The wait is almost over.
After months of speculation, Team Canada’s 25-man roster for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics is set to be unveiled at Noon ET on Wednesday as NHL players make their return to the Games for the first time since 2014.
General manager Doug Armstrong will be joined by Hockey Canada president Katherine Henderson and senior VP of hockey operations Scott Salmond at the announcement, which is set to take place over video conference from Minneapolis, the site of this year’s World Juniors Championship.
19 spots are still up for grabs after six players were named to the roster over the summer. Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby will go for his third Olympic gold medal alongside 4 Nations Face-Off hero Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Sam Reinhart, Brayden Point, and Cale Makar.
Canada has won gold at both the Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 Games – the last two Olympic tournaments that NHL players have attended – but were held to bronze at Pyeongchang in 2018 before failing to medal altogether in Beijing in 2022.
Now bringing their top talent to the Olympics once again, Canada will look to bring home the nation’s 10th gold medal in men’s ice hockey at the Games.
Canada has been placed in Group A alongside Czechia, Switzerland, and France, who are replacing Russia after they were barred from competition by the International Olympic Committee.
The 2026 Games are set to open from Milan on Feb. 6. The knockout rounds of the hockey tournament will begin with the quarter-finals, set to be played on Feb. 18, and will run through the the gold medal game, which will take place on Feb. 22.