Auston Matthews, brothers Brady and Matthew Tkachuk, Quinn Hughes, Jack Eichel and Charlie McAvoy are the first six players named to the 2026 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team. The core six, all age 28 and younger, will hope to lead the U.S. to its first Olympic men’s hockey title since the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Lake Placid Games.

Matthews will be the fourth Arizona native to represent Team USA in hockey, joining Matthew Knies in 2022, Broc Little in 2018 and Lyndsey Fry in 2014. Matthews represented the U.S. in the Four Nations Face-Off and had three assists in three games in the tournament.