The final rosters for the 2026 Olympic Games were due on New Year\u2019s Eve. Team USA and Team Canada used every bit of runway before finalizing their 25-player squads on the final day of the year.<\/p>\n
Boston Bruins 27-year-old center Morgan Geekie was an afterthought for the Canadian roster before the NHL season began. Now 40 games into the 2025-26 campaign, Geekie is leading the Bruins in both goals and points, and is tied for second-most goals in the league. <\/p>\n
This led to months of deliberation on whether the forward with 25 goals would make the trip to Milan, Italy, to represent his country. <\/p>\n
Canada elected not to take the Bruins forward.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini was the biggest surprise addition on the Wednesday morning announcement.<\/p>\n
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Celebrini was the first overall selection in the 2024 NHL Draft and is the youngest player on the roster by a large margin at just 19 years old. He is five years younger than the next youngest member.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Celebrini has four fewer goals than Geekie, but a whopping 17 more assists.<\/p>\n
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Geekie\u2019s emergence as one of the league\u2019s leading scorers is impressive because he is doing it in a unique way.<\/p>\n
Unlike the NHL\u2019s top scorer, MacKinnon, who has taken a league-high 173 shots this season, Geekie is one of only four players inside the league\u2019s top-15 goal scorers with fewer than 100 shots taken.<\/p>\n
The Bruins forward has scored on 25 of his 97 shots this season, giving him a shooting percentage above 25%.<\/p>\n
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This is the highest shooting percentage of any player in the NHL with more than 50 shots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final rosters for the 2026 Olympic Games were due on New Year\u2019s Eve. Team USA and Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4261,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-384019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-morgan-geekie","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115817514536701751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384019","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=384019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}