THE HEAD COACH OF DETROIT RED WINGS HAVE JUST SUSPENDED A PLAYER BY SLAPPING THE TEAMS PLAYER.

The NHL formally declared during the most recent All-Star break that its players will participate in the Winter Olympics in 2026 and 2030. The world’s top hockey league’s players will now finally compete in this best-on-best tournament for the first time since 2014 thanks to an agreement reached by the NHL Players Association and the league itself with the Iffath world’s finest hockey players will eventually reunite to compete in the same competition from February 6–22, 2026.

Players like Nathan MacKinnon, Austin Matthews, and Connor McDavid have yet to appear in the Olympics, but now is our chance. The talk about Team USA’s power in the net, with players like John Gibson and Connor Hellebuyck and young guns like Jeremy Sayman and Jake Oettinger, will finally be tested.

A few Detroit Red Wings players will undoubtedly be competing for their countries once more. In 2014, Red Wings greats like Henrik Zetterberg, Niklas Kronwall, and Daniel Alfredsson competed for Team Sweden, while Jimmy Howard represented Team USA (that last one was a joke, please don’t come for me).

I’m curious about this fresh information. Which Red Wings players, both present and future, might represent their nation in 2026 when the NHL makes a comeback to the Olympics? Let’s examine the guys that, in my opinion, have the highest prospects and assign them a ballpark proportion to represent their nation.There are twelve teams competing in the men’s ice hockey Olympic event. These teams will include the host country, Italy, three teams who advance from a qualifying event, and the top eight nations as determined by the IIHF in 2026. I won’t be considering Russia or Belarus for either Olympic game at this time because it seems unlikely that they will be permitted to return to IIHF competition.