I made up some nations' potential Olympic rosters before the NHL backed out. What do your rosters look like if the NHL was still participating?
I found Canada the hardest because there's so many players to consider and you'll see a lot of forwards are playing off position, but how can you justify leaving them off. Russia was pretty easy because everyone slotted into position unless I left out someone obvious. edit, btw Matthews is a lock for the U.S. but I think I made the list before the season got off. But yes he should be there.
USA
Gaudreau - Eichel - P. Kane
Pacioretty - Pavelski - Kessel
Parise - T. Johnson - Wheeler
Van Riemsdyk - Kesler - Oshie
McDonagh - Suter
Byfuglien - Shattenkirk
Carlson - Jones
Faulk
Quick, Bishop, Schneider
N. Foligno LW, Stepan C, Atkinson RW (forgot to update for Matthews lol. slot in for Johnson- bump Stepan?)
CANADA
Marchand - Crosby - Carter
Benn - McDavid - Seguin
Stamkos- Toews - Tavares
Getzlaf - Bergeron - Perry
Doughty - Burns
Keith - Weber
Letang - Giordano
Subban
Price, Holtby, Crawford
Hall LW, Giroux C/RW, Scheifele C
RUSSIA
Panarin - Malkin - Ovechkin
Kovalchuk - Datsyuk - Kucherov
Radulov - Kuznetsov - Tarasenko
Kulemin - Anisimov - Namestnikov
Markov - Orlov
Kulikov - Voynov
Tyutin- Emelin
Provorov
Bobrovsky, Vasilevski, Varlamov
Burmistrov C, Semin RW, Zaitsev D
SWEDEN
Forsberg - Backstrom - Hornqvist
Zetterberg - Wennberg - Steen
D. Sedin - H. Sedin - Nyquist
Landeskog - Nylander - Arvidsson
Karlsson - Hedman
Ekman Larsson - Klingberg
Stralman - Kronwall
Larsson
Lundqvist, Lehner, Lack
Eriksson LW, Rakell C, Zibanejad C
Posted Jul 16, 2017, 10:35 PM UTC · edited