It was mid-August three years ago that Team USA gathered in Chicago for the Olympic evaluation camp, a young and almost anonymous group going through its first stages of preparation for its surprising silver-medal run in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Assuming this summer's CBA negotiations result in the participation of NHL players in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, we're just one year out from Team USA gathering again in the summer to evaluate players.
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- Senior NHL writer for ESPN The Magazine
- Wrote for Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Wrote for The Sporting News
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Craig Custance
Craig Custance joined ESPN in September 2011 as an NHL reporter for ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Insider and ESPN.com. A graduate of Michigan State University, he lived for nearly a decade in Georgia working for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he spent time covering the late Atlanta Thrashers. He was the only Thrashers beat writer to get the team to the playoffs.
From 2008-11 he was the national hockey writer for the Sporting News, writing regularly in print and online. A member of the PHWA, he's a proud voter for the major NHL awards and can occasionally defend his selections.
Like hockey, he left Atlanta to return north where he currently lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with his wife Cassie and their three kids.
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