CALGARY, Alberta — Canada’s Olympic hockey team won’t have current NHL players on the ice, but plenty of players from other leagues.
Hockey Canada drew talent Thursday from seven different leagues across North America and Europe after the NHL bowed out of competing in South Korea. That’s in stark contrast to Canada’s Olympic champion teams in Vancouver (2010) and Sochi (2014), which were loaded with NHL stars.
Forwards Gilbert Brule, Mason Raymond, Derek Roy and Wojtek Wolski and goaltender Ben Scrivens are former NHL veterans on the team. It’s the first time Canada will go to the Olympics without NHL players since 1994.