Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's team rosters
- Main article: Olympic ice hockey tournament for men 2014
The provisional squad of Olympic ice hockey tournament in the Mens 2014 consist of a total of 300 players in twelve teams. The tournament takes place between the 12th and 23 February as part of the XXII. Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. For the fifth time in Nagano 1998, Salt Lake City 2002, Turin 2006 and Vancouver in 2010, it was also players in the North American professional league National Hockey League allowed to enter the competition.
Nomination process
Before the start of the Olympic hockey tournament, each participating nation must appoint a squad. This has to be named a day before the tournament starts, no later than February 11, 2014. Previously, the twelve participating nations announced a provisional squad. However, the binding squad of February 12 could differ from the provisional. The preliminary squad include each nation three goalkeepers, 8 defenders, 14 forwards.
To be eligible to play according to the rules of the World Hockey Association for a national team, he had to fulfill several criteria. For one, he had to be a citizen of the nation and subject to the jurisdiction of the national association. If a player after the acquisition of citizenship for the first time take part in a discharged from the IIHF competition for his country, joined the so-called two - year rule in force. This implied that the player had to meet the general criteria of the World Association. In addition, had to be proved that he had been at least two years active without interruption in the national competitions of his new country and was meanwhile not transferred to another country or had played there. The second additional criterion was that the player in possession of an International Transfer Card had to be (ITC ), which confirmed the change in his new home country and by the IIHF at least two years before the start of the competition in which he would like to participate, dated had. Had a player changed their citizenship, but had been previously active in an IIHF competition, was the so-called four - year rule. Here were all the previous criteria in force, but the waiting period was four instead of two years.