{"id":421411,"date":"2026-01-21T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421411\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:53:08","slug":"jackson-lacombe-named-to-team-usa-for-olympics-replaces-injured-seth-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421411\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson LaCombe named to Team USA for Olympics, replaces injured Seth Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks defenseman Jackson LaCombe was named to the United States men\u2019s hockey Olympic team Wednesday, USA Hockey announced.<\/p>\n<p>LaCombe will join Team USA as an injury replacement selection for Florida Panthers defenseman Seth Jones, who is injured and was declared unable to participate in the upcoming men\u2019s tournament, which begins Feb. 11. Team USA opens group play against Team Latvia Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has not played for the Panthers since Jan. 2 after being struck in the collarbone by a shot from the New York Rangers\u2019 Alexis Lafreniere during the Winter Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was one of the original eight who made up Team USA\u2019s defense corps for the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy. Now his spot will be filled by LaCombe, a native of Eden Prairie, Minn., who has become a rising star in the U.S. ranks.<\/p>\n<p>LaCombe said Team USA men\u2019s general manager Bill Guerin called him with the news Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, you never want to see something like that happen to someone,\u201d LaCombe said of Jones. \u201cBut on my end, I was just super excited, and I didn\u2019t really know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jackson LaCombe has made Team USA!!<\/p>\n<p>Jackson shared his thoughts with us on this special day for him.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlyTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FlyTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pe6yblrVic\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pe6yblrVic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnaheimDucks\/status\/2014023347202564104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old LaCombe signed an eight-year, $72 million contract extension with the Ducks in October after a breakout 2024-25, when he became their No. 1 defenseman. A terrific skater and strong puck mover with some size, the 6-foot-2, 208-pound LaCombe has six goals and leads Anaheim\u2019s blue line with 31 points while averaging more than 24 minutes of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>LaCombe played for Team USA in last year\u2019s world championships, scoring twice and adding three assists in 10 games for the Americans, who won gold in the event for the first time since 1933. The second-round pick of the Ducks in 2019 was also part of the gold medal-winning U.S. world junior club in 2021 while playing at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks defenseman Jackson LaCombe was named to the United States men\u2019s hockey Olympic team Wednesday, USA Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4830,4820,385,1082,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-421411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-olympics","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}