Taylor Hall deserves a shot. He played well at the World's. His speed would be an asset to Team Canada & he's a dedicated LW on a team of mostly centres. Hard to understand.
- haymac
Because Team Canada is run by an old boys club, they're just so stacked with talent that they can afford to make stupid choices.
Babcock, Julian, Quenville (sp?) are all great coaches but they are all also cut from the same take no chances cloth. They'll take a lesser player in O'Reilly because he will follow the directive to a tee unlike Hall who may go off script to make a play.
It's the same reasoning for leaving Subban and Letang off this team.