GM Doug Armstrong says the plan is to build Canada's Olympic team around 10 or 11 locks

With the 2022 Olympics creeping up quickly on everyone, the Canadian men's hockey team's roster is one that will be highly debated up until the roster is finalized.

"I think where we are at right now, we have a majority where we probably have 10 or 11 locks on the team," general manager Doug Armstrong said, according to The Athletic's Pierre LeBrun. "That leaves up to 14 or 15 players that are in contention and there's probably 50 guys on that list still. It's just a whittling-down process. You want to add guys to the locks, and remove guys that are no longer in consideration and hope that list gets smaller and smaller."

Canada's pool of players to choose from is easily the strongest among the competing countries across the globe.

"Because we didn't go in 2018, we are going to be looking at a couple of guys from 2010, a couple from 2014, but there is going to be a whole new wave of guys in there. And I sort of look at it as who played for their national teams between say 2010 and 2016, 2017 at the world juniors," he added. "That's likely the majority of your group coming out of there."

Canada currently possesses four of the NHL's top-10 scorers (Connor McDavid, Mitch Marner, Mark Scheifele, and Johnathan Huberdeau). Canada has also won the last two Olympics that featured NHL players.

Source: The Score

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