Ahead of USA Hockey’s official roster reveal on Friday, Clayton Keller, Tage Thompson and Seth Jones will reportedly be on the squad for the 2026 Olympics.
Per ESPN’s Emily Kaplan, all three players have been named to the U.S. team that will be playing in the Milano Cortina Games.
That trio will join Jack Eichel, Quinn Hughes, Auston Matthews, Charlie McAvoy, and brothers Brady Tkachuk and Matthew Tkachuk, who were the first six players announced as part of Team USA’s preliminary roster back in June.
New York Rangers defenseman Adam Fox, meanwhile, did not make the roster, per Kaplan.
The full rosters for the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams, as well as the Paralympic sled team will be unveiled on Friday’s episode of TODAY on NBC.
Wednesday marked the deadline for federations to submit their 25-player rosters. Canada revealed its full squad in a press conference on Wednesday, with 19 players returning from the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off championship team.
Keller, Thompson and Jones are new to the American roster from the 4 Nations Face-Off that took place in February. Keller and Thompson did participate in the IIHF Men’s World Championship in May, helping Team USA win gold for the first time since 1933.
USA Hockey is assembling a roster that it hopes will fare better at the 2026 Games than it did four years. Team USA steamrolled through group play with a 3-0-0 record and plus-11 goal differential, but lost in the quarterfinals to Slovakia in a shootout.
Team USA hasn’t advanced past the quarterfinals at the Olympics since 2014. America’s last medal at the Winter Games was in 2010 when it took home silver after losing to Canada in the final.
The men’s hockey tournament at the 2026 Olympics begins on Feb. 11, with the gold medal game set to take place on Feb. 22.