Canadian Mens Olympic Hockey Team

On December 29, 2009, Hockey Canada announced the Canadian Men’s Olympic hockey roster for the Vancouver Olympics. The announcement of the Canadian Olympic hockey team was made at widely televised and highly anticipated press conference.

The team consists of 3 goalies, 13 forwards and 7 defencemen. All 23 hockey players have international experience, including eight Olympians and, all together the Olympic hockey players have played in 702 international games and thousands of NHL games.

It was also announced that veteran Scott Niedermayer will be Canada’s captain at the Vancouver Olympics, while Sidney Crosby, Jarome Iginla and Chris Pronger) will serve as alternate captains.

All three Canadian Olympic goalies are from Quebec and include Roberto Luongo, Marc-Andre Fleury, and Martin Brodeur. At almost 38 years of age, Brodeur is the oldest member of the Canadian Olympic hockey team. The balance of the team includes defencemen Duncan Keith, Shea Weber, Brent Seabrook, Drew Doughty, Dan Boyle and forwards Brenden Morrow, Patrick Marleau, Dany Heatley, Jonathan Toews, Michael Richards, Joe Thornton, Eric Staal, Corey Perry, Patrice Bergeron, Ryan Getzlaf, and Rick Nash. At just 20 years old Doughty is the youngest member of the squad.

It is thought that tickets to the Olympics, particularly the Canadian men's hockey games will be particularly hard to get.

The Olympic hockey schedule has been announced and Canada will first play Norway on February 16th. All of Canada has high hopes that the Canadian Mens Olympic hockey team can take the gold medal. The 2010 Canadian Olympic hockey team has a great deal of talent and is thought to be a serious medal contender.