{"id":629386,"date":"2026-05-07T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629386\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:26:11","slug":"2026-u-s-mens-national-team-preliminary-roster-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629386\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 U.S. Men\u2019s National Team Preliminary Roster Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. \u2013\u00a0USA Hockey announced today the preliminary roster for its\u00a02026 U.S. Men\u2019s National Team<\/a>\u00a0that will compete in the upcoming\u00a0IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship<\/a>, May 15-31, in Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We’re excited about our group,” said\u00a0Brett Peterson\u00a0(Northborough, Mass.), general manager of the 2026 U.S. Men’s National Team and assistant general manager of the NHL’s Florida Panthers. “We’ve got a good blend of players that are excited about representing our country and competing for a gold medal. We’re looking forward to the tournament and know Switzerland will be a great host.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Team USA will train in Mannheim, Germany, starting May 8 and play a pre-tournament game there against Germany on May 10. The U.S. will open play in the IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship in Zurich on May 15 against host Switzerland at 8:20 p.m. local time\/2:20 p.m. ET. All U.S. games in the tournament will air live on NHL Network.<\/p>\n

The U.S. enters the tournament as the defending gold medalist after winning the world championship for the first time in 92 years a year ago.<\/p>\n

To view the roster, click\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PRELIMINARY ROSTER OVERVIEW<\/p>\n

\u2022 Three goaltenders, eight defensemen, 14 forwards<\/p>\n

\u2022 Averages: Height: 6-1 \u2022 Weight: 196 \u2022 Age: 26<\/p>\n

\u2022 Youngest Player: Ryker Lee, 19<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oldest Player: Justin Faulk, 34<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roster includes 13 first or second round NHL Draft picks, including seven first rounders in\u00a0Matthew Tkachuk,\u00a0James Hagens,\u00a0Ryan Leonard,\u00a0Matt Coronato,\u00a0Oliver Moore,\u00a0Ryker Lee, and\u00a0Isaac Howard.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Four players have been part of a U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team, including\u00a0Matthew Tkachuk\u00a0(2026-gold),\u00a0Drew Commesso\u00a0(2022),\u00a0Will Borgen\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0Justin Faulk\u00a0(2014).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Seven players have previously been part of Team USA for an IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship, including both\u00a0Mason Lohrei\u00a0and\u00a0Isaac Howard, who were part of the 2025 gold medal-winning U.S. Men’s National Team. Others include\u00a0Justin Faulk\u00a0(2015-bronze, 2013-bronze, 2012),\u00a0Ryan Leonard\u00a0(2024),\u00a0Drew Commesso\u00a0(2023),\u00a0Matt Coronato\u00a0(2023) and\u00a0Sam Lafferty\u00a0(2022).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Twelve players have competed full-time at USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program, including\u00a0Connor Clifton, Drew Commesso,\u00a0Justin Faulk,\u00a0James Hagens,\u00a0Isaac Howard,\u00a0Ryan Leonard,\u00a0Ryan Lindgren,\u00a0Oliver Moore,\u00a0Danny Nelson,\u00a0Max Plante,\u00a0Matthew Tkachuk\u00a0and\u00a0Joseph Woll.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 All but\u00a0Devin Cooley,\u00a0Declan Carlile,\u00a0Paul Cotter, Tommy Novak,\u00a0Mathieu Olivier\u00a0and\u00a0Max Sasson\u00a0have competed in at least one IIHF world championship. The players have won 34 collective medals in IIHF world championship play, including 18 gold.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The players come from 11 different states, with Minnesota leading the way with seven representatives. Other states include New York (3), Michigan (3), Wisconsin (3), Massachusetts (2), Missouri (2), Ohio (1), California (1), Illinois (1), New Jersey (1) and Pennsylvania (1).<\/p>\n

\u2022 A total of 23 players have competed in the United States Hockey League, the only Tier I junior hockey league in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Overall, 15 different U.S. colleges\/universities are represented on the roster, with the University of Minnesota Duluth, Boston College and University of Minnesota leading the way with three players each, followed by two players from both Michigan State University and Western Michigan University. Boston University, Brown University, University of Denver, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Merrimack College, University of Notre Dame, Ohio State University, Quinnipiac University, and St. Cloud State University each have one representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. \u2013\u00a0USA Hockey announced today the preliminary roster for its\u00a02026 U.S. Men\u2019s National Team\u00a0that will compete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-629386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629386","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=629386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}