ST. CLOUD, Minn. — St. Cloud State's Jack Peart has been added to the preliminary roster for Team USA that will compete in the IIHF World Junior Championships on Sunday, Dec. 12. He is one of 30 players who began training camp with the team on Sunday at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Mich.
Peart will be vying for a spot on the 25-man roster that will compete Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta. He is one of 10 defensemen at the training camp.
If Peart makes Team USA, he would miss the Huskies' Dec. 31-Jan. 1 nonconference series against Bemidji State. The Huskies' next series would be Jan. 7-8 against Minnesota Duluth at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.
Peart participated in the USA Hockey World Junior Showcase in July.
Peart has two goals, 10 points, 10 blocked shots, is a plus-4 and has 18 penalty minutes in 12 games this season for the Huskies (10-6).
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He was a second-round draft pick of the MInnesota Wild (54th overall) in the NHL Entry Draft in the summer and was named Mr. Hockey and the Reed Larson Award winner as the top defenseman in the state as a senior last season at Grand Rapids High School. He also played 33 games of junior hockey last season for the Fargo Force of the United States Hockey League, helping the Force reach the Clark Cup Finals.
There have been 10 St. Cloud State players to represent Team USA in the IIHF World Junior Championships, the last of which was Ryan Poehling in 2019.
Huskies on USA World Junior roster
1991 — defenseman Tony Burns
1996 — forward Matt Cullen
1996, 1997 — forward Mark Parrish
2003 — goalie Bobby Goepfert
2006 — defenseman Casey Borer
2010 — goalie Mike Lee
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2012 — defenseman Kevin Gravel
2016 — defenseman Will Borgen
2017 — defenseman Jack Ahcan
2018, 2019 — forward Ryan Poehling
