Who will be on Team USA’s 4 Nations Face-Off roster?

On Sep 23, 2024

Six months.

That’s how shut, to the day, hockey followers are to seeing best-on-best worldwide motion for the primary time since 2016.

The inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off fires up Feb. 12, 2025 with the ultimate recreation set for Feb. 20. With simply half a 12 months to go earlier than Canada, Finland, Sweden and the U.S. do battle, we’re utilizing this week to sketch out rosters for all 4 golf equipment.

Every squad has already named six gamers for the match and whereas a lot of different spots are unofficially spoken for, the primary half of the 2024-25 NHL season will clearly play an enormous function in figuring out a handful of ultimate additions and cuts.

To get this train began, we’ll study the roster prospects for one of many occasion’s co-hosts, Team USA. (Video games are being performed in Montreal and Boston, by the way in which.)

The most effective American males’s and girls’s basketball gamers simply received Olympic gold in Paris. Is a Stars and Stripes hockey triumph subsequent?

(Gamers already named to the staff are listed in daring.)

Forwards

Matthew Tkachuk–Auston Matthews–Matt Boldy

J.T. Miller-Jack Hughes-Jason Robertson

Jack Guentzel-Jack Eichel-Brady Tkachuk

Kyle Connor-Dylan Larkin-Patrick Kane

Further: Tage Thompson

Within the combine: Brock Boeser, Clayton Keller, Alex DeBrincat, Vincent Trocheck, Cole Caufield

The Individuals can mainly have a 40-goal man on each line. Boldy has actually nosed his means into the dialog due to a powerful second half this previous season. From February on, the one Yanks with extra factors than Boldy’s 36 have been Tkachuk (37) and Matthews (49). It can also’t harm that he performs for a similar Minnesota Wild membership that Team USA GM Invoice Guerin runs.

Kane’s stable exhibiting — 31 factors in 31 video games after the All-Star Sport — has to have him again within the dialogue, particularly given his earlier big-game expertise. Thompson wants a bounce-back season and Boeser wants to point out his terrific rebound marketing campaign on this previous winter can be repeated. Trocheck had a very robust post-season with the Rangers and will match as a man you might plug in at centre or wing on any line.

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Defence

Quinn Hughes–Adam Fox

Zach Werenski–Charlie McAvoy

Jaccob-Slavin-Brock Faber

Further: Luke Hughes

Within the combine: Jake Sanderson, Brady Skjei, Noah Hanifin, John Carlson

The U.S. has an ideal cut up of three left-hand and three right-hand pictures. The highest pair of Hughes and Fox has received two of the previous 4 Norris Trophies (Hughes in June, Fox in 2021). Werenski has had his damage struggles, however his 0.81 points-per-game this previous 12 months in 70 contests was third amongst American D-men behind solely Hughes (1.12) and Fox (1.01). Faber is an rising stud who can push his means onto the squad with a powerful begin to his sophomore marketing campaign.

Goalie

Connor Hellebuyck

Jeremy Swayman

Further: Jake Oettinger

Within the combine: Thatcher Demko, Charlie Lindgren

Let’s be clear: any of the blokes talked about above — save Lindgren, realistically — may be Team USA’s starter for the match. Hellebuyck, by profitable the 2024 Vezina Trophy, joins Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky as the one energetic two-time Vezina winners within the league. It’s actually his job to lose proper now, however everyone knows the unstable nature of goaltending — even if you’re speaking about one of the best stoppers on the earth. Swayman’s robust post-season exhibiting pushes him up the record and certainly the Team USA brass will be watching near see how he fares in his first season carrying a real starter’s workload. Demko’s 12 months got here to an extremely irritating finish with a knee damage that stored him out of all however one among Vancouver’s playoff contests. If wholesome, he may completely work his means into the crease for this squad.

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