Men's Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

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 TEAM GERMANY 

 

 

Goaltenders:

 

Maximilian Franzreb (Adler Mannheim)

Philipp Grubauer (Seattle Kraken, NHL, ) 

Mathias Niederberger (EHC Red Bull München) 

 

Defencemen:

 

Leon Gawanke (Adler Mannheim)

Korbinian Geibel (Eisbären Berlin)

Lukas Kälble (Adler Mannheim)

Jonas Müller (Eisbären Berlin)

Moritz Müller (Kölner Haie)

Moritz Seider (Detroit Red Wings, NHL, ) 

Fabio Wagner (EHC Red Bull München)

Kai Wissmann (Eisbären Berlin)

 

Forwards:

 

Leon Draisaitl (Edmonton Oilers, NHL, ) 

Alexander Ehl (Adler Mannheim)

Dominik Kahun (HC Lausanne, ) 

Marc Michaelis (Adler Mannheim)

John-Jason Peterka (Utah Mammoth, NHL, ) 

Lukas Reichel (Vancouver Canucks, NHL, ) 

Tobias Rieder (EHC Red Bull München)

Joshua Samanski (Edmonton Oilers, NHL, ) 

Justin Schütz (Adler Mannheim)

Wojciech Stachowiak (Tampa Bay Lightning, NHL, ) 

Tim Stützle (Ottawa Senators, NHL, ) 

Nico Sturm (Minnesota Wild, NHL, ) 

Frederik Tiffels (Eisbären Berlin)

Parker Tuomie (Kölner Haie)

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9 out of the 12 Teams Rosters announced with  and host still left to do so (Team Slovakia will be announced tomorrow 14:00 our time)

 

Let´s look at the NHL redistribution so far, this is gonna be a tournament for ages 

 

  25 NHLers

  25 NHLers

  25 NHLers

 

  24 NHLers

 

  12 NHLers + 1 AHLer

 

  9 NHLers

 

  7 NHLers

 

  6 NHLers + 4 AHLers

 

  1 NHLer

 

Edited Wednesday at 02:15 PM by hckošice

[Bailer 64]

Based on the numbers, it looks we're gonna have 7 or 8 active NHLers in the roster.

 

Also, it seems the NHL is also including players which aren't currently active (only 7 Germans played at least a game this season, not 9).

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16 minutes ago, Bailer said:

Based on the numbers, it looks we're gonna have 7 or 8 active NHLers in the roster.

 

Also, it seems the NHL is also including players which aren't currently active (only 7 Germans played at least a game this season, not 9).

2)

 

Yeah Stachowiak and Samanski are regular AHLers, not sure why the official sites list them as NHLers considering they never played a single match in the league

 

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 TEAM SWITZERLAND 

 

 

Goaltenders:

 

Reto Berra (HC Fribourg-Gotteron)

Leonardo Genoni (EV Zug)

Akira Schmid (Vegas Golden Knights, NHL, ) 

 

Defencemen:

 

Tim Berni (Servette Geneva)

Michael Fora (HC Davos)

Andrea Glauser (HC Fribourg-Gotteron)

Roman Josi (Nashville Predators, NHL, ) 

Dean Kukan (ZSC Lions)

Christian Marti (ZSC Lions)

Janis Moser (Tampa Bay Lightning, NHL, ) 

Jonas Siegenthaler (New Jersey Devils, NHL, ) 

 

Forwards:

 

Sven Andrighetto (ZSC Lions)

Christoph Bertschy (HC Fribourg-Gotteron)

Kevin Fiala (Los Angeles Kings, NHL, ) 

Nico Hischier (New Jersey Devils, NHL, ) 

Ken Jäger (Lausanne HC)

Simon Knak (HC Davos)

Philipp Kurashev (San Jose Sharks, NHL, ) 

Denis Malgin (ZSC Lions)

Timo Meier (New Jersey Devils, NHL, ) 

Nino Niederreiter (Winnipeg Jets, NHL, ) 

Damien Riat (Lausanne HC)

Sandro Schmid (HC Fribourg-Gotteron)

Pius Suter (St. Louis Blues, NHL, ) 

Calvin Thürkauf (HC Lugano)

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3 hours ago, hckošice said:

9 out of the 12 Teams Rosters announced with  and host still left to do so (Team Slovakia will be announced tomorrow 14:00 our time)

 

Let´s look at the NHL redistribution so far, this is gonna be a tournament for ages 

 

  25 NHLers

  25 NHLers

  25 NHLers

 

  24 NHLers

 

  12 NHLers + 1 AHLer

 

  9 NHLers

 

  7 NHLers

 

  6 NHLers + 4 AHLers

 

  1 NHLer

 

About half of the players competing at the Olympics will be from the NHL. From the NHL perspective that's around 15% of the league. No wonder they keep pushing the IOC for more advertising rights.

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 TEAM SLOVAKIA 

 

 

Goaltenders:

 

Samuel Hlavaj (Iowa Wild, AHL, ) 
Stanislav Škorvánek (HK Mountfield Hradec Králové, ) 
Adam Gajan (University of Minnesota-Duluth, NCAA, ) 

 

Defencemen:

 

Peter Čerešňák (Dynamo Pardubice, ) 
Erik Černák (Tampa Bay Lightning, NHL, ) 
Martin Fehérváry (Washington Capitals, NHL, ) 
Martin Gernát (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, KHL, ) 
Michal Ivan (Bílí Tygři Liberec, ) 
Patrik Koch (Oceláři Třinec, ) 
Martin Marinčin (Oceláři Třinec, ) 
Šimon Nemec (New Jersey Devils, NHL, ) 

 

Forwards:

 

Peter Cehlárik (Leksands IF, ) 
Dalibor Dvorský (St. Louis Blues, NHL, ) 
Marek Hrivík (HC Vítkovice Steel, ) 
Libor Hudáček (Oceláři Třinec, ) 
Miloš Kelemen (Dynamo Pardubice, ) 
Adam Liška (Severstal Cherepovets, KHL, ) 
Oliver Okuliar (Skelleftea, ) 
Martin Pospíšil (Calgary Flames, NHL, ) 
Pavol Regenda (San Jose Sharks, NHL, ) 
Adam Ružička (Spartak Moscow, KHL, ) 
Juraj Slafkovský (Montreal Canadiens, NHL, ) 
Matúš Sukeľ (HC Verva Litvínov, ) 
Samuel Takáč (HC Slovan Bratislava)
Tomáš Tatar (EV Zug, ) 

Edited Thursday at 01:15 PM by hckošice

[Bailer 64]

Gajan is a pleasant surprise!

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12 minutes ago, Bailer said:

Gajan is a pleasant surprise!

saw him at the recent Spengler Cup and played very well 🔝

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20 minutes ago, Bailer said:

Gajan is a pleasant surprise!

Goaltending is really poor, but we expected it being our weakest link. 

 

I miss Studenič, the whole affair around him was poorly handled, I stand that he should have been here, in other hand not sure what to think about the fact of having 3 KHLers in the team and Ružička being one of them ...

Other notable absences from my point of view: Kristian Pospíšil (would be great to have both brothers in the team), surprised Martin Chromiak not picked and obviously the main absentee: too bad for Honzek season ending injury 

 

Let see. All in all pretty balanced mix of experienced warriors and young talents. I do believe this team can make the quarterfinal

Edited Thursday at 01:44 PM by hckošice