Six players from Finland to the French Olympic teams

French The Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation has announced its selections for the February Olympic tournament.

All five French SM league field players are in the country’s men’s Olympic team.

Forwards from the league were selected for the team Dylan Fabre (Aces, 21 matches, 8+8), Charles Bertrand (Sport, 22, 9+5), Justin Addamo (Jukurit, 33, 3+7) and defenders Jules Boscq (HPK, 22, 2+3) and Hugo Gallet (KalPa, 21, 0+3).

Fabre is currently on the sidelines due to injury. Ässät said on November 17 that he will be sidelined for up to three months, so recovery will take until the Olympic tournament.

France released a list of 24 players on Christmas Eve and said it would reveal the last player as agreed with the NHL in January.

The only NHL player from France plays in Montreal Alexandre Texierwho played two seasons at KalPa before joining the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The team’s namesake includes France’s most experienced NHL player of all time. Currently playing puck in Switzerland Pierre-Edouard Bellemare40, played exactly 700 regular season games with an output of 64+74.

A defender who played in Finland for a long time and kept his base in Pohjola even after that Yohann Auvitu he also brings NHL experience. Auvitu, who first played puck in Jyväskylä, made an effort from HIFK to the NHL and played 58 games (5+8) in the world’s toughest league.

The French men’s head coach is Yorick Treille. In the winter of 2003, he went to the flopping HIFK (5, 0+1). Earlier this fall, Treille got his boot from Geneva and made room for the new head coach To Ville Peltonwhich is remembered from Treille’s playing days on Jokers.

Aurora League of the two Frenchmen, the striker was chosen Sehana Galbrunwho has scored 2+6 in 22 matches this season. His teammate, HIFK’s captain Athena Locatelli (22, 4+15) was not named to the women’s team.