Zegras powers US to WJC Gold; Colin Wilson retires

 

Trevor Zegras scored a goal and assisted on another—his tournament leading 18^th and 19^th points—to power Team USA to a 2-0 win against Canada in the 2021 World Junior Championship title game.  The Anaheim Duck’s draft pick helped set up a first-period goal by Alex Turcotte that proved to be the game-winner. In the second period, Zegras doubled the lead tucking home a puck at the left post—a tally reminiscent of his goal in the final second of regulation in the 2020 Beanpot final.

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The perfect start to a period!#USAJWC | #WorldJuniors pic.twitter.com/gzjUWWuS5o

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) January 6, 2021

Named tournament MVP, Zegras led all scorers with 18 points (7G,11A), which is the second most ever by a US player in the tournament. Combined with nine assists a year ago, his combined 27 points ties Jordan Schroeder for most career points by a U.S. skater. Zegras' 27 came in 12 games; Schroeder's in 19 games.

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This Trevor Zegras (ANA) performance will go down as the best ever by an American in this tournament. All due respect to Doug Weight who has record, but that team didn't medal. Zegras had 18 points and almost all of them came on consequential goals he scored or assisted on.

— Chris Peters (@chrismpeters) January 6, 2021

● USA Hockey USA Downs Canada, 2-0, to win title at World Juniors

● IIHF Recap, Box Score, Zegras named MVP

● Video highlights

● ESPN recap

Looking back

                                              Wilson scores game-winner in 2009 NCAA semifinal
 

On Tuesday, former Terrier All-American Colin Wilson announced his retirement from the NHL after 11 seasons. His final season ended in Dec. 2019 when he underwent double hip surgery.

Following two high-scoring seasons with the USNTDP (72 points in 72 games), Wilson arrived on Comm Ave and quickly established himself as a top center. His 35 points in 37 games earned him Hockey East Rookie of the Year honors. Skating for Team USA in the World Juniors, he led the team in goals and was named a top 3 player for the U.S.

As a sophomore, he centered the top line as BU won seven tournament titles culminating in the program’s fifth NCAA championship. Wilson’s team-high 55 points made him a first-team All-American and he was a Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalist.

Drafted #7 overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft by Nashville, he spent eight seasons with the Predators and then three with Colorado, scoring 286 points (113G,173A) in regular-season play and another 33 points in 65 playoff games.

In October, he chronicled his longtime battle with OCD in an article for The Players Tribune, titled "The Things You Can't See."

● NHLPA.com report

● NHL.com report

● ThePlayersTribune.com  The Things You Can’t See

● Elite Prospects stat page

Terrier hockey this week…finally; 70-71 flashback—a blowout win

The week Terrier fans have waited for has arrived. BU men’s hockey will finally launch its season with a home-and-home series against Providence, starting with Friday’s contest at Agganis Arena. The women’s team, which played three games in December, will resume play, also against Providence, facing off with the Friars Friday at Schneider Rink and then Saturday at Walter Brown Arena.

World Junior Championships

Team USA faces Finland tonight in the semifinals. Gametime is 9:30 p.m. ET. Finland defeat the U.S. in the 2019 gold-medal game.

 ● USA Hockey preview and game notes

1970-71 Flashback: Jan. 4, 1971  BU 14 Princeton 0  

Top-ranked Terriers began second semester with a bang, ringing up fourteen goals while producing their fourth shutout in ten games. Sophomore Ron Anderson (photo) caused the most havoc for BU with a six-point effort (2G,4A), while classmate Bob Brown assisted on five goals, as the Terriers improved to 9-0-1.

BU flexed its offensive muscle with five first-period scores. John Danby struck first, followed by Anderson, then a pair by another sophomore, Steve Dolloff and one in the final minute by junior Guy Burrowes.

Things got worse for the Tigers in the middle period with Ric Jordan scoring in the first minute. Paul Giandomenico and Peter Thornton increased the lead to 8-0 by the middle of the period. Then Danby, Burrowes and Giandomenico each scored their second of the contest.

Toot Cahoon got in on the scoring early in the third. Anderson’s and Thornton’s second goals closed out the scoring.

Junior goalie Dan Brady made his first start of the season in goal and stopped 13 Princeton shots. Two months later, he would be named Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA title game.

