Each team's roster will consist of twenty skaters (forwards and defencemen) and three goaltenders. All eight participating teams submitted their initial roster of sixteen players on March 2, 2016. The remaining seven players for each nation were announced May 27.
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Age and team as of July 1, 2016.
Canada
Head coach: Mike Babcock
Duncan Keith, Jeff Carter, Jamie Benn, and Tyler Seguin were all originally selected, but could not participate due to injury. They were replaced by Jay Bouwmeester, Corey Perry, Logan Couture, and Ryan O'Reilly, respectively.
Czech Republic
Head coach: Josef Jandac
David Krejčí, Tomáš Hertl, and Radko Gudas were originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. They were replaced by Roman Červenka, Michal Birner, and Tomáš Kundrátek, respectively.
Team Europe
Team Europe
Head coach: Ralph Krueger
Frederik Andersen was originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. He was replaced by Philipp Grubauer.
United States
Head coach: John Tortorella
Ryan Callahan was originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. He was replaced by Kyle Palmieri.
Finland
Head coach: Lauri Marjamäki
Team North America
Team North America
Head coach: Todd McLellan
Sean Monahan was originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. He was replaced by Vincent Trocheck.
Russia
Head coach: Oleg Znarok
Slava Voynov was originally selected but was not allowed to participate. He was ruled ineligible because of his indefinite suspension from the NHL during the 2014–15 season. He was replaced by Nikita Nesterov.
Sweden
Head coach: Rikard Grönborg
Robin Lehner, Niklas Kronwall, Alexander Steen, and Henrik Zetterberg were originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. They were replaced by Jhonas Enroth, Hampus Lindholm, Rickard Rakell, and Mikael Backlund, respectively. Later, when Rakell himself pulled out, he was replaced by Patrik Berglund. Henrik Zetterberg was originally selected captain, but was replaced by Henrik Sedin when Zetterberg pulled out of the tournament.