EliteProspects’ Cam Robinson and Ryan Lambert discuss the “stock” of various participants in the 2025 U.S. Olympic orientation camp, which wraps up today in Plymouth, Michigan. They feel that Dylan Larkin is a “probable” candidate…
We also agree that another probable is Dylan Larkin, as well as our first entrant who was snubbed from Four Nations: Tage Thompson. Talk about missing goalscoring in a critical moment, and especially when deferring to some guys who packed very little punch at either end of the ice, makes his omission a mistake the US won’t make twice.
And they offer this “debate” as to whether Alex DeBrincat should have attended the orientation camp:
Debate No. 6: Alex DeBrincat
RL: The only thing I can think here is that they just figured the left wing is so loaded they can’t make space for him. I don’t buy that, and the only thing I can think of here is that he didn’t make the Four Nations team, and didn’t play at the World Championships. If there’s any one player on our snubs list that could play their way onto the Olympic team, I think it’s DeBrincat and I don’t think it’s really all that close. He’s only 25 or so games of shooting 19 percent away from making an emphatic case.
CR: This debate is no debate. DeBrincat should’ve at least earned an invite.
Continued (paywall); Larkin’s versatility will earn him a spot on the team, and DeBrincat can definitely shoot his way onto the team, but Patrick Kane just isn’t mentioned at all, and I’m not certain as to why he’s omitted…
