Avs trio makes Olympics
Three more Avalanche players will represent their countries at the Winter Olympics in Sochi next month.Forwards Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog were named to the Canadian and Swedish national teams, respectively, Tuesday morning, and Semyon Varlamov was named to the Russian team. They join center Paul Stastny, who will play for Team USA.
Duchene, 22, leads the Avs with 16 goals, 22 assists, 38 points and 122 shots.
Landeskog, the Avs captain, helped Sweden win the gold medal at the 2013 IIHF World Championships, racking up three goals and an assist with a plus-4 rating. He served as an alternate captain for Sweden in both the 2012 IIHF World Championships and the 2011 IIHF World Junior Championship.
This will be the first Olympics appearance for Duchene and Landeskog, and the second for Stastny and Varlamov.
Varlamov has a good chance at being the starting goalie for Russia, though he figures to get competition from the Columbus Blue Jackets' Sergei Bobrovsky, who returned from injury this week.
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07/01/2014 - 19:32
