{"id":464389,"date":"2026-02-09T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464389\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:32:47","slug":"olympics-draisaitl-selected-as-germanys-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464389\/","title":{"rendered":"OLYMPICS: Draisaitl selected as Germany&#8217;s captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Captain Leon has officially been annointed.<\/p>\n<p>The German Ice Hockey Federation announced Monday that Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl will wear the &#8216;C&#8217; for the national men&#8217;s team at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit defenceman Moritz Seider and Ottawa forward Tim Stutzle were named alternate captains, with Germany slated to begin the preliminary round on Thursday vs. Denmark at 1:10pm MT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a huge role model, especially in Germany, but even in Canada and the NHL he&#8217;s a huge role model,&#8221; Stutzle told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/olympics\/leon-draisaitl-captain-of-germany-for-2026-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NHL.com<\/a>. &#8220;Everybody loves him. Obviously, I&#8217;m really happy for him; he really deserves it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there\u2019s a lot of great leaders in the room as well, and everybody is going to help him out, but he&#8217;s a great leader himself. It&#8217;ll be awesome to see him and see him play his game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl has been an alternate captain for the Oilers since the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Captain Leon has officially been annointed. The German Ice Hockey Federation announced Monday that Oilers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-464389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464389","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=464389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}