{"id":146782,"date":"2025-08-03T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/146782\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:01:10","slug":"canadiens-defenseman-may-be-snubbed-from-team-canada-at-the-2026-olympics-per-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/146782\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens Defenseman May Be Snubbed From Team Canada at the 2026 Olympics, Per Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadiens Defenseman May Be Snubbed From Team Canada at the 2026 Olympics, Per Analyst<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/584353.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"New Canadiens defenseman Noah Dobson\" title=\"New Canadiens defenseman Noah Dobson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Montreal Hockey Now<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNew Montreal Canadiens defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Noah-Dobson-51667\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Noah Dobson profile and hockey stats\">Noah Dobson<\/a>, who was acquired earlier this summer, could be snubbed from Canada&#8217;s roster in the 2026 Milan Olympics.Canada will want to avenge their stunning loss to Denmark in the recent 2025 IIHF World Championships, and they&#8217;ve invited 42 players to their orientation camp in preparation for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/nhl\/news\/the-iihf-has-submitted-an-official-application-to-make-a-major-change-at-the-2030-winter-olympics\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winter Olympics<\/a> in Milan, which will feature the return of NHL players to the Olympics for the 1st time in over a decade.Canadiens analyst Stu Cowan recently said that while new Montreal defenseman Noah Dobson may have been invited to Canada&#8217;s orientation camp, it doesn&#8217;t mean that he&#8217;s guaranteed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/us\/nhl\/news-nhl-analyst-casts-serious-doubt-noah-dobson-s-chances-making-canada-s-2026-olympic-roster\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">make the final roster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Dobson getting invited. I mean, the invite 42 guys are gonna have to have some scrimmages right before that, you have two teams. But for Dobs, that&#8217;s a good sign that the team and Canada scouts officials think highly enough of him to invite him to that camp.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s a spot on the blue line for him, when you look at what they had at the 4 Nations, but a confidence boost getting invited there and a great experience for him going.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s orientation camp is scheduled for late August and will take place in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Dobson was acquired from the Islanders by the Canadiens this summer<\/p>\n<p>Dobson was acquired by the Canadiens and then signed an 8 year, $76 million contract with an AAV(average annual value) of $9.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>As Dobson would say, it&#8217;s an honor for him to join a historic Original 6 team.<\/p>\n<p>Just the opportunity to be part of the Montreal Canadiens, it&#8217;s an honor. It&#8217;s the best hockey market in the world. The fans are incredible. I love playing at the Bell Centre, and just also the group of players they have already and the talent they have on that team and what they&#8217;ve been building. I&#8217;m just super excited to join that group and add to it, and excited about what we can do down the road here in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Dobson has 230 points (50G, 180A) in 388 career NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HouseOfHockey<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>39 MINUTES AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens Defenseman May Be Snubbed From Team Canada at the 2026 Olympics, Per Analyst<\/p>\n<p>Should Noah Dobson make Canada&#8217;s final roster for the 2026 Olympics?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHOUSEOFHOCKEY.NET<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadiens Defenseman May Be Snubbed From Team Canada at the 2026 Olympics, Per Analyst Photo credit: Montreal Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[25774,25776,265,25775,5,264,21,5147,159,4,778],"class_list":{"0":"post-146782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-2026-milan-olympics","9":"tag-canada-olympics","10":"tag-canadiens","11":"tag-canadiens-olympics","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-montreal","14":"tag-montreal-canadiens","15":"tag-montrealcanadiens","16":"tag-new-york-islanders","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-noah-dobson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114962136231773604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}