{"id":70364,"date":"2025-08-15T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70364\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:06:06","slug":"kadri-still-chasing-team-canada-dream-after-being-left-off-olympics-camp-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70364\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadri still chasing Team Canada dream after being left off Olympics camp roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Nazem Kadri<\/a>, pulling on a Team Canada sweater has always been a dream, and he isn’t letting that hope dim despite not being on Hockey Canada’s radar.<\/p>\n

Heading into the off-season, the Calgary Flames<\/a> forward hoped that he would be among the many hopefuls to get an invite to the team’s Olympic orientation camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I deserve a chance,\u201d Kadri told\u00a0The Athletic<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. \u201cI think, over the last few seasons, I\u2019ve certainly proven that with my statistics and the winning pedigree. I think it speaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old scored a career-high of 35 goals last season while putting up 67 points in 82 games with the Flames. He also has a Stanley Cup title to his name, as he played a big part in the Colorado Avalanche’s run in 2022.<\/p>\n

However, cracking Team Canada’s roster has been a challenge over the years, and some players got a taste of what that was like ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off, with a few top names forced to watch from home.<\/p>\n

Now, with the Olympics in Milan-Cortina\u00a0just six months away, Kadri knows it’ll be a tough path to get any consideration, but he isn’t shutting the door just yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, man, it would be an absolute dream come true to somehow crack that team,\u201d Kadri said. \u201cI\u2019ve been a long shot before. I\u2019m looking forward to giving myself an opportunity. But I understand I\u2019m going to have to play well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Nazem Kadri, pulling on a Team Canada sweater has always been a dream, and he isn’t letting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-70364","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\/70364","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=70364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}