WC: Team Usa 2025

[WarriorofTime]

LaCombe and Ryan Donato are guys with breakthrough years who I would like to see at Worlds.

Donato wouldn’t play unless he signs a deal with Chicago but I think he’s gonna take it to UFA. Not like he’d have a serious shot at Olympic team in any event. Nice season but there’s still too many good options on the wings that didn’t make four nations that he’s behind.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Donato wouldn’t play unless he signs a deal with Chicago but I think he’s gonna take it to UFA. Not like he’d have a serious shot at Olympic team in any event. Nice season but there’s still too many good options on the wings that didn’t make four nations that he’s behind.

Ironically, Donato has made a U.S. Olympic Team....Players I really want to see:

* Tage Thompson
* Alex Tuch
* Clayton Keller
* Logan Cooley
* Jackson Lacombe
* Troy Terry
* Cutter Gauthier
* Alex Vlasic
* Jeremy Swayman

 

[WarriorofTime]

Ironically, Donato has made a U.S. Olympic Team....

when NHL players couldn't go

 

[Rabid Ranger]

when NHL players couldn't go

I know. It was a half joke.

 

[SK94]

Frank Nazar is starting to heat up. I don't hate it at all if we would see him at the worlds.

 

[SK94]

Ironically, Donato has made a U.S. Olympic Team....Players I really want to see:

* Tage Thompson
* Alex Tuch
* Clayton Keller
* Logan Cooley
* Jackson Lacombe
* Troy Terry
* Cutter Gauthier
* Alex Vlasic
* Jeremy Swayman

Add Terry and DeBrincat to the list. Maybe Kaner and Vatrano too.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Add Terry and DeBrincat to the list. Maybe Kaner and Vatrano too.

Yes, those two plus Larkin are welcome as well. I think Kane has a very good chance of making the Olympic team if he's playing at a high-level next year. We can use his playmaking on the wing. DeBrincat is probbaly a numbers game. How many guys like he, Keller, Caufield, etc. will they take?

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Frank Nazar is starting to heat up. I don't hate it at all if we would see him at the worlds.

Yes, he looks good. I wouldn't be surprised to see him on the team.

 

[Great99]

USA:s superstjärna tackar ja till spel i VM: "Är en stor ära"

Tage Thompson är klar för spel i hockey-VM. Rasmus Dahlins lagkamrat i Buffalo Sabres till vardags ska spela för USA.

hockeysverige.se

Tage T is ready for USA

 

[William H Bonney]

USA:s superstjärna tackar ja till spel i VM: "Är en stor ära"

Tage Thompson är klar för spel i hockey-VM. Rasmus Dahlins lagkamrat i Buffalo Sabres till vardags ska spela för USA.

hockeysverige.se

Tage T is ready for USA

Great start. Basically cements his Olympic roster spot barring something drastic like an injury, his game falling off a cliff, etc.

Now we wait to see if Keller will seize a very similar opportunity as Tage did.

 

[BHawk21]

Keller-Thompson-W Smith
Debrincat-Cooley-Kane
Terry-Nazar-Gauthier

Vlasic-Marino
LaCombe-Kesselring

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Good for Tage. He's a big add.

 

[Playmaker82]

Long time ago it got out that he and Beniers was going to Worlds. Like 10 days ago. Or am I missing something?

 

[William H Bonney]

Long time ago it got out that he and Beniers was going to Worlds. Like 10 days ago. Or am I missing something?

Previously was "likely" or "expected" but not confirmed. Every WC there are early rumors of certain guys going who inevitably bail when the roster starts being named. This is the first we've heard from Thompson/anyone with authority that he's actually going and not just mulling it over.

 

[MTU34]

Hoping we get enough talent that these guys get squeezed but man would it be fun to see Frank Nazar and Sam Rinzel on this team. Both phenomenal down the stretch

 

[AmericanDream]

Hoping we get enough talent that these guys get squeezed but man would it be fun to see Frank Nazar and Sam Rinzel on this team. Both phenomenal down the stretch

100% all in for the kids to fill out the team after the bubble guys accept decline. No plugs. No AHLers. No Euro players. Except Lasch of course...

 

[AmericanDream]

Interesting enough, Larkin hasn't played in the WC in a number of years. His comment to all US players was to show up. He was going to play last year same as Tage and Guentzel but all 3 dropped out prior to start of camp. I hope Larkin stands by those words and captains this squad...it would only cement him as Captain America in my eyes (by the way, he has nothing left to prove, just saying to make that comment and rightfully so...he can show all what it means to show up here)...would love to see it.

 

[Eye of Ra]

USA:s superstjärna tackar ja till spel i VM: "Är en stor ära"

Tage Thompson är klar för spel i hockey-VM. Rasmus Dahlins lagkamrat i Buffalo Sabres till vardags ska spela för USA.

hockeysverige.se

Tage T is ready for USA

Lol why are you linking a Swedish website?

 

[Great99]

Lol why are you linking a Swedish website?

Because i found the news there

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Throwback, 2004 bronze medal team.

Bates Battaglia (LW)
Dustin Brown (RW/LW)
Matt Cullen (C)
Chris Drury (C)
Mike Grier (RW)
Adam Hall (RW)
Jeff Halpern (C)
Jeff Hamilton (C/RW)
Andy Hilbert (C)
Ryan Malone (LW)
Richard Park (RW/C)
Erik Westrum (C)

Keith Ballard (D)
Hal Gill (D)
Brett Hauer (D)
Jeff Jillson (D)
Paul Mara (D)
Aaron Miller (D)
Andy Roach (D)
Blake Sloan (D)
Eric Weinrich (D)

Ty Conklin (G)
Mike Dunham (G)
Alex Westlund (G)

Ha, Paul Mara, my late brother was a HS Hockey teammate of Mara's Uncle (Dad's brother) at a Boston area Public HS.

Mara's Dad was a College QB for Northeastern when my brother was recruited as a goalie for Northeastern.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Ha, Paul Mara, my late brother was a HS Hockey teammate of Mara's Uncle (Dad's brother) at a Boston area Public HS.

Mara's Dad was a College QB for Northeastern when my brother was recruited as a goalie for Northeastern.

Mara was a good player.

 

[AmericanDream]

Mara was a good player.

Yes he was. Guys like him, Orpik, Gleason, Poti, etc ushered in a new wave of big skilled dmen (Orpik not so offensively skilled lol)...that era started to turn the tide for US Hockey in top talent being drafted/producing at the NHL level...

 

[MTU34]

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Vlasic is a great add on d.

 

[MatBarzal]