Resurrection!

I have decided to resurrect my reader-less blog in order to exercise my atrophied writing skills. To kick things off, why don't I pick up roughly where I left off and make my predictions for the Canadian olympic hockey team.

Canada is obviously very deep at forward (especially centre) and only a little less so on defence. Goaltending is a glaring weakness. Here is my team, with those players who I consider locks (barring injury) highlighted in red:

FORWARDS

John Tavares	Sidney Crosby	Claude Giroux
Eric Staal	Steven Stamkos	Martin St. Louis
Logan Couture	Jonathan Toews	Patrice Bergeron
Rick Nash	Ryan Getzlaf	Corey Perry

Spares: Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle.

The top two lines shouldn't have too much trouble putting the puck in the net, and the third line will be beastly to play against. With Toews (a lefty) and Bergeron (a righty), Canada can easily dominate the face-off circle against any opponent. It's crazy to think that no one on the fourth line is a lock, but because of an embarrassment of riches up front, the Team Canada brass will undoubtedly take early season performance into serious consideration and I wouldn't be surprised if someone else plays their way onto the team.

DEFENCE

Duncan Keith	Drew Doughty
P.K. Subban	Shea Weber
Dan Hamhuis	Alex Pietrangelo

Spares: Jay Bouwmeester, Kris Letang.

The Canadian blueline will consist of smooth skaters, deft puckhandlers, and punishing hitters. Like the forward, the defensive corps will likely best the best in the tournament. I would love to put a player like Marc Staal on the team, but I think he's a risky choice at this point considering his eye injury from last season.

GOAL

Carey Price

Roberto Luongo

Corey Crawford

There are no locks in goal as far as I'm concerned. It's quite possible that none of these three makes the team. I think Price has the best shot of being the starter. If he can recapture the form he showed prior to the late season meltdown suffered by the entire Montreal organization, he will be a no-doubter.