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JackSlater said:
The following is a list of the players who have missed the WJC due to NHL (or other professional or senior) commitments. I found that Macman made essentially the same thread nearly 11 years ago (http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=123004) but I was unable to update that thread. Like Macman, I'm going to focus on 1982 onward when Canada started sending legitimate teams. I've made some changes to Macman's original list (impressed that he made the list using Total Hockey) and updated it for the tournaments since 2005. If there are errors, let me know and I will be happy to edit accordingly.

Note: The list does not include players who missed the camps and tournaments due to injury.

1982

Canada: Dale Hawerchuk, Ron Francis, Brent Sutter, Grant Fuhr, Doug Smith, Joe Cirella, Jim Benning, Mark Hunter, Gilbert Delorme, Gaetan Duchesne, Paul Gagne, Normand Leveille, Mickey Volcan, Bob McGill, Jerome Dupont*, Andy Schliebener*, Dan Bourbonnais*

USA: Bobby Carpenter, Tom Fergus, Jim Pavese*, Rik Wilson* (Split the year between NHL and junior, not sure about this case)

1983

Canada: Dale Hawerchuk, Ron Francis, Scott Stevens, Gord Kluzak, Brian Bellows, Doug Smith, Jim Benning, Garth Butcher, Randy Moller, Dean Kennedy, Marc Habscheid, Luc Dufour, Tim Hrynewich*, Paul Lawless*, Ron Meighan*, Chris Kontos*, Tony Tanti*, Murray Craven* (Split the year between NHL and junior, not sure about this case)

USA: Bobby Carpenter, Phil Housley

Finland: Hannu Virta

1984

Canada: Steve Yzerman, Scott Stevens, Cam Neely, Gord Kluzak, Brian Bellows, Ken Yaremchuk, Michel Petit, Sylvain Turgeon, Andrew McBain, Normand Lacombe, Dan Quinn, Bob Errey, Nevin Markwart, Lane Lambert, Pat Verbeek, Richard Kromm, Jim Kyte, Murray Craven* (Split the year between NHL and juniors, not sure about this case)

USA: Phil Housley, Tom Barrasso, Brian Lawton, Pat Lafontaine*(Split his year between the Olympic team and the NHL)

1985

Canada: Mario Lemieux, Steve Yzerman, Cam Neely, Sylvain Turgeon, Russ Courtnall, Andrew McBain, Dan Quinn, Gerald Diduck, Todd Charlesworth, Peter Zezel, Marc Bergevin, Derrick Smith, Kirk Muller, Craig Redmond, Doug Bodger, J.J. Daigneault, Sylvain Cote, Roger Belanger, Bruce Bell

USA: Ed Olcyk, Al Iafrate, Kevin Hatcher, Pat Lafontaine, Brian Lawton, Tom Barrasso

Czechoslovakia: Petr Svoboda

1986

Canada: Kirk Muller, Doug Bodger, Stephane Richer, Wendel Clark, Craig Simpson, Dana Murzyn, Dave Pasin

USA: Kevin Hatcher, Craig Wolanin, Al Iafrate

Czechoslovakia: Petr Svoboda

1987

Canada: Craig Simpson, Jeff Greenlaw, Dave Manson, Joe Murphy, Shawn Anderson, Vincent Damphousse, Jocelyn Lemieux, Herb Raglan, Ken Priestlay*, Zarley Zalapski* (Spent time with senior national team)

USA: Craig Wolanin, Jimmy Carson

1988

Canada: Brendan Shanahan, Pierre Turgeon, Glen Wesley, Luke Richardson, Dave Archibald, Shawn Anderson, Everett Sanipass, Jeff Greenlaw, Zarley Zalapski* (Split time between Olympic team and NHL team)

USA: Jimmy Carson, Brian Leetch (Split his year between senior national team and NHL team)

