Team Canada’s Milan Practice Reveals Game 1 Blueprint, Including Key PK Pairings

Feb 11, 2026 (9:35)

Photo credit: Winslow Townson-Imagn Images

Macklin Celebrini skates beside Connor McDavid in Milan, and Team Canada’s Olympic lineup suddenly feels locked in for Game 1.

Mark Masters reported Team Canada is back on the ice in Milan with combos that look more like decisions than experiments.

The headliner was Celebrini with McDavid and Tom Wilson, a line built to score and to survive the nasty parts.

Celebrini is 19, drafted in 2024, Round 1 by the San Jose Sharks, and he is already producing like he belongs.

McDavid arrives with 34-62-96 this season, and that is the kind of gravity that changes every matchup.

Nathan MacKinnon is right there too at 40-53-93, and Canada can basically choose how it wants to hurt you.

Here’s the first Masters post with the full practice picture and the goalie trio.

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To me, the defense looks set as well, starting with Devon Toews and Cale Makar as the easy button pair.

The second post matters even more, because it says Canada ended practice with penalty kill work.

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Canadian fans will love the swagger up front, but they still tense up any time the conversation turns to goaltending.

The PK looks like the real tell, with Brandon Hagel and Bo Horvat together, plus Mitch Marner with Mark Stone, plus Brad Marchand with Nick Suzuki.

That is speed, pressure, and puck skill, not just shot-blocking.

If those are your late-practice duos, you are building your Game 1 script already.

Canada opens the Olympics against Czechia on Thursday, and these reps feel like the last big clue.

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