Team Canada projected lineup for 2022 Olympics now that NHLers are out

It was confirmed earlier today, NHL players will not be participating in the Winter Olympics in Beijing. We bet Hockey Canada (along with other participating teams) are scrambling to put together a competitive roster for the Winter Games.

This prompted the Hockey News to come up with their projected lineup for Team Canada now that NHLers won’t attend.

This is what they suggest for the Canadian roster:

FORWARDS
Corban Knight - Philippe Maillet – Jordan Weal
Alexandre Grenier– Ryan Spooner – Daniel Audette
Adam Tambellini – Eric Staal – Josh Ho-Sang
Landon Ferraro – Tyler Graovac – Christopher DiDomenico
Josh Currie - David Desharnais
Other notables: Eric O’Dell, Kent Johnson

DEFENSE
Mat Robinson - Brandon Gormley
Chay Genoway - Eric Gelinas
Jason Demers - Maxim Noreau
Reece Scarlett - John Gilmour
Other notables: Morgan Ellis, Owen Power, Trevor Murphy

GOALIES
Devan Dubnyk
Edward Pasquale
Justin Pogge
Other notables: Landon Bow, Matt Tomkins

The 2022 Winter Olympics are set to run from Feb. 4 - 20, though it remains to be seen what the pandemic will have in store ahead of the event.

Beijing 2022 therefore becomes the second straight Winter Games the NHL has not been a part of, as the league also elected not send players to 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang. The last time NHL players took part in the Olympics was back in 2014 in Sochi, Russia when Canada won the gold medal.