{"id":393463,"date":"2026-01-06T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:49:10","slug":"czechs-pick-three-nhl-goalies-plus-forwards-necas-and-pastrnak-for-winter-olympics-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393463\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechs pick three NHL goalies plus forwards Necas and Pastrnak for Winter Olympics | Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE (AP) \u2014 The Czech Republic included three NHL goaltenders in its squad for the Cortina Milan <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Olympics<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They were Lukas Dostal of the Anaheim Ducks, Karel Vejmelka of the Utah Mammoth and Daniel Vladar of the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche center Martin Necas, Boston Bruins right winger David Pastrnak and Vegas Golden Knights center Tomas Hertl were among 12 NHL players on the team which is missing Vancouver Canucks forward Filip Chytil, who has not recovered from concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Pastrnak teammate Pavel Zacha, Ondrej Palat of the New Jersey Devils and Radek Faksa of the Dallas Stars were other forwards in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Only two defensemen play in the NHL \u2014 Radim Gudas from Anaheim and Filip Hronek from Vancouver \u2014 showing a decline in Czech players in North America in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen of the 25-man squad helped the Czechs <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ice-hockey-world-championship-5bf064bed711626ec105d4b091218c15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win the world championship<\/a> two years ago in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechs open the Olympic tournament against Canada on Feb. 12. France and Switzerland are also in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>AP Olympic coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRAGUE (AP) \u2014 The Czech Republic included three NHL goaltenders in its squad for the Cortina Milan Winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[50109,5,4,292,5966,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-393463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-czech-hockey-milan-olympics","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-hockey","12":"tag-olympic-games","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115848004494767362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393463","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=393463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}