It was a pleasant but unremarkable summer night. Troy Terry was hanging with some of his college teammates. His phone rang. It was Jim Johannson from USA Hockey, and the night was about to become a bit more remarkable: The 19-year-old NCAA player was told he was under consideration for the 2018 Olympic men's ice hockey team.
"Before that phone call, I didn't even know it was a possibility. It was pretty crazy," Terry, now a burgeoning star with the Anaheim Ducks, told ESPN this week. "It really was one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to do.