COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Hockey announced today that tickets are currently on sale for the 2015 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp that will take place August 1-8 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Team USA will face Finland and Sweden throughout the week in preparation for the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship, December 26, 2015 through January 5, 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. 

Tickets can be purchased online at Tickets.Com, by phone at (518) 523-3330 or in person at the Olympic Center Box Office. A single-day ticket, which includes two games, is available to adults for $15, while students (17 & under) and seniors (65 & older) are $10. A full-session pass, which includes 10 games, is $70 for adults and $45 for students and seniors. All games will be played at the Olympic Center's 1980 Herb Brooks Arena. A full schedule of games is below. 

The roster for the 2015 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp was released on June 18. Of the 40 players attending, 11 are returnees from the 2015 U.S. National Junior Team, while 25 have won medals at IIHF events. 

The United States has medaled in three of the last four IIHF World Junior Championships, including gold in 2013 and 2010 and bronze in 2011. 

NOTES: Ron Wilson (Riverside, R.I.), who directed U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team to the silver medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia and ranks eighth all-time in National Hockey League history in wins, was named head coach of the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team on June 4. The assistant coaches are Chris Chelios (Chicago, Ill.), advisor to hockey operation for the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, Danton Cole (Pontiac, Mich.), head coach at USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, and Kevin Reiter (Pittsburgh, Pa.), goalie coach at USA Hockey's NTDP ... Jim Johannson (Colorado Springs, Colo.), USA Hockey's assistant executive director of hockey operations, is serving as the general manager of Team USA for the seventh consecutive year ... The U.S. will compete in a group with Canada, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland at the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship. For more information about the tournament, click here. 

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