Olympics: 2026 Roster predictions

[Eye of Ra]

How about Kurashev?

russian

 

[Jimmy71]

russian

He has dual citizenship I'm guessing and he chose to play for Switzerland at many tournaments

 

[_vivelequebec_]

Pretty nice rosters. Hopefully the war will be over by 2026, and Russia + Belarus see their ban lifted.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Pretty nice rosters. Hopefully the war will be over by 2026, and Russia + Belarus see their ban lifted.

Uhh, hopefully the war is over long before that and for reasons other than getting to watch Russia play hockey.

 

[_vivelequebec_]

Uhh, hopefully the war is over long before that and for reasons other than getting to watch Russia play hockey.

Talking for the sake of talking.

 

[EK47]

Bettclown said bringing back the world cup of hockey is a priority. IMO we’re getting further and further away from NHL participation at this event.

 

[Dirtyf1ghter]

(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.

 

[Garl]

(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.

NHL will release it's players and Russia can comeback by 2030

Pretty nice rosters. Hopefully the war will be over by 2026, and Russia + Belarus see their ban lifted.

By 2026? Definitely not 2030 is the earliest for Olympics, for WC I would say late 20's is the best bet

 

[Dirtyf1ghter]

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

I don't think so.

 

[Albatros]

If 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.

 

[Garl]

If 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.

2026 is in Western Europe, where the NHL wants to market itself

 

[Albatros]

Italy is a very marginal hockey market, even by European standards. And European fans don't think of the NHL when they watch national team hockey anyway. The IIHF should make it a choice between the NHL joining both tournaments (2026 and 2030) or neither. Especially not 2030 in the US and vague promises of 2034 wherever that might be.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Lafreniere-McDavid-Seguin
Huberdeau-MacKinnon-Marner
Monahan-Scheifele-Barzal
Dubois-Couturier-Point

Chabot-Makar
Rielly-Ekblad
Byram-Theodore

Hart-Binnington

Lafreniere has close to zero chance, Bedard has a way better chance.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Lafreniere has close to zero chance, Bedard has a way better chance.

You are responding to a post from July 8, 2020

 

[Czechboy]

You are responding to a post from July 8, 2020

Crazy that Laf wouldn't even be considered now... maybe he turns it around. Maybe

 

[Golden_Jet]

You are responding to a post from July 8, 2020

Lol, thanks , another 2 1/2 year bump on an old thread last month.

 

[jcbio11]

(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.

Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Sweden and Austria aren't in NATO.

Finland joined only recently thanks to the 'genius' geopolitical maneuvering of a certain country.

 

[Erikfromfin]

Finland for me right now. Hopefully more players will emerge next years like Aatu Räty, Kemell, Niemelä etc...

Patrik Laine - Aleksander Barkov - Mikko Rantanen
Artturi Lehkonen - Sebastian Aho - Kaapo Kakko
Matias Maccelli - Roope Hintz - Eeli Tolvanen
Eetu Luostarinen - Anton Lundell - Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Juuso Pärssinen
Jesse Ylönen

Esa Lindell - Miro Heiskanen
Juuso Välimäki - Henri Jokiharju
Olli Määttä - Jani Hakanpää
Niko Mikkola
Urho Vaakanainen

Juuse Saros
Antti Raanta
Ville Husso

Jussi Ahokas

C Barkov
A Aho
A Rantanen
A Lindell

 

[Lartsaman]

Granlund - Manninen - Hartikainen
Levtchi - Suomela - Ruotsalainen
Kuokkanen - Kossila - Rajala
Oksanen - Björninen - Liedes

Lehtonen - Pokka
Riikola - Saarijärvi
Lindbohm - Niku
Seppälä - Laaksonen

Heljanko - Larmi - Olkinuora

 

[badidea22]

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

Tage Thompson?!
Andrei Kuzmenko?! Ilya Sorokin?!
Rickard Rakell?!
Rasmus Ristolainen?!

 

[waitin425]

Point - McDavid - Marner
MacKinnon - Crosby - Bedard
Stamkos - Barzal - Cozens
Suzuki - Thomas - Celebrini

 

[badidea22]

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)

 

[Czechboy]

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)

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.

 

[moropanov]

Russia in 2026 Olympics is that realistic at all?

 

[badidea22]

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.

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.

Russia in 2026 Olympics is that realistic at all?

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.