Kelly Miller (Lansing, Mich.) and Doug Weight (Warren, Mich.) will serve as guest coaches at the 2015 U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp, which will take place in Lake Placid, New York, August 1-8. Miller, an assistant coach with Michigan State University, and Weight, an assistant coach with the NHL's New York Islanders, both represented the U.S. in international competition a combined 16 times, including one Canada Cup, four World Junior Championships, six World Championships, two World Cup of Hockey events, and three Olympic Winter Games.

The camp includes daily practices and international games against Finland and Sweden. Ticket information for the event will be announced in the coming weeks. For a complete camp schedule click here.

NOTES: Ron Wilson (Riverside, R.I.) is the head coach of the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team. He is the first U.S. National Junior Team head coach to have previously served as a head coach in the NHL and joins Lou Vairo (Colorado Springs, Colo.) as the only other U.S. National Junior Team head coach to have also served as head coach of a U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team and a U.S. Men's National Team ... In addition to Kelly Miller (Lansing, Mich.) playing two seasons for Wilson as a member of the NHL's Washington Capitals, Chris Chelios (Chicago, Ill.), Danton Cole (Pontiac, Mich.) and Doug Weight (Warren, Mich.) were each coached by Wilson as members of multiple U.S. national teams. Chelios and Weight were teammates under Wilson in both the 1996 and 2004 World Cup of Hockey events as well as the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, where Chelios served as captain of Team USA. Weight was also teammates with Cole on the 1994 U.S. Men's National Team that was also coached by Wilson … Chelios and Weight were teammates on five U.S. national teams, including three U.S. Olympic teams (1998, 2002, 2006) ... Chelios and Miller were teammates on the U.S. National Junior Team that finished sixth in the 1982 IIHF World Junior Championship in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They were teammates again as members of the U.S. entry in the 1987 Canada Cup ... Jim Johannson (Colorado Springs, Colo.), USA Hockey’s assistant executive director for hockey operations, is serving as the general manager of Team USA for the seventh consecutive year ... Kirk Culik (USA Hockey) will also be part of the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team staff in an off-ice training role … Approximately 39 U.S. players will attend the 2015 U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, New York, August 1-8. Invitees to the camp will be announced later this month … USA Hockey’s international council, chaired by Gavin Regan (Potsdam, N.Y.), has oversight responsibilities for all U.S. national teams … The 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship will take place December 26, 2015-January 5, 2016, in Helsinki, Finland.