The World Cup tournament will be played September 17 to October 1 in Toronto.
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TEAM EUROPE: Is GM Miroslav Satan feeling lucky?
With 20 goals and 45 assists, Kuznetsov is fifth in the National Hockey League in scoring.
The Finnish Ice Hockey Federation announced the first 16 players named to its roster. But not Phil Kessel. But the Russian team does have some next-generation blood in the ranks, however, with rookie sensation Artemi Panarin making the 16-man preliminary roster. Take a look at the notable centers that Team Canada was not able to take, Claude Giroux, Logan Couture, Ryan O’Reilly, Joe Thornton and Matt Duchene. To add on to that, there is another Cup between our current time and then that is much more important to the Dallas Stars as a whole. Eight teams will compete, with six being made up of countries. They’ve earned it through their work and through their statistics and the way they’ve played overall. U.S. doesn’t have anywhere close to that amount of talent to work with and it shows in their roster. Ten franchises had five or more players chosen.
Ovechkin will be playing in his second World Cup after dressing for two games the last time the event was held in 2004.
Kovalchuk has been left out of the team for SKA’s last four KHL playoff games following an unspecified disciplinary issue that also resulted in two other players being sent to farm teams.
“Celebrating the designation as the host team for the World Cup of Hockey 2016, Canada’s uniforms recall a modern interpretation of the national icon-the maple leaf”. Nashville was one of 11 with exactly four players selected.
“We took iconic emblems from each of the participating teams to create jerseys that honor the traditions of each nation and fused those with an emphasis on technical design for elite performance on the ice”, said Keith Leach, Senior Director NHL, the adidas Group. Like Byfuglien, Abdelkader offers a physical edge to his game.
Often times with the modern analytics revolution in hockey, many want to overlook factors that can’t be evaluated by simply looking at numbers. “As a player, it was a goal of mine going into the season and into the next season, to be on this World Cup team”.
SWEDEN: The deepest blue line in the tournament already features two-time Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Victor Hedman, Anton Stralman, Niklas Hjalmarsson and Niklas Kronwall and there’s only one spot left.
There were two main surprises following the unveiling of all of the rosters.
Defenseman Roman Josi was one of two Switzerland natives among the 16 players named to the preliminary Team Europe roster. There’s room to add more firepower, too, as players like Max Domi and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins weren’t among the first 16 names announced. “I am definitely looking forward to it”. I wanted people with a sound value system as you can not buy values.
“I’m going to try and win the cup”. To be recognized by their country or by those teams is something very special. I always looked for people with a solid value system. “That being said you still have to come back to your league and play properly and those guys have done that”.
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Team USA’s roster includes prolific goal scorer Patrick Kane, veteran defenseman Ryan Suter and standout goalie Jonathan Quick.
