as i'm typing this i remembered the Knicks are actually worth watching so yeah this is effed up

it's been bittersweet listening to all the coverage the #NYR have gotten b/c it's a result of negative news, not anyone's stellar play 🥲

w/ that in mind, i wonder if Lafrenière was on the bubble in anyone's pre-season projections, but his very mid play changed minds

as a final note, after i finished this i realized that it might have been interesting to see which guys had worn letters in other international events in their past...

it's too late for that now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This team has four NHL captains, but all are young and very recently named:
Matthews 2024
Hughes, Q 2022
Tkachuk, B 2021
Larkin 2020

Imo, this will be the only squad with an NHL alternate* as the team captain

C Matthew Tkachuk*
A Quinn Hughes
A Matthews

USA has FIFTEEN skaters wearing NHL letters:
Eichel (VGK)
Fox (NYR)
Hughes, J (NJD)
Hughes, Q (C, VAN)
Kreider (NYR)
Larkin (C, DET)
Matthews (C, TOR)
McAvoy (BOS)
Miller (VAN)
Nelson (NYI)
Slavin (CAR)
Tkachuk, B (C, OTT)
Tkachuk, M (FLA)
Trocheck (NYR)
Werenski (CBJ)

Tough decision, here's why