USA Hockey has named the 25 players on its roster that will be competing in men’s ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Of the 25 players, 15 are current NCAA athletes, five play in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), two play in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), two are in the American Hockey League (AHL) and one is in Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), making it a mix of both veteran ex-NHLers and rising prospects.
Brian O’Neill is the only returning player from the 2018 team that finished seventh, losing in the quarterfinals to the Czech Republic. He currently is one of the Americans playing in the KHL, leading all American skaters in points with 42. In fact, the top four American point scorers in the KHL — O’Neill, Ken Agostino, Andy Miele and Steven Kampfer — are all heading to Beijing. Nick Shore is the other American from the KHL and he sits in seventh among U.S. skaters in points.
All five players have previous NHL…
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