Canada Gettin' !@#$ed

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

Take a look at the current Season 46 World Cup standings. What do you see? Canada is at the bottom of the totem pole, and it doesn't look like there is any chance of them turning it around.

 

Heading into the tournament, it's not as if anyone had high hopes for Canada, either. They're solely depending on a goaltender who hasn't had much experience in Atticus Von Braxton IV, and they don't exactly have any "superstar" players to go along with it. AVB IV has a .830 save percentage, with a 4.45 goals against average. Those are some pretty bad numbers for a World Cup caliber team.

 

Sure, they have some great star players like Marcus Hurley, Bronson and Marcel Faux on forward, but those are players that get outshined in the VHL as a whole during the regular seasons. There's two up and coming greats like Tom Lincoln and Zach Parechkin there as well, but they're just beginners themselves. On the back end, they do have a very strong veteran core with Lloyd Light and Francis York Morgan, but after that the experience dimmers in Bubba Nuck and John Sleeman.

 

Canada just doesn't have what it takes just yet, and it will be hard to make an argument until they get an elite goaltender on the back end. Maybe in the next tournament when players like Parechkin, Lincoln, Sleeman, and Nuck are better, they will fare a lot better, but at the moment they're only surviving on the legs of Marcus Hurley and the Faux brothers.

 

Maybe next time. Maybe there's a slight, slight chance now...but its slim.

[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

Muller > Parechkin

[Advantage 2,891]

I mean, by next tournament we will be beasts so I wouldn't worry.

[boubabi 4,725]

WJC all over again

[Kesler 1,514]

11 hours ago, StevenStamkos91 said:

Muller > Parechkin

Lincoln.