Brock Nelson played for the Americans at Four Nations, but could need a strong start to next season to keep his spot. Mackenzie Blackwood might have made Canada’s roster had he started last year with the Avalanche and could play his way into the Olympics next season.

According to reports around the NHL, a top UFA, who won the Stanley Cup with Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche, is interested in joining Elias Pettersson and the Vancouver Canucks.

Winter Olympics mark the first time that NHL players will be at the Olympics since 2014, and their sixth appearance overall-- including 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010. Over those Olympic Games, Canada won gold three times (2002,

MacKinnon and Makar were both selected to the 2024-25 First All-Star team, which is voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. It’s the first time two members of the Avs have been named to the first team together since Patrick Roy and Joe Sakic in 2001-02.

Nathan MacKinnon seemed over the moon to have met Jelly Roll.

Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Brayden Point and Sam Reinhart are the first players named to Canada's preliminary men's hockey roster for the 2026 Milan Olympics. More coming.