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Site staff at TMLfans.ca has offered their predictions for the selection of players for Team Canada’s 2010 Men’s Olympic hockey team.
The official announcement will be broadcast on TSN at 12noon Eastern.
Update 12:40PM ET: The official Olympic roster is provided, for comparison.
| Rob Del Mundo | Darryl Lierman | Monika Moravan | Rick Couchman | TEAM CANADA |
| Goalies | Goalies | Goalies | Goalies | Goalies |
| Martin Brodeur | Martin Brodeur | Martin Brodeur | Martin Brodeur | Martin Brodeur |
| Roberto Luongo | Roberto Luongo | Roberto Luongo | Roberto Luongo | Roberto Luongo |
| Marc-Andre Fleury | Marc-Andre Fleury | Marc-Andre Fleury | Marc-Andre Fleury | Marc-Andre Fleury |
| Defence | Defence | Defence | Defence | Defence |
| Chris Pronger | Chris Pronger | Chris Pronger | Chris Pronger | Chris Pronger |
| Scott Niedermayer | Scott Niedermayer | Scott Niedermayer | Scott Niedermayer | Scott Niedermayer |
| Shea Weber | Shea Weber | Shea Weber | Shea Weber | Shea Weber |
| Dan Boyle | Dan Boyle | Dan Boyle | Dan Boyle | Dan Boyle |
| Duncan Keith | Duncan Keith | Duncan Keith | Duncan Keith | Duncan Keith |
| Jay Bouwmeester | Jay Bouwmeester | Jay Bouwmeester | Drew Doughty | Brent Seabrook |
| Drew Doughty | Mike Green | Mike Green | Mike Green | Drew Doughty |
| Forwards | Forwards | Forwards | Forwards | Forwards |
| Sidney Crosby | Sidney Crosby | Sidney Crosby | Sidney Crosby | Sidney Crosby |
| Rick Nash | Rick Nash | Rick Nash | Rick Nash | Rick Nash |
| Jarome Iginla | Jarome Iginla | Jarome Iginla | Jarome Iginla | Jarome Iginla |
| Ryan Getzlaf | Ryan Getzlaf | Ryan Getzlaf | Ryan Getzlaf | Ryan Getzlaf |
| Corey Perry | Corey Perry | Corey Perry | Corey Perry | Corey Perry |
| Joe Thornton | Joe Thornton | Joe Thornton | Joe Thornton | Joe Thornton |
| Dany Heatley | Dany Heatley | Brad Richards | Dany Heatley | Dany Heatley |
| Brenden Morrow | Patrick Marleau | Patrick Marleau | Brenden Morrow | Brenden Morrow |
| Eric Staal | Eric Staal | Patrice Bergeron | Eric Staal | Eric Staal |
| Jonathan Toews | Jonathan Toews | Jonathan Toews | Jonathan Toews | Jonathan Toews |
| Mike Richards | Mike Richards | Mike Richards | Mike Richards | Mike Richards |
| Shane Doan | Shane Doan | Steven Stamkos | Jeff Carter | Patrice Bergeron |
| Milan Lucic | Martin St. Louis | Martin St. Louis | Patrick Marleau | Patrick Marleau |
The team roster and salary cap information has now finally been updated.
The current salary cap and payroll commitments now reflect the “normal” roster after the St Louis trade (Steen and Colaiacovo for Stempniak) and Stralman’s transfer to the Marlies.
After accounting for the players currently on the IR and called up, it seems as though the Leafs are running with a 22-man roster, which means that Burke has left himself a free roster spot to showcase an extra Marlie (as he is currently doing) or perhaps to ensure that he has the available roster spot in case a player of interest is placed on waivers by another team.
I should point out that the cap totals reflect the players currently on the roster, but do not reflect the exact, actual team cap situation. For instance, there will be some additional cap cost associated with the days that Steen and Colaiacovo were on the Leafs roster, and a corresponding cap reduction to Stempniak’s cap hit for the days when he was on the Blues’ roster. Similarly, various players have been on the IR — with Marlies called up to replace them — which affects the actual cap situation. Further, there have been several roster moves (Tlusty and Stralman to the Marlies, etc.) which are accounted on a daily basis and aren’t reflected here.
The bottom line: the cap hit and cap space shown should be treated only as a very rough approximation.
The Leafs Active Roster has also been updated to reflect the approximate current roster, but the line combinations should be taken with a grain of salt. As we’ve seen, coach Ron Wilson doesn’t hesitate to shuffle the deck both in practice and during the games, so it’s almost impossible to present anything that’s completely accurate (or at least we’d need someone updating it full time, which isn’t currently the case).
At present my schedule doesn’t allow me to maintain a completely current, daily update of the data, but it is my hope that I’ll be able to make monthly updates to both posts. Please bear that in mind when reviewing them. I’ll include a “last updated” line to let you know when the last update was made. I expect to do the next update sometime in early-to-mid January. Thanks for your understanding.