{"id":396975,"date":"2026-01-08T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396975\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:32:16","slug":"nico-hischier-roman-josi-among-25-players-named-to-switzerlands-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396975\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Hischier, Roman Josi among 25 players named to Switzerland\u2019s Olympic team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nico-hischier\/8480002\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nico-hischier\/8480002\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Hischier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/roman-josi\/8474600\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/roman-josi\/8474600\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Josi<\/a> are among the 25 players named to Team Switzerland for the upcoming 2026 Olympics in Milan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hischier and Josi are among the 10 NHL players on the roster, including forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-fiala\/8477942\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-fiala\/8477942\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Fiala<\/a> (Los Angeles), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/philipp-kurashev\/8480798\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/philipp-kurashev\/8480798\" target=\"_blank\">Philipp Kurashev<\/a> (San Jose), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/timo-meier\/8478414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/timo-meier\/8478414\" target=\"_blank\">Timo Meier<\/a> (New Jersey), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nino-niederreiter\/8475799\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nino-niederreiter\/8475799\" target=\"_blank\">Nino Niederreiter<\/a> (Winnipeg), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pius-suter\/8480459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pius-suter\/8480459\" target=\"_blank\">Pius Suter<\/a> (St. Louis) as well as defencemen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jj-moser\/8482655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jj-moser\/8482655\" target=\"_blank\">J.J. Moser<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jonas-siegenthaler\/8478399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jonas-siegenthaler\/8478399\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Siegenthaler<\/a> (New Jersey) and goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Schmid<\/a> (Vegas).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Switzerland is in Group A for the Olympic tournament with Canada, Czechia and France. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Switzerland finished in eighth place at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. They last medaled in men\u2019s hockey in 1948 with a bronze medal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Swiss have won back-to-back silver medals at the IIHF men\u2019s World Championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the first time NHL players are skating in the Olympics since 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The tournament runs from Feb. 11 to 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils captain Nico Hischier and Nashville Predators defenceman Roman Josi are among the 25 players named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,32428,42978],"class_list":{"0":"post-396975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-sports-hockey-league-nhl","12":"tag-olympics-sports-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115857846823084763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396975","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=396975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}