Morning Coffee: The road to the final continues with Canada roster reveal

Imagine training your whole life for the opportunity to be part of an official Canada FIFA World Cup roster.

Then you learn that all that hard work is about to pay off with a chance to represent your country at the highest level in the first-ever World Cup played on home soil.

Canada Soccer and head coach Jesse Marsch will reveal Canada’s official FIFA World Cup 2026 roster tonight live on TSN 1/3/4, the TSN App, and TSN.ca.

We already know the goalkeepers will be Dayne St. Clair, Maxime Crepeau, and Owen Goodman.

We also know that 11 players that represented Canada in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will not return.

On Monday, TSN Soccer analyst Steven Caldwell revealed his final squad in the FanDuel Race for the Roster.

The 26 players who hear their names called tonight will embrace an opportunity to shock the world on soccer’s biggest stage in front of their home fans.

Canada is a 175-to-1 longshot to win World Cup 2026.

However, Canada is also +175 to win Group B as a close second choice behind the favourite Switzerland (-135).

With the home advantage in a group that also features Bosnia and Herzegovina and Qatar, Canada is -1150 to advance to the knockout stage.

That number represents a 92 per cent implied chance.

While the final pieces are set in place for Canada’s roster, hockey fans are set to watch the country’s last remaining hope to bring the Stanley Cup north of the border gear up for what could be their last stand tonight.

The Montreal Canadiens will face elimination for the third time in these Stanley Cup Playoffs when they visit the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final.

Unlike the previous two instances, the Habs will need to win more than one game to advance.

Will tonight be the last stand for the Canadiens?

Let’s set the stage for Game 5 and lock in a FanDuel Best Bet in this Morning Coffee for Friday May 26th, 2026.

Can Habs Weather The Storm Versus Hurricanes To Force A Game 6?

Anybody who watched Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Final objectively has likely arrived at the same conclusions.

This is what the end of a Cinderella playoff run looks like.

After stunning a heavily favoured Hurricanes side that was coming off an extended layoff in Game 1, the Habs have been drastically outshot, outhit, and out chanced while losing three in a row.

Montreal was held to its lowest three-game postseason shot total since 1959 in the three losses to Carolina.

Wayne Gretzky described Game 4 as “men against boys” after the Hurricanes beat the Canadiens 4-0.

While rust was a disadvantage for Carolina in Game 1, rest has become a major advantage with every passing game as they’ve attacked Montreal relentlessly while wearing them down both physically and mentally.

Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis and his young team refuse to quit, but the public continues to bet against them for Game 5 tonight.

The Hurricanes are up to -245 to win Game 5 and -4000 to advance to the Stanley Cup Final at FanDuel.

Those numbers translate to a 97.6 per cent implied probability that Carolina will play the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final, and a 71 per cent chance that match-up is confirmed tonight.

Learning from their past failures, the Hurricanes have the experience, structure, resolve, depth, talent, and the rest advantage as they look to wrap up the series tonight.

The Caniacs have waited a long time for this moment.

Teams with a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven have gone on to win the series 91 per cent of the time.

That number jumps to 98.63 per cent in the conference finals and semi-finals, where teams that lead 3-1 own a 72-1 all-time series record.

Do the Canadiens have enough left in the tank to pull off one more upset and send the series back to the Bell Centre for a Game 6 on Sunday?

Montreal is +198 to win tonight and +1400 to advance.

While the Habs had the answers earlier in the postseason against the Tampa Bay Lightning and Buffalo Sabres, a date with a rested Carolina side that can attack in waves was the worst-case scenario for a Montreal side coming off back-to-back seven-game series.

Prior to Game 1, I locked in the Hurricanes -1.5 -118 as my FanDuel Best Bet for the Eastern Conference Final.

Tonight, I’ll double down on Carolina with a best on the Hurricanes to win in regulation at -140.

I’ll also lock in Taylor Hall to record 1+ point at -118.

Hopefully, we can end the conference finals on a high note with a couple of winners.

Have a great weekend, everyone!