Canada won the title at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February, a long-anticipated return of best-on-best hockey action. So ... run it back?

There were likely a bunch of NHL standouts wondering if they were wasting their time this week at Hockey Canada’s Olympic orientation camp in Calgary.

There has been so much praise — and deservedly so — for the group that captured the title in February at the 4 Nations Face-Off. So as preparations begin to go for gold at the 2026 Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, Italy, how much roster tinkering is required?

Isn’t there an old saying about messing with a good thing?

“The roster at the 4 Nations was 23 and the roster for the Olympics is 25, so theoretically we could have the whole same team with two extras,” Team Canada bench boss Jon Cooper reminded.

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