Canadian Regional Hockey Teams - Who Would Win a Tournament?

Cool!

I disagree with some of your line-up choices though, especially Toronto. Seriously, needs John Tavares and Steve Stamkos. Also Drew Doughty, though I’m not sure whether you’d put him on Toronto or Ontario. Also, Tyler Myers (born in Texas of but plays for Canada would go on Alberta). I guess some of these have to do with when you made the lists.

Hard to say who would win. I think my revised GTA team would do pretty damn good, and whichever of Toronto or Ontario gets Doughty would be nails. BC has a sick D but not much for the forwards.

This is an awesome post. I can’t decide between Ontario (outside GTA) or Atlantic Canada. This is a great idea for a tournament, maybe as a pre-training camp warmup?

I find your lack of BOZAK disturbing…

Interesting idea.

But…Duncan Keith is from BC. He himself would tell you he is from here. Because he was born and moved at a very young age elsewhere, he was to play with a bunch of flatlanders?

I like the BC team you selected for grit and skill. Even without Keith, look at the bangers on that team! Kane/Lucic, and the others look pretty tough to play against.

Let me get back to you on a few players though. Nediermayer (R.), and Horcoff, for instance, are not players I really want on the team.

Good stuff though!

Tyler Bozak is listed among the forwards, and I added Robyn Regehr to the D corps (imagine going up against him and Luke Schenn!).

1. Ontario
2. Alberta
3. Saskatchewan

Great post, I’ve had this same discussion with some of my friends. It would be a great tournament to see that’s for sure.

If Ontario and GTA wasn’t split that would be quite a team but the GTA looks a little weak right now. There’s hope for a bright future there with kids like Stamkos, Tavares, Subban, Wolski (born in Poland, moved at a young age), Hodgson, Some kid the bruins drafted recently (haven’t heard too much about him, probably won’t be very good), Caputi (potential 50 goal scorer).

I’d put Phillips in onto that third pairing.

Also, Jay McClement was born in Kingston, Ontario, and everything about tough minutes forwards that Copper n Blue has been running suggests that he’s Selke-worthy, so I think he’s worth adding, maybe instead of Bolland or Kostopolous (depending on where Kingston is).

Thanks for all the terrific suggestions.

 - Duncan Keith is now on Team British Columbia (hat tip to vancitydan). Aaron Rome has been added to the Manitoba roster as a result of that switch.
 - Tyler Myers added to Alberta and Drew Doughty is now on Team Ontario.
 - Steve Stamkos and John Tavares now included on the Toronto/GTA roster.
 - I also decided myself to replace Steve Bernier with Guillaume Latendresse for Team Quebec.

I agree also that McClement would be a good player to consider. He’d go on Team Ontario.
This is the map I’ve been going by for the GTA.

I’ve thought about this too, make for some good summer hockey.

A few teams are suffering on goaltending, though Quebec has the best top 3 (but they lack in defense).

I’d go:
Ontario
Alberta
BC

Atlantic Canada would bring Al MacInnis out of retirement for this tournament to strengthen the D.
Mike McPhee would be brought in to kill penalties.