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Edmonton Journal
16 hours ago
- Edmonton Journal
'Canadian mutants': Ex-NHLer rips Oilers star player and fans, gets ripped back
This in, the controversy already erupting over which players will and will not be selected for Team Canada at the coming Olympic Games, with former American NHLer Jordan Schmaltz provocatively picking a squad absent both Edmonton Oilers Zach Hyman and Evan Bouchard. Article content For those who don't recall Schmaltz, after a strong college career at North Dakota, he played 42 NHL games from 2016-19, before heading to Europe and retiring in 2022-23. Article content Team Canada 2026 Olympic roster 🏒 Reinhart- McJesus- Marner Marchand-Sid-The Dogg Cirelli- Point-Hagel Bennett-Schiefle-Wilson Extras: Bob Thomas, Fellabrini (14) Toews-Makar Harley-Paryako Morrissey- Doughty Theodore Extra: Dobson (8) Binner Hill Monty (3) — Jordan Schmaltz (@J_Swish24) August 12, 2025 Article content Article content Schmaltz hit a sore spot with Oilers fan, as both Hyman and Bouchard were left off the Four Nations Cup roster last winter, despite having outstanding 2023-24 seasons and playoffs. The concern now is that both players will be left off the Olympic team as well, despite both Hyman and Bouchard again playing brilliant hockey in the 2025 playoffs. Article content Article content Oilers Nation writer Zach Laing @zjlaing has anyone actually watched the oilers play playoff hockey in the last two years? Article content Oilers fan Skinner over .900? (Knows Puck) @CampbellOver900 For a team that's played the very last game of the last 2 seasons, they are severely underwatched by the rest of the hockey world Article content Article content Dobson… Bouchard is better offensively at 5 on 5, better defensively, better on the PP and now is proving to be good on the PK. Not to mention upping his game (to historic production levels and all around best d-man in the playoff levels). Oh ya, outscores away from 92 and 29. … I think they (Team Canada) could use another material driver of outscoring at 5 on 5 – that's what Bouchard is…. Bouchard is 43-39 goals over the course of the last three years without BOTH McDavid and Drai…. One could also show the numbers for how much worse both McDavid and Drai do away from Bouchard – its substantial, their production rates go down and their goal share goes way down. Article content In response, Schmaltz fired back on his critics. Article content Jordan Schmaltz@J_Swish24 The thing you Canadian mutants don't realize (for the record that's a compliment) is the reason you go with Doughty over Bouchard is fairly simple but the average fan wouldn't understand.. when the game is on the line and into the medal rounds Makar is going to play sub 30 minutes. Paryako will give you 18-20. The other guy on the right side is going to play 10-15 minutes. They don't need Bouchard for PP1 and he's not exactly a penalty kill wizard. Helluva hockey player with the puck you can't question that but who gives team Canada a better option in that role of PK / 10-15 a night on the right side? Doughty is way better suited for that assignment. Weegar / Dobson would be as well. As much as it's an all star team you still need definitive roles and guys who understand how to play in certain scenarios. Doughty has won cups, Olympics, four nations, world juniors. And still can BALL.
