COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus Blue Jackets forward Rick Nash and goaltender Steve Mason are among 46 players invited to attend the Team Canada orientation camp August 24-27 in Calgary, to try out for the squad that will play in the 2010 Olympics.
Nash was a member of the 2006 Canadian Olympic Team. He has 194 goals and 161 assists in 441 career games, all with the Blue Jackets. He had a career-high 79 points (40 goals and 39 assists) in 78 games in 2008-09. He is a native of Brampton, Ontario.
Mason, from Oakville, Ontario, had a 33-20-7 record and a league-leading 10 shutouts in 61 Blue Jackets games last season and earned the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's rookie of the year.
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