Management group named for 2025 NHL 4 Nations Face-Off
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea –
As the workforce strikes in to the Olympic Village and prepares for its ultimate
pre-tournament sport forward of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Canada’s Men’s Olympic Team has revealed the six gamers who will make
up its management group.
Wearing the ‘C’ for the red-and-white is Chris Kelly (Toronto/Belleville, AHL), supported by a
seasoned group in René Bourque (Lac La Biche, Alta./Djurgårdens IF, SHL), Andrew Ebbett (Vernon, B.C./SC Bern, NLA), Chris Lee (MacTier, Ont./Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL), Derek Roy (Rockland, Ont./Linköping HC, SHL), and Maxim Noreau (Montreal/SC Bern, NLA).
“We are very lucky that this workforce is filled with leaders, and I feel that
displays very nicely on the kind of those who hockey produces,” mentioned head
coach Willie Desjardins (Climax, Sask.), of the choice. “This management
group will set the tempo not solely on the ice with their drive and work
ethic, but additionally off the ice as all of us embrace the large alternative to
signify Canada and Canada’s sport on the world stage in PyeongChang.”
Bourque, Ebbett, Lee, and Roy will rotate sporting the ‘A’ as on-ice
alternate captains throughout the match.
Chris Kelly’s enjoying profession features a Spengler Cup championship with Canada in 2017,
and successful the Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011. Kelly performed
833 NHL video games, together with 82 with the Ottawa Senators final season. His Major
Junior profession was spent with the OHL’s London Knights and Sudbury Wolves.
René Bourque
has represented Canada on the 2017 Channel One Cup, 2017 Karjala Cup,
and 2010 IIHF World Championship. Following 4 seasons of NCAA hockey
with the University of Wisconsin, Bourque logged ice time with AHL and NHL
groups over 12 seasons, together with the Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames,
Montreal Canadiens, and Colorado Avalanche.
Andrew Ebbett
gained back-to-back Spengler Cup championships for Canada (2016, 2017), in
addition to sporting the Maple Leaf on the 2017 Karjala Cup and 2017
Sochi Hockey Open. Ebbett at present leads SC Bern in scoring, and gained the NLA
championship with the workforce in 2016 and 2017. Ebbett served as captain
for one season throughout his 4 years of NCAA hockey with the University of
Michigan earlier than shifting on to enjoying 9 seasons within the AHL and NHL with
groups similar to Anaheim, the place he made his NHL debut, Chicago, Pittsburgh,
and Vancouver.
Chris Lee
has gained two silver medals for Canada – on the 2017 IIHF World Championship and 2016 Deutschland Cup – along with representing his nation at
the 2012 Deutschland Cup, 2017 Karjala Cup, and 2017 Channel One Cup. Lee
led Magnitogorsk defencemen in scoring in 2015-16 and 2016-17, and gained
the KHL’s Gagarin Cup with the workforce in 2016. During his beginner profession, Lee
captained the Parry Sound Shamrocks of the OPJHL in 1999-2000.
Derek Roy
has gained gold for Canada on the 2000 Four Nations Cup in Slovakia with
Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team, silver on the 2003 IIHF World
Junior Championship in Halifax, silver on the 2009 IIHF World Championship
in Switzerland, and is a 2015 Spengler Cup champion. Drafted within the second
spherical of the 2001 NHL draft by the Buffalo Sabres, Roy led the workforce in
scoring throughout the 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10 seasons. He captained the
OHL’s Kitchener Rangers in 2002-03, the yr the membership gained the Memorial Cup.
Maxim Noreau
is a three-time Spengler Cup champion (2012, 2016, 2017) who additionally
represented Canada on the Spengler Cup in 2013, on the 2017 Sochi Hockey
Open, and on the 2017 Channel One Cup. Noreau gained the NLA championship with
SC Bern in his first season with the workforce in 2016-17, and has been a number one
defenceman in scoring throughout his 4 seasons within the NLA. He performed three
seasons with the Tigres de Victoriaville (QMJHL) throughout his beginner profession,
serving as captain of the workforce throughout the 2006-07 season.
Canada in ultimate preparation for Olympic Games
On January 11, the
25 gamers chosen to Canada’s Men’s Olympic Team had been introduced. The workforce
gathered in Riga, Latvia, for its pre-competition camp, and blanked each
Latvia and Belarus in pre-tournament motion. The Canadian squad travelled
to South Korea on Wednesday, and can face Sweden in Incheon on Sunday in a
ultimate pre-Olympic tune-up.
The gamers had been chosen by Canada’s National Men’s Team common supervisor
Sean Burke (Windsor, Ont./Montreal, NHL), administration group member Martin
Brodeur (Montreal/St. Louis, NHL), Hockey Canada’s chief govt officer,
Tom Renney (Cranbrook, B.C.), president and chief working officer, Scott
Smith (Bathurst, N.B.), and vice-president of hockey operations and
nationwide groups, Scott Salmond (Creston, B.C.), with enter from the teaching
workers – Desjardins and assistant coaches Dave King (Saskatoon, Sask.),
Scott Walker (Cambridge, Ont./Vancouver, NHL), and Craig Woodcroft
(Toronto/Genève-Servette HC, NLA).
The Olympic males’s hockey match opens on Friday, Feb. 15 on the
Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung, when Canada – enjoying in Group A –
meets Switzerland. The gold-medal sport is about to happen on Feb. 25.
For extra info on Canada’s National Men’s Team, please go to
HockeyCanada.ca, or observe by means of social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitter.com/HC_Men.
