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World Junior Summer Showcase Day 1: Red Wings' Whipple Faces Challenges Versus Sweden, Plante Doesn't Dress
USA Hockey's World Junior Summer Showcase kicked off Sunday with a pair of Detroit prospects involved.
USA Today
09-07-2025
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- USA Today
Pair of Spartans heading to USA Hockey's 2025 World Junior Showcase later this month
A pair of Michigan State Spartans will be heading to Minneapolis to participate in the 2025 World Junior Showcase. USA Hockey has announced the official list of 42 players invited to the upcoming 2025 World Junior Summer Showcase set to take place later this month, and a pair of Spartans cracked the list. Forwards Ryker Lee and Shane Vansaghi were the two Spartans invited to the notable USA Hockey event. Lee was selected by the Nashville Predators with the No. 25 overall pick in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft last month. He will be joining the Spartans this upcoming season after playing for the Madison Capitals of the USHL last year. Vansaghi will be entering his sophomore season with the Spartans next year, appearing in 37 games for the Spartans during his freshman campaign this past season. He tallied six goals and recorded 10 assists this past season, and was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers with the No. 48 overall pick in last month's NHL Entry Draft. Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on X @RobertBondy5.
Ottawa Citizen
02-07-2025
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- Ottawa Citizen
Spitfires' prospect Bergeron to play for America's national U17 team
Article content USA Hockey has selected Windsor Spitfires' draft pick Ty Bergeron to play for its national under-17 team at the Four Nations Tournament. Article content The six-foot-one, 175-pound Bergeron was a third-round pick by the Spitfires in the April's OHL Draft. Article content Article content 'This is great news for Ty,' Spitfires' general manager Bill Bowler said. 'This guy's a gamer and anytime you get to wear your country's colour and the fact some has recognized his ability is huge.' Article content Article content Bergeron, who is from Flat Rock, Mich., posted 45 goals and 104 points in 67 games while serving as captain of the Detroit Honeybaked 15's this past season. Article content Article content Bergeron attended camp for the U.S. national team development program in March, but did not make the roster for the under-17 team. Article content The 16-year-old Bergeron has signed a tender to play in the United States Hockey League ifor the Muskegon Lumberjacks in 2025-26, but attended the Spitfires' development camp in May and has not ruled out playing for Windsor in the future. Article content 'I'm just trying to take in whatever I can, but I think my game translates really well to this league,' Bergeron said of the OHL after attending development camp in May. Article content
Boston Globe
25-06-2025
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- Boston Globe
Boston College men's hockey coach Greg Brown to serve as assistant coach for 2026 US national junior team
It marks fourth time Brown has served on the staff and first since 2018, when the Americans took the bronze. The Scituate native previously helped guide the United States to a gold medal in 2017, and first served on the staff in 2014. Advertisement He also represented the United States as a player at both the 1988 and '92 Olympics, as well as two US national junior teams. He was a part of the US men's national team at the world championship three times. Rounding out the coaching staff will be assistants Steve Miller (Minnesota) and Garrett Raboin (Augustana), goaltending coach David Lassonde (USA Hockey), and video coaches Jacob LeRoy (Minnesota) and Travis Winter (Bemidji). Follow Andrew Mahoney
Yahoo
17-06-2025
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Men's and women's hockey schedules for 2026 Milan Olympics released
FILE - The Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics is seen under construction in Assago, Italy, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File) The International Ice Hockey Federation unveiled the schedule Tuesday for the men's and women's tournaments at the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina. Women's hockey starts on Feb. 5 with the U.S. against Czechia and Canada versus Finland among the opening games. The U.S. and Canada renew their rivalry in the preliminary round on Feb. 10, and the gold-medal game is set for Feb. 19. Advertisement Men's hockey with the return of NHL players opens the following day with Finland facing Slovakia and host Italy against Sweden. Without Russia in the 12-team field, the U.S. is grouped with Germany, Latvia and Denmark and will play each of them in a round robin. The U.S. opens Feb. 12 against Latvia, the same day Canada faces Czechia. The NHL's best are participating for the first time since 2014 in Sochi. 'It's great that the NHL players are back in the Olympics,' U.S. general manager Bill Guerin said. 'Obviously it's the biggest sports stage in the world, and we're all happy we're back involved.' No teams are eliminated from group play on the men's side. The top four advance to the quarterfinals, with the remaining eight taking part in a qualification round. Advertisement Games will take place on NHL-sized rinks at Milano Santagiulia and Milano Rho arenas. The final is scheduled for Feb. 22 as the last event of the Olympics before the closing ceremony. The schedule release came a day after the federations involved announced the first six players named to their respective rosters. The U.S. picked all skaters: forwards Matthew and Brady Tkachuk, Auston Matthews and Jack Eichel and defensemen Quinn Hughes and Charlie McAvoy. Finland is the defending Olympic champion from the Beijing bubble in 2022, when the NHL pulled out because of pandemic-related scheduling issues, and the Russians won in 2018. Canada has won the past two involving NHL players, and GM Doug Armstrong hopes for a third. 'I'm excited about our group," Armstrong said. "I know our group wants to go there and wants to put their best foot forward. There's no guarantees in this sport, but I know we're going to go with the right attitude.' ___ AP NHL:
