NHL Players in the 2008 World Championships

If you need a reason to watch the World Championships then I'll give you one: Alexander Ovechkin. The following is a list, country by country of NHL players who are on preliminary team rosters for the IIHF World Championships. The games start May 2nd, official roster lists must be handed in on May 1st.

Canada

Cam Ward
Pascal Leclaire
Mathieu Garon
Dan Hamhuis
Jay Bouwmeester
Brent Burns
Duncan Keith
Steven Staios
Mike Green
Ed Jovanovski
Derek Roy
Patrick Sharp
Eric Staal
Chris Kunitz
Jonathan Toews
Kyle Turris
Shane Doan
Jason Chimera
Martin St. Louis
Ryan Getzlaf
Rick Nash
Sam Gagner
Jason Spezza

Czech Republic

Tomas Kaberle
Filip Kuba
Jan Hejda
Zbynek Michalek
Ladislav Smid
Karel Rachunek
Patrik Elias
Karel Rachunek
David Krejci
Tomas Fleischmann
Radim Vrbata
Martin Hanzal
Ales Kotalik
Jiri Novotny

Denmark

Frans Nielsen

Finland

Karri Ramo
Ville Koistinen
Joni Pitkanen
Mikko Koivu
Olli Jokinen
Tuomo Ruutu
Ville Peltonen
Sean Bergenheim
Jussi Jokinen
Niko Kapanen

France

Cristobal Huet

Germany

Dennis Seidenberg
Christoph Schubert
Marco Sturm

Russia

Denis Grebeshkov
Dmitri Kalinin
Maxim Afinogenov
Ilya Kovalchuk
Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Semin
Sergei Fedorov
Alexander Radulov

Slovakia

Branislav Mezei
Lubomir Visnovsky
Marcel Hossa

Slovenia

Anze Kopitar

Sweden

Erik Ersberg
Mikael Tellqvist
Magnus Johansson
Niclas Wallin
Alexander Edler
Anton Stralman
Nicklas Backstrom
Marcus Nilson
Robert Nilsson

Switzerland

Martin Gerber
Jonas Hiller

United States

Craig Anderson
Tim Thomas
Keith Ballard
Tom Gilbert
Tim Gleason
Matt Greene
Paul Martin
Mark Stuart
James Wisniewski
David Backes
David Booth
Dustin Brown
Adam Burish
Jeff Halpern
Patrick Kane
Phil Kessel
Peter Mueller
Patrick O'Sullivan
Zach Parise
Jason Pominville
Drew Stafford
Lee Stempniak

Belarus, Italy, Latvia, and Norway do not have any NHL players listed at the moment. As stated this can all change up till the 1st of May.