Provisional Olympic NHLers named
by Adam Steiss|07 OCT 2021
Edmonton Oilers teammates Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid will face each other in Group A. 
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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 RANTANEN

Team SWEDEN
Viktor HEDMAN
Gabriel LANDESKOG
Mika ZIBANEJAD

Team CZECH REPUBLIC 
Ondrej PALAT
David PASTRNAK
Jakub VORACEK

Team USA
Auston MATTHEWS
Seth JONES
Patrick KANE

Team CANADA
Sidney CROSBY
Connor MCDAVID
Alex PIETRANGELO

Team LATVIA
Rudolfs BALCERS
Zemgus GIRGENSONS
Kristians RUBINS

Team SWITZERLAND
Nico HISCHIER
Timo MEIER
Roman JOSI

Team GERMANY
Leon DRAISAITL
Philllip GRUBAUER
Moritz SEIDER

Team SLOVAKIA
Erik CERNAK
Jaroslav HALAK
Andrej SEKERA

Team ROC
Nikita KUCHEROV
Alexander OVECHKIN
Andrei VASILEVSKI

Team DENMARK
Oliver BJORKSTRAND
Nikolaj EHLERS
Alexander TRUE

Mikko Rantanen and Sebastian Aho will make their Olympic debuts for FInland.