BROSSARD, Que. — Doug Armstrong couldn’t have missed it.

With seconds left in overtime of a game on Nov. 4 at the Bell Centre, he had a bird’s eye view of one prospective Team Canada member robbing another of a game-winning opportunity, and it had to have made a strong impression on him.

Surely the architect of Canada’s Olympic team noted the whole sequence, which started with Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki winning a defensive-zone draw back clean right before bailing his team out for not recovering the puck.

But when the Philadelphia Flyers snapped it around before it arrived on Travis Konecny’s stick for a one-timer, seeing Suzuki flash out, drop to a knee and block Konecny’s shot to send the game to a shootout had to have been eye-popping to Armstrong.

Had it been Konecny on

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