New Zealand's currently competing in the FIH Pro League and sit sixth in the standings with their next game against the US on June 1st.

Shaw has been in the country a couple of weeks.

He says the League is the immediate focus, but the priority for the year is qualifying for the Olympics.

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02 Apr: The Black Sticks Men have named three uncapped players as part of an 18-strong squad to compete at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia for the first time since 2019

23 Jan: Kookaburra-turned-Black Stick Scott Boyde is celebrating a dramatic turnaround in his hockey career

22 Jan: At least one men's Black Sticks player has gone from being within minutes of retirement from international hockey to zeroing in on an Olympic campaign

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