There’s no denying Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard will be a part of the next best-on-best international Canadian team.

Daily Faceoff’s Matt Larkin, Steven Ellis, and Scott Maxwell each projected the two Edmonton Oilers to be on the 2028 World Cup of Hockey team, but there’s an argument to be made that others could join them.

Can Zach Hyman secure a spot on Canada’s 2028 World Cup roster?

Zach Hyman is one of them, and it’s not hard to see why. Since joining the Oilers as a free agent in 2021, Hyman has been stapled to McDavid’s wing, and has been a very efficient scorer with 175 goals and 310 points in 366 games. He put up 54 goals in 80 games in 2023-24, and last year, despite missing 24 games to injury, racked up 31 goals in 58 games.

If you isolate the last three seasons, where he’s had 112 goals in 211 games, a 0.53 goal per game pace, there’s only four other players who have scored at such a rate: Nathan MacKinnon, Leon Draisaitl, Nikita Kucherov, and Sam Reinhart.

The big knock on Hyman heading into this year’s Olympics was his lack of........

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