U.S. hockey coach Tony Granato is counting on DU’s Troy Terry, above, to be a significant contributor.

Troy Terry is easy to spot in the team photo for the U.S. Olympic hockey team. He’s the one wearing peach fuzz instead of 5 o’clock shadow.

“I am the youngest guy on the team,” said Terry, the 20-year-old, baby-faced phenom from the University of Denver.

But if the Americans are going to pull off a minor miracle and win their first Olympic gold medal since 1980, long before Terry was born, he’s probably going to have to step up and play like a young man with a big NHL future.

U.S. coach Tony Granato told me Monday he’s counting on Terry to be a significant contributor in the tournament, playing wing with fellow college star Ryan Donato of Harvard, on a line centered by Mark Arcobello, Troy a 29-year-old journeyman Terry who knocked around

the NHL before finding stardom in Switzerland’s pro league.

Might there be too much peach fuzz on that line to scare Russia or the other medal favorites in this tournament? Granato begs to differ. Hello, hockey world. Meet young Mr. Terry.

“Troy Terry is going to be in the NHL for a long, long time as a star,” Granato said.

Granato, who did two stints as coach of the Avalanche, working a total of 209 games on the bench earlier this century, asked me how much I knew about Terry’s game. I replied that Granato could find me in the stands, toasting the magical stickhandling of Terry with a cold beer, during almost every DU homestand.

“I’d pay to see him play, too,” said Granato, duly impressed by the four goals Terry scored to lead the United States to the gold medal at the 2017 World Junior Championship in Canada. “He has already done it on an international stage, in a big pressure situation, where he said: ‘Give me the puck. I’m going to go score.’ ”

Brian Gionta, a veteran of more than 1,000 games at the highest pro level, is not only the captain of the American team. At 39, he’s also almost old enough to be Terry’s father. In the first time since 1998 that the Olympic tournament hasn’t featured NHL stars in their primes, can the U.S. squad of spare hockey parts close that generation gap and quickly mesh into a medal threat?

The challenge is as real as the disparate musical tastes of Terry and Gionta.

Back in Colorado, the DU Pioneers’ locker room pumps up the volume with electronica. “You hear a lot of Major Lazer,” Terry said.

When Terry walked into practice with his hockey elders on Team USA, however, Gionta was kicking back to the far more mellow country stylings of Tim McGraw, who sings about getting in touch with his inner cowboy, instead of raving about rocking all night in his Benz.

“I grew up watching Brian Gionta; he was one of my favorite players growing up,” said Terry, raised in Highlands Ranch. “But being a fan of his is something I had to get over pretty quick. And it’s something I did get over pretty quick, especially because they took me in as one of the guys from the first practice.”

Every four years, when a new squad puts on red, white and blue sweaters, it seldom takes more than 1.7 seconds for coaches and players to be reminded of the Miracle on Ice. While Granato does proudly invoke the names of Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig when applauding the USA’s rich hockey history, he has no plans to make his team sit through a screening of the movie “Miracle” as a motivational tool.

“To win,” Granato said, “we don’t need a miracle.”