1989

Canada: Brendan Shanahan, Pierre Turgeon, Joe Sakic, Luke Richardson, Jimmy Waite, Dave Archibald, Chris Joseph, Wayne McBean, Jayson More* (IHL), Jody Hull, Trevor Linden, Curtis Leschyshyn

1990

Canada: Trevor Linden, Rod Brind'Amour, Troy Mallette, Martin Gelinas, Rob Cimetta

USA: Mike Modano, Jeremy Roenick

1991

Canada: Dave Chyzowski, Owen Nolan, Keith Primeau, Mike Ricci

Czechoslovakia: Bobby Holik, Robert Reichel, Petr Nedved, Jaromir Jagr

Sweden: Mats Sundin

1992

Canada: Owen Nolan, Geoff Sanderson, Pat Falloon, Ray Whitney* (Spent the year in the IHL)

USA: Darian Hatcher

Czechoslovakia: Jaromir Jagr

1993

Canada: Eric Lindros, Scott Niedermayer, Richard Matvichuk, Patrick Poulin, Philippe Boucher* (injured when he could have been at WJC camp)

Russia: Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Krivokrasov* (IHL)

Czech and Slovak Republics: Roman Hamrlik, Robert Petrovicky

1994

Canada: Paul Kariya* (Olympic team), Mike Rathje, Chris Pronger, Alexandre Daigle, Chris Gratton, Jason Arnott, Rob Niedermayer, Jocelyn Thibeault, Todd Warriner* (Split his year between the Olympic team and his AHL team)

Russia: Sergei Krivokrasov*, Andrei Nazarov* (IHL)

Czech Republic: Vlastimil Kroupa* (Split his year between NHL and IHL)

Slovakia: Pavol Demitra* (Split his year between NHL and AHL)

1995

Canada: Chris Gratton*, Brendan Witt* (Both did not report, rumours that their NHL teams wanted them training for the end of the lockout rather than playing junior hockey)

1996

Canada: Shane Doan, Chad Kilger, Kyle McLaren, Ed Jovanovski, Jeff O'Neil, Ryan Smyth, Jeff Friesen, Jason Wiemer, Mathieu Dandenault,

Russia: Oleg Tverdosky

Czech Republic: Radek Bonk, Stan Neckar, Josef Marha*(AHL), Radek Dvorak, Petr Sykora, Roman Vopat,

USA: Jason Bonsignore, Deron Quint, Richard Park

Finland: Aki Berg

1997

Canada: Wade Redden, Kyle McLaren, Jarome Iginla, Jay McKee

USA: Bryan Berard

Czech Republic: Radek Dvorak,

Slovakia: Robert Dome*(IHL)

Russia: Dainius Zubrus* (Eligible to play for Russia or any other country belonging to USSR, though not certain that he would have chosen Russia)

1998

Canada: Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Chris Phillips, Boyd Devereaux, Derek Morris

Russia: Andrei Zyuzin, Sergei Samsonov, Dainius Zubrus* (Eligible to play for Russia or any other country belonging to USSR, though not certain that he would have chosen Russia)

Czech Republic: Jan Bulis

Slovakia: Robert Dome*(Split his year between NHL and AHL)

Germany: Marco Sturm

1999

Canada: Vincent Lecavalier, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Manny Malhotra, Eric Brewer

Slovakia: Marian Hossa

Slovakia: Robert Dome*(Split his year between IHL and AHL)

2000

Canada: Vincent Lecavalier, Rico Fata*(AHL), Robyn Regehr, Mike Fisher, Simon Gagne, Jonathan Girard

Russia: Dimitri Kalinin, Vitaly Vishnevski*(Split his year between NHL and AHL)

USA: David Legwand, Tim Connolly, David Tanabe* (Split his year between NHL and IHL)

Czech Republic: Patrik Stefan, Jiri Fischer

Kazakhstan: Nik Antropov

2001

Canada: Scott Hartnell, Justin Williams, Taylor Pyatt

USA: Tim Connolly

Slovakia: Marian Gaborik

Russia: Oleg Saprykin

Czech Republic: Martin Havlat

Slovakia: Kristian Kudroc*(Split his year between NHL and IHL)

