As NHL gamers put together to return to the Olympics at Milan-Cortina in 2026, Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby are getting set to cleared the path for Canada.
The 2 superstars had been among the many 92 gamers from the nation’s males’s, ladies’s and para hockey groups invited to the Nationwide Groups Orientation Camp that runs Tuesday by Thursday in Calgary. Workforce USA’s camp takes place in Plymouth, Mich.
Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnon and Mitch Marner are set to take part on the boys’s facet, whereas Marie Phillipe-Poulin, Sarah Fillier and Natalie Spooner will participate within the ladies’s group.
The orientation camp is a three-day, off-ice occasion that includes shows, team-building classes and conferences aimed toward getting ready gamers and workers for the upcoming Olympic season.
“We’re excited to unveil the 92 athletes who will kick off the street to Italy, and to convey our males’s, ladies’s and para hockey groups collectively for 3 days as step one in direction of our objective of successful triple gold in February,” stated Scott Salmond, Hockey Canada’s senior vice-president of excessive efficiency and hockey operations. “Whereas the subsequent a number of months will convey intense analysis and tough roster choices, we sit up for kicking off the season in Calgary and giving our athletes and workers an opportunity to come back collectively and begin to turn out to be one staff as we set our sights on February.”
The record options all 24 gamers from Canada’s championship-winning squad on the 4 Nations Face-Off in February, together with the identical trio of goaltenders — Jordan Binnington of the St. Louis Blues, Adin Hill of the Vegas Golden Knights and Sam Montembeault of the Montreal Canadiens.
The boys’s Olympic hockey event runs Feb. 11-22 in Milan, Italy. Canada gained its third gold medal in 4 Video games, the final time NHL gamers participated within the Olympics in 2014.
4 goaltenders, 10 defenders and 16 forwards have been invited to the ladies’s camp, together with 17 who helped Canada beat the US 3-2 within the last to win a gold medal in 2022 in Beijing. Ladies’s Olympic rosters in Italy might be 23 gamers.
Defenders Chloe Primerano and Nicole Gosling, ahead Caitlin Kraemer, and goaltenders Kayle Osborne and Eve Gascon are amongst gamers below the age of 23 on the roster.
Listed below are the hyperlinks to the total invite lists for the males’s, ladies’s, and para groups.
-With recordsdata from The Canadian Press
