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This week's NHL Power Rankings featured a gimmick in which we listed one player from each team whom we're supremely bummed won't be competing in the 2018 Olympics. In writing it, it occurred to me that one of my biggest regrets isn't a player but a trio: The potential Team Canada line of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and Sidney Crosby.