Canada's Sochi 2014 hockey roster: Where are they now?
Looking back at Team Canada the last time NHLers went to the Olympics.
For the first time since Sochi 2014, NHL players will return to the Winter Olympics in 2026, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced on Friday.
That tournament ten years ago, won by Canada, was the most recent best-on-best men’s international hockey tournament, and all of the teams will look almost entirely different by the time 2026 comes around 12 years later. Only nine of the Canadian players from 2014 are still in the NHL this season, with several of them not expected to be on the 2026 roster.
Here is a look back at Canada’s gold medal-winning roster from Sochi 2014, and what they’re up to now.
Goaltenders
Roberto Luongo
After leading Canada to a gold medal at Vancouver 2010, Roberto Luongo was primarily Carey Price’s backup at Sochi 2014, but did make one appearance, keeping a shutout in a 6-0 win over Austria in the group stage.
Luongo was traded from the Vancouver Canucks back to his former team — the Florida Panthers — after returning from Sochi, where he would play until retiring in 2019. One of the best goalies ever, Luongo was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022, and was Canada’s Assistant GM for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. He also works in the Panthers’ front office.
Carey Price
Canada’s starter for all but one of the games in Sochi, Carey Price was named the best goaltender of the tournament after leading Canada to gold and allowing just three goals in five games, including shutouts in both the semifinal against the United States and gold medal game against Sweden.
That was around the height of Price’s powers. The next year he would win the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s MVP, and the Vezina Trophy for the league’s best goaltender, also adding the Ted Lindsay Award as the league’s best regular season player. Injuries plagued him in the years that followed, and after helping the Montreal Canadiens reach the Stanley Cup Final in the 2020-21 season, he played just five times in 2021-22 before a knee injury that has kept him out of the sport since — and he is all but officially retired.
Mike Smith
Mike Smith didn’t get onto the ice at Sochi 2014, serving as Canada’s backup in one game and primarily being the third goalie. A year later got his chance to start for Canada, leading them to gold at the 2015 IIHF World Championships.
Smith played for the Arizona Coyotes at the time of the 2014 Olympics after stints with the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning, and he stayed in the desert until 2017. He spent two years with the Calgary Flames, then three with the Edmonton Oilers, but as of the end of the 2021–22, he has been a free agent.
Defencemen
Jay Bouwmeester
After being a reserve for Team Canada at Vancouver 2010, Jay Bouwmeester was part of the team four years later, playing all six games en route to the gold medal. Bouwmeester was also part of the Canadian team that won the World Cup of Hockey in 2016, and won the Stanley Cup with the St. Louis Blues in 2019.
On February 11, 2020, Bouwmeester collapsed on the St. Louis Blues bench during a game, suffering a cardiac episode. He didn’t play another NHL game, and officially retired from playing in January 2021. Of his 1,240 career NHL games, his streak of 737 between 2004 and 2014 is the tenth-longest of all-time.
Drew Doughty
Nobody had a better 2014 than Drew Doughty. After leading Canada in goals and points at Sochi 2014 on his way to second-consecutive Olympic gold medal, Doughty was named to the tournament’s All-Star Team. Just a few months later, Doughty won his second Stanley Cup in three years with the LA Kings. In 2016 he won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenceman.
Doughty is still with the Kings, and expected to be in contention for the 2026 Olympic roster — one of the only players to compete in both Olympics 12 years apart.
Dan Hamhuis
After being invited to Canada’s 46-player pre-tournament camp ahead of Vancouver 2010 but not making the final squad, Dan Hamhuis got his shot to compete in the Olympics at Sochi 2014, playing in five of Canada’s six games. A year later, he was part of the team that won gold for Canada at the 2015 World Championships.
He was playing for the Vancouver Canucks in 2013-14, where he would remain until the end of the 2015–16 season. He then signed with the Dallas Stars, with whom he’d spend two years before signing a two-year contract to return to the Nashville Predators in 2018, 17 years after being drafted by the Preds. After two years in Nashville, he announced his retirement on August 13, 2020.
Duncan Keith
Another player returning from the Vancouver 2010 team, Duncan Keith was one of Canada’s key players four years later, playing all six of Canada’s games and registering one assist. Just as he did in 2010, Duncan Keith followed up his Olympic gold medal by being named the Norris Trophy winner in 2014. The next season, 2014-15, Keith and the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup for the third time in six years.
He remained with the Blackhawks until 2021 before requesting a trade to be closer to his family in British Columbia, and he was subsequently dealt to the Edmonton Oilers. He spent one year in Edmonton before announcing his retirement in July 2022, and was later brought back to the Oilers as a player development consultant.
