The daughter of former Brier champion Dan Carey, who won the national championship in 1992 playing third for Vic Peters’ Manitoba rink, Chelsea Carey is making a name for herself both nationally and internationally.
A six-time competitor at the Manitoba junior championship, Carey won the 2000 provincial juvenile championship, and followed that up with a silver medal at nationals. The Winnipeg native was also the Manitoba high school champion in 2002.
She has won a number of titles on the World Curling Tour, most recently the 2012 Red Deer Curling Classic, and earned her first-ever Grand Slam title with a win at the 2010 Manitoba Lotteries Women’s Curling Classic. Her breakout came during the 2011-12 season, when her team was named World Curling Tour Breakthrough Team of the Year after a season that included a nationally-televised runner-up finish at the Canada Cup of Curling. Carey reached the final of the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2011 and 2012, twice coming up just one win short of a berth in the national championship.
Goaltenders |
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Corey Crawford |
Roberto Luongo |
Carey Price |
WHY?: Luongo you want for the experience, if nothing else. Even with the gold from Vancouver, I think he’s a better goalie than he gets credit for. Crawford has proven he can win, and from a “hot goalie” standpoint, you want him there, and Price is relatively solid; I don’t think he’d be the starter, but he’d be a good back-up. Outside those three, I think you have to consider a guy like Braden Holtby, who’s young and is close to earning a spot, and Marc-André Fleury, who was there in Vancouver but might be a little too Jekyll and Hyde right now. |
Defencemen |
Drew Doughty |
Duncan Keith |
Kristopher Letang |
Alex Pietrangelo |
Brent Seabrook |
Marc Staal |
P.K. Subban |
Shea Weber |
WHY?:The first four I found pretty easy – Weber, Keith, Seabrook and Pietrangelo. Those seem like no-brainers to me; I think you pair Keith and Seabrook together, and then a couple of big bodies together in Weber and Pietrangelo. After that it gets a little tougher. Subban has been impressive this year, while Doughty is just a good, solid defenceman, who has the experience from Vancouver, so I’d pair them together, and same with Letang and Staal. I considered guys like Boyle and Bouwmeester for experience, and Phaneuf for physicality, but not sure how big a role that will play on the bigger ice. |
Forwards |
Patrice Bergeron |
Jeff Carter |
Logan Couture |
Sidney Crosby |
Matt Duchene |
Ryan Getzlaf |
Claude Giroux |
Andrew Ladd |
Corey Perry |
Michael Richards |
Eric Staal |
Steven Stamkos |
John Tavares |
Jonathan Toews |
WHY?: Bergeron, Crosby and Toews … how do you not have those guys on the roster? Those seemed really obvious to me. Getzlaf, Giroux, Stamkos, Tavares and Perry were all the same kind of thing; it didn’t take me long to pick them. It got a little bit tougher from there. Duchene has been impressive, but I think he gets overlooked because the Avalanche haven’t been very good the last couple of years. Ladd is there partially because I’m a Jets fan, but mostly because he’s a solid player and a great leader who has a couple of Cup rings. It was really tough for me not to pick Joe Thornton; I think he’s phenomenal, but I think you need to build a line around him, and I wasn’t committed to doing that, and Patrick Sharp was right on the cusp for me as well. There’s a lot of young talent that’s left off, guys like Hall, Eberle and Evander Kane, but they’ll have their time in the future. |