Team Canada has 11 back on Olympic men's hockey roster

Canada will defend its Olympic gold medal in hockey with a team that includes 11 members of the 2010 team.

Sidney Crosby, who scored the game-winner in overtime against the United State four years ago, leads the Canadian team into Sochi, Russia. The Pittsburgh Penguins star leads the NHL in scoring this season.

Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who scored 60 goals in the last full NHL season, is on the team despite missing two months because of a broken leg.

Hockey Canada executive director Steve Yzerman, who is Stamkos' general manager with Tampa Bay, said Stamkos is scheduled for X-rays later this week. Final rosters must be set by Feb. 11, the day before games begin in Sochi.

Canada's goalies are Roberto Luongo, Carey Price and Mike Smith.

The host team in Sochi will have a formidable roster as well.

Alex Ovechkin, Pavel Datsyuk and Evgeni Malkin head the Russian team, which is hoping to avoid a repeat of its poor performance in Vancouver. Russia lost in the quarterfinals in 2010.

Teemu Selanne, 43, will be in his sixth Olympics as he is on the Finnish roster.

Selanne has led the Olympics in scoring twice and was named best player at the 2006 Games in Turin.

Another veteran, Saku Koivu, won't be part of the team after telling Finland coach Erkka Westerlund that he doesn't feel in good enough shape to play at the Olympics.

Saku's brother, Mikko Koivu, is set to be Finland's captain if he can recover from a fractured ankle that required surgery on Monday.

Kari Lehtonen, Tuukka Rask and Antti Niemi are Finland's goalies. The Finns won bronze in 2010.

Sweden won gold in 2006.

• Former Gophers winger Thomas Vanek was named to Austria's Olympic team. Vanek is one of four former Gophers on Olympic rosters; Blake Wheeler, Phil Kessel and Paul Martin are on Team USA.

• The Czech team includes 42-year-old Petr Nedved — who last played in the Olympics in 1994 for Canada — and former Wild defenseman Marek Zidlicky.

• Former Wild winger Marian Gaborik is on the Slovakian team, although he is recovering from a broken collarbone that leaves his status for the Games in question.

• Slovenia qualified in men's hockey for the first time. Its only NHLer is Anze Kopitar, and the team is coached by his father, Matjaz. Slovenia is in Group A with Russia, the U.S. and Slovakia.