Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith,  and Brent Seabrook  were all part of the twenty three men 2010 Canadian Olympic roster announced by Steve Yzerman yesterday. Patrick Kane was the lone Chicago player included on the Team USA roster announced by Brian Burke at the 2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic at Fenway Park and both Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky were named to be part of the Slovakian Olympic team.

All but one of the six players will be making their first Olympic appearance. This will be the third Olympics appearance for Hossa. The 30-year old forward registered six points in Salt Lake City in 2002, and 10 points during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. However despite lack of Olympic experience, all of the players have had pretty extensive international hockey experience. Kane was part of the USA gold medal team at the 2006 World Under-18 Championships where he also finished as the tournament’s leading scorer.  He also skated for the U.S. at the 2007 World Junior Championships, and at the 2008 IIHF World Championships.

Toews has won four gold medals with Team Canada at various international levels, including the 2008 World Junior Championships. Duncan Keith helped Canada win a silver medal at the Worlds in 2008.

 Hossa has also represented Slovakia in numerous World Junior Championships, World Championships, and the 2004 World Cup in his international career. The 21st Winter Olympiad will be Tomas Kopecky’s first opportunity to represent his country in international play.

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On Thursday the Chicago Blackhawks reported that they managed to sign their two corner stone forwards and star defenceman with contract extentions. Forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane (both 21 years old) aggreed to five-year contracts worth about $6.3 million (US) per season, and Duncan Keith (26 years old) signed a 13-year deal worth $72 million (USd).

The signing of these contract extentions help ensure the Blackhawks fans are going to have a team worth cheering for the next decade, or more. The down side is that Chicago has a large number of players who will have cap hits over US$3-million next season incuding Hossa, Sharp, Kane, Bolland, Versteeg, Byfuglien, Keith, Huet, Campbell and Seabrook. So after this season, the Hawks will need to rid themselves of a few big-ticket players.

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the Blackhawks are moving on to the next round of the playoffs. Patrick Kane had his first hat trick and Jonathan Toews scored the go-ahead goal in a wild third period Monday night as Chicago advanced to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 1995 by beating the Vancouver Canucks 7-5.

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