All Blacks Sevens coach Gordon Tietjens has more or less kept faith with the team that was knocked out of the Las Vegas Sevens in the quarterfinals for this weekend's world series tournament in Canada.
Sherwin Stowers is the one change to the line-up and will play his first tournament for the New Zealand Sevens since suffering a broken arm at the Cape Town world series competition in December last year.
Tietjens says Stowers is looking forward to the challenge and is an asset to the team.
"He's a great defender and an attacking player as well," Tietjens explained.
"You can't replace the experience he has -- certainly with the younger players that are in the side -- so we're looking forward to getting him back.
"He's got a lot of energy at training and a lot of enthusiasm and he's just excited to be back after that injury."
Liam Messam also recently returned to rugby sevens, playing a limited role at the Las Vegas tournament last weekend, but Tietjens says the former All Black is now getting "sevens fit" and will have a bigger part to play in Vancouver.
"He's certainly a very fit character. He works very, very hard and got a bit of game time in Vegas -- and he'll get a lot more game time at this tournament in Canada," he said.
"He's an imposing character in the sense that he's very physical and gets into you. He's a great ball player as well, and the defensive qualities he has will certainly help our side."
Tietjens says the team was disappointed with their performance in Las Vegas -- but they're looking forward to being tested in the pool stages by the likes of France, England and the United States.
"We've got three really tough games on day one and certainly no easy games," he said.
However, he believes that may work in his team's favour.
"If I reflect back to Vegas, I felt perhaps our games on day one were probably too easy -- we weren't really tested, hence we fell over against Kenya."
The All Blacks Sevens kick off their campaign against England at 8:20am tomorrow (NZT).
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