2022 Olympics Preview: Team Canada

The Winter Olympics are a year away, and it seems - tentatively - like they might offer us an opportunity to watch some real, proper best-on-best international hockey for the first time in almost a decade.

If the NHL, NHLPA, and IOC are able to sort this out, we’ll finally get the chance to watch a new generation of superstars compete for Olympic gold an

In anticipation of this, I'll be presenting my mock rosters for the big-five countries: Canada, the United States, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. These aren't predictions for what the rosters will actually look like, but rather the ones I would choose were I given total control over the tournament. These are informed heavily but not exclusively by analytics like Patrick Bacon’s Wins Above Replacement Model; I didn’t just sort the ol’ spreadshe