Tuesday, December 30, 2025

USA-Sweden Showdown; Terrier Bloodlines; All-American Game Roster announced; Olympics-bound Celebrini

 

After a come-from-behind 6-5 victory over Slovakia, Team USA will take on Sweden Wednesday night to determine which team will finish atop the Group A in the preliminary round of the IIHF World Junior Championship in St. Paul.

Kamil Bednarik, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Slovakia, picked up his first point of the tournament with the primary assist on a second-period goal by Brendan McMorrow. 

● USA Hockey U.S-Slovakia recap 

● FloHockey.tv USA Vs. Sweden At The World Juniors On New Year's Eve: What To Know

 

Cole Hutson, injured in the win against Switzerland, remains day-to-day with Coach Bob Motzko hinting that he's hopeful Hutson will be cleared to play. Brady Knowling was a healthy scratch. 

Sascha Boumedienne had the primary assist on a pair of second-period goals as Sweden hammered Germany, 8-1. 

● IIHF.com Sweden-Germany recap 

Both Sweden and the U.S. are undefeated after three preliminary round games. Wednesday's match-up begins at 6 p.m. ET and will air on NHL Network. Both teams have already earned a spot in the tournament's quarterfinal round on Friday. 

● IIHF.com World Junior Championship home page   

Spengler Cup

 

Gavin McCarthy and the U.S. Collegiate Selects are headed to the Spengler Cup championship game following a 5-3 win over HC Sparta Praha in the semifinals.  This year's tournament marks the first time college players have represented the U.S. since the University of North Dakota participated in 1982.

The U.S. squad will play for the title Wednesday against HC Davos, the top team in Switzerland's National League. The game will be streamed on the Spengler Cup YouTube channel at 6:10 a.m. ET.

● NCAA Hockey Spengler Cup information and history 

 

BU Bloodlines

Our friend BU Hockey Stats has created two new lists to his website on a page titled "Bloodlines." (The website in included in the LINKS in the blog's sidebar.)

One compilation lists all the sets of brothers and sisters who have skated for the Terriers from Isador and Sydney Borofsky in the 1920s and 1930s to the more recent McCarthys, Hutsons and Celebrini's. Thus far, there have been only three sets of three brothers who donned the Scarlet and White: Joe, Bill and Jim Quinn (1950s and 1960s), Terry, Rick and Tony Meagher (1970s) and Quinn, Lane and Cole Hutson (2020s). [But another Celebrini, RJ, is tearing it up for a Vancouver U15 team]

The second list, "Familial Connections," features fathers and sons/daughters, uncles and cousins, and includes Keith and Brady Tkachuk, Tony, Ty and Tristan Amonte, Mike Moran and his uncle, Mike Bavis, and Scott and Julia Shaunessy, among others. [More about Julia below]

If you're aware of other Terriers who should be on these lists, email buhockeystats@gmail.com 

Looking ahead 

Luke Schairer - Stats, Contract, Salary & More 

Four future Terriers—2026 recruits Tynan Lawrence and Luke Schairer (photo) and 2027 recruits Brady Knowling and Jamie Glance— have been rostered for the 2026 Chipotle All-American Game featuring players from the USHL and the USNTDP U18s. The game, which will air on NHL Network, is set for Thursday, January 15, at   7 p.m. ET at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Mich. 

Schairer, Knowling and Glance all were standouts in November's CHL-USA Prospect Challenge. 

● USHL.com Rosters Announced for Chipotle All-American Game

● USA Hockey 2026 Chipotle All-American Game Roster Named


Lawrence’s ninth goal was the game-winner for Muskegon in the Lumberjacks’ 4-1 win against the NTDP U17s. He also assisted on a goal and has a 9-6-15 scoring line 11 eleven games, having missed 18 games due to an injury. Lawrence is consistently ranked in the top five for the 2026 NHL Entry Draft.

● Lawrence video highlights 

2026 recruit Egor Shilov scored his 17th goal in Victoriaville’s 3-1 win over Gatineau. With 42 points in 33 games, Shilov has seen his draft stock rise and is projected in several rankings to be a first-round pick in June.

Looking back

Macklin Celebrini scored his 21st goal and assisted on two others in the Sharks’ 5-4 win against the Ducks. Celebrini now has 60 points in 39 games and has a eight-game points streak.  

According to a post by ESPN's Emily Kaplan, Celebrini has made Team Canada's roster for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

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The 19-year-old star of the San Jose Sharks will be the second Terrier to skate for Canada's men's team in the Olympic Games, joining Adrian Aucoin (1994), However three other Canadian Terriers have been Olympians: Brandon Yip captained China's Team in 2022; Dick Decloe represented the Netherlands in 1980; and two-time All-American Herb Wakabayashi skated for Japan in 1972, 1976 and 1980. He later coached Japan's Olympic squads. 

Tom Willander recorded his ninth assist in Vancouver’s 3-2 shootout win against Seattle.

Women’s Team   

Julia's father, Scott, watched her first game on YouTube TV and posted her post-game interview on Instagram. 

 

 

 

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