Five Minnesotans have been selected to the 2021-2022 USA Hockey National Development Program's Under-17 team, with four forwards and a goaltender among those invited to wear the red, white, and blue. 

Totino-Grace teammates Austin Burnevik and Oliver Moore, combined with Minnetonka's Beckett Hendrickson, Shattuck-St. Mary's forward Gracyn Sawchyn, plus Sherburn, Minn. native, and goaltender Carsen Musser will join the national program for next season, culled from a group of Minnesotans that included 11 invited players.

Twelve states provided players to make up the roster for this season, with Minnesota leading the way with five players. Massachusetts and Michigan will be represented by three players each.  

Austin Burnevik 
Hometown: Ham Lake, Minn. 
2020-2021 Team: Totino-Grace High School

Burnevik played his youth hockey for Blaine before moving on to Totino-Grace for high school. A skilled forward with a nose for the net and a knack for scoring goals, Burnevik led the Eagles in scoring as a sophomore last season with 19 goals and 41 points. He tallied 15 goals and 28 points as a freshman during the 2019-2020 season. 

Beckett Hendrickson 
Hometown: Excelsior, Minn. 
2020-2021 Team: Minnetonka High School 

The son of former Richfield High School star and longtime NHLer Darby Hendrickson, Beckett makes his way to Plymouth after suiting up for the Minnetonka varsity as a freshman. Hendrickson notched four goals and 15 points while helping the Skippers to the Class AA, Section 2 finals last season before falling to eventual state champion Eden Prairie in overtime. 

Hendrickson led the Bantam Elite League in scoring and was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 2020 after totaling 17 goals and 33 points. 

Oliver Moore
Hometown: Mounds View, Minn. 
2020-2021 Team: Totino-Grace High School 

A second Totino-Grace Eagle to heed the call of the NTDP this year, Moore is a crafty forward with good hands, excellent ice vision, and executes well in tight spaces. A product of the Mounds View-Irondale youth program, Moore made the jump to high school hockey as a freshman during the 2019-2020 season, tallying seven goals and 36 points. Moore logged 17 goals and 38 points during his sophomore season for Torino-Grace.

Carsen Musser
Hometown: Sherburn, Minn.
2020-2021 Team: Victory Honda 15-Only 

Musser joined the Victory Honda 15-Only Tier I team last season after finishing with a .901 save percentage with Fairmont High School in his lone season of high school hockey, earning that number while facing 1,046 shots in 21 games played in 2019-2020 with the Cardinals. In 2019, Musser led the Bantam Elite League Major Division with a save percentage of .910. One of six goaltenders invited to this year's tryout, Musser's competitiveness and technical ability in the crease should impress evaluators. 

Gracyn Sawchyn 
Hometown: Chaska, Minn. 
2020-2021 Team: Shattuck-St. Mary's 16U 

A Chaska Chanhassen Stormhawk by way of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Sawchyn has been "on the radar" since his days with the Onoway Eagles youth organization. Sawchyn skated for Team Alberta at the 2015 Brick Invitational, then had two productive outings with the West Coast Selects during World Selects Invitational tournaments in 2017 and 2018. 

Sawchyn has spent the past two seasons at Shattuck-St. Mary's, totaling 46 goals and 143 points with the 14U and 16U teams. A well-rounded player, Sawchyn is relentless on the forecheck and devastating low in the offensive zone.