Players Who Have Withdrawn??

[joe blow]

I'm not sure if this is out of curiousity or boredom, but I was wondering if we can get a list of all the players who have decided not to play since being named to the original World Cup roster for their respective countries?

List any players that cross your mind, see if we can't get everyone!

Thanks!

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[Markov]

The ones I can think of..

Russia -
Danny Markov
Nikolai Khabibulin
Sergei Fedorov
Alexei Zhamnov

 

[joe blow]

Canada - Blake, Belfour, Yzerman

 

[ALF AmericanLionsFan]

Roenick
Schneider
Seems like there are a lot of guys backing out. I understand due to injury issues, but especially the Russian team there killing my World Cup buzz.

 

[Make]

Finland - Kapanen

 

[McDonald19]

Robert Lang

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

Pavel Kubina
Valeri Bure
Alexei Zhitnik
Probably Evgeni Nabokov next
Probably Vladimir Malakhov next(if he was chosen, and hasn't already, that is)

 

[Ned Flanders]

Why not just make this tournament an under-25 championships?

Seems the only players who wanna play are around 25 or younger.

 

[Prrebel]

It makes me sick to think that these guys would not play for their country. At least the guys who dropped out for Canada have injuries. We have guys fighting to get on the squad, bt other country have guys fighting to get off the squad.

I don't understand.