{"id":105653,"date":"2025-08-30T01:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:43:30","slug":"who-will-make-canadas-olympic-mens-hockey-team-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105653\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will make Canada\u2019s Olympic men\u2019s hockey team in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are 164 days away from the start of the 2026 Olympics, and after waiting over a decade for this event it will be here sooner than you think.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2014, NHL players are back at the Olympics and\u00a0Canada\u00a0projects to have one of the best rosters in the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As it stands,\u00a0Canada\u00a0is a +150 to win the gold on FanDuel, with Team USA (+200) the only other country priced shorter than 5-1 in the outright market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u00a0has won three of the last four Olympic gold medals featuring NHL players, with Sweden (+550) the only other country to win gold during that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Athletes\u00a0from Russia claimed gold at the first non-NHL player event in 2018, and Finland followed that up in 2022 winning the country\u2019s first gold medal in men\u2019s hockey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the top of\u00a0Canada\u2019s roster shows why they will likely enter the favoruites led by Connor McDavid, Nathan Mackinnon and Sidney Crosby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   ContentId(1.2351984): &#8216;Nobody else has that&#8217;: Canada believes Crosby still gives them an edge <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/connor-mcdavid-sidney-crosby-headline-canada-s-first-six-on-olympic-roster-1.2322291\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">But with six players already confirmed on the team<\/a> (McDavid, MacKinnon, Crosby, Cale Makar, Sam Reinhart and Brayden Point) FanDuel has a market looking at who will fill out the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sam Bennett, Brad Marchand and Mitch Marner all lead this market with odds of -20000 to make the team. That number comes with an implied probability of 99.5 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baring injury those three will all make the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the trio of forwards is a group of five defenceman led by Devon Toews at -4000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colton Parayko and Josh Morrissey aren\u2019t far behind at -2500, while Drew Doughty (-1500) and She Theodore (-700) also have good odds to make the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens forward Nick Suzuki comes in at -320 despite having not played for the country of\u00a0Canada\u00a0since the 2019 World Junior Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the longshots to make the team is Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares at +1000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old played for Team\u00a0Canada\u00a0at the 2024 World Championship and was a member of the last group of NHL players to play for\u00a0Canada\u00a0at the 2014 Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the rest of the market on FanDuel, which includes 33 names.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Settled on the first official roster announced by Hockey Canada. Replacement players after initial roster is announced will be settled as a loss. All bets after official announcement will be void.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are 164 days away from the start of the 2026 Olympics, and after waiting over a decade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-105653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}