Topicmaster1010 2,347 Posted September 4, 2021 #291 Share Posted September 4, 2021 YEEEESSSSS!!! Been waiting for this announcement for a while now. 2018 just didn't feel the same without NHL players. Just hoping that COVID doesn't change plans. So excited to finally get to see our older generation of players (Crosby, Bergeron, Tavares, Pietrangelo, etc.) play along side the new wave of players that have risen to the top of the NHL (McDavid, MacKinnon, Point, Makar, etc.). Hopefully we can come away with the gold medal. Depending on who the GM picks, this has the potential to be one of the most skilled Team Canada's ever. And it's not just Canada, the level of international hockey talent is greater than ever. Every country besides China will be sending some great players and I expect that there'll be a lot of competitive matches. Can't wait for the tournament to start! pdr4332 and hckošice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted September 4, 2021 Author #292 Share Posted September 4, 2021 announced Mike Sullivan as head coach, will be assisted by Todd Reirden, John Hynes, David Quinn and Ryan Miller who will care about goalies. Stan Bowman will serve as GM and Bill Guerin as his assistant. For Sullivan this will be his second experience as head coach with international hockey, he led team USA to the quarterfinals at the 2007 World Championships in Russia. He was also at the Winter Olympics as assistant of Peter Laviolette in Torino 2006 where the team finished 4th. He served also twice as head coach assistant (of John Tortorella) at 2008 WCh and 2016 World Cup where USA lost all 3 preliminary round games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahjfcshfghb 285 Posted September 14, 2021 #293 Share Posted September 14, 2021 This list should give you a good idea of Team players. All the ones with a Chinese flag next to their name. To China’s credit all appear to have some form of Chinese heritage. IIHF told me they weren’t relaxing the eligibility rules for China and eg. Jake Chelios has no Chinese flag next to his name so I assume no more naturalizations? Question is if that means no waiver for eg. Ethan Werek which is a 4 year case as he once represented Canada Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,202 Posted October 3, 2021 #294 Share Posted October 3, 2021 Canada has named its first three to the men's hockey squad. Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby and Alex Pietrangelo. Ted and ahjfcshfghb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topicmaster1010 2,347 Posted October 5, 2021 #295 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Sweden has also named it's first three players to its team: Mika Zibanejad (New York Rangers), Gabriel Landeskog (Colorado Avalanche), and Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay Lightning). No surprises there. Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topicmaster1010 2,347 Posted October 7, 2021 #296 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Czech Republic: Ondrej Palat (Tampa Bay Lightning), David Pastrnak (Boston Bruins), Jakub Voracek (Columbus Blue Jackets) Finland: Sebastian Aho (Carolina Hurricanes), Aleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers), Mikko Rantanen (Colorado Avalanche) United States: Seth Jones (Chicago Blackhawks), Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs) ahjfcshfghb and Ted 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted October 8, 2021 Author #297 Share Posted October 8, 2021 In advance of NHL player participation in the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China, the IIHF together with the NHL/NHLPA have requested all participating teams to provide a list of three provisional NHL players to be included in the men’s Olympic national team roster. Provided these players are healthy and remain eligible to participate in the Olympic Games, they will be included in the final team rosters that will be announced in January 2022. TEAM FINLAND Sebastian AHO Aleksander BARKOV Mikko RANTANENTeam SWEDEN Viktor HEDMAN Gabriel LANDESKOG Mika ZIBANEJADTeam CZECH REPUBLIC Ondrej PALAT David PASTRNAK Jakub VORACEKTeam USA Auston MATTHEWS Seth JONES Patrick KANETeam CANADA Sidney CROSBY Connor MCDAVID Alex PIETRANGELOTeam LATVIA Rudolfs BALCERS Zemgus GIRGENSONS Kristians RUBINSTeam SWITZERLAND Nico HISCHIER Timo MEIER Roman JOSITeam GERMANY Leon DRAISAITL Philllip GRUBAUER Moritz SEIDERTeam SLOVAKIA Erik CERNAK Jaroslav HALAK Andrej SEKERATeam ROC Nikita KUCHEROV Alexander OVECHKIN Andrei VASILEVSKITeam DENMARK Oliver BJORKSTRAND Nikolaj EHLERS Alexander TRUE IIHF.COM Topicmaster1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted October 30, 2021 Author #298 Share Posted October 30, 2021 New updates about our favorite pre-olympics time telenovela. Found this on the specialized hockey forum send by a Norwegian user. Here is the copy/paste of his post China will play against a russian KHL team 13 and 15 november according to norwegian hockey president Tage Pettersen. The game will be streamed on internet and is open for everyone. Luc Tardif (president iihf) and IIHF will pick out 5 experts that will monitor the games and decide if China is suited to take part in the men's icehockey olympic tournament. Norwegian back Bonsaksen says to VG, it's not good for the sport if a team is beaten 30-0.. Tardif fear for the sports reputation if a team loses 30-0 Both VG and nytimes have articles about this.Kina-tester avgjør Norges OL-skjebneChina’s Hockey Team Is So Bad It Might Be Dropped From the Olympics Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Linha 470 Posted October 31, 2021 #299 Share Posted October 31, 2021 15 hours ago, hckošice said: New updates about our favorite pre-olympics time telenovela. Found this on the specialized hockey forum send by a Norwegian user. Here is the copy/paste of his post China will play against a russian KHL team 13 and 15 november according to norwegian hockey president Tage Pettersen. The game will be streamed on internet and is open for everyone. Luc Tardif (president iihf) and IIHF will pick out 5 experts that will monitor the games and decide if China is suited to take part in the men's icehockey olympic tournament. Norwegian back Bonsaksen says to VG, it's not good for the sport if a team is beaten 30-0.. Tardif fear for the sports reputation if a team loses 30-0 Both VG and nytimes have articles about this.Kina-tester avgjør Norges OL-skjebneChina’s Hockey Team Is So Bad It Might Be Dropped From the Olympics Is there any result if IIHF decides China not being able to participate in the Games due to very low level. Who would take their place? The next highest IIHF ranked team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted October 31, 2021 Author #300 Share Posted October 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Jan Linha said: Is there any result if IIHF decides China not being able to participate in the Games due to very low level. Who would take their place? The next highest IIHF ranked team? Norway. As the highest ranked IIHF nation non qualified (11th). it looks like 1 or 2 games between and a KHL team (still no officially announced which one) will be played during the 13-15 november period. Match(es) will be attended by 5 IIHF officials who will then evalute if China will be allowed to paricipate at the tournament. To make it fair the match(es) will be streamed live and free through the whole globe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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