyle
Duncan Keith
Brent Seabrook

Goaltenders

Martin Brodeur
Roberto Luongo
Marc-Andre Fleury

There we have it.  No Mike Green (douche, can’t play D), and no Patrick Marleau (I’d play well with Thornton and Heatley, too).  I’m going with Vincent Lecavalier simply because he’s a top-rate talent having a bad year.  There’s no need for Mike Fisher types when you can demand the same game from a far more talented player like Lecavalier or Eric Staal. Jonathan Toews is there because I seriously believe that someone robbed DNA from Yzerman and made him from it.

The walls come down tomorrow, let’s see what happens…