CALGARY -- Brad Marchand 's long-awaited Olympic opportunity is in front of him.

It has been 12 years in the making.

"There's nothing I want more than to play for the Olympic team," Marchand, the Florida Panthers forward, said at Hockey Canada's Orientation Camp last month. "That drive has been there since I went to that (orientation) camp in (2013) and didn't make that team. Since then it's been my goal, my driving force every year, every summer. That's why I was so disappointed in '18 and then the next one. Everything I have done for the last 12 years has been for this tournament."

Marchand was not on Canada's gold-medal winning team in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but he likely would have already been a two-time Olympian had NHL players participated in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics an

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