It’s been a busy month for Michigan State hockey’s Isaac Howard, to say the least.

He won the Hobey Baker Award as men’s college hockey’s top player.

He took to the silver screen, playing Mark Messier as he and his teammates served as extras for the upcoming biopic Fleury. Now, he’s headed to the U.S. men’s national team.

On Wednesday, USA Hockey announced Howard as one of its five roster additions for the IIHF Men’s World Championship.

He joins his Michigan State head coach, Adam Nightingale, who is an assistant coach on the American staff.

Howard scored 26 goals and recorded 52 points last season, named Big Ten hockey’s player of the year in addition to winning the Hobey Baker.

A first-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Howard is headed back to Michigan State next season, The Detroit News confirmed earlier this month.

But before he returns to green and white, Howard will don red, white and blue for his fourth international tournament appearance. He played for the U.S. U18 team in the 2021 and 2022 U18 World Junior championships, winning silver the latter year.

In 2024, Howard cracked the American roster for the U20 World Junior Championship, winning gold alongside Spartans teammate Trey Augustine, goaltender, who made last year’s men’s worlds roster.

Howard is just one of three active college players to make the American roster this season.

Fresh off a national championship win with Western Michigan, goaltender Hampton Slukynsky made the first 18 selections to the roster. Boston University defenseman Cole Hutson also made the team. Twenty-one of the 23-man roster is made of college hockey alumni.

Team USA will play in Group B, competing with Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Norway and Switzerland. Group A consists of Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden. The semifinals and medal games will be in Stockholm. Last year, Team USA finished second in Group B but lost in the quarterfinal to host country Czechia.

Team USA begins pre-tournament play May 4 against Germany.