Sunday, April 23, 2023

Game-winners; Playoff standouts

Two future Terriers produced game-winning goals in Sunday's preliminary round games at the IIHF World U18 Championships.

2023 recruit Macklin Celebrini scored Canada’s fourth goal in its 4-3 win against Slovakia. With a goal and four assists, the Vancouver native is tied for the scoring lead on Team Canada after three games.

 2023 recruit Tom Willander's power-play goal gave Sweden a 1-0 lead over Czechia in a 2-0 victory. The 6'1' right-shot defenseman has two points and is +2 in three games.

2024 recruit Cole Hutson picked up his fifth assist—tops among all defensemen—in Team USA’s 8-4 win over Finland. He now has 61 points, third best for any NTDP defenseman.

The Daily Faceoff is reporting that the third Hutson brother, whose game is strikingly similar to older brother Lane’s, already is prominent on scouts’ radar for the 2024 draft. His NTDP coach Dan Muse says:

“When he has the puck in the offensive zone on power-play situations, the way he’s able to navigate the ice, the way he’s able to manipulate opponents and the vision that he has… he can break coverage in all three zones. He can escape forecheck pressure, deep forecheck, he can escape in the neutral zone. He has a very good feel of when to move it and when it’s time to hold it.”

● DailyFaceoff.com Cole Hutson is already standing out for the 2024 draft

 

Looking back

Jake Oettinger delivered a stellar 33-save effort to backstop a 3-2 Dallas win evening the Stars’ series with the Wild at two games apiece.

 

Jack Eichel, skating in the Stanley Cup Playoff for the first time, scored a pair of goals and added an assist in Vegas’ 5-4 overtime win against Winnipeg. The 2015 Hobey Baker Award winner has three goals in three playoff games.

 

The Athletic (subscription) has a feature piece on Alex Vlasic and his sister Emma, who was a hockey captain at Yale and now plays professionally for the Connecticut Whale.

● The Athletic For siblings Emma and Alex Vlasic, pro hockey has created a ‘really special’ bond 

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