2010 Olympic roster announcements

by James Mirtle on Dec 22, 2009 2:25 PM CST Comment 10 comments

The Olympics are coming, and within the next 10 days, we'll know who's going.

The 12 rosters will be announced on the following dates:

Belarus		December 23
Russia		December 25
Sweden		December 27
Latvia		December 29
Norway		December 29
Slovakia		December 29
Canada		December 30
Czech Republic		December 30
Finland		December 30
Germany		December 30
Switzerland		December 30
USA		January 1 (during NHL Winter Classic)

Check back here tomorrow as I'll have my picks for Team Canada. And follow the IIHF's site for all things Olympics in the lead up to the Games.

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Excited to see who the Americans and Canadians pick, but I think the most interesting thing will be Russia’s squad. I want to see if Tretiak really gets a 50-50 KHL-NHL split and how that affects who goes and who stays home.

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by Original Six on Dec 22, 2009 3:47 PM CST reply actions

James, will your picks be a prediction or a “if I were running the show…” type of thing?

by Passive Voice on Dec 22, 2009 4:07 PM CST reply actions

I’ll have the team I would pick, but I’ll offer comments on what will be different on the actual team.

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by James Mirtle on Dec 22, 2009 4:14 PM CST up reply actions

Team Russia Roster

The Russians have stated that they won’t be naming the complete roster on Dec. 25, IIHF be damned. I imagine they’ll name a portion of it (the NHLers) that day and the remainder sometime in Feb. Tretiak has also backed off the 12/12 split. I imagine ultimately you’ll see something close to:

ovechkin – malkin – semin
kovalchuk – datsyuk – frolov
zaripov – zinovjev – morozov
saprykin – tereschenko – radulov

markov – nikulin
tyutin – gonchar
volchenkov – grebeshkov
kalinin – proshkin

nabokov
bryzgalov
varlamov

by imbroglioh on Dec 22, 2009 4:12 PM CST reply actions

Saprykin? The Russians aren’t that thin on the left side, are they?

by Resolute on Dec 23, 2009 9:34 AM CST up reply actions

You can see my picks on the right Fanposts. Please comment. And we’ll see if James copycats my choices tomorrow :)

by Fred Poulin on Dec 22, 2009 4:15 PM CST reply actions

The anticipation of it all...

I can’t wait to see what the rosters of the powerhouses from Latvia, Belarus, and Norway look like!

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by hawks61 on Dec 22, 2009 5:56 PM CST reply actions

You dare to mock the fourth-place team from 2002? Such hubris!

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by Doogie2K on Dec 23, 2009 12:35 AM CST up reply actions

Fightin' Belarussians...

I wonder if both Grabovski and Sergei Kostitsyn will make the team today? I guess if they had to go with only one, they should take the guy who’s been with an NHL team all year long. But I gotta think they aren’t in any position to turn down talented players.

Go Belarus!

by Richard S. Argent on Dec 23, 2009 8:51 AM CST reply actions

I really hope that Sergei Zubov makes Team Russia. It’ll be the only time I get to see him play, because I miss him.

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by Brad_Richards_Rocks on Dec 23, 2009 10:08 AM CST reply actions

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