All 32 NHL Clubs have at least one Olympian.
147 NHL Players
15 Players on NHL Reserve Lists (not currently in NHL)
119 Players without current NHL Affiliation
281 Total Players (11 full rosters plus 6 players from Team Italy)
189 Players with NHL Experience (min. 1 GP in regular season or playoffs)
177 Players selected in the NHL Draft, including 84 first-round picks and 9 No. 1 picks
78 Players with Olympic Experience (including 23 current NHL Players)
* The Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers have the most players selected (10). Details in the chart below (Olympics Rosters by NHL Team) and full list by team in the PDF.
* The Tampa Bay Lightning are represented across the most Olympic rosters (7). Details in the chart below (Olympic Rosters with at Least One Player Representing NHL Team).
* Team Sweden has the largest representation of NHL teams (18). The most players from one NHL team on an Olympic roster is 4 – the Dallas Stars on Team Finland and Minnesota Wild on Team Sweden. Details in chart below (Representation by Olympic Team).
* 40 Stanley Cup winners (58 total wins), 6 Hart Trophy winners (9 total wins), 6 Norris Trophy winners (9 total wins), 6 Calder Trophy winners, 5 Ted Lindsay Award winners (10 total wins), 4 Conn Smythe Trophy winners (5 total wins), 3 Art Ross Trophy winners (8 total wins) and 1 Vezina Trophy winner (3 total wins).
* 22 Olympic medal winners (any color; 24 total medals), including 3 gold medal winners (5 total gold), 6 silver medal winners (6 total silver) and 13 bronze medal winners (13 total bronze). This measures all Olympics. Details in the PDF (Olympic Medal Winners on 2026 Rosters).
* 1 player who is part of the “Triple Gold Club” – meaning they have won at least one Olympic gold medal, one Stanley Cup and one World Championship gold medal (Sidney Crosby, PIT/Team Canada). See the full list of “Triple Gold Club” members in the PDF.
* 13 players are in contention to join “Triple Gold Club” at Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 (5 on Team Canada, 3 on Team Czechia, 3 on Team Sweden and 2 on Team Finland). A full list is available in the PDF.
* 5 rookies currently in the NHL: Pavol Regenda (SJS) and Dalibor Dvorský (STL) on Team Slovakia, Oliver Kapanen (MTL) on Team Finland, Sandis Vilmanis (FLA) on Team Latvia and David Spacek (MIN) on Team Czechia. Forward Oscar Fisker Mølgaard of Team Denmark has played as a rookie with the Kraken this season but was in the AHL when named to the Olympic roster and last played an NHL game in November.
* 15 current NHL captains (5 on Team USA, 4 on Team Canada, 3 on Team Sweden, 2 on Team Switzerland and 1 on Team Czechia). A full list is in the PDF.
Youngest NHL Player:
Macklin Celebrini (SJS), Team Canada (19 years, 243 days on Feb. 11, 2026)
Youngest Player (overall):
Alberts Smits, Team Latvia (18 years, 71 days on Feb. 11, 2026)
Oldest NHL Player:
Sidney Crosby (PIT), Team Canada (38 years, 188 days on Feb. 11, 2026)
Oldest Player (overall):
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Team France (40 years, 342 days on Feb. 11, 2026)
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“Did You Know?” facts drawn from the new Olympics section of Records.NHL.com, plus additional #NHLStats ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026:
Most Players from One NHL Team: Entering 2026, the most players from one NHL team named to rosters for a single Olympic Winter Games is 11, by the Detroit Red Wings in 2002 (Chris Chelios, Pavel Datsyuk, Sergei Fedorov, Dominik Hasek, Tomas Holmstrom, Brett Hull, Igor Larionov, Nicklas Lidstrom, Fredrik Olausson, Brendan Shanahan and Steve Yzerman). The PDF includes a list of leaders.
Youngest NHL Players at the Olympics: A teenager has never played for Team Canada or Team USA at Olympics involving NHL players. Among nations participating at the 2026 Olympics, only two have had a teenager play for them at the five previous tournaments: Aleksander Barkov and Olli Määttä for Team Finland in 2014, as well as Marco Sturm (1998) and Christian Ehrhoff (2002) for Team Germany. The PDF shows all teenagers who skated at Olympics involving NHL players, as well as the youngest player each country has had at those Games.
Oldest NHL Players at the Olympics: Nine players age 40 or older have played at Olympics involving NHL players, including Chris Chelios (USA) who did so in both 2002 (age 40) and 2006 (age 44) and is the oldest ever to skate in those Games.The PDF shows all players age 40-plus who skated at Olympics involving NHL players, as well as the oldest player each country has had at those Games.
NHL Players by Year: A breakdown of NHL player representation for each of the first five Olympic Winter Games with League participation: 117 NHL players in 1998 (26 of 26 NHL teams), 144 NHL players in 2002 (27 of 30 NHL teams), 151 NHL players in 2006 (29 of 30 NHL teams), 139 NHL players in 2010 (30 of 30 NHL teams) and 148 NHL players in 2014 (30 of 30 NHL teams).
Gold Medal and Stanley Cup in Same Season: All time, eight players have won Olympic gold and the Stanley Cup in the same season. In the five previous Olympics involving NHL players, there have been 18 players to play in both the gold medal game and Stanley Cup Final in the same season (lists in PDF).
Stanley Cup Followed by Olympic Gold: Nine players won the Stanley Cup and then in the next NHL season captured Olympic gold, including Sidney Crosby (PIT; Team Canada) who won the Cup in 2008-09 and Olympic gold in 2010. A full list is in the PDF.
The “Triple Gold Club”: According to the IIHF, there are 30 players who are part of the “Triple Gold Club” – meaning they have won at least one Olympic gold medal, one Stanley Cup and one World Championship gold medal, including Sidney Crosby (PIT; Team Canada). The full list is in the PDF, along with a list of players who can join by winning gold at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.
Olympic Gold Medals by Country: For Olympics involving NHL players, Team Canada leads in gold medals (3), while Team Finland (4) tops the overall medal standings. The PDF lists medal standings for the five previous Olympics involving NHL players and all-time.
NHL Leaders at the Olympic Break: The NHL points leader at the Olympic break has gone on to win the Art Ross Trophy twice: Sidney Crosby (CAN) in 2013-14 and Jarome Iginla (CAN) in 2001-02. The NHL goals leader at the Olympic break has finished the season as the leader four times. The PDF lists various NHL leaders before each Olympic break.
Countries Represented by NHL Players: Entering 2026, NHL players have represented 16 different countries at the first five Olympic Winter Games involving the League: Austria, Belarus, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States. Three countries participating in 2026 have yet to have a player representing an NHL team at the Olympics: France, Denmark and Italy.
NHL Players as Olympic Flag Bearers: A total of 19 players with NHL experience have served as their country’s flag bearer for either the Opening or Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games, but only one has done so while representing an NHL team: Zdeno Chara of the Bruins carried Team Slovakia’s flag at the 2014 Opening Ceremony in Sochi, Russia.
Current NHLers at the 2018 and 2022 Olympics: A total of 12 current NHL players named to 2026 Olympic rosters participated in the 2018 or 2022 Olympics. A full list is in the PDF, including stats from each tournament (2018 and 2022 Olympic Stats, NHL Players on 2026 Rosters).
