Jack Eichel and Auston Matthews will represent the United States in the first best-on-best hockey tournament since 2016.
Eichel and Matthews headlined the list of 23 players named to the Team USA roster ahead of the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off in February.
The roster also features two sets of brothers as Matthew and Brady Tkachuk prepare to join Jack and Quinn Hughes in Montreal and Boston.
The full 2025 4 Nations Face-Off Team USA roster is below.
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The Rangers are most heavily represented on the American roster with Kreider, Trocheck and Fox tabbed to represent the team. The Golden Knights, Wild, Bruins and Jets are also contributing multiple players.
Both the American team and the Maple Leafs will hope that Matthews, who returned at the end of November after missing almost the entire month with an upper-body injury, is healthy enough to join Eichel in centering the team’s top two lines.
Eichel leads all skaters on the roster with 36 points (eight goals, 28 assists) through 26 games, while the Jets’ Connor and the Senators’ Tkachuk lead the roster with 13 goals each heading into Wednesday.
Matthew and Brady Tkachuk previously skated on the same team when they played for the Atlantic Division during the 2023 NHL All-Star Game, but Brady told NHL.com’s Mike Zeisberger the contest “doesn’t really count” as his first time playing on the same team as his brother.
“Now, if I get picked to represent the [United States] with him at the 4 Nations, well, that would be a dream come true,” Brady told Zeisberger in November.
Jack Hughes, who plays alongside his brother Luke Hughes in New Jersey, will get the opportunity to pair up with a different sibling when he skates with reigning Norris Trophy winner Quinn Hughes this winter.
There is a chance both sets of brothers could be on the ice at the same time. All four players are key to their respective NHL teams’ power plays and could get the nod when Team USA goes on the man advantage in February.
Faber, the youngest player named to the Team USA defense at 22, has followed his Calder Trophy runner-up rookie campaign by continuing to average almost 25 minutes per game on the Wild’s top pairing this season.
Hellebuyck could succeed his Vezina Trophy-winning 2023-24 campaign with a starting spot in the United States’ net after leading the Jets to 15 wins with a .927 goals-against average and three shutouts through 20 games.
Notable names absent from the Team USA roster are the Minnesota Wild’s Matt Boldy, Montreal Canadiens’ Cole Caufield and Buffalo Sabres’ Tage Thompson.
The 4 Nations Face-Off is the first best-on-best hockey tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. No players on this team were named to the 2016 Team USA roster, although Eichel, Hellebuyck, Larkin, Matthews and Trocheck played for the under-23 Team North America.
The 2025 Team USA roster will be led by head coach Mike Sullivan, who coached the Pittsburgh Penguins to 2016 and 2017 Stanley Cup championships. Sullivan will also be behind the Team USA bench during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Team USA opens 2025 4 Nations Face-Off on Thursday, Feb. 13 with a game against Finland in Montreal. The Americans will then take on Canada on Saturday, Feb. 15, before heading to Boston to face Sweden on Monday, Feb. 17. The championship game will take place on Thursday, Feb. 20 at TD Garden.
