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is hoping a balance of young college stars and experienced pros in the American Hockey League and Europe adds up to its first Olympic men’s hockey medal since 2010. Former Canadiens coach Claude Julien is expected to be behind the bench. Other recent NHL players expected to play for Canada include goaltender Devan Dubnyk, defenseman Jason Demers and forward Eric Fehr. Staal could wear the “C” as Canada’s captain 12 years after the home ice triumph at the Vancouver Olympics that was capped off by Crosby’s famous golden goal to beat the U.S. He is already one of just 29 players in the Triple Gold Club as winners of the Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal and world championship gold medal.
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But the hockey-crazed nation does have a legitimate shot to win thanks to some players with recent NHL experience.Įric Staal is by far the most experienced and accomplished player expected to take part in the tournament: a veteran of almost 1,400 NHL games who played for Montreal in the Stanley Cup Final last summer. I just think it’s going to be a very, very competitive tournament.”įour years since the Russians - known as the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” - emerged with gold, Germany silver and Canada bronze, things look wide open.Ĭanada will not have Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon on the same team for the first time as it attemps to win its third gold in the last four Olympics. “The Russians are perceived to be the team with a leg up on everybody just because of the KHL, but they had a hard time (four years ago) with Germany in the gold-medal game. “You look at the 2018 Olympics, it was just very competitive - there was a lot of parity,” U.S. Ginobili and his Eurostep reach Basketball Hall of Fame