CANADA

Hope: Evan Olmstead

CANADA emerged from last year’s last-chance saloon as convincing winners of the repechage tournament to continue the tradition of there always being a Canadian presence at the World Cup.
Their hard work and coming together as a group in France has been rewarded with a challenging pool, but then again the World Cup is always challenging for Canada.
Objectively, they have no chance of beating either New Zealand or South Africa even though past World Cups have seen the Canucks go toe to toe with both giants of the game. But the other two games – Ital...