Patrick Kane, 32 factors from passing Mike Modano because the NHL’s all-time U.S.-born main scorer, was one in all 44 gamers chosen Tuesday to attend subsequent week’s U.S. males’s hockey Olympic orientation camp in Michigan.
Kane, a 2010 and 2014 Olympian, wasn’t a member of the 4 Nations Face-Off roster the People deployed in February, so it will possible be the 36-year-old future Corridor of Famer’s ultimate shot to signify his nation on the large stage in Italy in February.
Of the 44 gamers invited to the camp Aug. 26-27 in Plymouth, Mich., another Olympic hopefuls who weren’t a part of the 4 Nations roster that misplaced to Canada in additional time of the championship embody forwards Tage Thompson, Clayton Keller, Jason Robertson, Matthew Knies and Cole Caufield, defensemen Seth Jones, Ryan McDonagh, Brett Pesce, Alex Vlasic and Luke Hughes and goaltender Joey Daccord. In Could, Thompson scored in additional time to provide america its first gold medal since 1933 on the World Championships.
On the Olympics, rosters are anticipated to extend by one ahead and one defenseman, with the U.S. anticipated to hold 14 forwards, eight defensemen and three goalies. The boys’s event begins Feb. 11 with the gold medal awarded Feb. 22.
Like Canada’s upcoming camp, there will probably be no formal on-ice classes. Nonetheless, health services will probably be accessible to the gamers who’re additionally leaving their offseason coaching to arrange for the upcoming NHL season. The aim of the orientation camp is for gamers to fulfill with coach Mike Sullivan and his employees, and GM Invoice Guerin and his employees, to find out about participation necessities to grow to be eligible for the Olympics.
U.S. roster
Goaltenders: Joey Daccord, Connor Hellebuyck, Jake Oettinger, Jeremy Swayman.
Defensemen: Brock Faber, Adam Fox, Luke Hughes, Quinn Hughes, Noah Hanifin, Seth Jones, Jackson LaCombe, Charlie McAvoy, Brett Pesce, Neal Pionk, Jake Sanderson, Brady Skjei, Jaccob Slavin, Alex Vlasic, Zach Werenski.
Forwards: Matt Boldy, Cole Caufield, Logan Cooley, Kyle Connor, Jack Eichel, Conor Garland, Jake Guentzel, Jack Hughes, Patrick Kane, Clayton Keller, Matthew Knies, Chris Kreider, Dylan Larkin, Auston Matthews, J.T. Miller, Frank Nazar, Brock Nelson, Shane Pinto, Jason Robertson, Bryan Rust, Tage Thompson, Brady Tkachuk, Matthew Tkachuk, Vincent Trocheck, Alex Tuch.
(Photograph of Patrick Kane: Al Bello / Getty Photographs)
