NHL.com staff writer Mike Zeisberger has been covering the NHL regularly since 1999. Each Monday he will use his extensive network of hockey contacts for his weekly notes column, “Zizing 'Em Up,” to preview the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

TORONTO -- It’s down to crunch time.

With just over three weeks remaining until each Olympic team must submit their final rosters by the Dec. 31 deadline, management teams have hit the home stretch in making the tough decisions of who makes it and who doesn’t.

In the case of Team Canada, general manager Doug Armstrong, assistant Jim Nill and several other team executives and officials are meeting in Florida for several days to compare their individual lists of candidates and debate those who are not consensus picks.

“We’d like to come o

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