The 2009 world hockey championship kicked off today in Switzerland. You can catch some of the games in the afternoons on TSN, and the tourney's well worth checking out.

Here are the NHL (and AHL) players playing:

Austria: Thomas Vanek

Belarus: Ruslan Salei, Mikhail Grabovski

Canada: Dan Hamhuis, Drew Doughty, Chris Phillips, Luke Schenn, Shea Weber, Ian White, Scottie Upshall, Derek Roy, Shawn Horcoff, Mike Fisher, Dany Heatley, Steve Stamkos, Matt Lombardi, Shane Doan, Colby Armstrong, Marty St. Louis, James Neal, Dwayne Roloson, Josh Harding, Jason Spezza

Czech Republic: Marek Zidlicky, Roman Polak, Ales Kotalik, Ales Hemsky, Rostislav Olesz

Denmark: Mikkel Boedker, Sebastian Dahm, Peter Regin

Finland: Ville Koistinen, Niklas Hagman, Antti Miettinen, Anssi Salmela, Karri Ramo, Pekka Rinne, Jarkko Ruutu

France: None

Germany: Christoph Schubert, Jochen Hecht

Hungary: None

Latvia: Janis Sprukts, Karlis Skrastins, Martins Karsums

Norway: None

Russia: Anton Volchenkov, Dmitri Kalinin, Alex Frolov, Ilya Bryzgalov, Denis Grebeshkov, Ilya Kovalchuk

Switzerland: Mark Streit, Martin Gerber

Slovakia: Michal Handzus, Peter Olvecky, Andrej Sekera, Boris Valabik

Sweden: Niklas Grossman, Joel Lundqvist, Loui Eriksson, Tobias Enstrom

United States: Keith Ballard, Jack Johnson, Zach Bogosian, Matt Niskanen, Ron Hainsey, Kyle Okposo, Patrick O'Sullivan, J-M Liles, Nick Foligno, Ryan Suter, Drew Stafford, Lee Stempniak, Dustin Brown, Ryan Shannon, Al Montoya, Colin Stuart, Jason Blake

As you can see, some of the European countries have gone very, very light on NHL talent. Russia has only six and Sweden has just four.

These are the rosters as of the tournament's first day and will change as more players are knocked out of the playoffs and become available. Tomas Plekanec from the Habs, for one, is expected to join the Czech team shortly.