Several countries have announced their first six choices for the men’s hockey lineup for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, marking the first return of NHL players since 2014.
The preliminary game will begin on February 11. The gold medal competition is scheduled to be held on February 22.
Here are the initial choices for major hockey countries:
Canada:
- Sidney Crosby
- Nathan McKinnon
- Connor McDavid
- Cale Makar
- Braden Point
- Sam Reinhart
USA:
- Auston Matthews
- Matthew Tkachuk
- Jack Eichel
- Adam Fox
- Quinn Hughes
- Charlie McAvoy
Sweden:
- Rasmus Dahlin
- Victor Hedman
- Adrian Kempe
- Gabriel Landeskog
- William Nylander
- Lucas Raymond
Finland:
- Sebastian Aho
- Aleksander Barkov
- Mikko Rantanen
- Miro Heiskanen
- ESA Lindell
- Juuse Saros
Czech Republic:
- Lukas Dostal
- Radko Gudas
- Martin Necas
- Ondrej Palat
- David Pastrnak
- Pavel Zacha
Switzerland:
- Roman Josi
- Nico Hischier
- Kevin Fiala
- Nino Niederreiter
- Timo Meier
- Jonas Siegenthaler
Germany:
- Leon Draisaitl
- Moritz Seider
- Tim Stützle
- Philipp Grubauer
- Nico Sturm
- John-Jason Peterka
Slovakia:
- Juraj Slafkovsky
- Martin Fehervary
- Martin Pospisil
- Tomas Tatar
- Simon Nemec
- Pavol Regenda
Latvia:
- Uvis Balinskis
- Zemgus Girgensons
- Elvis Merzlikins
- Arturs Silovs
- Teodors Blugers
- Rihards Bukarts
Denmark:
- Frederik Andersen
- Nikolaj Ehlers
- Oliver Bjorkstrand
- Jesper B. Aabo
- Lars Eller
- Jonas Rondbjerg
Italy:
- Andreas Bernard
- Luca Frigo
- Alex Petan
- Daniel Mantenuto
- Diego Costner
- Luca Zitterbart
France:
- Yohann Auvitu
- Pierre – Edouard Bellemare
- Jules Boscq
- Hugo Garrett
- Jordan Perrey
- Alexandre Texier
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