{"id":394833,"date":"2026-01-07T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394833\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:41:07","slug":"denmark-roster-for-2026-winter-olympics-includes-eller-ehlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394833\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark roster for 2026 Winter Olympics includes Eller, Ehlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denmark unveiled its roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 on Wednesday, headlined by Ottawa Senators forward Lars Eller<\/a> and Carolina Hurricanes forward Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is just Denmark’s second time participating in the Olympics in men’s hockey. It finished seventh at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n

“It’s cool to see who made it,” Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen said. “I see a lot of guys in Denmark who have been part of the national team for a few years, so it’s exciting to see who gets to go and who gets the experience with us. We’re not a lot of us over here (in the NHL), so it’s cool to be able to share that experience.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, it’s been a longer road for Denmark to be part of it. We cherish the opportunity to be a part of it.”<\/p>\n

Ehlers said he’s excited to share the experience with Andersen.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never had a Danish teammate over here, so that’s been really nice and really fun, especially coming to a new place for me. We’ve tried to get to the Olympics for 10 years now, him and I, and now it finally works, so that’s going to be pretty special.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a proud moment. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n

The tournament will feature all 12 teams playing three preliminary games in their respective groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s going to be a new experience,” Eller said. “I’ve played a lot of NHL over the years and played a handful or so of world championships, but I’ve never really played on a national team, best on best, so it’s going to be cool to check that off, cross that off the list as things you’ve been a part of and hopefully we can be competitive and make some waves.<\/p>\n

“For me, I haven’t always had the chance to go to world championships, so the ones, the chances you do have, they’re special and I think all of them I’ve been a part of, they’re very memorable, every single one. You remember each tournament, the camaraderie, some of the downs, but certainly a lot of the mostly ups and good experience winning together and the joy, a lot of those, at least a handful of guys, are guys I grew up playing with on junior national teams and had played world championships with, so there’s a lot of past experiences that makes it special going with a national team group with a lot of familiar faces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three group winners and the best second-place team will get a bye into the quarterfinals; the other eight teams will play single-elimination games to determine the other four quarterfinalists. The gold medal game will be held on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark unveiled its roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 on Wednesday, headlined by Ottawa Senators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-394833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}