Eric Pohlkamp Named to U.S. Collegiate Select Hockey Team

DENVER – Junior defenseman Eric Pohlkamp of the University of Denver hockey staff has been named to the United States Collegiate Select Team for the distinguished 2025 Spengler Cup worldwide match in December in Davos, Switzerland.
 
Pohlkamp is amongst 5 gamers that have been added on Thursday to a roster that shall be made up of 25 gamers from throughout NCAA males’s ice hockey. The competitors runs from Dec. 26-31, with host HC Davos, Team Canada, HC Fribourg-Gotteron, Sparta Praha and IFK Helsinki becoming a member of the faculty selects as collaborating groups within the 2025 match.
 
The Baxter, Minnesota, native has totaled 63 factors (25g/38a) in 78 profession video games over the previous two seasons with Denver and Bemidji State. He recorded a profession excessive in scoring final season with DU by registering 35 factors on 11 targets and 24 assists, rating second amongst all staff defensemen in factors and tied for fifth at his place within the nation in targets. Pohlkamp additionally tied for second within the nation with a plus-31 ranking and paced the Pioneers with 60 blocked pictures.
 
A 2024-25 All-NCHC Third Team member and named to the league’s Preseason All-Conference Team final month, the blueliner started the brand new season with 4 factors throughout two video games final week to earn the NCHC Defenseman of the Week award. He had an help final Friday at Air Force and scored three targets on Saturday in opposition to Bentley within the house opener for his first profession hat trick.
 
Pohlkamp is simply the twelfth defenseman to attain three targets in a sport within the DU file ebook, and he’s the fourth rear guard (fifth time) in NCHC historical past to file a hat trick, becoming a member of former teammate Zeev Buium (Nov. 15, 2024 at North Dakota), Western Michigan’s Michael Joyaux (Feb. 2, 2021 vs. St. Cloud State) and WMU’s Ronnie Attard, who did it twice (Oct. 19, 2021 at Colgate; Feb. 4, 2022 at Colorado College).
 
Selected by San Jose Sharks at No. 132 within the fifth spherical of the 2023 NHL Draft, Pohlkamp additionally recorded his first profession short-handed aim final Saturday in opposition to Bentley to turn out to be the primary Pioneers D-man to tally whereas a man-down since Antti Tuomisto on Jan. 23, 2021 at Omaha. He additionally added 12 pictures on aim, 4 blocks and a plus-3 ranking within the Pioneers’ two video games final weekend.
 
Pohlkamp will not be the one Pioneer on the match, as Associate Director of Sports Medicine Aaron Leu was named as the top athletic coach of the U.S. College Team final summer season.  Leu is in his twenty second yr at DU and has labored with the boys’s ice hockey program as the top athletic coach for 21 of these seasons.
 
Two Denver gamers have suited up for Team Canada on the Spengler Cup lately whereas a student-athlete, with Massimo Rizzo doing so in 2023 and Ian Mitchell in 2019.
 
Charlie Cerrato (Penn State), T.J. Hughes (Michigan), Cole Knuble (Notre Dame) and Danny Nelson (Notre Dame) have been additionally named to the U.S. Collegiate Select staff on Thursday. Last week, the “First Five” members of the squad have been introduced, which included Aiden Fink (Penn State), Mac Gadowsky (Penn State), Jake Livanavage (North Dakota), Joey Muldowney (Connecticut) and Alex Tracy (Minnesota State).
 
This would be the second time an American-based choose staff has taken half within the Spengler Cup, following a U.S. squad that gained the match in 1988. All returning First and Second Team All-Americans obtained an computerized invitation to the staff. The the rest of the roster, which is able to embrace illustration from all six conferences, shall be constructed by the USCS teaching workers and organizing committee, with steerage from choose NHL scouts.

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