CALGARY -- Sidney Crosby and Jonathan Toews lead a list of 47 players invited to a summer orientation camp for the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team.
The camp in Calgary runs from Aug. 25 to 28 and will begin the process of selecting the 23 players who will play for Canada at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Crosby and Toews are among 15 invitees who helped Canada win gold at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
The others are goalie Roberto Luongo, defencemen Dan Boyle, Drew Doughty, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Shea Weber, and forwards Patrice Bergeron, Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf, Rick Nash, Mike Richards, Eric Staal and Joe Thornton.
The newcomers include young guns like defencemen Alex Pietrangelo and P.K. Subban and forwards Steven Stamkos, Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, John Tavares, Claude Giroux and Brad Marchand.
The list includes five goalies, 17 defencemen and 25 forwards.
Most of the coaching staff from Vancouver is back with head coach Mike Babcock and assistants Lindy Ruff and Ken Hitchcock, with Claude Julien replacing Jacques Lemaire.
The Chicago Blackhawks have the most players invited with five, followed by the Pittsburgh Penguins with four and Boston, Los Angeles and Washington with three each.
The goalies are Luongo, who was the starter in the 2010 gold-medal game, as well as Carey Price, Mike Smith, Corey Crawford and Braden Holtby.
The other defencemen are Karl Alzner, Jay Bouwmeester, Mike Green, Dan Hamhuis, Travis Hamonic, Kristopher Letang, Marc Methot, Dion Phaneuf, Marc Staal and Marc-Edouard Vlasic.
The other forwards are Jeff Carter, Logan Couture, Matt Duchene, Chris Kunitz, Andrew Ladd, Milan Lucic, James Neal, Patrick Sharp, Jordan Staal and Martin St.Louis.
Notables not invited include 41-year-old goalie Martin Brodeur, who was at the four Olympics thus far featuring NHL players begining with Nagano, Japan in 1998, and Jarome Iginla, who skated in the last three Games.
The announcement by Hockey Canada came days after an agreement was reached to have NHL players participate at the Sochi Games.
Canada opens the Games on Feb. 13 against Norway.
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