Come For The Banter - Stay For The Disappointment
Nucks Fan Rebuild & Retool Center - Come For The Banter - Stay For The Disappointment

2026 Winter Olympics Men's Hockey: Canada vs Switzerland

Following an impressive first outing against their toughest round robin opponent, a 5-0 shellacking of Czechia, the Canadian men take on the Swiss today.

It's a battle of two undefeated teams as Canada take on Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano/Cortina today. After a rather satisfying 5-0 win over the team that was expected to be their biggest challenge, the Czechs, they go up against a team that has given them trouble in the past, and one that very much hopes to be a pain in Canada's collective arses once again.

The first game saw Canada's offensive talent on display, showing the rest of the tournament they can beat you in a number of different ways, and got scoring throughout the lineup. Nicest goal of the game was easily the Bo Horvat breakway goal. Just a thing of beauty.

Jordan Binnington, much to the entire nation's surprise, was solid, stopping all 26 Czech shots he faced in that win. While it was encouraging, it is still not enough to convince a lot of people he can be the one to lead Canada to gold, given the way he's played this season. Logan Thompson will get his chance to start today, and we'll see where it goes from there.

Another impressive player in their first game? Macklin Celebrini. The Sharks star opened the scoring for Team Canada, and that line of Celebrini, Connor McDavid and Tom Wilson appeared to have some instant chemistry.

A couple lineup changes for Canada today: Travis Sanheim is in to replace the injured Josh Morrissey, while Seth Jarvis makes his Olympic debut as they've given Brad Marchand a day to rest up. I like this, as Marchand could end up being a key player come the medal round for Canada.

COMMENTS

Comment System How-To

New NM, new comment system. Still uses words and stuff. Hover over the icons to see what they do. 

The most vital function is image embedding. Paste the link to the image in the comment box. When the comment is posted, the image appears. Most of  the time. 

NOTE: Remove the non-image name jibberish. If the image link has any stuff after the file extension - usually a ? with directives like: woo.gif?size=480 blah blah - delete up to and including the ? - simples.

GIF it up for Westy! Or still life in rum.
NOTE: Comments refresh every 30 seconds. Not fast enough for most of our lightening round contestants. We are working to increase the refresh speed. Just... not working too hard... because NM labour guidelines. Thanks for being patient!
Subscribe
Notify of
10 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
This is a an alpha site, dreaming of becoming a beta site

Please be patient. We're not all idiots, but we're volunteers... that's close enough.
Report A Bug Here
See us in the Sky
Or Get Nucking Twitted Below
Copyright © 2026 nucksmisconduct.ca - All Rights Reserved
10
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x