2002

Canada: Scott Hartnell, Dan Blackburn

Slovakia: Marian Gaborik

Czech Republic: Rostislav Klesla, Vaclav Nederost

Russia: Ilya Kovalchuk

2003

Canada: Jason Spezza, Rick Nash, Jay Bouwmeester, Stephen Weiss, Dan Blackburn

Russia: Ilya Kovalchuk, Stanislav Chistov

Czech Republic: Ales Hemsky

2004

Canada: Rick Nash, Eric Staal, Nathan Horton, Patrice Bergeron, Pierre-Marc Bouchard

Czech Republic: Milan Michalek

Russia: Nikolai Zherdev, Anton Babchuk

USA: Dustin Brown

2005

Canada: Brent Burns, Nathan Horton* (Florida would not release him for the camp, and he subsequently got injured during an AHL game while the Canadian camp was ongoing)

2006

Canada: Sidney Crosby

2007

Canada: Sidney Crosby, Gilbert Brule, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Guillaume Latendresse, Jordan Staal

USA: Phil Kessel

Slovenia: Anze Kopitar* (Slovenia was in Division 1)

2008

Canada: Jonathan Toews, Sam Gagner, David Perron, Jordan Staal, James Sheppard, Milan Lucic

USA: Erik Johnson, Peter Mueller, Patrick Kane

Czech Republic: Jiri Tlusty

2009

Canada: Drew Doughty, Steven Stamkos, Luke Schenn, Josh Bailey, Sam Gagner, Kyle Turris, Colton Gillies, Brandon Sutter

Czech Republic: Jakub Voracek

USA: Zach Bogosian

Denmark: Mikkel Boedker

Switzerland: Luca Sbisa

2010

Canada: Steven Stamkos, Tyler Myers, James Wright, John Tavares, Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly, Michael Del Zotto

USA: Zach Bogosian

Sweden: Victor Hedman, Erik Karlsson

Russia: Dmitri Kulikov, Slava Voynov

2011

Canada: Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly, Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Kyle Clifford

Sweden: Magnus Paajarvi, Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Russia: Alexander Burmistrov

2012

Canada: Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Ryan Johansen, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Sean Couturier, Erik Gudbranson

Switzerland: Nino Niederreiter

USA: Justin Faulk

Sweden: Gabriel Landeskog, Adam Larsson

2013

Latvia: Zemgus Girgensons

Sweden: Mika Zibanejad

2014

Canada: Nathan MacKinnon, Morgan Rielly, Sean Monahan, Tom Wilson

USA: Alex Galchenyuk, Jacob Trouba

Sweden: Hampus Lindholm

Finland: Olli Maatta, Aleksander Barkov

Russia: Valeri Nichushkin

2015

Canada: Nathan MacKinnon, Jonathan Drouin, Bo Horvat, Aaron Ekblad

Finland: Aleksander Barkov

Russia: Nikita Zadorov

Sweden: Andrei Burakovsky

Germany: Leon Draisaitl

2016

Canada: Aaron Ekblad, Sam Bennett, Robby Fabbri, Jared McCann

USA: Jack Eichel, Dylan Larkin, Noah Hanifin

Denmark: Nikolaj Ehlers

Switzerland: Kevin Fiala

2017

Canada: Connor McDavid, Mitch Marner, Travis Konecny, Anthony Beauvillier, Lawson Crouse, Jakob Chychrun

USA: Noah Hanifin, Zach Werenski, Christian Fischer, Auston Matthews, Matthew Tkachuk

Russia: Ivan Provorov

Finland: Sebastian Aho, Patrik Laine, Jesse Puljujarvi

Czech Republic: Pavel Zacha

Switzerland: Denis Malgin

2018

Canada: Jakob Chychrun, Samuel Girard, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Tyson Jost, Nolan Patrick

