He has dual citizenship I'm guessing and he chose to play for Switzerland at many tournamentsrussian
Uhh, hopefully the war is over long before that and for reasons other than getting to watch Russia play hockey.Pretty nice rosters. Hopefully the war will be over by 2026, and Russia + Belarus see their ban lifted.
Talking for the sake of talking.Uhh, hopefully the war is over long before that and for reasons other than getting to watch Russia play hockey.
NHL will release it's players and Russia can comeback by 2030(Real) World competitions are over.
NHL will never release its players and Russia will never come back.
Currently the format is a NATO Cup without NHL players.
By 2026? Definitely not 2030 is the earliest for Olympics, for WC I would say late 20's is the best betPretty nice rosters. Hopefully the war will be over by 2026, and Russia + Belarus see their ban lifted.
I don't think so.NHL will release it's players and Russia can comeback by 2030
By 2026? Definitely not 2030 is the earliest for Olympics, for WC I would say late 20's is the best bet
2026 is in Western Europe, where the NHL wants to market itselfIf and when the 2030 games take place in Salt Lake City, the NHL is guaranteed to want to be there. On the other hand, the IIHF and the IOC can use that as leverage to make them come already to Italy in 2026.
Lafreniere has close to zero chance, Bedard has a way better chance.Lafreniere-McDavid-Seguin
Huberdeau-MacKinnon-Marner
Monahan-Scheifele-Barzal
Dubois-Couturier-Point
Chabot-Makar
Rielly-Ekblad
Byram-Theodore
Hart-Binnington
You are responding to a post from July 8, 2020Lafreniere has close to zero chance, Bedard has a way better chance.
Crazy that Laf wouldn't even be considered now... maybe he turns it around. MaybeYou are responding to a post from July 8, 2020
Lol, thanks , another 2 1/2 year bump on an old thread last month.You are responding to a post from July 8, 2020
Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Sweden and Austria aren't in NATO.(Real) World competitions are over.
NHL will never release its players and Russia will never come back.
Currently the format is a NATO Cup without NHL players.
Tage Thompson?!Basically the same post only these are just the full rosters in alphabetic order, I also put the player's age at the start of the '26 olympics next to them. (Assuming every team will follow the format of 25 players (3 goalies, 8 d-men & 14 forwards))View attachment 706305View attachment 706306View attachment 706307View attachment 706308View attachment 706309View attachment 707338View attachment 707337View attachment 707336View attachment 706313
Goalies are unbelievable... insanely good.This is my Russia prediction assuming that all these players are healthy:
Andrei Vasilevskiy, Igor Shesterkin, Ilya Sorokin
Mikhail Sergachev, Ivan Provorov, Alexander Romanov, Artem Zub, Dmitry Orlov, Nikita Zadorov, Shakir Muhamadullin, Pavel Mintyukov
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nikita Kucherov, Artemi Panarin, Vladimir Tarasenko, Andrei Svechnikov, Kirill Kaprizov, Pavel Buchnevich, Ivan Barbashev, Andrei Kuzmenko, Valeri Nichushkin, Fedor Svechkov, Ivan Miroshnenko, Matvei Michkov, Mikhail Grigorenko
Honorable Mentions: Yaroslav Askarov, Nikita Zaitsev , Dmitri Kulikov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Vasily Podkolzin
RIP Rodion Amirov
(This is subject to change)
Another honorable mention on right wing is Kirill Marchenko and Yakov Trenin at Center. The centers are Kuznetsov, Svechkov, Barbashev, and Grigorenko. I believe Buchnevich might be trying to play center in St. Louis, so he can be another option too. Malkin and Ovechkin might be good enough anymore to compete but I hope I am wrong.Goalies are unbelievable... insanely good.
Forwards get weaker and weaker and who are the C's?
D is the same, starts beautiful with Provrorov, Sergachev and Zub but starts thinning fast.
Could definitely win but definitely not the same depth of Sweden, Canada or US.
Yes they will probably compete under a different name like they did in the previous two unless the war deescalates before then. It is horseshit that these athletes have to pay for what their government is doing IMO.Russia in 2026 Olympics is that realistic at all?