CTV News
a day ago
- CTV News
‘Best team ever formed': Legends from 1976 Canada Cup team reunite
Team Canada's Darryl Sittler puts the puck past Czechoslovakian goalie Vladimir Dzurilla to score and win the Canada Cup in overtime in Montreal, on Sept. 15, 1976. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody TERREBONNE — Serge Savard says the best Canadian hockey team he ever played on wasn't the one that beat the Soviet Union in the legendary 1972 Summit Series. That honour belongs to the less-celebrated - but supremely talented - squad that won the inaugural Canada Cup in 1976. 'The best team ever formed,' the Montreal Canadiens legend said. The 1976 Canadian men's hockey team reunited on Tuesday at Le Mirage Golf Club for Savard's annual tournament, almost 50 years after Darryl Sittler scored the championship-clinching goal in a 5-4 overtime win against Czechoslovakia on Sept. 15, 1976, at the Montreal Forum. Almost anyone alive in Canada in 1972 can recall where they were when Paul Henderson scored the winning goal with 34 seconds left to lift Canada past the Soviets. The game played out against the backdrop of the Cold War -- and the goal became one of the most iconic moments in Canadian history. The winning team that represented Canada on the world stage four years later doesn't get the same glory, but the talent on the ice was at a higher level, according to Savard. 'That team was much better than '72, because '72 is special, it's in the history books, but in '72 we didn't have Bobby Hull, we didn't have Bobby Orr,' Savard said. 'And in '72 that was the first year of Guy Lafleur in the National Hockey League. We didn't have those three dominant players.' Orr - one of the best players of all-time -- missed the 1972 series due to knee injuries that would plague him throughout his career. The dynamic, game-changing defenceman made up for his absence in 1976, winning the tournament MVP in his first and only international tournament for Canada. 'He just was at the end of his line,' head coach Scotty Bowman, days away from turning 92, said of Orr, who played only 26 NHL games after the Canada Cup before cutting his career short. 'He came to the arena around 1:30, 2 o'clock. The games were around 8 o'clock, maybe 8:30, and he iced his knee continuously.' Sittler, meanwhile, said Orr hardly practised with the team. 'No morning skates, didn't need it. He was there when it counted,' he said. 'Best player of that tournament even though he was hobbling on a couple of knees.' Hull, who led the NHL in goalscoring seven times, joined the lineup in `76 after a WHA contract with the Winnipeg Jets made him ineligible for the `72 roster. Lafleur, meanwhile, was nearing his peak as a dominant force in the mid-to-late '70s. Altogether, 18 eventual Hall of Famers hit the ice against Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Sweden, the United States and Finland in the first 'best-on-best' international hockey tournament. 'Myself being there was probably a little bit of a weak link,' said Larry Robinson, who won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman the following season. 'It's pretty darn hard to not agree that it might be the best team that Canada's ever had.' Orr, who declined to speak with reporters, walked arm in arm with Savard, steps ahead of Sittler and captain Bobby Clarke, while 12 other team members followed in Canadian jerseys a chip shot away from the fairway. Along the road leading into the golf club, banners of each legend hung on the flagposts, with the late Lafleur and Hull pictured in black and white. Lanny McDonald was already well on his way to becoming an NHL star in 1976, but even he was awestruck to be sharing the bench with his hockey heroes. 'You look around the room and you've got Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Larry Robinson, Guy Lafleur -- the list just went on and on,' said McDonald, then 23. 'Danny Gare and I are the two young guys, and we're both thinking, `What the heck are we doing here?' 'I was like a kid in a candy store.' Sittler still recalls his winning goal like it was yesterday. The Toronto Maple Leafs star broke down the wing and faked a shot to beat Czechoslovakia goalie Vladimir Dzurilla wide, a move that assistant coach Don Cherry reminded players to try against the aggressive netminder. '(Cherry) had walked through the dressing room and he reminded the guys that 'Hey, if Dzurilla comes out, if you have a breakaway on the side, make sure you look up,'' Sittler said. 'I looked up and he was out, and threw it in the empty net and that was it.' Beyond featuring what some believe to be the best roster of all time, the 1976 Canada Cup -- the first of five such events -- set the stage for NHL players to compete at the world championships and Olympics. Along with the '72 Summit Series, it also helped open Canadian hockey fans' eyes to the skill and talent of European players. 'It set the bar for those tournaments like we had this year with the 4 Nations,' Bowman said. By Daniel Rainbird.
Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Globe and Mail
Stocks in play: RBC
Announced three-time Olympic Gold medalist and record-setting swimmer Summer McIntosh as the newest addition to its team of elite Olympic ambassadors. Summer joins a group that includes Marie-Philip Poulin, Sarah Nurse, Brandie Wilkerson, Melissa Humana-Paredes and many others who represent the bank's shared values of teamwork, excellence, commitment and community. RBC shares are trading up $1.04 at $184.91.