USA: Clayton Keller

Russia: Mikhail Sergachev

Finland: Patrik Laine, Jesse Puljujarvi

Sweden: Jesper Bratt

Switzerland: Nico Hischier

2019

Canada: Robert Thomas, Michael Rasmussen

USA: Brady Tkachuk

Russia: Andrei Svechnikov

Finland: Miro Heiskanen, Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Czech Republic: Filip Chytil

Sweden: Rasmus Dahlin

Switzerland: Nico Hischier

2020

Canada: Noah Dobson, Kirby Dach

USA: Joel Farabee, Jack Hughes

Russia: Andrei Svechnikov

Finland: Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Kaapo Kakko

Sweden: Rasmus Dahlin, Adam Boqvist

2021

Canada: Alexis Lafreniere

USA: Jack Hughes, Nicholas Robertson

Finland: Kaapo Kakko

Germany: Moritz Seider
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Amazing job.
 
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Czechboy said:
Talking about losing some firepower! That had to be 5 out of our top 6.
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Yes considering that Reichel and Jagr were dominant the year before and that Holik wasn't that far behind, the 1991 Czechoslovakian team could have been loaded up front. Palffy and Rucinsky was already a good place to start.

I'm curious if anyone can confirm this. Did Czechoslovakia just not invite Nedved in 1990 because he went to the WHL? I think that I remember that but I'm not certain.
 
JackSlater said:
Yes considering that Reichel and Jagr were dominant the year before and that Holik wasn't that far behind, the 1991 Czechoslovakian team could have been loaded up front. Palffy and Rucinsky was already a good place to start.

I'm curious if anyone can confirm this. Did Czechoslovakia just not invite Nedved in 1990 because he went to the WHL? I think that I remember that but I'm not certain.
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He didn’t just go to the WHL. He was an actual defector. They took that stuff pretty seriously in the days of the Iron Curtain.
 
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Statsy said:
He didn’t just go to the WHL. He was an actual defector. They took that stuff pretty seriously in the days of the Iron Curtain.
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Yes my wording was clumsy there, I know that he defected. Dumb question on my part though I suppose since the communist government was still around when the team would have been picked for 1990.
 
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JackSlater said:
Yes considering that Reichel and Jagr were dominant the year before and that Holik wasn't that far behind, the 1991 Czechoslovakian team could have been loaded up front. Palffy and Rucinsky was already a good place to start.

I'm curious if anyone can confirm this. Did Czechoslovakia just not invite Nedved in 1990 because he went to the WHL? I think that I remember that but I'm not certain.
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Had to look up the whole roster:

Team Czechoslovakia - U20 World Championships 1991 - Player Stats

Like you said, Palffy and Rucinsky but also Stumpel, Straka and Slegr on D. They also had Chechmanek and Hnilicka in net. If you add Reichel, Jagr, Holik, Nedved to Straka, Palfy, Stumpel and Rucinsky... that is one hell of a forward corps. Both goalies went on to be NHLers as well.

I really don't think the Czechs or Slovaks will ever come up with a roster this potentially good again.
 
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Czechboy said:
Had to look up the whole roster:

Team Czechoslovakia - U20 World Championships 1991 - Player Stats

Like you said, Palffy and Rucinsky but also Stumpel, Straka and Slegr on D. They also had Chechmanek and Hnilicka in net. If you add Reichel, Jagr, Holik, Nedved to Straka, Palfy, Stumpel and Rucinsky... that is one hell of a forward corps. Both goalies went on to be NHLers as well.

I really don't think the Czechs or Slovaks will ever come up with a roster this potentially good again.
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That’s a deadly lineup. And I’m guessing that some of the guys that stayed and played at home instead of coming to the NHL were probably pretty decent too.
 
What was funny, that in 90s there was a promise here by our Ice Hockey prominent people, that players playing in Canada should not be nominated. They were named as "Traitors". And because of that, Zdeno Chara never played on this tournament.
 
