{"id":473426,"date":"2025-08-19T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=473426"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:59:38","slug":"roster-announced-for-u-s-mens-olympic-orientation-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/08\/19\/roster-announced-for-u-s-mens-olympic-orientation-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Roster Announced for U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Hockey announced on Tuesday that 44 players have been invited to the U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp. The camp will take place from August 26-27 in Michigan.<\/p>\n

U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp<\/h2>\n
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Introducing the 44 players who will attend the U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp ??<\/p>\n

Details: https:\/\/t.co\/lWC0ZT1AJc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/16FT49FRgP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 USA Hockey (@usahockey) August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The camp is in preparation for the 2026 Winter Olympics<\/a>. It will be the first time the NHL has participated in the Winter Olympics since 2014.<\/p>\n

Invited Players<\/h3>\n

24 NHL teams will be presented at the orientation camp.<\/p>\n

Goaltenders<\/h4>\n

Joey Daccord<\/a> – Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> – Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

Jake Oettinger<\/a> – Dallas Stars<\/p>\n

Jeremy Swayman<\/a> – Boston Bruins<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/h4>\n

Matt Boldy<\/a> – Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n

Cole Caufield<\/a> – Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n

Logan Cooley<\/a> – Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n

Kyle Connor<\/a> – Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

Jack Eichel<\/a> – Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n

Conor Garland<\/a> – Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n

Jake Guentzel<\/a> – Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n

Jack Hughes<\/a> – New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n

Patrick Kane<\/a> – Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n

Clayton Keller<\/a> – Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n

Matthew Knies<\/a> – Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n

Chris Kreider<\/a> – Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n

Dylan Larkin<\/a> – Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n

Auston Matthews<\/a> – Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n

J.T. Miller<\/a> – New York Rangers<\/p>\n

Frank Nazar<\/a> – Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n

Brock Nelson<\/a> – Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

Shane Pinto<\/a> – Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n

Jason Robertson<\/a> – Dallas Stars<\/p>\n

Bryan Rust<\/a> – Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

Tage Thompson<\/a> – Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk<\/a> – Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n

Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> – Florida Panthers<\/p>\n

Vincent Trocheck<\/a> – New York Rangers<\/p>\n

Alex Tuch<\/a> – Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

Defenceman<\/h4>\n

Brock Faber<\/a> – Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n

Adam Fox<\/a> – New York Rangers<\/p>\n

Luke Hughes<\/a> – New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes<\/a> – Vancouver Canuks<\/p>\n

Noah Hanifin<\/a> – Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n

Seth Jones<\/a> – Florida Panthers<\/p>\n

Jackson LaCombe<\/a> – Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n

Charlie McAvoy<\/a> – Boston Bruins<\/p>\n

Brett Pesce<\/a> – New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n

Neal Pionk<\/a> – Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

Jake Sanderson<\/a> – Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n

Brady Skjei<\/a> – Nashville Predators<\/p>\n

Jaccob Slavin<\/a> – Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n

Alex Vlasic<\/a> – Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski<\/a> – Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

Six of these players have already been named to the roster: Matthews, Eichel, Brady Tkachuk<\/a>, Matthew Tkachuk<\/a>, Quinn Hughes<\/a>, and McAvoy.<\/p>\n

Olympic Picture Taking Shape<\/h3>\n

Canada has already hosted an orientation camp<\/a> for their team.<\/p>\n

Given the talent on both rosters, we could be looking at the latest chapter in the United States-Canada rivalry.<\/p>\n

Main Photo: Jeff Le- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n

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USA Hockey announced on Tuesday that 44 players have been invited to the U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp. The camp will take place from August 26-27 in Michigan. U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp Introducing the 44 players who will attend the U.S. Men’s Olympic Orientation Camp ?? Details: https:\/\/t.co\/lWC0ZT1AJc pic.twitter.com\/16FT49FRgP \u2014 USA Hockey (@usahockey) August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":473432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20,5,3,10,27,28,11,29,4,6,4547,304,30,7,31,13,14,4548,2963,8,12,5369,9,18,21,26,807,33],"tags":[8208,617],"class_list":["post-473426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ducks","category-bruins","category-sabres","category-hurricanes","category-blackhawks","category-avalanche","category-bluejackets","category-stars","category-redwings","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-international-hockey","category-wild","category-canadiens","category-predators","category-devils","category-rangers","category-nhl","category-olympics","category-senators","category-penguins","category-seattle-kraken","category-lightning","category-leafs","category-mammoth","category-canucks","category-vegas-golden-knights","category-jets","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-team-usa"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473433,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473426\/revisions\/473433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}