Oil Olympians Pull Double Duty

[Pandastyle]

The Oilers have 6 players participating in this year’s Olympics. “It’s nice to see our players get some international recognition. We think they’re great, I guess the world thinks they are as well…†commented GM Gledhill.

The participating players are as follows:

Canada – Ryan Smyth
Czech Republic – Ales Hemsky, Martin Rucinsky
Finland – Teemu Selanne
Russia – Evgeni Nabokov, Vitaly Vishnevski

Noticeably absent is the Czech sniper Martin Havlat. “I’ve decided to sit out both the NHL and the Olympics this year. My commitment to the HFNHL is just too important to me†explained Havlat.

In other news, the Oilers have finally reclaimed the Northwest Division from the pesky Minnesota Wild. The Oil has been dominant against divisional opponents posting a record of 6-1-1, and has yet to play the division’s weakest link (record-wise) the Colorado Avalanche.

Coach Keenan pointed out that his team is “in real good shape, to be where we are a this point in the season….â€

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[spintheblackcircle]

In other news, the Oilers have finally reclaimed the Northwest Division from the pesky Minnesota Wild.

Borrowed. Temporarily.

The Wild had 8 players named to Olympic Squads, though only 4 are planning on playing:

Active:
Mats Sundin
Martin St Louis
Jan Bulis
Bret Hedican

Injured:
Roman Hamrlik
Ladislav Nagy
Marco Sturm

Reserve:
Matt Cullen

 

[Dr.Sens(e)]

Da Blues...

Team Canada: Chris Pronger, Joe Thornton, Dany Heatley, Vincent Lecavalier

Team U.S.: Craig Conroy

Team Sweden: Daniel Alfredsson

Team Slovakia: Zdeno Chara

Team Finland: Jarkko Ruutu

Injured: Nikolai Khabibulin

Hopefully it will shake the team from their funk...

 

[HFNHL Red Wings]

Interesting. I hadn't checked previously and was pleasantly surprised to find 11 HFNHL Red Wing olympic participants.

CAN - Kris Draper
CZE - Marek Malik, Martin Straka
FIN - Antero Niittymaki, Jere Lehtinen, Antti Miettinen
SLO - Jozef Stumpel
SWE - Henrik Lundqvist, Nicklas Lidstrom
USA - Mike Knuble, Mark Parrish

 

[TorontoGM]

The Leafs have 5..

Czech - Tomas Vokoun, Frantisek Kaberle, Filip Kuba
Sweden - Mikael Tellqvist
USA - Brian Gionta

 

[kasper11]

8 Devils:

USA: Jason Blake, Chris Drury
Can: Robyn Regehr
Fin: Sami Salo
Rus: Ilya Kovalchuk, Alexei Zhamnov
SVK: Petr Bondra, Marian Gaborik

 

[Ohio Jones]

5 active Jackets:

Brodeur (CAN)
Modano (USA)
Pitkanen (FIN)
Norstrom (SWE)
Sedin (SWE)

... plus 3 Emerson draft picks (now with other HFNHL teams):

Erat (CZE)
Budaj (SLO)
Surovy (SLO)

Notable absences:
S. Kozlov (RUS)
Shanahan (CAN)

 

[HFNHL Commish]

For the Ducks:

Team Sweden: Tomas Holmstrom

Team USA: Brian Rolston, Brian Rafalski

Team Czech Republic: Marek Zidlicky

Team Germany: Dennis Seidenberg

Team Latvia: Krisjanis Redlihs (!)

Injured: Sami Kapanen (Finland), Niklas Kronwall (Sweden)

 

[Fan.At]

Predators:
USA - Jordan Leopold
Germany - Thomas Greiss
Latvia - Arturs Irbe

 

[91]

7 Sharks named to their respective countries rosters, although only 3 are actively playing as of now:

Czech Republic - Jaroslav Spacek, Patrick Elias
Slovakia - Pavol Demitra
Sweden - Peter Forsberg (?), Kim Johnsson (inj)
Canada - Scott Niedermayer (inj), Ed Jovanovski (inj)

 

[MatthewFlames]

Canada: Dan Boyle (Taxi)
Finland: Toni Lydman
Czech: Milan Hejduk, Vaclav Prospal,
Swiss: Mark Streit
Slovakia: Richard Zednick
Russia: Pavel Datsyuk
Sweden: PJ Axelsson

Total: 8

 

[Brock]

7 Sharks named to their respective countries rosters, although only 3 are actively playing as of now:

Czech Republic - Jaroslav Spacek, Patrick Elias
Slovakia - Pavol Demitra
Sweden - Peter Forsberg (?), Kim Johnsson (inj)
Canada - Scott Niedermayer (inj), Ed Jovanovski (inj)

And now minus Elias as he was replaced by Kotalik today because of injury.

 

[MatthewFlames]

Canada: Dan Boyle (Taxi)
Finland: Toni Lydman
Czech: Milan Hejduk, Vaclav Prospal,
Swiss: Mark Streit
Slovakia: Richard Zednick
Russia: Pavel Datsyuk
Sweden: PJ Axelsson

The only, and I say only, good thing about Canada losing to the Swiss is that I noticed Beat Forster was on the Swiss roster. So... add him and subtract Streit (traded to LA)...

M