Two NHL teams are sending nine players to the Olympics.
Ironically, it's the two Florida squads: The Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Olympic men's hockey rosters have all been finalized, and now we know exactly who from every NHL team has been named to initial rosters before any injury replacements might have to be moved into place.
These are the nine Panthers slated to play in the Olympics:
- Uvis Balinskis, Latvia
- Gustav Forsling, Sweden
- Seth Jones, United States
- Anton Lundell, Finland
- Eetu Luostarinen, Finland
- Niko Mikkola, Finland
- Brad Marchand, Canada
- Sam Reinhart, Canada
- Matthew Tkachuk, United States
Reinhart will be playing in his first Olympics after winning pretty much everything else there is to win in a Canada jersey.
Tkachuk brings the energy and juice for Team USA, and Jones will join him.
Marchand is a veteran legend for Canada.
And that's a lot of Finnish representation from the Panthers, too.
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