TAMPA – The NHL will return to the Winter Olympics for the 2022 Games in Beijing, China, in February.
Those rosters are not due to the International Ice Hockey Federation for submission until January.
The number of Tampa Bay Lightning players expected to participate always figured to be significant once the league agreed to allow players to attend. Five months before the games get underway, the number of Lightning players already named to their respective teams is a large number.
That's because the IIHF asked each federation to submit three names to a preliminary roster. No team at this point ...