Who was a major loss at the time, but doesn't seem so in hindsight because his NHL career never took off?
 
DeysArena said:
Who was a major loss at the time, but doesn't seem so in hindsight because his NHL career never took off?
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Not exactly what you were looking for but I remember Devante Smith Pelley getting sent back to play and getting injured. I can’t remember if it was during exhibition play or one of the first few round robins. That was considered a substantial loss
 
I've updated this thread for the 2022 tournament as teams are finalized today. As always if there are any mistakes this year or any other year feel free to let me know.
 
I updated this for the summer 2022 tournament, but the timing of the tournament makes it difficult to figure out which players are essentially not allowed to go, which players just don't want to go, and which players are injured. To simplify things I just added any player who missed the first edition of the 2022 tournament plus any players who are not returning from the December tournament for the August tournament. I'm not confident that I named all of the players who dropped out from the December edition of the tournament.

I appreciate any information regarding players that I missed or players who are injured.
 
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JackSlater said:
I updated this for the summer 2022 tournament, but the timing of the tournament makes it difficult to figure out which players are essentially not allowed to go, which players just don't want to go, and which players are injured. To simplify things I just added any player who missed the first edition of the 2022 tournament plus any players who are not returning from the December tournament for the August tournament. I'm not confident that I named all of the players who dropped out from the December edition of the tournament.

I appreciate any information regarding players that I missed or players who are injured.
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Also from Slovakia: Adam Zlnka, Alex Ciernik, Samuel Knazko, Marko Stacha, Jakub Kolenic, Samuel Krajc, Jan Lasak, Rastislav Elias
 
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It's funny as Czechs are missing 2 to 3 goalies, a few key D and 2 good forwards yet I think they'll finish 5th with or without those guys.lol.

D .. krutil, Moravec and alscher
F... Brabenec and Novak
G... Malek, malik and one more who's name I forgot
 
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Blomqvist for Finland this summer should be added. Easily top 3 goalie for this tournament but finnish coach is acting like a child.
 
Antiillafire said:
Also from Slovakia: Adam Zlnka, Alex Ciernik, Samuel Knazko, Marko Stacha, Jakub Kolenic, Samuel Krajc, Jan Lasak, Rastislav Elias
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Ciernik didn't opt out, he simply was unable to participate. idk about the others.

Czechboy said:
It's funny as Czechs are missing 2 to 3 goalies, a few key D and 2 good forwards yet I think they'll finish 5th with or without those guys.lol.

D .. krutil, Moravec and alscher
F... Brabenec and Novak
G... Malek, malik and one more who's name I forgot
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Brabenec is rehabbing an injury. Same as before: idk about the others.

bebl said:
Blomqvist for Finland this summer should be added. Easily top 3 goalie for this tournament but finnish coach is acting like a child.
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Blomqvist wasn't chosen.

Remember: this is a list of only players who themselves chose to opt out. Not injured/ill players, or players who weren't chosen.
 
theslatcher said:
Ciernik didn't opt out, he simply was unable to participate. idk about the others.


Brabenec is rehabbing an injury. Same as before: idk about the others.


Blomqvist wasn't chosen.

Remember: this is a list of only players who themselves chose to opt out. Not injured/ill players, or players who weren't chosen.
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I mean he opted out of the vaccine so technically that is an opt out. And the others the same wanting to prepare for the Slovak league (Krajc). Lasak also chose to opt out, although I don’t know why.
 
theslatcher said:
Ciernik didn't opt out, he simply was unable to participate. idk about the others.


Brabenec is rehabbing an injury. Same as before: idk about the others.


Blomqvist wasn't chosen.

Remember: this is a list of only players who themselves chose to opt out. Not injured/ill players, or players who weren't chosen.
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Thanks for the extra information. You're right that it isn't for injured players, which would be too difficult to track over the years, or for non-selected players, which would be more of an opinion call on who to include and who not to include. This redux tournament is trickier to categorize but still, injuries and non-selected players are out.
 
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