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Minnesota Hockey Journal October 2015

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MINNESOTAHOCKEYJOURNAL.COM // OCTOBER.2015 18 STORM'S COMING SOUTH ST. PAUL NATIVE and CAROLINA HURRICANES DEFENSEMAN JUSTIN FAULK is taking the NHL by storm as one of the game's top young talents J USTIN FAULK has never been satisfied with being just good enough. Since picking up his first stick and stepping on to the ice at age 6, he would remind himself that good enough wasn't going to cut it. Why should it? A product of South St. Paul Youth Hockey Association, the 23-year-old Faulk showed grit, determination and overall skill early on. His hockey prowess led him to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he spent two years with USA Hockey's National Team Development Program. There he helped Team USA to a gold-medal finish at the 2010 Under-18 World Championships, and a bronze-medal finish at the 2011 World Junior Championships. He returned to the State of Hockey and steered the University of Minnesota-Duluth toward its first-ever NCAA championship before joining the Hurricanes at age 19. In 2014, another Faulk first occurred when he was named to the U.S. Olympic team. At just 21, he was the youngest member of Team USA in Sochi, and one of the youngest to compete for the team since they started sending NHLers to the Games in 1998. And despite his already hefty résumé that would impress even the hockey gods, Faulk says his best is yet to come. "You're never satisfied with being just good enough," said Faulk. "You can't have that mentality. For me, I'm thrilled to have worked to get to the place that I am at, but I know I can always reach and work to be better." By JESSI PIERCE

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