At the other end, beleaguered Tiger goalie Ed Swift made 45 saves as the relentless Terriers unleashed 59 shots. He was the only goalie on a Princeton team that finished 1-22-0. After two somewhat more successful seasons at Princeton and a dismal stint as a TV news reporter in Montana, he was hired as a writer by Hockey Magazine. In 1978, he joined Sports Illustrated, initially to cover hockey, and remained on staff—as E.M. Swift—for 32 years, specializing in Olympic sports.

In November 1995, he authored a poignant feature article for SI, “Eleven Seconds”, on Travis Roy’s spinal cord injury--a month earlier on opening night of the ’95-’96 season--that featured interviews with family, friends and coaches and traced Roy’s pursuit of his hockey dreams since he was a toddler.  Two years later, Roy collaborated with Swift to tell his story in a memoir titled Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph.

Currently, Swift is a freelance writer living in Carlisle, Mass. He is a contributor to WBUR.org’s new ideas and opinion page,  Cognescenti.

● Switft: Crease to Press

● Sports Illustrated: Nov. 20, 1995 Eleven Seconds

Looking ahead

2021 recruit Quinn Hutson has left the Penticton Vees and joined the USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks due to the delay in starting the BCHL's regular season. The right-shot forward had scored 17 points in a 14-game pre-season tournament, second best for the Vees. Since joining the Lumberjacks in mid-December, Hutson has 5 points (3G,2A), all coming in his last three games.

2022 recruit Jack Harvey, currently skating for the USHL Chicago Steel, was called up to the NTDP U18s and played in last night’s win against Youngstown.

 

Reinforcements for the defense? Zegras paces US win…again

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Look for Boston University to beef up its depth on D by adding Joseph Campolieto & Thomas Jarman in January. Campolieto is a transfer from Union. Jarman has played 2-plus seasons for Maryland of NAHL & committed to Terriers last month

— Mark Divver (@MarkDivver) December 29, 2020

Mark Divver reports that BU is expected to bolster its defense corps by having RD Thomas Jarman, who committed in late November, come aboard for second semester, along with LD Joseph Campolieto, who is transferring from Union College. The Dutchmen are one of several ECAC school who shut down their program for the season. Campolieto, 6’0”, 185 from Enyon, Penn., grew up in the WB/Scranton Knights organization and played a season in the USHL for Tri-City before becoming a mainstay on the Union blueline. He picked up a pair of assists in last year’s BU 7-3 win against Union.

Jarman, 6’3”, 201 from Pittsburgh, will emulate his former Maryland Bears teammate, Wilmer Skoog, and arrive on Comm Ave after the fall season in the NAHL. He has two goals and three assists in 13 games.

● Elite Prospects Campolieto, Jarman

● MarylandBlackBears.com Jarman heading to BU early

World Junior Championships

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Z's 6th of the tournament, and at a tough angle!#USAWJC | #WorldJuniors pic.twitter.com/b3c6GMdok6

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) January 1, 2021

Team USA clinched first-place in Group B at the World Junior Championships in Edmonton with Trevor Zegras again leading the offense in a 4-0 win against Sweden. The Anaheim draft pick scored his tournament leading sixth goal and added two assists, bring his points total to a tournament-high 13. 

Four minutes into the opening period, Zegras' quick-release shot from the left boards found a small opening, high to the short side, giving the U.S. a 2-0 lead.

With 22 points in his two WJC seasons, Zegras is tied with James Van Riemsdyk for third all-time among US skaters.

Team USA will face Slovakia in the quarterfinals on Saturday.

● USA Hockey recap and video highlights

Looking ahead

2021 recruit Brian Carrabes scored Sioux City’s only goal in a 4-1 loss to Omaha. Carrabes leads the Musketeers in both goals (7) and points (11) in ten games.

2022 recruit Michael LaStarza scored goals in back-to-back games for Waterloo: a 3-1 win against Des Moins and a 3-2 loss to the Buccaneers.

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GOAL! 🚨
All tied up! Hutson waltzes right into the zone and goes top 🧀 to make it a 2-2 game!

That's two goals in two games for Hutson! #USAvsGB pic.twitter.com/lZkuSxUHp8

— USA Hockey’s NTDP (@USAHockeyNTDP) January 1, 2021

2022 recruit Lane Hutson also scored in back-to-back games for the NTDP U17s: a 5-4 OT loss to Green Bay following a 6-3 loss to the Gamblers.

Looking back

Former Terrier All-American, Hobey Baker finalist and 14-season NHLer Mike Grier is the latest guest interview on NEHJ’s Rink Shrinks podcast.

● NEHJ BU Champ, ex-NHLer Mike Grier shares insights on healthy living and his coaching mindset.