Alex Pietrangelo
After being named the best defenceman of the 2011 IIHF World Championships as a 21-year-old, Alex Pietrangelo’s first best-on-best tournament in a Canadian uniform was highly anticipated. One of the youngest players on the team, he played all six games at Sochi 2014, picking up one assist in the process. Two years later he was part of Team Canada for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Since then, he’s confirmed his place as one of the best defencemen in the NHL, winning the Stanley Cup in 2019 as the captain of the St. Louis Blues, and then lifting it again in 2023 with the Vegas Golden Knights.
Pietrangelo was one of three preliminary players named to Canada’s Beijing 2022 team alongside Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid, before the NHL decided not to let players compete after all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is expected to be in contention for the 2026 Olympics roster.
P. K. Subban
Montreal Canadiens star P.K. Subban went into Sochi 2014 as the reigning Norris Trophy winner, but was limited to just one game on the ice, watching the rest from the stands as a healthy scratch. Nobody had a bigger smile on his face after the gold medal game than Subban, however, as he shared that moment with his teammates.
In June 2016, Subban was involved in a blockbuster trade between the Canadiens and Nashville Predators, swapped with Preds captain Shea Weber. After three years in Nashville, Subban was traded to the New Jersey Devils in June 2019, where he would spend three more seasons before announcing his retirement in September 2022. Since retiring, Subban has joined ESPN full-time as an analyst.
Marc-Édouard Vlasic
Another one of the nine still-active NHLers from Canada’s Sochi 2014 roster, Marc-Édouard Vlasic is still with the San Jose Sharks team that drafted him back in 2005. He played all six of Canada’s games in Sochi, and two years later also won gold with Canada at the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto.
A reliable player for the Sharks for nearly two decades, Vlasic has played over 1,200 games for the Sharks thus far, second only to Patrick Marleau for the franchise record.
Shea Weber
One of Canada’s assistant captains in Sochi, Shea Weber tied with Drew Doughty for the team lead in points with six (three goals and three assists), including an assist on the golden goal of the final. It was his second Olympic gold with Canada after playing at Vancouver 2010, and in 2016 Weber also added a gold at the World Cup of Hockey.
After 11 seasons in Nashville, Weber was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in 2016 as part of the aforementioned P.K. Subban trade. In 2018, Weber was named captain of the Canadiens, and he would help lead them to the Stanley Cup final in 2020-21 while dealing with lingering injuries.
That would be the last of Weber’s time in the NHL, although he hasn’t officially retired. His contract was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights in 2022 and then Arizona Coyotes in 2023, but he has not suited up for either team due to injuries.
Forwards
Jamie Benn
Scoring two goals in six appearances at Sochi 2014, Jamie Benn’s Olympic gold is the only international medal he has won at the senior level. He scored one of Canada’s most important goals of the tournament, the lone tally in a 1-0 win over the United States in the semifinal.
In 2014-15, Benn won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s top scorer, and to this day remains with the Dallas Stars team that drafted him — serving as the captain since 2013.
Patrice Bergeron
Providing two assists and playing in all six games, Patrice Bergeron won his second consecutive Olympic gold in 2014 after also winning in 2010. One of the best defensive forwards of all time, Bergeron won his second of a record six Selke Trophies in 2014 with the Boston Bruins.
After being named Bruins captain in 2021, Bergeron finished his career with the team that drafted him in 2003 and won a Stanley Cup with in 2011, retiring after the 2022-23 NHL season.
Jeff Carter
Finishing third on the team in scoring with five points, Jeff Carter was one of just three players to score a hat trick at Sochi 2014, and the only Canadian — doing so in a 6-0 win over Austria in the round robin. His Olympic success came four years after being a reserve for the 2010 team that won gold in Vancouver.
Carter, who was with the Los Angeles Kings at the time, remained with the team until the 2020–21 season, when he was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins — where he still plays today.
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby and Olympic golds are a match made in heaven. Four years after his iconic Golden Goal in Vancouver, Crosby captained the team and scored the second goal in a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the 2014 Olympic gold medal game as Canada became back-to-back champions.
Crosby has remained an NHL superstar since, and even at age 36 is scoring at above a point-per-game pace this season. A perennial All-Star, Crosby won the Hart Trophy as the NHL MVP in 2014, in addition to the Art Ross Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award. He has since won two Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017.
With no real signs of slowing down, Crosby was one of the first three players named to Team Canada for Beijing 2022 with Alex Pietrangelo and Connor McDavid before NHL players didn’t end up going, and will likely be on Canada’s roster in 2026 as well — probably as the captain.
Matt Duchene
At Sochi 2014, Matt Duchene played four games for Canada, taking over for the injured John Tavares after starting the tournament as a healthy scratch. Since Sochi, Duchene has also won gold medals with Canada at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships, as well as at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
After spending the better part of a decade with the Colorado Avalanche, Duchene was traded to the Ottawa Senators in November 2017, and later traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets in February 2019. That summer he signed with the Nashville Predators, where he spent four years before having the remaining three years of his seven-year contract bought out last summer. He is currently playing for the Dallas Stars after signing a one-year contract in July 2023.
