His trio of gold medals at the under-18s and world juniors represents an unprecedented run for Team USA, leading up to draft day in 2010. 1 role with those teams six times over the next few years. He then starred at the under-17, under-18 and the world juniors internationally, filling the No. At 16, he was the goaltender of the year in the North American Hockey League. In fact, as a teen, all he did was win and pile up hardware.

One by one, Campbell accomplished those goals. And, eventually, he wanted to make it to the NHL.

He wanted to play internationally for his country. He wanted to make the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, just as he had watched an older local kid named Jimmy Fraser do. And with allowing him to be a goalie, a position he was determined to play at 9 years old after watching older cousin, Marshall, excel in the crease.Īt 12, Little Jack won the historic Quebec Pee-Wee Tournament and began pinning a long list of career goals to his bedroom wall. Campbell credits his father and mother, Debbi, with his work ethic. is the president of the Marshall Campbell Company, an electrical distribution business that has been in the family for four generations. That continues to this day, despite the fact, at 6-foot-2, he towers over Big Jack, his father. Growing up in Port Huron, Mich., a city of 30,000 on the Canadian border, Campbell was always known as “Little Jack” by his family. (Noah Graham/NHLI via Getty Images) Chapter 1: Little Jack goes to Texas

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