Eklund: Team USA in 2025-26 is just BETTER Than Team Canada 2025-26. Buzz@1

Wow…this is bad…even by your standards.

Gosh this is long way off, but this is clearly the deepest the U.S. has ever been. Tage Thompson just came out of nowhere and becomes one of the best centers in the world. No one saw that coming.

Don't sleep on Dylan Cozens on team Canada. He's a baby Bergeron. Mark my words.

Wow…this is bad…even by your standards.
- TurdFergeson

It's a fun topic even with Chris McAvoy and Owen Powers, whomever they are.

It's a fun topic even with Chris McAvoy and Owen Powers, whomever they are.
- lacaprup

Connor Brown on line two for team Canada?? Lol
Mason McTavish gets two roster spots.

Connor Brown on line two for team Canada?? Lol
Mason MacTavish gets two roster spots.
- TurdFergeson

Oh forget Ek's lines. I just think the topic is a good one, if far off. This is the first time I remember the U.S. having skill near this deep. Normally Canada can ice two teams with more talent than America. Not anymore.

Eklund: Team USA in 2025-26 is just BETTER Than Team Canada 2025-26. Buzz@1
- Eklund

So McTavish is a starter and an extra

What about the following? Stamkos, Suzuki, Tavares, Nugent-Hokins, Horvat, Skinner, Hyman who are in the top 50 points range at the moment : any of these warrant a spot on the team? Im glad your not the manager for my team.

Sure. If these are the two rosters then USA looks better. But my goodness, how can you possibly think this is the Team Canada roster in 2025-26. So clueless.

Mark Stone? He wouldn't make the roster today. Certainly not in 2025-26.

Connor Brown? Same thing. If Canada sent 5 teams he isn't on any of them. But that's your 2nd line. Mark Stone and Connor Brown. I thought about not even reading further.

You have Nick Suzuki on the bench for Canada. Smart move. Mason MacTavish is somehow on the 3rd line, but also on the bench. Does he have a twin? Bo Horvat not even good enough for Canada's bench. Right.

Morgan Rielly? Oh my.

Goaltending is hilarious. Sebastian Cossa is currently playing in the ECHL but comes out of nowhere and is on the roster. Hmm, I wonder if a guy like Logan Thompson or Stuart Skinner might become a bonafide #1 by 2025-26. Thompson is basically there already. But I'll keep a close eye on Cossa's ECHL stats.

Good blog

Slow day huh?

Sure. If these are the two rosters then USA looks better. But my goodness, how can you possibly think this is the Team Canada roster in 2025-26. So clueless.

Mark Stone? He wouldn't make the roster today. Certainly not in 2025-26.

Connor Brown? Same thing. If Canada sent 5 teams he isn't on any of them. But that's your 2nd line. Mark Stone and Connor Brown. I thought about not even reading further.

You have Nick Suzuki on the bench for Canada. Smart move. Mason MacTavish is somehow on the 3rd line, but also on the bench. Does he have a twin? Bo Horvat not even good enough for Canada's bench. Right.

Morgan Rielly? Oh my.

Goaltending is hilarious. Sebastian Cossa is currently playing in the ECHL but comes out of nowhere and is on the roster. Hmm, I wonder if a guy like Logan Thompson or Stuart Skinner might become a bonafide #1 by 2025-26. Thompson is basically there already. But I'll keep a close eye on Cossa's ECHL stats.

Good blog
- Cooleus

Cold blooded.

There is a way to post a different team Canada roster than Ek's without insulting him. There's so much venom on these threads in particular sometimes. I mean, why?

Eklund: Team USA in 2025-26 is just BETTER Than Team Canada 2025-26. Buzz@1
- Eklund

Do you have Cloutier ghost writing this blog

Connor Brown eh? Bold choice even for Don Cherry

Brown??? really. That's just throwing lesser names into a line up.
Be better man...just be better....

Oh forget Ek's lines. I just think the topic is a good one, if far off. This is the first time I remember the U.S. having skill near this deep. Normally Canada can ice two teams with more talent than America. Not anymore.
- lacaprup

That's complete horsepoop... the US have been icing deep teams as far back as 1996.

https://teamusa.usahockey.../show/4310245-1996-roster

https://teamusa.usahockey...er-games-men-s-tournament

Brian Burke tried pulling that underdog card back in 2010 when they were considered a strong co favorite with Canada.

There is a way to post a different team Canada roster than Ek's without insulting him. There's so much venom on these threads in particular sometimes. I mean, why?

I don't have an issue with the topic, or even the players he suggested. It's just frustrating that he doesn't reread what he wrote before posting it and he puts no effort. In just this post, he included a sentence with "the the", multiple names wrong, a player listed twice, arbitrarily deciding when to include first and last names, not listing the ages of the last two goalies for Canada. And it's not just this post, it's every one of his posts.

Meanwhile, Ek hires employees who are actually writers or actually care to edit their work, but I can only assume Ek is the only one making decent money off this site.

Alex Pietrangelo at 34 on the 1st pair. I dunno. I agree on Cal Makar tho. Cale is the present and future for elite D men but Cal is better all around.

Jacob Slavin not even making Team USA as an extra? He's probably one of the most elite shutdown defensemen in the league. Has some offensive upside and make offensive defensemen better.

Hyman-McDavid-Marner
Suzuki-MacKinnon-Point
Marchand-Horvat-Crosby
RNH-Cozens-Kyrou

Chychrun-Makar
Chabot-Ekblad
Theodore-Dobson

Thompson-Skinner-Hart

There. That took 5 minutes of effort and is infinitely better. Correct spelling. D-men playing on their normal sides. Not including ridiculous names like Connor Brown or an ECHL goalie because he was drafted high.

There is a way to post a different team Canada roster than Ek's without insulting him. There's so much venom on these threads in particular sometimes. I mean, why?
- lacaprup

Ek commits journalistic fraud on a regular basis. Hundreds of self claims over years about being a "source" on transpired transactions that real journalists are verifiable sources on. Then he has the editing skills of a mentally handicapped stillborn. This also ignores his sensationalized "rumors" of dubious origins to put it kindly. So the criticism is more than warranted.

Ek commits journalistic fraud on a regular basis. Hundreds of self claims over years about being a "source" on transpired transactions that real journalists are verifiable sources on. Then he has the editing skills of a mentally handicapped stillborn. This also ignores his sensationalized "rumors" of dubious origins to put it kindly. So the criticism is more than warranted.
- jfkst1

Being on the ice for numerous Cup celebrations. But not a single photo, or even a selfie...

I like Connor Brown but he wouldn't crack the third team Canada put together.

Hockey is America's game

Our team Canada will look much different then what EK posted.. bet he made this article up in 5 minutes of his time while taking a dump in the bathroom..