We are one month into the NHL season and one month away from the deadline for teams to submit rosters for the 4 Nations Face-Off. So let’s take a look at who is in contention to make Team Canada.

Canada has won the last three best-on-best tournaments and expectations are always high for these events. But a lot has changed since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey and the United States, Sweden and Finland are all opponents that should not be taken lightly.

So far this season 291 Canadian skaters and 18 goalies have appeared in the NHL, giving Canada the largest pool of players to draw from for the tournament. Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Brad Marchand, Connor McDavid and Brayden Point were named to the roster in June but plenty of players are still battling for the final spots.

We won’t truly know which direction Canada will decide to go until the roster is selected on Dec. 2, but we can certainly speculate on who has played their way into contention through the first four weeks of the season (and who has fallen off the pace with a slow start).

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