The International Ice Hockey Federation has begun to announce the first three NHL players who will represent each of the 12 teams competing in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics men's hockey tournament.
NHL players are returning to Olympic competition for the first time since 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The puck drops on the tournament Feb. 9 with the gold medal game scheduled for Feb. 20.
Here are the first three players announced for each team so far.
Canada
Sidney Crosby
Connor McDavid
Alex Pieterangelo
China
TBD
Czech Republic
Ondrej Palat
David Pastrnak
Jakub Voracek
Denmark
TBD
Finland
Sebastian Aho
Aleksander Barkov
Mikko Rantanen
Germany
Leon Draisaitl
Philipp Grubauer
Moritz Seider
Latvia
Rudolfs Balcers
Zemgus Girgensons
Kristians Rubins
Russian Olympic Committee
Nikita Kucherov
Alex Ovechkin
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Slovakia
Erik Cernak
Jaroslav Halak
Andrej Sekera
Sweden
Victor Hedman
Gabriel Landeskog
Mika Zibanejad
Switzerland
Nico Hischier
Roman Josi
Timo Meier
United States
Seth Jones
Patrick Kane
Auston Matthews
