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.
Age and team as of July 1, 2016.
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.
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.
Head coach: Ralph Krueger
Frederik Andersen was originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. He was replaced by Philipp Grubauer.
Head coach: John Tortorella
Ryan Callahan was originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. He was replaced by Kyle Palmieri.
Head coach: Lauri Marjamäki
Head coach: Todd McLellan
Sean Monahan was originally selected, but could not participate, because of injury. He was replaced by Vincent Trocheck.
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.