The first lions will be Florida's Aleksander Barkov, Carolina's Sebastian Aho and Colorado's Mikko Rantanen, who were also the three who scored the most points of the Finns in the North American professional league last season, according to Swedish Yle.
The Czech Republic has also nominated three candidates - Tampa Bay's Ondrej Palat, Boston's David Pastrnak and Columbus' Jakub Voracek, according to nhl.com.
The United States will send Chicago's Patrick Kane and Seth Jones, and will be joined by Toronto's goal scorer Auston Matthews, according to Sporting News.
It is already clear that Canada will send Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby and Alex Pietrangelo and that Sweden has selected Victor Hedman, Gabriel Landeskog and Mika Zibanejad.