Ryan Getzlaf
With a goal and two assists in six games in Sochi, Ryan Getzlaf was tied for fifth on Team Canada in terms of point production as he picked up a second-consecutive Olympic gold medal.
Playing his entire career with the Anaheim Ducks, Getzlaf was an All Star a year later, and would stay with the team until retiring at the end of the 2021–22 season. He is the only player in Ducks history to reach over 1,000 games and 1,000 points with that franchise, finishing with 1,019 points in 1,157 games. His 737 assists are also a franchise record.
Chris Kunitz
A longtime teammate of Sidney Crosby with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chris Kunitz joined his friend Crosby on the scoresheet of the gold medal game — scoring the third and final goal of a 3-0 victory with his first of the tournament.
Kunitz remained with the Penguins until the end of the 2016–17 season, winning two more Stanley Cups, then spent one year with the Tampa Bay Lightning and one with the Chicago Blackhawks before retiring after 15 NHL seasons in 2019. He then joined the Blackhawks as a player development adviser and joined the coaching staff of the Rockford IceHogs, their American Hockey League affiliate.
Patrick Marleau
Mr. San Jose Sharks, Patrick Marleau, won his second-consecutive Olympic gold medal at Sochi 2014, providing four assists in six games along the way.
Marleau’s first season with the Sharks came in 1997–98, and he would remain with the team until the end of the 2016–17 season. He spent two years with the Toronto Maple Leafs before signing in San Jose for a second time, but was traded during the 2019–20 season to the Pittsburgh Penguins. After 12 games with the Penguins between the regular season and playoffs, he re-joined the Sharks for a third and final time, playing 56 games in 2020–21 before retiring. He ended his career as the Sharks’ all-time leader in games played, goals, and points, and holds the NHL record for regular season games played with 1,779.
Rick Nash
Playing in his third Olympics, Brampton, Ontario’s Rick Nash won his second gold medal in Sochi after winning in Vancouver four years earlier.
Nash was playing for the New York Rangers at the time of the 2014 Olympics, and he remained with the team until the 2018 trade deadline, when he was dealt to the Boston Bruins. Before the end of the season, in March, he suffered a concussion that ultimately ended his playing career. In 2022 his number 61 was retired by the Columbus Blue Jackets, with whom he spent the first nine years of his career and is still the franchise record holder for goals, assists, and total points.
Corey Perry
Providing one assist in six games at Sochi 2014, Corey Perry was another one of the players to win their second-consecutive Olympic gold medal. Two years after the Olympics, Perry also won the World Cup of Hockey with Canada, as well as the 2016 World Championships, for which he was the Canada captain.
Perry was playing for the Anaheim Ducks at the time, where he would remain until the end of the 2018–19 season. He has bounced around the league since, playing for five teams in five years — the Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, Chicago Blackhawks, and currently the Edmonton Oilers. He holds the unwanted record as the first player to lose three Stanley Cup Finals in a row with three different teams, losing to the Lightning with the Stars and Canadiens, before joining the Lightning and losing with them as well in 2021-22 to the Colorado Avalanche.
Patrick Sharp
In his only trip to the Olympic Games, three time Stanley Cup champion Patrick Sharp came away with a gold medal, and scored the first goal of Canada’s 2-1 quarterfinal victory over Latvia.
After winning the third of those three cups with the Chicago Blackhawks, Sharp was traded to the Dallas Stars ahead of the 2015–16 season. After two years in Dallas, he signed a one-year deal to return for an 11th season in Chicago, after which he retired. Since hanging up his skates, Sharp has worked in as a television analyst, and has also worked for the Philadelphia Flyers' front office as a special adviser.
Martin St. Louis
Originally, just as he was four years earlier, Martin St. Louis was a reserve for Team Canada at Sochi 2014, but after an injury to Tampa Bay Lightning teammate Steven Stamkos, St. Louis joined Canada and played five games en route to the gold medal.
St. Louis spent most of his career with the Lightning, but in January 2014 was traded to the New York Rangers, where he spent the next season-and-a-half before retiring in 2015. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018, and is currently the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens — first taking over on an interim basis in February 2022 before getting the job full-time.
John Tavares
John Tavares played four of Canada’s six games before suffering a knee injury that ended both his Olympics and his NHL season with the New York Islanders. In addition to that Olympic gold, he also won gold with Canada at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Tavares left the Islanders in 2018, signing with his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs, where he still plays and captains his hometown team to this day.
Jonathan Toews
Canada’s other assistant captain in Sochi, Jonathan Toews, has the distinction of scoring the golden goal at the 2014 Olympics, the first in a 3-0 win over Sweden. It was his second Olympic gold in a row with Canada, and he also won the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Toews remained with the Blackhawks through the end of the 2022–23 after being drafted by them third overall in 2006, winning a third Stanley Cup with the team in 2015. He is taking a break from his NHL career and is currently a free agent, but it is unclear if he will ever play professionally again.
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