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Binnington will draw the starting assignment versus Czechia at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday, per Dan Rosen of NHL.com.

Binnington has struggled during the current NHL season, posting an 8-17-6 record with a 3.65 GAA and an .864 save percentage. Binnington gets the start following his outstanding play at the 4 Nations Face-Off, where he led Canada to the championship over the United States. The Czechs have some NHL players on their roster, including David Pastrnak.

Dostal will be between the pipes when Czechia takes on Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday, Mark Masters of TSN reports.

Dostal won eight of his last nine starts with the Ducks prior to the start of the Olympics. He is 21-13-2 with a 2.92 GAA and an .897 save percentage across 38 appearances this season. He will have a tough matchup, as Canada is one of the favorites to win the gold medal at the Olympics.

Hellebuyck will get the start in net for the United States versus Latvia at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Mollie Walker of the New York Post reports.

Hellebuyck has struggled at times this season in the NHL, but the 32-year-old is regarded as the best goaltender in the NHL over the last four seasons. He is 13-16-7 with a 2.79 GAA and a .900 save percentage across 36 contests with the Jets in 2025-26 after winning the Vezina Trophy the previous two seasons.

Texier (lower body) will be in the lineup for France against Switzerland on Thursday at the 2026 Olympics.

Texier is the lone NHL player on Team France, and his status was questionable heading into the Olympics, as he had missed the last three games with the injury. Texier has seven goals and 11 assists across 38 NHL games this season, split between Montreal and St. Louis.

Fischer scored a goal and added an assist in OHL Sault Ste. Marie's 4-2 win over Sudbury on Wednesday.

Fischer has racked up 19 points in 23 appearances with the Greyhounds since a Dec. 8 trade from Sarnia. Overall, the defenseman has put together a pretty steady season with seven goals, 37 points, a plus-6 rating and 98 shots on net over 49 outings. Fischer, a second-round pick of the Blues in 2024, has the potential to be a depth defenseman as a professional.

Ryabkin scored twice and added two assists in QMJHL Charlottetown's 6-3 win over Shawinigan on Wednesday.

Ryabkin has earned four multi-point efforts over eight contests since joining Charlottetown in mid-January. He earned his first multi-goal game, and he's up to five tallies and 10 assists so far. The Hurricanes prospect is likely to be a steady scorer for the remainder of the QMJHL campaign.

Dvorsky scored an even-strength goal and added a power-play assist in Slovakia's 4-1 win over Finland on Wednesday in the preliminary round of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

He scored a goal at the 7:20 mark of the third period before picking up an assist on Juraj Slafkovsky's power-play tally. The 20-year-old Dvorsky should continue to see plenty of ice time for a Slovakian team that is off to a great start at the tournament. The Slovaks face Italy on Friday.

Slafkovsky scored two goals, including one on the power play, and added an assist in Slovakia's 4-1 win over Finland on Wednesday at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The Canadiens winger carried the Slovakian team offensively to a huge win with his multi-point performance. He opened the scoring with a move around Juuse Saros in the first period at the 7:45 mark, and then gave Slovakia a 3-1 lead with a rocket shot from long range with 9:30 left in the contest. Slafkovsky has nine goals through his first eight Olympic games. Slovakia will face Italy on Friday in the second game of the tournament for both squads.

Hlavaj stopped 39 of 40 shots in Slovakia's 4-1 win over Finland on Wednesday in the preliminary round of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Hlavaj had the daunting task of facing a talented Finnish roster, but he was up for the challenge. He made 18 saves on 18 shots in the first period. The 24-year-old will probably get another chance to play in Slovakia's second game of the tournament against Italy on Friday.

Saros stopped 21 of 24 shots in Finland's 4-1 loss to Slovakia on Wednesday in the preliminary round of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The fourth goal was an empty-netter.

Saros was beaten twice by Juraj Slafkovsky and once by Dalibor Dvorsky before Adam Ruzicka closed things out late in the third with an empty-netter. Joonas Korpisalo and Kevin Lankinen are the other goalies on the Finnish roster, with their next game coming against Sweden on Friday.