Which Golden Knights players could go to the 2022 Olympics?

The NHL, aft a agelong hiatus, is backmost successful the Olympics. Several Golden Knights could beryllium going arsenic well.

To accommodate the event, the league volition instrumentality a agelong interruption aft the 2022 All-Star Game astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Feb. 5 and won’t resume play until Feb. 23.

Coach Pete DeBoer and manager of hockey operations Misha Donskov volition beryllium determination arsenic subordinate of Team Canada’s staff. DeBoer volition beryllium an adjunct for manager Jon Cooper. Donskov volition beryllium the peculiar adjunct of coaching operations.

Here’s who could articulation them from the Knights:

Strong contenders

William Karlsson, Sweden

Sweden has bully centers successful Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson, the New York Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad and Washington’s Nicklas Backstrom, but Karlsson should descent close successful arsenic a two-way unit who helps pb the punishment kill.

The 28-year-old autochthonal of Marsta, Sweden, has represented his state astatine aggregate younker tournaments and the 2017 World Championship.

Robin Lehner, Sweden

Lehner should beryllium successful the premix for an Olympic starting job, on with Calgary’s Jacob Markstrom and Boston’s Linus Ullmark.

The 30-year-old from Gothenburg, Sweden, has played for his state astatine the younker level but ne'er successful a elder event. Lehner ranks 2nd successful prevention percent (.923) among goalies who person played 50 oregon much games the past 3 seasons, truthful helium has a beardown lawsuit to beryllium successful the crease.

Max Pacioretty, USA

Pacioretty, from New Canaan, Connecticut, ranks 10th successful goals implicit the past 2 NHL seasons and could springiness the U.S. needed firepower connected the wing.

The 32-year-old played successful the 2014 Games, successful which the U.S. finished fourth, and volition apt beryllium 1 of the apical veterans connected an American squad looking for its archetypal medal since 2010.

Alex Pietrangelo, Canada

Pietrangelo, similar Pacioretty, is simply a 2014 Olympic seasoned and should easy descent into the close broadside of Canada’s defence aft winning golden astir 8 years ago.

The 31-year-old from King City, Ontario, brings gravitas arsenic a Stanley Cup-winning skipper and volition beryllium counted connected to assistance his state triumph the tourney for the 10th time.

Mark Stone, Canada

The Knights’ skipper should ace a heavy Canadian guardant radical due to the fact that of his unsocial acceptable of skills.

While the squad figures to diagnostic respective superstar scorers similar Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon, Stone tin bring a high-end antiaircraft interaction without sacrificing offense. That should marque the Winnipeg autochthonal invaluable to manager Jon Cooper.

Shea Theodore, Canada

Theodore volition apt articulation Pietrangelo connected Canada’s bluish line, perchance arsenic his partner.

The 2 some play connected the close broadside with the Knights, but Canada prefers to play defensemen connected their beardown side, which for Theodore is the left. Either way, the 26-year-old from Langley, British Columbia, ranks eighth successful points among defensemen the erstwhile 2 seasons and should boost a fearsome Canadian powerfulness play.

Possibilities

Evgenii Dadonov, Russian Olympic Committee

Russia has a batch of extent connected the helping — including scorers Alexander Ovechkin, Nikita Kucherov, Artemi Panarin, Andrei Svechnikov and Kirill Kaprizov — but Dadonov could enactment his mode into the representation if his Knights’ tenure gets disconnected to a beardown start.

The Chelyabinsk, Russia, autochthonal had astatine slightest 25 goals for 3 consecutive years earlier scoring 13 successful past year’s condensed schedule. If helium gets backmost to his erstwhile pace, helium could extremity up successful Beijing.

Mattias Janmark, Sweden

Janmark said aft re-signing with the Knights that helium hoped to person a beardown play to get connected Team Sweden’s radar.

The 28-year-old from Danderyd, Sweden, is simply a versatile guardant who could slot successful galore antithetic places successful the lineup.

Jonathan Marchessault, Canada

Marchessault has been 1 of the Knights’ astir accordant players the past 4 seasons and had a beardown show for Canada astatine the 2019 World Championship, with 10 points successful 10 games.

That could get the Cap-Rouge, Quebec, autochthonal a look for the Olympic roster. It’s going to beryllium a hard radical to ace with the endowment the state produces.

Alex Tuch, USA

Tuch represented the U.S. astatine the younker level and mightiness person been capable to vie for a spot connected the Olympic squad with a beardown commencement to his season.

The Syracuse, New York, autochthonal had enarthrosis country successful July, however, and is expected to miss six months. That could instrumentality him retired of contention.

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