The last time Troy Terry made Team USA, everyone on hockey Twitter @-ed him. Jealous fans and classmates here at the University of Denver were confused how he could have made the roster over the better scorers, the faster skaters, the bigger teenagers.
"I was receiving a lot of tweets," he says. "Like, How does THIS guy make the team? People were in shock."
As a fifth-round pick of the Anaheim Ducks, Terry was among the lowest-drafted amateurs to represent the United States at the 2017 World Juniors, playing on the third and fourth lines as an energy guy.