Olympic hockey team solid, but hardly perfect
Concerns grow over Brayden Point's selection for Team Canada amidst strong alternatives.
When Team Canada announced last summer its six locked-in player selections for this country's entry in the Olympic Games, one of the choices today stands out as a pretty big mistake.
Why is Brayden Point on the team? And why wouldn't Team Canada have gone instead for a stronger forward, such as Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele?
Hockey fans in Canada can only hope last June's mistake is the end of the errors.
The first six names were selected last June and five of them are of the slam-dunk can't-miss variety: Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Sidney Crosby, Sam Reinhart and Cale Makar. Point is the other one and at the time, it looked like a decent choice. He was a two-time Stanley Cup champion, a key figure on the Tampa Bay powerplay and coming off a strong 4 Nations Face Off tournament.
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