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Meet the surfers and golfers from Team USA

Aug 10, 2017 | Luke Fisher, Lukas Kratochvíl

Team USA have a handful of guys on their roster this year that could be potential draft picks for the NHL in 2018.

We caught up with three of them during the tournament:

From Grand Rapids, Minnesota,Blake McGlaughlin is #79 ranked by Future Considerations ahead of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. He´s played for Grand Rapids High in the USHS the past two seasons, and will again in 2017/18. We asked him some more unusual questions...

From Rye, NY state,Adam Samuelsson is #81 ranked by Future Considerations ahead of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. He´s from a hockey family - his father is former New York Ranger and Swedish international Ulf Samuelsson, while brothers Henrik and Philip both play in the AHL. We found out a little bit more about his life with hockey...

From Grand Rapids, Minnesota,Gavin Hain is #63 ranked by Future Considerations ahead of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. The captain of Grand Rapids High last season, Hain also played 12 games for the Sioux Falls Stampede of the USHL too. We caught up with him in Breclav...

In brief

Pre-tournament games

21.6. - The final pre-tournament games will be played on Saturday, 29th July. The Czech Republic will host Canada in Břeclav at 18:30 CET, 12:30 ET. Meanwhile, Slovakia will host the USA in Trenčín at 17:00 CET. Coverage of these games will be available at eurolivescores.com/.

Instagram of HGC

1.6. - The official instagram of Hlinka Gretzky Cup is availible here.

Interested in history?

6.2. - Do you know who won the Cup last year? Which team has won the most gold medals? HERE you can review the history.
History of the hockey legend

Information about Ivan Hlinka

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