{"id":369296,"date":"2025-12-24T17:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:57:13","slug":"geekie-jones-among-olympic-roster-sleeper-picks-discussed-by-nhl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369296\/","title":{"rendered":"Geekie, Jones among Olympic roster sleeper picks discussed by NHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosters for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 have been debated since the 12 participating countries each named six players to their preliminary rosters in June.<\/p>\n<p>Players have come and gone from those arguments as injuries and slumps have taken their toll.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the 12 teams to submit a final roster of 25 players is Dec. 31, with roster announcements coming shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Though it\u2019s not difficult to predict most of the players for each team, there are some who have barged their way into the conversation, making some final difficult decisions.<\/p>\n<p>We asked a panel of NHL.com writers to identify the most intriguing of these sleeper candidates. Here, in alphabetical order, are the answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosters for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 have been debated since the 12 participating countries each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369296","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=369296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}