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Kuhlman Selected To U.S U-18 Select Team


Wes Vork-NSO File

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July 4, 2012

Wes Vork-NSO


Cloquet-Esko-Carlton forward Karson Kuhlman has been selected to the 2012 U.S. Under-18 Select team. The 22 player team will compete at the 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament in Breclav, Czech Republic and Piestany, Slovakia in August.


Kulhman is among a group of five Minnesotan’s to make the team, the most from any one state. A total of 10 states are represented with four players from New Jersey and three from both California and New York on the roster. Players were chosen from participants in the USA Hockey Boys’ Select 117 Development Camp which took place on June 23-29 in Rochester New York. The U.S. roster also includes 12 players who helped the U.S. Under-17 Select Team capture first place at the 2011 Under-17 Five Nations Tournament held in Ann Arbor, Mich.


The 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament will feature teams from Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. The U.S. team has routinely placed well at the tournament, winning the tournament championship in 2003. The United States has also finished twice a total of seven times and third twice in the tournament which began in 1991.

Matt Herr of Alpine New Jersey and head coach of the Kent School in Connecticut will serve as the team’s head coach. His assistants will be Bob Corkum, an associate head coach at the University of Maine; and Grand Forks North Dakota native Nick Fohr, who is currently an assistant coach with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program.


Kuhlman led the Lumberjacks in scoring this past season with 55 points on 28 goals and 27 assists. As a freshman Kuhlman’s 17 goals and 35 assists were second on the team; four points behind Senior Jack McFarlane’s 56 points.

Wes Vork can be reached at wes@northlandsportsonline.com

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