It’s finally here. Best on best men’s hockey at the Olympic level is just a few days away, and today, we got a look at some potential line combinations following multiple teams’ first practices.

Canada Line Combinations

Connor McDavid lined up between North Vancouver’s Macklin Celebrini and Tom Wilson on Team Canada’s top line, followed by Brad Marchand, Nathan Mackinnon and Nick Suzuki and the third line of Mark Stone, Sidney Crosby, and Mitch Marner. Former Vancouver Canucks captain Bo Horvat centred Canada’s fourth line with North Vancouver’s Sam Reinhart and Brandon Hagel on his wings.

Celebrini-McDavid-Wilson
Marchand-MacKinnon-Suzuki
Stone-Crosby-Marner
Hagel-Horvat-Reinhart

Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Parayko
Theodore-Sanheim

USA Line Combinations

Team USA’s top line featured the Tkachuk brothers on the wings, centred by Jack Eichel. Quinn Hughes is on the team’s top defensive pairing, partnered with Charlie McAvoy. While JT Miller was listed as an extra forward.

B. Tkachuk-Eichel-M. Tkachuk
Boldy-Matthews-Guentzel
Hughes-Larkin-Thompson
Nelson-Trocheck-Keller

Hughes-McAvoy
Slavin-Faber
Werenski-Hanifin

Sweden Line Combinations

Team Sweden has Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson as the third line left winger with Mika Zibanejad down the middle and Rickard Rakell on the right wing.

Forsberg-Eriksson Ek-Nylander
Bratt-Lindholm-Raymond
Pettersson-Zibajenad-Rakell
Landeskog-Wennberg-Kempe

Hedman-Dahlin
Forsling-Karlsson
Ekman-Larsson-Andersson

Finland Line Combinations

Kevin Lankinen seems to be backing Juuse Saros for Team Finland, as expected. Lankinen began the Four Nations tournament last year, backing up Saros before taking on the starter role later on in the tournament.

Granlund-Hintz-Rantanen
Lehkonen-Aho-Teravainen
Luostarinen-Lundell-Kakko
Tolvanen-Haula-Armia

Lindell-Heiskanen
Mikkola-Ristolainen
Maatta-Jokiharju

Czechia Line Combinations

Czechia has Filip Hronek listed as their top pair right side defencemen, with former NHLer Radim Simek on his left side. David Kampf is listed as the team’s second line centre, with Ondrej Palat and Ondrej Kase as his wingers.

Necas-Hertl-Pastrnak
Palat-Kampf-Kase
Cervenka-Sedlak-Tomasek
Stransky-Faksa-Kubalik

Simek-Hronek
Kempny-Gudas
Spacek-Rutta

Latvia Line Combinations

Team Latvia has Teddy Blueger listed as the team’s top line centreman with Zemgus Girgensons and Sandis Vilmanis on the wing. Arturs Silovs appears to be backing up Elvis Merzlinkins, and Abbotsford Canucks forward Anri Ravinskis is listed on the team’s third line.

Vilmanis-Blueger-Girgensons
Tralmaks-Locmelis-Dzierkals
Ravinskis-Krastenbergs-Daugavins
Balcers-Batna-Bukarts

Balinskis-Rubins
Smits-Freibergs
Zile-Jaks

The other final Canucks, Lukas Reichel, appears to be on Germany’s second line, playing the wing with Nico Sturm at centre and Josh Samanski on the other wing.

The men’s tournament’s first game is scheduled for February 11, at 7:40 AM PST, in a matchup between Finland and Slovakia.

Team Canada’s first game is on February 12, at 7:40 AM PST against Czechia.

All line combos courtesy of Puck Pedia.

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